At the mountains of madness

Dyer and a graduate student named Danforth fly an airplane over the mountains, which they soon realize are the outer walls of a huge, abandoned stone city of cubes and cones, utterly alien compared with any human architecture. Because of their resemblance to creatures of myth mentioned in the Necronomicon, the builders of this lost civilization are dubbed the 'Elder Things'. By exploring these fantastic structures, the men are able to learn the history of the Elder Things through interpreting th ...