{"id":109,"date":"2005-11-28T04:06:19","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T04:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/28\/at-the-mountains-of-madness-and-other-tails-of-terror\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T14:01:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T21:01:31","slug":"at-the-mountains-of-madness-and-other-tails-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/11\/28\/at-the-mountains-of-madness-and-other-tails-of-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tails of Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-109\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0345329457\/102-9495726-4240950?v=glance&amp;n=283155&amp;n=507846&amp;s=books&amp;v=glance\" target=\"NewWindow\">At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tails of Terror<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>H. P. Lovecraft<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>192 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Del Rey; Reissue edition (September 13, 1991)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0345329457<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My son Nathan recommended this book to me &#8211; I had nearly finished the book I brought along for the flights and hotel room, and he said this was really cool and a reasonable size for travelling.  He was right on both scores.<\/p>\n<p>This book, a collection of short stories, is quite good.  I liked &#8220;At the Mountains of Madness&#8221; for its descriptive details.  I&#8217;m not sure I think its a work of horror, but it was quite interesting and paints a picture of an interesting past.<\/p>\n<p>I most enjoyed &#8220;The Shunned House&#8221; as I felt it was both horrible and built to a strong climax.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-109\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 109);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-109\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-109\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tails of Terror Author: H. P. Lovecraft Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Del Rey; Reissue edition (September 13, 1991) ISBN: 0345329457 My son Nathan recommended this book to me &#8211; I had nearly finished the book I brought along for the flights and hotel room, and he said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[2344,376,377],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-horror","tag-lovecraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}