Round 8: Tossup 20

A publishing house for this author’s work was co-founded by Donald Wandrei and August Derleth, whose falling out is discussed in a study of this author subtitled Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq (“well-BECK”). A genre whose “Big Three” consisted of this author, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith inspired M. John Harrison to theorize a modern genre exemplified by the work of Jeff VanderMeer and China Miéville. A story by this author is narrated by a professor who discovers amoeba-like “shoggoths” while (10[1])on an expedition (10[1])to Antarctica from Miskatonic (10[1])University. (10[1])In a story by this author, the sunken city R’lyeh (“rill-YEH”) imprisons a “Great Old One” (10[1])that resembles a giant octopus. For 10 points, what author of At the Mountains of Madness created the Cthulhu Mythos? ■END■

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