At The Mountains of Madness - Adaptations

Adaptations

The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society produced a 1930s-style radio drama of the story, featuring a full cast, original music and sound effects. It is packaged with photos from the expedition, newspaper clippings and other feelies.

The psychedelic rock group H. P. Lovecraft wrote and recorded a song titled "At the Mountains of Madness", which was based on the novella. The song appears on the band's second album H. P. Lovecraft II and a live performance of it, recorded at The Fillmore, is included on their Live May 11, 1968 album.

Mountains of Madness is a musical adaptation of Lovecraft's stories by Alexander Hacke, Danielle de Picciotto and The Tiger Lillies.

In October and November 2010, BBC7 broadcast an abridged reading in five half-hour episodes performed by Richard Coyle. A radio adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness was also created by the Atlanta Radio Theater Company.

In 2009, Atlas Games published The Antarctic Express by Kenneth Hite and Christina Rodriguez, part of the Mini-Mythos line of books from Atlas Games (ISBN 1589781112). It is a parody of The Polar Express, telling the story of young Danforth who boards a mysterious plane with Professor Dyer. They travel to Antarctica to the city of the Elder Things and flee when pursued by shoggoths.

At the Mountains of Madness was adapted into a graphic novel created by I. N. J. Culbard and published in 2010 by Self Made Hero as part of their Eye Classics line (ISBN 9781906838126). The book was named The Observer Graphic Novel of the Month.

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