# At the Mountains of Madness — Character guide

> Key figures in At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft.

- [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/narrator.md): A Miskatonic geologist who leads the Antarctic expedition and must weigh scientific ambition against the sanity-shattering truths buried in the ice.
- [Lake](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/lake.md): The expedition's biologist, whose restless drilling and reckless hunger for older fossils push the team past the edge of known geological time.
- [Danforth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/danforth.md): A brilliant young scholar and pilot whose forbidden reading in the Necronomicon gives him words for horrors his eyes were never meant to hold.
- [The Old Ones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/old_ones.md): The aeons-dead architects of a cyclopean Antarctic city, whose geometrically impossible ruins rewrite the entire history of life on Earth.
- [Professor Frank H. Pabodie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/pabodie.md): The expedition's chief engineer, whose drills and boring equipment crack open the primordial rock and let something ancient answer back.
- [Gedney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/gedney.md): A missing expedition member later found dead near the ancient city.
- [McTighe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/mctighe.md): A member of the expedition's support staff.
- [Sherman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/sherman.md): A member of the expedition's support staff.
- [The Shoggoths](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/shoggoths.md): Shapeless, protean servants bred by the Old Ones, whose whispered name in a madman's mouth carries five hundred million years of dread.
- [Carroll](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/carroll.md): A member of the expedition's support staff.
- [Moulton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/moulton.md): A member of the expedition's support staff.
- [Atwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/atwood.md): A member of the expedition's support staff.
- [Dyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/at_the_mountains_of_madness_se/characters/dyer.md): The narrator's surname, revealed late in the story.

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