Abraham Merritt (1884–1943)
Author of The Moon Pool
About the Author
Works by Abraham Merritt
Dwellers in the Mirage / The Face in the Abyss (Two books in one Volume : Complete and Unabridged) (1953) 12 copies
The Last Poet and the Robots 7 copies
The story behind the story 4 copies
When Old Gods Wake 4 copies
The White Road 4 copies
The Fox Woman and the Blue Pagoda and the Black Wheel (Supernatural & Occult Fiction) (1976) 3 copies
OEUVRES COMPLETES TOME 2 : LE VISAGE DANS L'ABIME. LES HABITANTS DU MIRAGE. BRULE SORCIERE, BRULE ! RAMPE OMBRE, RAMPE… (1999) 3 copies
Delphi Complete Works of A. Merritt (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eleven Book 9) (English Edition) (2020) 2 copies
CARA EN EL ABISMO LA 2 copies
The Moon Pool [short story] 1 copy
L'universo di Cthulhu 1 copy
The Drone Man 1 copy
Rataciti in miraj 1 copy
Argosy Weekly: Sept. 8, 1934 1 copy
The Face in the Stony Abyss 1 copy
Abraham Merritt Premium Collection: 18 Sci-Fi Books in One Edition: Sci-Fi Novels, Fantasies & Lost World Stories… (2018) 1 copy
Collected Short Stories 1 copy
Kígyóanya 1 copy
The Fox Woman [short story] 1 copy
Die schlangen mutter 1 copy
Associated Works
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Contributor — 526 copies
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contributor — 196 copies
Under the Moons of Mars - A History and Anthology of The Scientific Romance in the Munsey Magazines 1912 - 1920 (1970) — Contributor — 68 copies
The Dead Valley And Others H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Horror Stories Volume 2 (2016) — Contributor — 15 copies
Famous Fantastic Mysteries Combined with Fantastic Novels Magazine, Vol. 04, No. 3, July 1942 (1942) — Contributor — 2 copies
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Contributor — 1 copy
Famous Fantastic Mysteries Combined with Fantastic Novels Magazine, Vol. 04, No. 4, August 1942 (1942) — Contributor — 1 copy
Wakacje Wśród Duchów — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Merritt, Abraham Grace
- Other names
- Merritt, A.
Merritt, Abe
Fenimore, W. - Birthdate
- 1884-01-20
- Date of death
- 1943-08-21
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Beverly, New Jersey, USA
- Place of death
- Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, USA
- Places of residence
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Occupations
- magazine editor
author - Organizations
- The American Weekly
- Awards and honors
- SF Hall Of Fame (1999)
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Statistics
- Works
- 65
- Also by
- 64
- Members
- 2,824
- Popularity
- #9,085
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 55
- ISBNs
- 315
- Languages
- 11
- Favorited
- 2
Leif, who has Nordic heritage, and Jim are travelling in a remote area of Alaska where they are meant to be looking for gold, at some time after WWI (where they served together after meeting at University). After they hear mysterious drums, Leif eventually unburdens to Jim and tells him of his experiences when he was working as an engineer in the Gobi Desert. He got on very well with the Mongolian tribes and found that his natural gift for languages enabled him to communicate with them easily (and refreshingly there is not the kind of description of such people that would have been found in the work of contemporaries of Merritt's such as H P Lovecraft). When his team moved north they came into contact with a strange tribe who usually kept themselves to themselves, but who showed an instant proprietary interest in Leif and taught him their language. They then showed up in force and Leif told his employer and colleagues to let them take him as he realised there would be a bloodbath otherwise - and to instantly depart south to the area of the friendly tribes leaving him to extricate himself.
The experiences which followed have haunted Leif since and now he senses that he is about to be drawn into the ambit of the Lovecraftesque being which is worshipped by the mysterious tribe. I won't say more about the plot other than it in some ways draws on the romantic tradition of the lost peoples living in their own mini paradise - Shangri La and the like - which were popular in fiction of the late Victorian period, popularised by writers such as H. Rider Haggard. On the whole, the various ethnic characters and women are treated with respect although Leif's romantic interest Evalie is a bit of a non character.
I found this a bit slow in the middle but it did pick up and on the whole is an entertaining adventure romp with a bit of philosophy regarding whether reincarnation exists or an ancestral memory. It wasn't a keeper, but was a workmanlike read and I am giving it a 3-star rating.… (more)