/lit/ - Literature

>>4670934
At the Mountains of Madness is Lovecraft's best work. I was spoiled because it was one of the first things by him I read and soon thereafter I didn't find his short stories impactful. They were like abridged, weaker, versions of AMM.

What made it effective was the continual hinting, revelations, false leads, and turns. To sink into Lovecraft's sense of fear can be difficult in the span of a chapter or two. But this goes on long enough you get a strong sense of the ideas he's getting at and why he dreads them so your own sense of trepidation at what's coming next builds up yet your curiosity demands you keep going.