The Moon Pool
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About This Book
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 from ancient civilizations, the novel chronicles the adventures of a party of explorers who discover a previously unknown underground world full of strange peoples and super-scientific wonders. From the depths of this world, the party unwittingly unleashes the Dweller, a monstrous terror that threatens the islands of the South Pacific. Al...
Chapters (39)
- The Moon Pool
- A. MERRITT
- Foreword
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I The Thing on the Moon Path
- CHAPTER II "Dead! All Dead!"
- CHAPTER III The Moon Rock
- CHAPTER IV The First Vanishings
- CHAPTER V Into the Moon Pool
- CHAPTER VI "The Shining Devil Took Them!"
- CHAPTER VII Larry O'Keefe
- CHAPTER VIII Olaf's Story
- CHAPTER IX A Lost Page of Earth
- CHAPTER X The Moon Pool
- CHAPTER XI The Flame-Tipped Shadows
- CHAPTER XII The End of the Journey
- CHAPTER XIII Yolara, Priestess of the Shining One
- CHAPTER XIV The Justice of Lora
- CHAPTER XV The Angry, Whispering Globe
- CHAPTER XVI Yolara of Muria vs. the O'Keefe
- CHAPTER XVII The Leprechaun
- CHAPTER XVIII The Amphitheatre of Jet
- CHAPTER XIX The Madness of Olaf
- CHAPTER XX The Tempting of Larry
- CHAPTER XXI Larry's Defiance
- CHAPTER XXII The Casting of the Shadow
- CHAPTER XXIII Dragon Worm and Moss Death
- CHAPTER XXIV The Crimson Sea
- CHAPTER XXV The Three Silent Ones
- CHAPTER XXVI The Wooing of Lakla
- CHAPTER XXVII The Coming of Yolara
- CHAPTER XXVIII In the Lair of the Dweller
- CHAPTER XXIX The Shaping of the Shining One
- CHAPTER XXX The Building of the Moon Pool
- CHAPTER XXXI Larry and the Frog-Men
- CHAPTER XXXII "Your Love; Your Lives; Your Souls!"
- CHAPTER XXXIII The Meeting of Titans
- CHAPTER XXXIV The Coming of the Shining One
- CHAPTER XXXV "Larry—Farewell!"
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