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A giant wall of ice? Where have I seen that before?

You've seen it before then.

My office has an outsider... in fact my office has the Outsider... from the The Outsider, by H. P. Lovecraft...

And not only that... it's me!

Or maybe it is Atlantis, and it turns out to be run by the same people who are responsible for that face at Cydonia on Mars!

Nah. The place is run by Cthulhu.

Perhaps it's a joke.

The object is the Nemesis doing battle with the Oppressor from Beyond the Wall of Sleep.

On February 22, 1901, a marvelous new star was discovered by Doctor Anderson of Edinburgh, not very far from Algol. No star had been visible at that point before. Within twenty-four hours the stranger had become so bright that it outshone Capella. In a week or two it had visibly faded, and in the course of a few months it was hardly discernible with the naked eye.

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/mountainsofmaddness.htm

I read about this already. Either this is a dupe or they're just repeating an expedition made years ago (1931 or something).

Here's a description of the trip from one of the members of the expedition.

Here's a Wikipedia entry on the expedition.

Whatever you do, don't go to investigate the volcanoes. Some things are best left undisturbed.

Oh yes, lots of interesting life down there...

Woops, wrong link. That was a giant slime mold. This is a giant cephalopod.

Dos it have to be a print copy?

If not, try this: The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft, completely free (and legal!) in HTML. His works are available in a few other places online too, like here (see the copyright information at the bottom of the page-- most or all of Lovecraft's work is in the public domain), here (complete works, mostly in PDFs-- probably your best source), here (PDFs of several works), and here (a 100-page collection in a few different formats, including PDF and HTML).
Since most of Lovecraft's work is in the public domain, you can find other sources around the internet.
If you do want books, please consider buying from Arkham House, which has done a lot to promote Lovecraft's work, encourage and publish studies of it, and keep the genre alive by publishing the works of other authors. You'll find Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (the leading Lovecraft scholar), and other authors like August Derleth on the authors page. You may notice on the main page that despite Lovecraft's works being available in the public domain, books of his works are three of the top five sellers at Arkham House.
Whether you read Lovecraft in electronic format or in bound books, enjoy!

See HPL story, In The Vault

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Seda-give??? Seda-give???!!!

Actually, this sounds more like Re-Animator.

Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!

All that Danforth has ever hinted is that the final horror was a mirage. It was not, he declares, anything connected with the cubes and caves of those echoing, vaporous, wormily-honeycombed mountains of madness which we crossed; but a single fantastic, demoniac glimpse, among the churning zenith clouds, of what lay back of those other violet westward mountains which the Old Ones had shunned and feared. It is very probable that the thing was a sheer delusion born of the previous stresses we had passed through, and of the actual though unrecognized mirage of the dead transmontane city experienced near Lake's camp the day before; but it was so real to Danforth that he suffers from it still.

I wouldn't worry, unless the plants start turning gray and dying.

they can have control over my brain when they pry it out of my cold, dead skull!

That can be arranged.

H.P. Lovecraft foresaw this type of discovery in his novella _At the Mountains of Madness_. Could this be evidence of the old ones??!