Round 12: 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 (10[1])who discovers amoeba-like “shoggoths” (-5[1])while on an expedition (10[1])to Antarctica (10[1])from Miskatonic University. (-5[1])In a (10[1])story by this author, (10[1])the sunken city R’lyeh (10[1])(“rill-YEH”) imprisons a “Great Old One” that resembles a giant octopus. (10[1])For 10 points, what author of At the Mountains of Madness created the Cthulhu Mythos? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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