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On the island of Ponape in the South Pacific, the cold light of a full moon washes over the crumbling ruins of an ancient, vanished civilization. Unleashed from the depths is the Dweller, a glittering, enigmatic force of monstrous terror and radiant beauty that stalks the South... Read Full Overview

The Moon Pool (1918) is a novel by A. Merritt. Originally published as a pair of short stories in the Argosy All-Story Weekly, Merritt's novel is an influential work in the tradition of lost world fantasy, a subgenre pioneered by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Arthur... Read Full Overview

On the island of Ponape in the South Pacific, the cold light of a full moon washes over the crumbling ruins of an ancient, vanished civilization. Unleashed from the depths is the Dweller, a glittering, enigmatic force of monstrous terror and radiant beauty that stalks the South... Read Full Overview

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. "The Moon Pool" is written by one of the great authors of early science fiction and fantasy, Abraham Merritt. An ancient horror comes to life. There was a forsaken island in... Read Full Overview

Surrounded by crumbling Cyclopean ruins, the Moon Pool was a place of both horror and wonder. No Polynesian race had constructed it. Sacred yet accursed too, the spot was far older then recorded history. As was the luminous thing that dwelt within its unfathomable depths, a transcendent... Read Full Overview

The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by Abraham Merritt (1884-1943). It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" (1918) and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool" (1919). These were then reworked into a novel released in 1919. The protagonist,... Read Full Overview

An ancient pool beneath a tropical island hides a secret older than recorded history. When a group of explorers delves into its depths, they encounter a world of unimaginable wonders-and a force of terrifying power. Can they survive the horrors of the Moon Pool and escape... Read Full Overview

On the island of Ponape in the South Pacific, the cold light of a full moon washes over the crumbling ruins of an ancient, vanished civilization. Unleashed from the depths is the Dweller, a glittering, enigmatic force of monstrous terror and radiant beauty that stalks the South... Read Full Overview

The first scholarly edition of a classic science fiction novel.

One of the most gripping fantasies ever written, The Moon Pool embodies all the romanticism and poetic nostalgia characteristic of A. Merritt's writings. Set on the island of Ponape, full of ruins... Read Full Overview

Dubbed The Shining One by terrified Pacific natives, an evil mass of energy, powered by the full moon, roams the night seeking victims to kidnap. When an anthropologist falls into the clutches of the Shining One, he is whisked into the bowels of titantic caverns, where others... Read Full Overview

The Moon Pool (1918) is a novel by A. Merritt. Originally published as a pair of short stories in the Argosy All-Story Weekly, Merritt's novel is an influential work in the tradition of lost world fantasy, a subgenre pioneered by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Arthur... Read Full Overview

El Estanque de la Luna, de Abraham Merritt, es una obra que transportar al lector m s all de los confines de la Tierra para sumergirlo en un mundo de fantas a y terror dominado por una desconocida entidad llamada El Resplandeciente. No exenta de ciertas dosis de erotismo que... Read Full Overview

The plot concerns an advanced race which has developed within the Earth's core. Eventually their most intelligent members create an offspring. This created entity encompasses both great good and great evil, but it slowly turns away from its creators and towards evil. The entity... Read Full Overview