《At the Mountains of Madness 》作者：- H.P. Lovecraft【EPUB】

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At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. LovecraftAt the Mountains of Madness by H. P. LovecraftWritten Feb-22 Mar 1931 Published February-April 1936 in Astounding Stories Vol. 16 No. 6February 1936 p. 8-32 Vol. 17 No. 1 March 1936 p. 125-55 Vol. 17 No. 2 April 1936p. 132-50. I I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advicewithout knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing thiscontemplated invasion of the antarctic - with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring andmelting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain.Doubt of the real facts as I must reveal them is inevitable yet if I suppressed what willseem extravagant and incredible there would be nothing left. The hitherto withheldphotographs both ordinary and aerial will count in my favor for they are damnably vivid andgraphic. Still they will be doubted because of the great lengths to which clever fakery can becarried. The ink drawings of course will be jeered at as obvious impostures notwithstandinga strangeness of technique which art experts ought to remark and puzzle over. In the end I mustrely on the judgment and standing of the few scientific leaders who have on the one handsufficient independence of thought to weigh my data on its own hideously convincing merits orin the light of certain primordial and highly baffling myth cycles and on the other handsufficient influence to deter the exploring world in general from any rash and over-ambitiousprogram in the region of those mountains of madness. It is an unfortunate fact that relativelyobscure men like myself and my associates connected only with a small university have littlechance of making an impression where matters of a wildly bizarre or highly controversial natureare concerned. It is further against us that we are not in the strictest sense specialists inthe fields which came primarily to be concerned. As a ge ologist my object in leading theMiskatonic University Expedition was wholly that of securing deep-level specimens of rock andsoil from various parts of the antarctic continent aided by the remarkable drill devised byProfessor Frank H. Pabodie of our engineering department. I had no wish to be a pioneer in anyother field than this but I did hope that the use of this new mechanical appliance atdifferent points along previously explored paths would bring to light materials of a sorthitherto unreached by the ordinary methods of collection. Pabodie’s drilling apparatus as thepublic already knows from