Books like At the Mountains of Madness
12 books with a reading profile close to At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Midwich Cuckoos
by John Wyndham
horror, science fiction
In the quiet English village of Midwich, every living creature falls into a deep, unexplained trance for one day.
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2
I Am Legend and Other Stories
horror, science fiction
Robert Neville is the last living human in a world overrun by nocturnal, bloodthirsty creatures.
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3
The Monk
horror, classic literature
Ambrosio is the most admired monk in Madrid, a preacher respected for his holiness.
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4
I Am Legend
horror, science fiction
Robert Neville is the final human survivor in a Los Angeles populated by nocturnal, vampiric creatures.
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5
Rocannon’s World
science fiction, classic literature
Rocannon, an ethnologist for the League of All Worlds, becomes stranded on a primitive planet when a rebel faction destroys his survey ship.
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6
The Shadow over Innsmouth
horror, classic literature
A young man traveling through New England in 1927 visits the decaying port of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, because he is curious about the town's bad reputation.
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7
The Great Dune Trilogy
science fiction, classic literature
This omnibus gathers the first three novels in Frank Herbert's science fiction saga.
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8
Earth Abides
science fiction, classic literature
Isherwood Williams emerges from the California mountains to find a swift-moving plague has decimated the human population.
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9
Earth is Room Enough
by Isaac Asimov
science fiction, classic literature
This collection of fifteen short stories and two poems focuses on the idea that humanity does not need to colonize the stars to find conflict or wonder.
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10
Dracula Illustrated
by Bram Stoker
horror, classic literature
The narrative follows the legal solicitor Jonathan Harker as he travels to the Carpathian Mountains to assist Count Dracula with a London real estate transaction.
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11
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
by Mary Shelley
horror, science fiction
Victor Frankenstein, a natural philosophy student in Ingolstadt, assembles a living human form from scavenged body parts using laboratory chemistry and galvanism.
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12
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
horror, classic literature
In the secluded Dutch settlement of Tarrytown, a superstitious schoolmaster named Ichabod Crane vies for the hand of the wealthy Katrina Van Tassel.
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