An Ultimate Collection (Lifetime Works): The Moon Pool, The Metal Monster, The Face in the Abyss, The Ship of Ishtar, Seven Footprints to Satan, Burn, Witch, Burn!
This collection of Abraham Merritt's Collection (Lifetime Works) includes the following titles
Novels The Moon Pool The Metal Monster The Face in the Abyss The Ship of Ishtar Seven Footprints to Satan Burn, Witch, Burn! The Dwellers in the Mirage Creep, Shadow
Short Stories/Shot Fictions: Through The Dragon Glass The People of the Pit The Drone Three Lines of Old French The Pool of the Stone God
Abraham Grace Merritt, wrote under the name of A. Merritt, born in New Jersey moved as a child to Philadelphia, Pa. in 1894, began studying law and than switched to journalism. Later a very popular writer starting in 1919 of the teens, twenties and thirties, horror and fantasy genres. King of the purple prose, most famous The Moon Pool, a south seas lost island civilization, hidden underground and The Ship of Ishtar, an Arabian Nights type fable, and six other novels and short stories collections (he had written at first, just for fun). Nobody could do that variety better, sold millions of books in his career. The bright man, became editor of the most successful magazine during the Depression, The American Weekly , with a fabulous $100,000 in salary. A great traveler, in search of unusual items he collected. His private library of 5,000 volumes had many of the occult macabre kind. Yet this talented author is now largely been forgotten.