{"id":2851,"date":"2008-02-18T01:12:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2008-07-14T20:38:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T19:38:32","slug":"at-the-mountains-of-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/18\/at-the-mountains-of-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Mountains of Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Going through stacks of old artwork today turned up a photocopy of a drawing I did in 1990, my sole attempt to illustrate HP Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness<\/em><\/a>. By the time I did this I was pretty exhausted by Lovecraft’s world and was already at work on the first phase of the Lord Horror comics<\/a> for Savoy which explains why this is a bit half-hearted, the architecture owing more to Piranesi than anything particularly alien. I forget why I did this now, I think it was at someone’s request, and I’ve also no idea where the original drawing is. The sprawling organic cityscape\/landscape I created last year for the Maison d’Ailleurs<\/a> exhibition is probably closer to the kind of thing this story requires.<\/p>\n

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At the Mountains of Madness<\/em> was rejected by Lovecraft’s usual publisher, Weird Tales<\/em><\/a>, for not being enough of a horror story. This is true, the novella is more of a fictional travelogue, especially in its later half where a million-year-old alien city is discovered in the heart of Antarctica. Science fiction magazine Astounding<\/em> took it instead where it made the cover of the February 1936 issue, the climactic shoggoth attack being painted by Howard V Brown. Poor old Lovecraft had nearly all his most famous stories published in Weird Tales<\/em>, and helped give the magazine its lasting reputation, yet he was never given a cover feature during his lifetime. Astounding<\/em> gave him the honour again in June of the same year for another novella, The Shadow Out of Time<\/em><\/a>, also illustrated by Howard Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Going through stacks of old artwork today turned up a photocopy of a drawing I did in 1990, my sole attempt to illustrate HP Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. By the time I did this I was pretty exhausted by Lovecraft’s world and was already at work on the first phase of the Lord … Continue reading “At the Mountains of Madness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,42,22,48,26,43,20,23],"tags":[1687,1891,746,139,2396],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-lovecraft","category-magazines","category-science-fiction","category-work","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-lord-horror","tag-maison-dailleurs","tag-piranesi","tag-weird-tales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-JZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}