Despite the high regard in which it is held, there are only a handful of anthologies which take Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness as their core theme or focus - Robert M. Price’s edited collection Beyond the Mountains of Madness (not to be confused with the Call of Cthulhu rpg campaign of the same name) being one of the more recent.
Unfortunately, peak Cthulhu appears to be looming: it sometimes feels that there is at least one new Lovecaftian or Cthulhu mythos collection appearing every other week, such that even the most dedicated Lovecraftian must find it nigh impossible to keep up with current outpouring of Cthulhuvian fiction. In this instance, Beyond the Mountains of Madness has found itself subsumed within an evergrowing ‘to read’ pile of mythos fiction; as a consequence, I must shamefully admit to having only managed a couple of brief delves into the contents of this particular volume - which, nonetheless, hosts some of the best names in contemporary Lovecraftian fiction. In any case, the two stories which I have thusfar read were both excellent.
On that basis (for what it’s worth), I would definitely recommend Beyond the Mountains of Madness - especially if boreal tales of cosmic horror happen to be your particular cup of tea.
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