At the Mountains of Madness & Other Weird Tales
At the Mountains of Madness & Other Weird TalesH.P. Lovecraft
Characters in At the Mountains of Madness & Other Weird Tales
5 characters, main characters first.Main characters
William Dyer
Miskatonic University geologist who led the expedition and narrates the events as a warning against further polar exploration.
Supporting characters
Lieutenant Danforth
A geology student who accompanies Dyer on the exploratory flight across the mountain range.
Lake
Biologist who leads a side camp into the mountains, making the expedition's first unsettling fossil discoveries.
Gedney
A graduate student whose disappearance from Lake's camp becomes one of the expedition's central mysteries.
Minor characters
Pabodie
Engineer whose drilling equipment design makes the expedition's deep Antarctic borings possible.