The Mountains of Madness

In his lifetime, this writer did not publish a single book, but after his death, he became a idol for both the mass readership and the discerning aesthete, and an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the film and gaming industry; he was called the «Edgar Poe of the 20th century», a genius madman and an adept of secret knowledge; his work is so unique that it required the separation into a separate subgenre; he was admired by Robert Howard and Clive Barker, Jorge Luis Borges and Iris Murdoch. One of the most influential myth-makers of modern times, a person who influenced not only literature but also mass culture as a whole, the creator of the «Necronomicon» and the «Cthulhu Mythos» — Howard Phillips Lovecraft.