New on Archive.org, a crisp new scan of Astounding v016 n05 [1936-01]. This was the issue in which the Editor trailed “At The Mountains of Madness”, saying…

“It creates one of the finest word pictures I have ever read.”

Some readers did not agree in the letters-pages, in later issues. Several being seemingly simply unable to comprehend it. Although several times one gets the sense that they were also members of the ‘Genre Police’, whose hackles were raised on finding a story that was more ‘weird’ than the usual Astounding science-fiction.