Well, now I'm 40+ and I was prepared to beĭisappointed, just a bit. this was somebody who couldĬombine H. Rider Haggard and Clark Ashton Smith and pull it off. When I first read The Moon Pool I was maybe 17, and it blew my mind. Movie: The Devil Doll (1936) based on Merritt's Burn, Witch, Burn: Poems, and letters previously unpublished in book form were collected in A. A critical biography, many stories, fragments, Merritt's unfinished novel The Black Wheel (1948). His short stories, some completed by his great fan, the renowned fantasy artist The Fox Woman and Other Stories (1949) collected His fantasy gems includeĭwellers in the Mirage, The Face in the Abyss, The Metal Monster, and what manyĬonsider his best work, The Ship of Ishtar. His novels of occult menace included Burn, Witch, Burn,Īnd Creep, Shadow, Creep along with Seven Footprints to Satan. Between then and his death, Merritt only published 8 novels and theĮquivalent of one book of short stories. Moon Pool" (Feb-Mar 1919) in the same magazine, and the later release in book form as The Moon Pool Publication of the short story "The Moon Pool" (1918) and the novel-length sequel "The Conquest of the "Through the Dragon Glass" was published in All-Story Weekly in 1917.
Merritt wrote his lush, ornate, at times prose-poem fantasies in his spare time. He also maintained a large library on the occult as well as being anĬarrying on a demanding full-time job that required unflowery, matter-of-fact writing and a large timeĬommitment seems rather at odds with being a hugely popular (think Stephen King) and influential fantasyĪuthor, whose complete fantasy works remained continuously in print for close to 40 years after his death. Merritt was also well known for his gardening, specifically hisĬultivation of rare plants associated with witchcraft and sorcery, a collection which reached 67 speciesĪt its peak in the mid-30s. Merritt married twice, once in the 1910s to Eleanore Ratcliffe, with whom he raisedĪn adopted daughter, and again some 20-odd years later, after the death of his first wife, this time with Eleanor He remained assistant editor until 1937, then editor until his death by heart attack on August 21, 1943. Morrill Goddard, editor of The American Weekly, the largest circulation Sunday supplement Hearst publication Sunday American Magazine he was offered a job in New York City, under In 1912, also working as the city correspondent for the
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Time exploring Mayan ruins, as well as "wenching and learning how to drink." On his return, he resumed his Major political faux-pas, he was bundled off to Mexico for a year. Only 18, he obtained a cub reporter job at The Philadelphia Enquirer, through which he met someĮminent doctors and developed a strong sense for the scientific method. Racket from which he emerged with a payoff and a strong suggestion to find employment elsewhere. His family moved some 30 miles south to Philadelphia in 1894.ĭropping out of high school after a year, he went to work for a lawyer and became involved in a shakedown Nebraska Press, 287 pagesĪbraham Merritt was born in Beverly, New Jersey, January 20, 1884. The SF Site Featured Review: The Moon Poolīison Frontiers of the Imagination/Univ.
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