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Of Bookish Things Aug 30, 2025

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Short Story Review: “The Woman of the Wood” by A. Merritt

(Cover by C. Barker Petrie, Jr. Weird Tales, August 1926.) Who Goes There? A couple years ago I was supposed to review A. Merritt’s novel The Dwellers in the Mirage, although I couldn’t…

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dance along the edge 💬Sep 22, 2023

Virgil Finlay cover painting for Famous Fantastic Mysteries, August 1941, illustrating fantasy classic The Metal Monster by his friend and supporter A. Merritt.
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dance along the edge 💬Aug 18, 2023

Virgil Finlay illustration for the 1919 H.P. Lovecraft story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" for it's reprint appearance in the March, 1938 issue of Weird Tales. It was later inscribed and gifted to another giant, "To A. Merritt, a master of fantasy. From Virgil Finlay"

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dance along the edge 💬Jul 21, 2023

Virgil Finlay illustrating A. Merritt's classic novel "The Face in the Abyss" reprinted in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1940. See the #AltText for more.

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d4doome Feb 18, 2023

Dwellers in the Mirage (1932) is one of A. Merritt's superb lost world tales. An engineer discovers he is a warrior from the distant past, and finds a lost world. This book has affinities with sword-and-sorcery. There is action and there is magic, there are strange gods and stranger beliefs.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2012/06/merritts-dwellers-in-mirage.html

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A. Merritt’s Dwellers in the Mirage

Abraham Merritt (1884-1942), usually known simply as A. Merritt, was one of the more interesting American pulp writers of horror and fanta...

d4doome Jan 14, 2023

A.Merritt, a forgotten master of weird fiction. His work ranges from horror (Burn Witch Burn) to epic fantasy (the delightful The Ship of Ishtar). The Face in the Abyss (1931) is a blend of dark fantasy and the 19th century adventure tale in the style of H. Rider Haggard, with a dash of Conan Doyle.

And it features a great lost world. Great fun.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2010/09/face-in-abyss-by-abraham-merritt.html

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