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'The People of the Pit and Other Stories' is a collection of
Abraham Merritt's short stories, and contains seven stories and two
"fragments". These short stories span the entire career of the man
who has been called America's foremost adventure fantasist of the
1920s and '30s. Several of the tales boast the lush purple prose of
Merritt's early period (as seen especially in his first two novels,
"The Moon Pool" and "The Metal Monster"), but all seven are finely
written little gems. They run the gamut from full-blown fantasy to
lost-world adventure to outright science fiction, and abundantly
demonstrate that Merritt was a master of the concise short form, as
well as the full-length novel.
"The Ship of Ishtar" is a universally hailed as a classic of the
fantasy novel genre. Merritt's writings were heavily influenced by
H. Rider Haggard and Gertrude Barrows Bennett (writing as Francis
Stevens), with Merritt having "emulated Bennett's earlier style and
themes." What sets Merritt apart from the typical pulp author,
however, is his lush, florid prose style and his exhaustive, at
times exhausting, penchant for adjective-laden detail.
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The Moon Pool
Abraham Merritt
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