TilingTales is a work of passion.
It stems from that magic feeling of losing yourself in a good book, wishing that the adventure would continue even after turning the last page.
What if you could bring an artifact of that magic world into your home, an artwork to play with or decorate your room?
Our first TilingTales puzzle will be based on the cosmic horror novel by American author H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountain of Madness.
Written at the beginning of 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories, it has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi describes the novella as representing the decisive "demythology" of the Cthulhu Mythos by reinterpreting Lovecraft's earlier supernatural stories in a science fiction paradigm.
The story details the events of a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic continent in September 1930, and what was found there by a group of explorers led by the narrator, Dr. William Dyer of Miskatonic University. Throughout the story, Dyer details a series of previously untold events in the hope of deterring another group of explorers who wish to return to the continent.
The first puzzle follows geologist William Dyer while planning the expedition in Antarctica.
Sponsored by Miskatonic University, the group of scientists and researchers embark on the journey, with the plan of using a brand new drilling technology to extract and study unusual findings.
The advanced team led by Doctor Lake flies off in one of the expedition's planes with the intent of exploring a previously unknown mountain range.
The plane, however, crashes near the mountains, Lake and his team survive and set up a camp at the site.
In the second puzzle, Dyer reaches Lake's camp, finding it devastated with the majority of men and dogs slaughtered. Eerie star-shaped snow mounds hide horrendous alien specimen.
Dyer and a graduate student fly the airplane over the majestic mountains, suddenly realizing these are not nature-made mountains, but an outer wall surrounding an impossible ancient city.
In the third and final puzzle, Dyer explores the dead, abandoned Ancient City, discovering hieroglyphic murals revealing a terrifying and long forgotten history.
But appearance are misleading... not everything in the impossible city is dead!
Howard Philips Lovecraft
