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Author: A. Merritt

Abraham Merritt (1884–1943), who wrote as A. Merritt, was one of the most successful and influential proto-sf writers of the pulp era. He is best remembered today for his novels The Moon Pool (1919), The Ship of Ishtar (1924), The Face in the Abyss (1931), and Dwellers in the Mirage (1932). His stories’ suggestion that lost races, ancient technologies, and other far-out phenomena were waiting to be discovered beneath the surface of everyday modern life were a major influence on Lovecraft and his circle.

THE MOON POOL (24)

By: A. Merritt

A land of flowered sorcery!

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THE MOON POOL (23)

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“I do not know how to fight the Shining Devil — no!”

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THE MOON POOL (22)

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“They plan—to
rule our world with their Shining Devil.”

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THE MOON POOL (21)

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“Now I, the priestess of the Shining One, take my mate.”

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THE MOON POOL (20)

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It was a Saturnalia of demigods!

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THE MOON POOL (19)

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“The Shining One dances! And you are to worship!”

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THE MOON POOL (18)

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“It’s going to be a race between her and the O’Keefe banshee.”

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THE MOON POOL (17)

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“Are all the men of Ireland like you, Larree?”

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THE MOON POOL (16)

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“Everything in Nature vibrates.”

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THE MOON POOL (15)

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“The radiant shower of particles hurled out by radium…”

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THE MOON POOL (14)

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Never had I seen a woman so beautiful as was Yolara of the Dweller’s city.

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THE MOON POOL (13)

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“There’s no way in but in — and no way out but out.”

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THE MOON POOL (12)

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We were racing, dropping, hurling at a frightful speed — where?

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THE MOON POOL (11)

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I stretched out a shaking hand and touched the surface of the slab.

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THE MOON POOL (10)

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“I am a seeker, observer, analyst, and synthesist of facts.”

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