Occasionally my random impulse buys at the bookstore turn out to be unusually fruitful! After Christmas, I was looking to spend some of my gift card money and happened across a copy of A. Merritt’s The Moon Pool (1919):
I had never heard of Merritt’s work before, even though he was an enormously successful author in the pulp era that I’m most interested in! I’ve corrected that oversight, and I’m glad I did: his work is fascinating and well worth looking into.
The Moon Pool itself is billed in the Overlook Press edition of the book I have as “A forerunner to ABC’s Lost”. We take a look at that claim, as well as the book itself, below.