At the Mountains of Madness

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot

FNH Audio presents a complete and unabridged reading of H.P. Lovecraft's famous story "At the Mountains of Madness". The story is related by one of the two survivors from a polar expedition. Unlike other polar explorers who may have died from cold, starvation or simply getting lost, in this story things are somewhat different.

The survivor is desperate to prevent a new polar expedition because there are "beings" there, strange murderous beings. There are things that man should not see beyond the recently discovered mountains at the pole. Scientists listening to the story told by the survivors have assumed that the teller has gone mad because what they describe just cannot be. Or can they...

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good story bad reader

The monotone British accent killed me. It sounded like the reader was going to sleep rather than recounting a brush with the supernatural.

Enjoyable story!

Would you consider the audio edition of At the Mountains of Madness to be better than the print version?

I think many listeners will enjoy the stories of HPL even more when they are read by a good reader. Some of his style is hard for people to read compared to modern writers that they may like better at a first read. I've had more than one person that I have tried to turn on to his work tell me later that he too difficult to keep interested in long enough to finish the story. Especially some of the Cthulhu stuff can be very tedious to read, but if someone reads it to you it seems to go much faster and is even more enjoyable.

What other book might you compare At the Mountains of Madness to and why?

It's pretty tough to compare HPL to anybody else from his era. His style of writing wasn't always the most polished, but his creativity and originality was in a league of his own. I am surprised there haven't really been any modern filmmakers that have been able to nail any of his ideas on film. Most of the films inspired by his stories have been pretty lame which is sad because he really was ahead of his time in many ways.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

FNH does a pretty good job, especially with all the difficult to pronounce names, etc. His vocal style is a bit monotone, but other than that I enjoy his reading very much.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

I think I'll stay away from trying that...I'm better at criticizing than coming up with my own ideas!

Any additional comments?

Can't wait to download more HPL.

wonderful and thrifty

This reading of at the Mountains of Madness is far superior to HPL society's. Very professional.

Wonderful

The reader was perfect, story is of course great, but the strings overture between each chapter could be annoying, more so because there were 2, one for the end of one chapter and another to introduce the next

Great story

H.P. Never disappoints! A well narrated excellent tale of suspense. The music in between chapters is an unnecessary distraction, but One can live with it.