He's determined to get answers before anyone else does - that is, to put his name on them first - and so he leads several of Dyer's men into a black mountain range far from the camp. This captures Lake's imagination far more fiercely than the others, and soon he's off on his own expeditions to find more of the same kind of evidence.
And it isn't long before the first significant discoveries come rolling in, like patterns in the rocks below the snow that hint at ancient life. They believe they have every advantage possible over previous teams - not just airplanes instead of just sled dogs, but also the work done by previous explorers, and the mistakes they don't plan to repeat. His ambitions are shared by the other team members - especially Lake, the biologist, with a sidekick of his own, Gedney, a young graduate student.Īt first none of the difficulties the team faces are out of gamut for a polar expedition: the cold, the vast distances, the absolute bleakness of the landscape. Professor Dyer, along with his bookish sidekick Danforth, the bearded and husky leader of the expedition, believes it'll be a way to confirm his various theories about life in previous epochs. Scientists from Miskatonic University (a recurring feature of Lovecraft's universe) have voyaged to Antarctica to survey as much of the continent as they can manage with the technology, tools, and supplies available to a scientific team in 1931. The premise of the story is simple enough. Men of science, but still men under it all © Gou Tanabe / Courtesy Dark Horse Dyer's terrible discovery.
For the fans, it's as definitive an adaptation of the story as it gets for those who just walked in the door, it's two volumes of the kind of slowly ratcheting dread that shows why Lovecraft, despite his troubling legacy, still commands such attention. At The Mountains Of Madness, adapted to manga by Gō Tanabe (who also gave us a superb anthology of Lovecraft stories before), works for both longtime Lovecraft fans and newcomers. Lovecraft wrote about one thing over and over, the incomprehending dread of men - sometimes disciplined men of science, sometimes men already uneasy about their world - faced with a universe that's not just indifferent to them but outright hostile. Most great artists traffic in an attitude or a mindset, rather than a rigorous philosophy. Lovecraft, who made that (among other, far less palatable things) the central philosophy of his work. That has not stopped me from enjoying the work of H.P.
"There are some things man was not meant to know" is not a worldview I share.
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