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Subject Mountains of Madness: Scientists Poised to Drill Through Antarctic Ice and Into Gothic Horror

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What might lurk beneath Antarctica’s 5 million square miles of ice was the subject of speculation by sci-fi writers in the 1930s. One of the icy products this subgenre of Antarctic Gothic horror spawned is HP Lovecraft’s novella, At the Mountains of Madness, in which scientists drill beneath Antarctica’s ice — only to discover horrid things preserved there. Now, scientists are finally enacting Lovecraft’s scenario: Over the next several weeks they are drilling into three subglacial lakes hidden beneath thousands of feet of ice in Antarctica.

What they will find as they sample the lakes and send cameras into their bellies remains to be seen. But one thing is already clear: Lovecraft was actually right about far more than his readers could have realized.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/12/antarctic-gothic-horror/?cid=5117724
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Aha! You found Lovecraft!

Just the other day I downloaded "The Mountains of Madness".
I think his complete works are to be found at a website dedicated to Lovecraft, google for it.

Lovecraft didn't just write horror, but many essays and scientific texts as well as poetry. It seems to me he was likely also one of the last of the generations which were much attracted by and deeply into ancient history of man, including Atlantis.
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Original Message What might lurk beneath Antarctica’s 5 million square miles of ice was the subject of speculation by sci-fi writers in the 1930s. One of the icy products this subgenre of Antarctic Gothic horror spawned is HP Lovecraft’s novella, At the Mountains of Madness, in which scientists drill beneath Antarctica’s ice — only to discover horrid things preserved there. Now, scientists are finally enacting Lovecraft’s scenario: Over the next several weeks they are drilling into three subglacial lakes hidden beneath thousands of feet of ice in Antarctica.

What they will find as they sample the lakes and send cameras into their bellies remains to be seen. But one thing is already clear: Lovecraft was actually right about far more than his readers could have realized.

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