En las montañas de la locura

Escrito por H. P. Lovecraft

Narrado por ®bseal voice

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. En las montañas de la locura es uno de los escasos relatos largos del fundador de religiones, divinidades y cosmogonías que fue H. P. Lovecraft. Narra la historia en primera persona de un profesional geólogo de la Universidad de Miskatonic, quien lleva a cabo una expedición a la Antártida, en compañía de un equipo de expertos. Dicha expedición los llevará al descubrimiento de unos seres mitológicos que anteceden a la humanidad misma. Pronto los científicos descubren que estos organismos no son para nada parecidos a los que la ciencia haya descubierto con anterioridad, y finalmente descubrirán una antiquísima e inmensa ciudad, asentada en las laderas de la cadena montañosa que da título al libro y cuya construcción tuvo lugar mucho antes de la aparición del Homo sapiens. El examen de la arquitectura y los bajorrelieves de sus muros revela a Dyer que sus habitantes fueron los Antiguos, unos seres que dominaron los secretos del tiempo y del espacio, pero que hoy están extintos… ¿o no?

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: ®bseal voice
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 14 sept 2022
• ISBN: 9781669649632

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.