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The Moon Pool (1918) is a novel by A. Merritt. Originally published as a pair of short stories in the Argosy All-Story Weekly, Merritt's novel is an influential work in the tradition of lost world fantasy, a subgenre pioneered by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Arthur Conan Doyle. Thought to have influenced H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu," The Moon Pool is widely regarded as Merritt's finest work. "Now the Thing was close to the end of the white...
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The goddess of love and beauty is adrift on an enchanted ocean in a magic world. The myriad forces of satanic evil plague the vessel of the red-haired, passionate goddess. Only one man, John Kenton, the American adventurer, can try to save Ishtar's priestess from the black magic which divides her world from ours. The goddess of love and beauty is adrift on an enchanted ocean in a magic world. The myriad forces of satanic evil plague the vessel of...
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The A. Merritt Megapack collects all of Abraham Merritt's classic fantasy novels and short stories, omitting only posthumous collaborations and poetry. Included are:
THROUGH THE DRAGON GLASS (1917)
THE PEOPLE OF THE PIT (1918)
THE MOON POOL (1919)
THE METAL MONSTER (1920)
THE SHIP OF ISHTAR (1924)
THE POOL OF THE STONE GOD (1925)
THE WOMEN OF THE WOOD (1926)
SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN (1927)
THE FACE IN THE ABYSS (1931)
DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE...
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"The Metal Monster" — Dr. Goodwin is on a botanical expedition in the Himalayas. There he meets Dick Drake, the son of one of his old science acquaintances. They are witnesses of a strange aurora-like effect, but seemingly a deliberate one. As they go out to investigate, they meet Goodwin's old friends Martin and Ruth Ventnor, brother and sister scientists. The group is saved from death in the mountains by a magnificent woman they get to know as...
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Two men in one body! That's how Lief Langdon had always felt. One part of him was a modern day adventurer, the other was a strange half-memory of another life where he was a High Priest sacrificing living people to Khalk'ru, a demon god from another time and space. Then Langdon stumbled through the mirage into a hidden Arctic valley, where he fell under the spell of Evalie, as beautiful outwardly as she was inwardly, and her friends the Little People,...
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The most beautiful and powerful people in the world had bargained with the Devil. They play Russian Roulette with seven footprints to world domination--and lost. They had become subject to the Collector of Infernal Revenue--Satan. The Master Player of games would glut his lust with souls and gain world power through diabolical manipulations. The most beautiful and powerful people in the world had bargained with the Devil. They play Russian Roulette...
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A collection of strange stories that take place in the oft weird and wonderful great outdoors.
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"The Pool of the Stone God" by A. Merritt
An encounter with a strange statue.
"The Wood of the Dead" by Algernon Blackwood
An encounter with a ghost, whose appearance is an omen of death.
"Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp" by Algernon Blackwood
Men on a moose hunting trip find a dead man washed ashore.
"Genius Loci" by Clark Ashton Smith
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This early work by H. P. Lovecraft was originally published in 1935. Born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science. In 1913, Lovecraft joined the UAPA (United Amateur Press Association) but it was four years later, in 1917, that he began to focus on fiction, producing such well-known early stories as 'Dagon' and 'A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson'. However,...