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At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

The novel “At the Mountains of Madness” by H.P. Lovecraft was published for the first time in 1936 serialized in the magazine “Astounding Stories” and later as a book.

Professor William Dyer of Miskatonic University in Arkham, Massachusetts, decided to write an account of the expedition he led to Antarctica as a warning of the horrors he encountered there. Dyer discovered a new exploration project and wanted to explain how the horrors in what he decided to call the Mountains of Madness had caused the deaths of nearly all the members of his expedition and all the members of a previous expedition.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe

The novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” by Edgar Allan Poe was published for the first time in a partial version in 1837, serialized in the “Southern Literary Messenger” and in its entirety as a book in 1838.

Arthur Gordon Pym grew up on Nuntucket Island and was deeply attached to the sea. Despite a negative experience, in June 1827, he secretly boarded the brig Grampus, commanded by the father of his best friend Augustus Barnard, who helped him find a hiding place aboard.

What was supposed to be an exciting sea adventure soon turns into a nightmare for Arthur Gordon Pym. Trapped in his hideout, he nearly dies of thirst. Augustus rescues him after several days of agony and Pym discovers that there was a mutiny on the Grampus. More misadventures await Arthur.

Addendum by Randall Sharpe

The novel “Addendum” by Randall Sharpe was published for the first time in 2023. It’s the second book in the Astral Alignment series and follows “Astral Alignment”.

For Annabelle, seeing a dead body near the local lake is traumatic, especially since various murders have occurred in the area. She and her friend Charon try to support each other in a difficult time in various ways. Other strange events see them sometimes as witnesses and, on other occasions, as protagonists. The presence of Darien Weever, who seemed like a normal substitute teacher at their school but turns out to be something else, adds to the strangeness. Their path also crosses that of a masked vigilante. Danger comes from strange creatures, but also from the Delta Freya and religious fanatics who show that humans can be the worst monsters.

Ray is a vampire but has no malicious intentions towards others. When she finds herself in legal trouble because of an empath she met by chance, her parents hire a lawyer to defend her, who turns out to be a vampire herself and a prominent one among vampires. Mallory alternates between transporting people and running a conspiracy website. The Delta Freya take at least some of her articles so seriously that they kidnap her and her husband and force her to take them to the depths of the Earth. Clover Field encounters a sasquatch who predicts a momentous future for her, but under circumstances that are shocking to her.

Astral Alignment by Randall Sharpe

The novel “Astral Alignment” by Randall Sharpe was published for the first time in 2022. It’s the first book in the Astral Alignment series.

Clover Fields wakes up in an unfamiliar place, with no memory of her own. She finds her name on the driver’s license she carries, but even her body seems strange to her due to certain inhuman characteristics. She can defend herself from strange creatures because she carries a weapon unknown to the people who live in the area and find her. She discovers she has strange powers and ends up becoming a sort of priestess of the community.

Darien Weever is trying to recover a manuscript that could be very dangerous in the wrong hands, but he ends up in a situation far more complex than he imagined. Josiah is taken by his father thousands of miles from his home for reasons he doesn’t understand. His father tells him he has special powers, which explains some of his strange experiences, but he finds it difficult to accept that his mother withheld such important information about their family from him.

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson

The novel “The Night Land” by William Hope Hodgson was published for the first time in 1912.

When his wife, Lady Mirdath the Beautiful, dies, her widower falls into a state of great prostration. He loved his wife very much and had a very special connection with her, as they literally shared some very special dreams.

In his state, the man starts having a vision of a very distant future in which the Sun is dead and the last human beings live underground. On that Earth whose surface is inhabited by monstrous creatures, the souls of the two spouses have reunited in new human incarnations. However, the two of them are separated and the man must face the darkness to reunite with his beloved.