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Scientists unleash a subterranean horror in the South Pacific in this classic adventure by the author of Burn, Witch, Burn! and The Ship of Ishtar.
Dr. Walter T. Goodwin is sailing back to New York after a botanical expedition to the South Seas when he meets his old friend, Dr. David Throckmartin. The heartbroken Throckmartin relates a haunting tale to Dr. Goodwin-a tale of a tropical island and a strange stone door through which a hypnotic otherworldly...
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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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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 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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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.
Contents:
"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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