At the Mountains of Madness/YMMV

• And the Fandom Rejoiced: Guillermo del Toro is making a movie of it? And James Cameron is producing it?! And they won't succumb to Hollywood standards!?!
  • And sadly, too good to be true. The studio cancelled the film due to the Wolfman's failure at the box office a week before shooting was to commence.
• It Gets Better: Fifty pages of description of how their scientific expedition was meant to go. How it actually went starts around page sixty.
• Nightmare Retardant: Giant albino penguins!
  • YMMV on exactly the grade of Nightmare Retardant. They are described as six feet tall and eyeless, shambling about and squawking loudly, a far cry from this. A bit unsettling depending on the reader.
• Values Dissonance: The reader is meant to sympathize with the "upper-class" Elder Things over the "lower-class" Shoggoths, which were manufactured en masse by the Elder Things to act as their servitors. Admittedly, it's easy to do when one is rational and ill-fated and the other is a formless mass trying to rip your head off (literally), but still. It's like a biological ancestor to the Robot War.