Howard Phillips Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness (Unabridged)
I: I am forced into speech because men of science…
As the newspapers told, we sailed from Boston Harbor…
Wireless reports have spoken of the breathtaking…
II: Popular imagination, I judge, responded actively…
In the morning I had a three-cornered wireless talk with Lake…
Lake was not content to let his first message stand…
11.30 P.M. Attention, Dyer, Pabodie, Douglas.
The sensations of Pabodie and myself at receipt…
III: None of us, I imagine, slept very heavily…
This mood undoubtedly served to aggravate my reaction…
It was approximately 4 P.M., after wide plane cruising…
IV: It is only with vast hesitancy and repugnance…
In spite of all the prevailing horrors, we were left…
V: I think that both of us simultaneously cried out…
Looking back to our sensations, and recalling our dazedness…
We crawled through one of the windows…
After a time we came across a row of windows…
VI: It would be cumbrous to give a detailed, consecutive account…
As I have said, all furniture and other movables were absent…
VII: The full story, so far as deciphered, will eventually appear…
Being nonpairing and semivegetable in structure…
They seem to have become peculiarly intractable…
VIII: Naturally, Danforth and I studied with a special interest…
In the end it seems to have been the neighboring abyss…
IX: I have said that our study of the decadent sculptures…
But we could not convince each other, or even ourselves…
About 9.30 P.M., while traversing a long, vaulted corridor…
X: Many people will probably judge us callous…
Entering the tunnel we saw that its outline…
XI: Still another time have I come to a place…
And now, when Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening…
The fact that we survived and emerged…
XII: Danforth and I have recollections of emerging…
All was well with the plane…
