Summary
Howard Phillip Lovecraft: In the Mountains of Madness
As a hybrid of traditional Gothic and science fiction, Lovecraft is clearly Gothic in temperament, his science has its own prose logic, but it is never future-oriented, but obsessively focused on the distant past. In Lovecraft's cosmos, some tragic conjunction of human and non-human has poisoned what should be natural life, there is no logic, no reason for such a fate any more than there is a reason for lightning to strike.
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