As we now all know, Antartica is the true location of the fabled plateau of Leng, and the source of the rumors of sacrificial cult there are now obvious to all. And, of course, we know that it is the home of the last of the Elder Race, the location of their greatest city not completely destroyed, the haunt of the Shoggoths deep beneath the earth, etc., etc., etc. And it's a well-known scientific fact that Antarctica was once a lush jungle. But perhaps all this will be made even clearer when you realize that Antarctica is in fact . . . Atlantis!

A sixteenth-century European map depicting Atlantis, copied from an Egyptian map with origins dating back to 9,000 BC or so, shows pretty much exactly the coastline of an ice-free Antarctica. Coincidence? Nonsense! Nothing is coincidence in CTC! This puts the cataclysm that destroyed Atlantis (i.e., covered it in ice) a mere 11,000 years in the past, a fact which makes no sense whatsoever given the geological evidence. No sense, that is, until you realize that the evidence was probably altered to confuse those searching for the entrance to . . . The Hollow Earth!

Yes, as late as the 1940's (and certainly in 1933), it was believed, particularly in Germany, that the entrance to the fabled Hollow Earth - an entire civilization that lived on the interior of our completely hollow planet - was located in Antartica. A human civilization of advanced technology (possibly responsile for some flying saucer sightings as they examing the "outer" world) lives there along with dangerous creatures such as the worm-like, psychic Deroes, who live to devour the minds of men. Is the German expedition actually the fabled, secret Nazi-party attempt to strike an alliance with the Hollow Earthers, or are they actually in search of . . . The Anti-Claus!

Yes, along with Shoggoths and imprisoned gods, Antarctica is of course home to Santa's dark nemesis, the Anti-Claus. His hidden laboratory sits athwart an enormous coal mine where his enslaved short minions toil day and night to spoil the Christmases of children everywhere. Does not the Dark Tower of the Mountains of Madness seem trivial and tame when one realizes that every June 25th, the Anti-Claus rides forth to spread his evil across the unsuspecting world? Shiver, oh children of men, shiver . . .