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The Moon Pool

by A. Merritt

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One of the most gripping fantasies ever written, The Moon Pool embodies all the romanticism and poetic nostalgia characteristic of A. Merritt's writings. Set on the island of Ponape, full of ruins from ancient civilizations, the novel chronicles the adventures of a party of explorers who discover a previously unknown underground world full of strange peoples and super-scie...more

Paperback, 352 pages

Published July 1st 2004 by Wesleyan (first published 1919)

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Oct 19, 2008

Steve rated it

Shelves: fiction, sci-fi-and-fantasy

I wanted to rate this one higher, but it was something of a chore to finish. Better than three stars, but not four (3 1/2 stars). Oh, it's crammed with great descriptive writing, which is Merritt's strength. And the good stuff includes giant frog people, a dragon, two beautiful women at war, wild weapons, dwarves, an evil Bolshevik scientist (keep in mind this was written in 1919!), and a hidden world beneath the earth's surface. But at its heart the novel is a vampire story -- but with a take ...more

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Mar 01, 2009

Will rated it

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Merritt was quite popular in his time. The Moon Pool originally appeared in serialized form in 1919 and was an instant hit. The breathless prose seems off-kilter today and the flip racism shines an unflattering light on a less-enlightened time. There are similarities to H.P. Lovecraft, H. Rider Haggard and the adventure story-tellers of the late 19th and early 20th century. HG Wells is mentioned by name. It was a time in which there were still many unexplored parts of the earth and Merritt did ...moreMerritt was quite popular in his time. The Moon Pool originally appeared in serialized form in 1919 and was an instant hit. The breathless prose seems off-kilter today and the flip racism shines an unflattering light on a less-enlightened time. There are similarities to H.P. Lovecraft, H. Rider Haggard and the adventure story-tellers of the late 19th and early 20th century. HG Wells is mentioned by name. It was a time in which there were still many unexplored parts of the earth and Merritt did his best to fill them with his imaginings. This is a tale of lost races living beneath the earth and of battles between them, of the deepest history of our planet and of beings who populated earth long before ours. It is also a tale of true love, self-sacrifice, honor, deception, greed, fantastical beings, creatures and powers. There is much in the book that makes me wonder whether the ideas were cadged from other writers of the time or were original with Merritt. I lack the depth of knowledge needed to fairly judge. Scientific concepts and technological prognostications abound. Personally I found these the most interesting. It is clear that for those of us who have been captured by the strange civilization of LOST island, Merritt is the source of the smoke monster concept. How much more I cannot say, maybe the four-toed statues on the island are reflective of the lost-civilization, the old ones, that Merritt offers. But among the items here are:

A boulder-door that opens when moonlight shines on special receptors – Seems to me that Tolkien might have been a fan

A death ray that, except for it’s conical beam, might be a laser

A notion of the moon having once been a part of earth and the hollowed out space in which the story takes place having been part of the earth from which it had been wrested is interesting. I am not certain when this theory on the origin of the moon first appeared.

A fair maiden appears to the travelers in a way that very much reminds one of Princess Leia as a hologram

The very walls glow with light in some scenes. This makes me think of upcoming LCD lighting technology

The use of some sort of energy as a force field seems ahead of its time

That I did not much care for this story is a quibble, I suppose. It is archaic in its forms. But it was interesting as a period piece, and one cannot but admire the rich mine of imagination that Merritt worked in producing his first novel.
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Sep 23, 2011

Henry Avila rated it

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An expedition to a remote island, in the South Pacific, is organized by Dr.Walter Goodwin ,to rescue a friend, Dr. Throckmartin, his wife, and an associate.Throckmartin had vanished from a ship, in the middle of the ocean!The mysterious Ponape, is where the searchers believe, he's gone to, and their destination .A strange place, with prehistorical ruins, made by an unknown race .Eventually they find an entrance, that leads to a weird ,underground civilization.A legendary people live there. This ...more

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Aug 19, 2011

Sandy rated it

A. Merritt's masterful first novel, "The Moon Pool," originally appeared in the magazine "All-Story Weekly," as a short story entitled "The Moon Pool," in 1918. Its full-length sequel, "The Conquest of the Moon Pool," followed in that pub the following year. The first book publication, later in 1919, combined these two works into a unified whole, and the result is an astonishing piece of fantastic fiction. And it would seem that Orson Welles' radio renditi...moreA. Merritt's masterful first novel, "The Moon Pool," originally appeared in the magazine "All-Story Weekly," as a short story entitled "The Moon Pool," in 1918. Its full-length sequel, "The Conquest of the Moon Pool," followed in that pub the following year. The first book publication, later in 1919, combined these two works into a unified whole, and the result is an astonishing piece of fantastic fiction. And it would seem that Orson Welles' radio rendition of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" on 10/30/38 was not the first piece of fantasy to dupe the public, either. Readers of "The Moon Pool" in 1918 were so convinced of the book's veracity that they wrote to "All-Story Weekly" wanting more information.

I can easily understand their confusion, as this novel is told in a very realistic style, purportedly from notes that the famous botanist Dr. Walter Goodwin had submitted to the International Association of Science. Goodwin had been en route from Port Moresby, New Guinea to Melbourne when he encountered an old associate, Dr. Throckmartin, who told him a remarkable story. It seems that Throckmartin's entire scientific party had been abducted by a being of light, while they were exploring the (actual) Nan-Matal ruins off Panape, in the Caroline Islands. Throckmartin himself is abducted before Goodwin's eyes, leading to Goodwin's exploration of those same ruins. Throckmartin's tale is eerie and quite suspenseful; indeed, those first 30 pages of the book are so very intense that the reader will be amazed to realize that there's another 250 pages in this novel yet to go! En route to Panape to effect his investigation, Goodwin, through a series of somewhat forced coincidences, encounters a Norwegian captain whose family had been abducted by the strange light entity; a visionary, somewhat fey, Irish fighter pilot; and a duplicitous Russian (German in the original magazine version!) scientist, all of whom accompany him on his adventures. And this is just the introductory setup in what turns out to be a long, involving, at times hallucinatory, and all in all quite remarkable tale. Underground civilizations, invisibility cloaks, giant jellyfish, disintegrating beams, good and evil priestesses, battles involving thousands, frogmen, shell-shaped flying cars...Merritt's imagination seems to be bursting loose in this, his first work.

Much has been said regarding the fact that Merritt, a newspaperman for the most part (for many years on "The American Weekly"), could switch so easily from dry journalese to the florid, purple prose that soon became his trademark. This book would not be what it is without his dense, adjective-heavy, hyperimaginative prose, with its wide range of reference and yearning lyricism. Just take this example, in which the author describes the flora of the underground world that Goodwin & Co. discover:

"...moss veils like banners of a marching host of Titans; pennons and bannerets of the sunset; gonfalons of the Jinn; webs of faery; oriflammes of elfland! Springing up through that polychromatic flood myriads of pedicles--slender and straight as spears, or soaring in spirals, or curving with undulations gracile as the white serpents of Tanit in ancient Carthaginian groves--and all surmounted by a fantasy of spore cases in shapes of minaret and turret, domes and spires and cones, caps of Phrygia and bishops' mitres, shapes grotesque and unnameable--shapes delicate and lovely! They hung high poised, nodding and swaying--like goblins hovering over Titania's court; cacophony of Cathay accenting the "Flower Maiden" music of "Parsifal"; bizarrerie of the angled, fantastic beings that people the Javan pantheon watching a bacchanal of houris in Mohammed's paradise!"

Despite the reader's desire to flip through the pages breathlessly to see what happens next, prose such as this almost demands a more leisurely pace. I found myself rereading many such passages, just reveling in Merritt's ability to conjure up dreamlike word pictures. But strangely enough, although he is extraordinarily good with these descriptions, sometimes Merritt overreaches himself, and then his attempts to picture things fall flat. I defy any reader to fully visualize Goodwin & Co.'s means of descent into the Murian underworld, for instance, or the geography of the bridge leading to the Portal. But for the most part, Merritt's prose is extremely effective at conveying a sense of alien wonder, and "The Moon Pool" does indeed live up to its reputation as a fantasy classic. I recommend it wholeheartedly to all readers.(less)

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Nov 13, 2010

Derek Davis rated it

My memories of the A. Merritt books go way back to my older brother's collection of "Famous Fantastic Mysterious," a reprint series from the '40s of pulp works from the '10s and '20s (mostly), with illustrations by some of the greats of the era, especially Virgil Finlay.

I was a young teen, and reading The Moon Pool today, I wonder how I dealt then with the pseudo-scientific burble and what I made of the overblown explosion of adjectives (coruscating, opalescent, etc.) which ...more

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Jul 07, 2009

Evan rated it

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"A sea stretched before us--a crimson sea, gleaming like the lost lacquer of royal coral and the Flame Dragon's blood which Fu S'cze set upon the bower he built for his stolen sun maiden--that going toward it she might think it the sun itself rising over the summer seas. Unmoved by wave or ripple, it was placid as some deep woodland pool when night rushes up over the world. It seemed molten--or as though some hand great enough to rock earth had distilled here from ...more

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Jul 25, 2011

D_Davis rated it

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Shelves: science-speculative-fiction, fantasy

The Moon Pool is a classic adventure story. One might say it is cliche, if one didn't know that it was Merritt who helped to invent everything that we now consider cliche in these kinds of stories. There are secret worlds to explore, lost races to meet, and strange, wondrous, and dangerous sites to behold.

It does tend to go on for a little too long, and parts of it could definitely be trimmed. It feels as though it was written in chunks, as some chapter-groupings are exciting and fee...more

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Feb 24, 2011

Kat Hooper rated it

Abraham Merritt’s The Moon Pool was originally published as two stories in All-Story Weekly (“The Moon Pool” and “Conquest of the Moon Pool”) and combined into a novel in 1919. Its copyright has expired, so you can find it at Project Gutenberg or as a free Kindle e-book at Amazon.

The Moon Pool is supposedly a layperson’s account (transcribed by Abraham Merritt) of Dr. Walter T. Goodwin’s exploration of the ancient ruins of Nan Madol in the South Pacific. Dr. Goodwin, a famous botanist,...moreAbraham Merritt’s The Moon Pool was originally published as two stories in All-Story Weekly (“The Moon Pool” and “Conquest of the Moon Pool”) and combined into a novel in 1919. Its copyright has expired, so you can find it at Project Gutenberg or as a free Kindle e-book at Amazon.

The Moon Pool is supposedly a layperson’s account (transcribed by Abraham Merritt) of Dr. Walter T. Goodwin’s exploration of the ancient ruins of Nan Madol in the South Pacific. Dr. Goodwin, a famous botanist, had run into his friend David Throckmartin, a colleague who claimed that his research partners (one of whom was his wife) were kidnapped by a sentient moonbeam while exploring the ancient ruins of Nan Madol. After Throckmartin tells him the strange story, Goodwin sees Throckmartin being borne away by a moonbeam that seems to encompass an evil being who Goodwin begins thinking of as The Dweller. On his way to investigate the ruins, Goodwin discovers that others have had similar experiences. This Dweller is stealing humans and, oddly, when they are taken away, they simultaneously have expressions of both horror and rapture on their faces. By the time that Goodwin arrives at the scene of the crimes, he’s accompanied by a few others who want to know what’s going on in the Nan Madol ruins: Larry O’Keefe, a roguish Irishman who’s a lieutenant in the British Navy’s Royal Flying Corps, Olaf Huldricksson, a Norseman whose wife and daughter have been kidnapped by The Dweller, and a Russian named Marakinoff.

The Moon Pool is a traditional SFF predator/lost world adventure story with an Indiana Jones feel. The story is exciting from the beginning as Dr. Goodwin, a scientist and a skeptic, can’t believe the preposterous tale he hears until he sees the evidence with his own eyes. He attempts to classify every strange thing he meets into its proper phylum and to develop plausible theories (according to the science of 1919) to explain away the weird occurrences. Meanwhile, Larry O’Keefe prefers to blame everything on mythological creatures from ancient Irish legends. When Goodwin mocks him, O’Keefe gives this delightful little speech:

You scientific people build up whole philosophies on the basis of things you never saw, and you scoff at people who believe in other things that you think they never saw and that don’t come under what you label scientific. You talk about paradoxes — why, your scientist, who thinks he is the most skeptical, the most materialistic aggregation of atoms ever gathered at the exact mathematical centre of Missouri, has more blind faith than a dervish, and more credulity, more superstition, than a cross-eyed smoke beating it past a country graveyard in the dark of the moon!

The union of legend and old scientific theories is stimulating and thought-provoking. Also, the addition of the attractive and gregarious Larry O’Keefe, who is really a secondary character, serves to liven things up. As much as I enjoyed Dr. Goodwin’s ideas, introspections, and footnotes explaining new technologies (some of which were “deleted” by the Executive Council of the International Association of Science so that they couldn’t be read by Russian enemies), he can’t really be considered an exciting hero.

There are a couple of minor issues with The Moon Pool. One is the frequent extensive visual descriptions of the lost world the explorers encounter and the concomitant overuse of words such as luminous, phosphorescent, prismatic, lacquered, iridescent, translucent, glowing, gleaming, rubrous, radiant, lambent, and shining and phrases such as “I gazed down into depth upon vertiginous depth” and “flickering points of vermilion” and “…the shimmering, curdled, misty fires of opalescence!” and “coruscating mist of the opalescence,” etc. It’s sensory overload.

Another issue is that the resolution of the story’s climax hinges on our belief in a love that feels like more of an unrealistic romantic attraction. This was disappointing because the lost world was so carefully constructed — and so believable — up to that point. I blame this deficit on early 20th century ideas about women’s roles. I think Merritt would have written this better today — nearly 100 years later!

Other than the shallow romance, The Moon Pool doesn’t feel like such an old book — it’s completely accessible to modern readers — and it’s free! I look forward to reading more by Abraham Merritt. He has written another novel featuring Dr. Goodwin (The Metal Monster) which I downloaded to my Kindle for 99¢.(less)

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Oct 03, 2011

Matthew Collins rated it

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Really good book. It starts off kind of slow but really picks up. The ending is a little out of nowhere though, I am not sure I REALLY liked the ending but I do respect the ending, if that makes sense. The characters are really well done, the prose is easy to read yet very aesthetically pleasing as well. A lot of people give it bad reviews now because the science of it is completely out of date and isn't really credible or plausible, but as long as you remember it was written in 1918 and tha...more

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Apr 04, 2009

BCS rated it

Shelves: antique

Hardcover, Liverlight Publishing Corporation, New York, Good condition, dust jacket with plastic sleeve. Copyright is 1919, A. Merrit.

Appears to be the edition shown in the image on the below page. It is the same heavy beige stock with dark red printing. The cover illustration is the same, but a couple of the panels do not appear on this edition.

Dedication is to Robert H. Davis, "In appreciation, among many other things, for Larry O'Keefe's Faith in the Fairies"...more

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Jul 11, 2008

Michael marked it as to-read

My 1971 Collier edition has no ISBN. for shame.

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Nov 13, 2011

Mikesokolov rated it

The story is classic proto-SF; voyage to an underground land with magical technology, pseudoscientific explanations of supernatural phenomena, world-ending evil plans stopped in the nick of time by daring westerners in a foreign land. I finished it, but it was tough going: Merritt's breathless descriptive prose (in the introduction to my edition, Robert Silverberg refers to it as "lambent this, coruscating that") has not aged well, and becomes tiresome by the end. Would-be SciFi arch...more

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Mar 14, 2010

Nicholas Whyte added it · review of another edition

http://nhw.livejournal.com/630477.html[return][return]The plot is classic enough: on an isolated tropical island, the Moon Pool is in fact the gateway to an underground world where the struggle between the forces of good and evil (each led by a beautiful priestess) is resolved by the agency of our narrator and his chums.[return][return]The characters are utter clich�s. The Scandinavian sea-captain is, in fact, a Viking; the Russian is villainous (apparently a German during first magazine publicat...morehttp://nhw.livejournal.com/630477.html[return][return]The plot is classic enough: on an isolated tropical island, the Moon Pool is in fact the gateway to an underground world where the struggle between the forces of good and evil (each led by a beautiful priestess) is resolved by the agency of our narrator and his chums.[return][return]The characters are utter clich�s. The Scandinavian sea-captain is, in fact, a Viking; the Russian is villainous (apparently a German during first magazine publication); the priestesses are both beautiful and nearly nude at all times. Most striking of all is the central character, Larry O'Keefe, with whom both priestesses (and, pretty clearly, also the male narrator) fall deeply in love. He is supposedly an Irishman with strong American connections, but I bristled rather at the cod-Oirishness of his dialogue. The son of The O'Keefe of Coleraine (that well known haunt of the old Gaelic aristocracy), he reminisces at one point:[return][return]An once I saw an Annir Choille, a girl of the green people, flit like a shade of green fire through Carntogher woods, an once at Dunchraig I slept where the ashes of the Dun of Cormac MacConcobar are mixed with those of Cormac an Eilidh the Fair, all burned in the nine flames that sprang from the harping of Cravetheen, an I heard the echo of his dead harpings [return][return]Carntogher is real enough, and credibly reachable from Coleraine, but the Annir Choille, Dunchraig and Cravetheen are all taken from the works of Fiona MacLeod (real name William Sharp), at least in the first instance.[return][return]For all that, Merrit's descriptive prose has power, coherence, and energy, and you can see his influence on Lovecraft; the first few scenes after passing through the Moon Pool in particular are very reminiscent of Lovecraft's Land of Dream. There is still something a bit more visceral and twisted in Lovecraft's writing that I think makes him the superior craftsman, even though his prose is sometimes just a bit more over the top than Merritt's.(less)

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Jan 18, 2011

Jimmy rated it

Shelves: top-100

The only reason I decided to read this book was because of its ties to one of my favorite tv shows, LOST. Although there are a few, and I mean very few, similarities, I certainly don't think it's enough to warrant a read. Unless you're a hardcore fan of the fantasy genre, you can go ahead and skip this.

I thought that the characters in this story were much too stereotyped. There's the scientific doctor who tries to find reason in everything, only to realize in the end that not everyth...moreThe only reason I decided to read this book was because of its ties to one of my favorite tv shows, LOST. Although there are a few, and I mean very few, similarities, I certainly don't think it's enough to warrant a read. Unless you're a hardcore fan of the fantasy genre, you can go ahead and skip this.

I thought that the characters in this story were much too stereotyped. There's the scientific doctor who tries to find reason in everything, only to realize in the end that not everything has reason. There's the macho guy who scoffs in the face of danger, but after falling in love with a woman, his heart melts and he fights with the power of love. There's the burly sailor who has lost everything, and will fight to the death to get at what he wants. There's even the traitorous mad Russian scientist! And don't get me started on all the female characters who are driven by emotion, and only emotion. Granted, this book was written in 1919 in a time where civil rights was only starting to develop and America was just fresh from WWI.

The plot does a little better than characters. Being a fantasy, it takes you on a wild adventure to a mysterious island, a world full of creatures and dwarves and even a monster, and ends with a mighty battle. But if you take a closer look at the intricacies of the plot, you can see that he goes into more detail about the fanciful designs of these characters, whether it be their powers of invisibility or turning gravity upside down. Although I can't say that he set any sort of literary precedent, Merritt at least contributed a hefty sum to the fantasy genre.

When it comes to the narration of the story, we are to follow in the footsteps of the main protagonist, Dr. Goodwin (more LOST references?) Being a doctor, he offers to his readers a pseudo-scientific explanation for most, if not all, of the weird going-ons in this world beneath the Earth. This is where I believe the story shines because of the fact that it grounds both the reader and the characters: We shouldn't be taking everything and anything we see at face value, but maybe put some thought before we pass judgment on something. Just like Goodwin tries to be honest and frank about his own opinions, so must we.(less)

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Mar 09, 2011

Bill Ramsell rated it

Shelves: pulp

Abraham Merritt's magnum opus. Merritt was a pulp writer from early in the 20th century who suffered from a terrible ailment; he had a regular job that paid well, so his output of weird fantasy and science fiction is terribly small. This is a wonderful book. Read it. You will not be disappointed.

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Aug 27, 2010

Jennifer rated it

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Shelves: fantasy, awesomeness, favorites

Abraham Merritt is my favorite Sci-Fi author. His fictional worlds intrigue me and draw me in like no other. The Moon Pool is a fantastic "Center to the Earth" tale with lots of action, romance and mystery. And I'd like to figure out how I can get a hold of a Keth. I might need one some day.

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Aug 20, 2011

Jim Bradford rated it

This book was great fun! Pulpy, over-the-top, and creative. I'd liken the style to that of Dan Brown, if he had lived in the early 20th century. Action packed and, at times, a little ridiculous - in a good way! Merritt created a fantastic (in all senses of the word) setting, and some interesting characters; and with them put together an iconic 'Lost World' story that was great to the very end.

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Mar 28, 2010

Melanti rated it

Shelves: 2010

This has the narrative style of H.G. Wells with the atmosphere of Lovecraft.
Lovely style of writing, but a bit of a chore to get through.
I think I would have enjoyed it even more if Larry hadn't been saying darlin' every few sentences. All the pet names are rather aggravating.

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Aug 29, 2011

Andrew rated it

Shelves: fantasy, sci-fi

Excellent prose but sadly this sometimes seems to get in the way of the plot,I have read other bits by this author and enjoyed them but this one didn't really thrill me much...take away the flowery prose and you have a very thin plot.

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Jan 25, 2011

Ken rated it

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Shelves: science-fiction

I'm really amazed just how well thought out and imaginative this book was. This is the second book by Merritt I've read, and the guy is great. Similar to Lovecraft, but weaving more plot, character, and women into his writing. I love how he recreated Norse mythology in Earth's underworld, and wove in Irish mythology as well. The book did take me a while to read, partly because many sections are filled with detailed descriptions that I had to read 3 or 4 times to try to envision. This is a c...more

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Dec 12, 2010

Alex rated it

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Enjoyably Ridonkulous.

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Aug 03, 2008

William Cane rated it

Recommends it for: boys, writers

The prose is what makes this book rank alongside such prose poems as Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Hobbit. There's an excellent review by Georges T. Dodds at: http://www.sfsite.com/07a/mp107.htm

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Sep 11, 2008

Vincent rated it

I read this book because it was referenced in Lost and I though it might be along the same lines. It wasn't really, but it was an interesting early (1930's?) science fiction book.

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Oct 04, 2008

Stephen rated it

Shelves: easton-press, lost-my-world, pulpy, fantasy, 1900-1929, weird-and-new-weird

4.5 stars. Great early SF story with beautiful, evocative writing and a great story. Reads like a classic.

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Abraham Grace Merritt. Wrote under the name of A.Merritt, popular fantasy and horror writer of the teens, 20's and 30's. Family moved to Philadelphia, in 1894.He later studied law but switched to journalism. Becoming assistant editor and later editor of The American Weekly.The biggest magazine of the time.And had a fabulous salary of $100,000, during the Depression.Began writing short stories, ...more

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