The Mountains of Madness

During his lifetime, this writer published no books; after his death, he became a cult figure for both the mass reader and the sophisticated aesthete, and an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the film and gaming industry. He was called the Edgar Allan Poe of the 20th century, a brilliant madman and an adept of secret knowledge; his work is so unique that it required the creation of its own subgenre; he was admired by Robert Howard and Clive Barker, Jorge Luis Borges and Iris Murdoch. One of the most famous myth-makers of modern times, a person who influenced not only literature but also mass culture as a whole, the creator of the "Necronomicon" and the "Cthulhu Mythos" — Howard Phillips Lovecraft.