Abraham Merritt (1884–1943)
Autore di The Moon Pool
Sull'Autore
Opere di Abraham Merritt
Dwellers in the Mirage / The Face in the Abyss (Two books in one Volume : Complete and Unabridged) (1953) 12 copie
The Last Poet and the Robots 7 copie
The story behind the story 4 copie
When Old Gods Wake 4 copie
The White Road 4 copie
OEUVRES COMPLETES TOME 2 : LE VISAGE DANS L'ABIME. LES HABITANTS DU MIRAGE. BRULE SORCIERE, BRULE ! RAMPE OMBRE, RAMPE… (1999) 3 copie
The Fox Woman and the Blue Pagoda and the Black Wheel (Supernatural & Occult Fiction) (1976) 3 copie
Delphi Complete Works of A. Merritt (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eleven Book 9) (English Edition) (2020) 2 copie
CARA EN EL ABISMO LA 2 copie
The Fox Woman [short story] 2 copie
The Face in the Abyss [novella] 1 copia
The Moon Pool [short story] 1 copia
L'universo di Cthulhu 1 copia
The Drone Man 1 copia
Rataciti in miraj 1 copia
Argosy Weekly: Sept. 8, 1934 1 copia
Abraham merritt burn witch burn 1 copia
The Conquest of the Moon Pool 1 copia
Argosy Weekly: October 6, 1934 1 copia
The Face in the Stony Abyss 1 copia
Abraham Merritt Premium Collection: 18 Sci-Fi Books in One Edition: Sci-Fi Novels, Fantasies & Lost World Stories… (2018) 1 copia
Collected Short Stories 1 copia
Kígyóanya 1 copia
Die schlangen mutter 1 copia
Opere correlate
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Collaboratore — 520 copie
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Collaboratore — 193 copie
Under the Moons of Mars - A History and Anthology of The Scientific Romance in the Munsey Magazines 1912 - 1920 (1970) — Collaboratore — 66 copie
The Dead Valley And Others H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Horror Stories Volume 2 (2016) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
The People of the Pit and Other Early Horrors from the Munset Pulps (2010) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Famous Fantastic Mysteries Combined with Fantastic Novels Magazine, Vol. 04, No. 3, July 1942 (1942) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Famous Fantastic Mysteries Combined with Fantastic Novels Magazine, Vol. 04, No. 4, August 1942 (1942) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Wakacje Wśród Duchów — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Merritt, Abraham Grace
- Altri nomi
- Merritt, A.
Merritt, Abe
Fenimore, W. - Data di nascita
- 1884-01-20
- Data di morte
- 1943-08-21
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Beverly, New Jersey, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Attività lavorative
- magazine editor
author - Organizzazioni
- The American Weekly
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- SF Hall Of Fame (1999)
Utenti
Discussioni
Burn Witch Burn Centipede press in Fine Press Forum (Gennaio 2023)
Recensioni
Liste
Metamorphoses (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 65
- Opere correlate
- 64
- Utenti
- 2,795
- Popolarità
- #9,200
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 55
- ISBN
- 315
- Lingue
- 11
- Preferito da
- 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.… (altro)