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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket influenced At the Mountains of Madness
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The influence
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Book · 1838
The work it shaped
At the Mountains of Madness
Short Story · 1936
The evidence
Lovecraft's Antarctic expedition names Poe's novel repeatedly, and takes from it the cry "Tekeli-li!", which the shoggoths make. The narrator suggests Poe knew something of what lies at the pole: Mountains of Madness is written as the continuation of Pym's unfinished voyage.
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