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The Novels
The Moon Pool (1919)
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
The Metal Monster (1920)
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I. VALLEY OF THE BLUE POPPIES
CHAPTER II. THE SIGIL ON THE ROCKS
CHAPTER III. RUTH VENTNOR
CHAPTER IV. METAL WITH A BRAIN
CHAPTER V. THE SMITING THING
CHAPTER VI. NORHALA OF THE LIGHTNINGS
CHAPTER VII. THE SHAPES IN THE MIST
CHAPTER VIII. THE DRUMS OF THUNDER
CHAPTER IX. THE PORTAL OF FLAME
CHAPTER X. “WITCH! GIVE BACK MY SISTER”
CHAPTER XI. THE METAL EMPEROR
CHAPTER XII. “I WILL GIVE YOU PEACE”
CHAPTER XIII. “VOICE FROM THE VOID”
CHAPTER XIV. “FREE! BUT A MONSTER!”
CHAPTER XV. THE HOUSE OF NORHALA
CHAPTER XVI. CONSCIOUS METAL!
CHAPTER XVII. YURUK
CHAPTER XVIII. INTO THE PIT
CHAPTER XIX. THE CITY THAT WAS ALIVE
CHAPTER XX. VAMPIRES OF THE SUN
CHAPTER XXI. PHANTASMAGORIA METALLIOUE.
CHAPTER XXII. THE ENSORCELLED CHAMBER
CHAPTER XXIII. THE TREACHERY OF YURUK
CHAPTER XXIV. RUSZARK
CHAPTER XXV. CHERKIS
CHAPTER XXVI. THE VENGEANCE OF NORHALA
CHAPTER XXVII. “THE DRUMS OF DESTINY”
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FRENZY OF RUTH
CHAPTER XXIX. THE PASSING OF NORHALA
CHAPTER XXX. BURNED OUT
CHAPTER XXXI. SLAG!
The Ship of Ishtar (1924)
CONTENTS
PART I.
1. THE COMING OF THE SHIP
2. THE FIRST ADVENTURE
3. THE SHIP RETURNS
PART II.
4. THE SIN OF ZARPANIT
5. HOW THE GODS JUDGED
6. “AM I NOT - WOMAN!”
7. SLAVE OF THE SHIP
8. THE TALE OF SIGURD
9. THE BARGAINING OF SHARANE
10. ON THE SHIP A-SAILING
11. GIGI SNAPS THE CHAINS
12. MASTER OF THE SHIP
13. MASTER OF - SHARANE!
PART III.
14. THE BLACK PRIEST STRIKES
15. DOWN THE ROPE OF SOUND
16. HOW THE SHIP WAS MANNED
17. THEY SEEK SORCERERS’ ISLE
PART IV.
18. IN THE SORCERERS’ CITY
19. THE LORD OF THE TWO DEATHS
20. BEHIND THE WALL
21. BEFORE THE ALTAR OF BEL
22. HOW NARADA DANCED
PART V.
23. DANCER AND PRIEST
24. THE GODS - AND MAN’S DESIRE
25. IN THE BOWER OF BEL
26. THE PASSING OF ZUBRAN
27. HOW THEY FARED BACK TO THE SHIP
28. THE VISION OF KENTON
29. HOW THE STRIFE WAS ENDED
30. THE LAST BATTLE
PART VI.
31. THE SHIP GOES
Seven Footprints to Satan (1927)
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
The Face in the Abyss (1931)
CONTENTS
1. SUARRA
2. THE UNSEEN WATCHERS
3. THE WHITE LLAMA
4. THE THING THAT FLED
5. THE ELFIN HORNS
6. THE FACE IN THE ABYSS
7. THE GUARDED FRONTIER
8. THE LIZARD-MEN
9. IN THE LAIR OF HUON
10. OUTLAWS OF YU-ATLANCHI
11. THE DEATHLESS PEOPLE
12. THE SECRET ANCIENT CITY
13. CAVERN OF THE FROG-WOMAN
14. SHADOW OF THE LIZARD-MASK
15. “LEND ME YOUR BODY, GRAYDON!”
16. THE PAINTED CHAMBER
17. TAKING OF HUON’S LAIR
18. THE ARENA OF THE DINOSAURS
19. THE SNAKE MOTHER
20. WISDOM OF THE SERPENT MOTHER
21. THE CAVERN OF THE LOST WISDOM
22. THE FEAST OF THE DREAM-MAKERS
23. THE TAKING OF SUARRA
24. BRIDE OF THE LIZARD-MAN
25. THE COLLAR OF NIMIR
26. RAGNAROK IN YU-ATLANCHI
27. FAREWELL OF THE SNAKE MOTHER
Dwellers in the Mirage (1932)
CONTENTS
BOOK OF KHALK’RU
1. SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT
2. RING OF THE KRAKEN
3. RITUAL OF KHALK’RU
4. TENTACLE OF KHALK’RU
5. THE MIRAGE
6. THE SHADOWED LAND
7. THE LITTLE PEOPLE
8. EVALIE
9.
10. IF A MAN COULD USE ALL HIS BRAIN
11. DRUMS OF THE LITTLE PEOPLE
12. ON NANSUR BRIDGE
BOOK OF THE WITCH-WOMAN
13. KARAK
14. IN THE BLACK CITADEL
15. THE LAKE OF THE GHOSTS
16. KISSES OF LUR
BOOK OF DWAYANU
17. ORDEAL BY KHALK’RU
18. WOLVES OF LUR
19. THE TAKING OF SIRK
20. “TSANTAWU - FAREWELL!”
BOOK OF LEIF
21. RETURN TO KARAK
22. GATE OF KHALK’RU
23. IN KHALK’RU’S TEMPLE
MERRITT’S ORIGINAL TRAGIC ENDING
Burn, Witch, Burn! (1932)
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
I. THE UNKNOWN DEATH
II. THE QUESTIONNAIRE
III. THE DEATH AND NURSE WALTERS
IV. THE THING IN RICORI’S CAR
V. THE THING IN RICORI’S CAR (CONTINUED)
VI. STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF OFFICER SHEVLIN
VII. THE PETERS DOLL
VIII. NURSE WALTERS’ DIARY
IX. END OF THE PETERS DOLL
X. NURSE’S CAP AND WITCH’S LADDER
XI. A DOLL KILLS
XII. TECHNIQUE OF MADAME MANDILIP
XIII. MADAME MANDILIP
XIV. THE DOLL-MAKER STRIKES
XV. THE WITCH GIRL
XVI. END OF THE WITCH GIRL
XVII. BURN WITCH BURN!
XVIII. THE DARK WISDOM
Creep, Shadow! (1934)
CONTENTS
1. FOUR SUICIDES
2. THE DEMOISELLE DAHUT
3. THEORIES OF DR. DE KERADEL
4. THE LOST CITY OF YS
5. THE WHISPERING SHADOW
6. KISS OF THE SHADOW
7. THE DOLL-MAKER’S LOVER
8. IN DAHUT’S TOWER - NEW YORK
9. IN DAHUT’S TOWER - YS
10. AND OUT OF DAHUT’S TOWER
11. DAHUT SENDS A SOUVENIR
12. THE VANISHING PAUPERS
13. SUMMONS FROM DAHUT
14. BEHIND DE KERADEL’S WALL
15. BEHIND DE KERADEL’S WALL - 2
16. THE MAEL BENNIQUE
17. THE BOWL OF SACRIFICE
18. THE HOUNDS OF DAHUT
19. “CREEP, SHADOW!”
20. THE LAST SACRIFICE
The Black Wheel (1949)
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
The Shorter Fiction
The Moon Pool - novelette version (1918)
CONTENTS
1. THE THROCKMARTIN MYSTERY
2. DOWN THE MOON PATH
3. “DEAD! ALL DEAD!”
4. THE MOON ROCK
5. AV-O-LO-HA
6. INTO THE MOON POOL
7. THE DWELLER COMES
Conquest of the Moon (1919)
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE DWELLER
CHAPTER II. LARRY O’KEEFE
CHAPTER III. THE MOON DOOR OPENS - AND SHUTS
CHAPTER IV. THE MOON POOL
CHAPTER V. “I’D FOLLOW HER THROUGH HELL!”
CHAPTER VI. PRIESTESS OF THE SHINING ONE
CHAPTER VII. THE ANGRY, WHISPERING GLOBE
CHAPTER VIII. THE LOVELY HAND OF LURKING HATE
CHAPTER IX. THE AMPHITHEATER OF HELL
CHAPTER X. “THE LADALA ARE AWAKE”
CHAPTER XI. “THESE THE SILENT ONES SUMMON!”
CHAPTER XII. THE COUNCIL’S DECISION
CHAPTER XIII. DRAGON WORM AND MOSS DEATH
CHAPTER XIV. THE THREE SILENT ONES
CHAPTER XV. THE WOOING OF LAKLA
CHAPTER XVI. IN THE LAND OF THE DWELLER
CHAPTER XVII. IN THE BEGINNING
CHAPTER XVIII. “THE KETH HAS POWER”
CHAPTER XIX. THE MEETING OF TITANS
CHAPTER XX. VON HETZDORP STRIKES!
Cosmos (1933)
CONTENTS
Chapter 11. The Last Poet and the Robots
Rhythm of the Spheres
The Challenge from Beyond (1935)
CONTENTS
A. Merritt
H. P. Lovecraft
Robert E. Howard
The Fox Woman and Other Stories (1949)
CONTENTS
The Fox Woman
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
The People of the Pit
Through the Dragon Glass
The Drone
The Last Poet and the Robots
Three Lines of Old French
The White Road
When Old Gods Wake
The Women of the Wood
Uncollected Short Stories
CONTENTS
THE POOL OF THE STONE GOD
PILGRIMAGE, OR, OBI GIESE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
The Poetry
The Poetry of A. Merritt
CONTENTS
The Birth of Art
The Wind Trail; or, Song for Wood Horns...
2000 (The Triple Cities)
Sylvane-The Silver Birches
Madonna
The Ladies of the Walnut Tree
Court of the Moon
Old Trinity Churchyard
L’envoi to Life
Screens
Sir Barnabas
In the Subway
Runes
Eheu Fugaces...
A Song for Christmas
Comic Ragtime Tune
Behold in the Night He Cometh
You Looked at Me
Dream Song
Castle of Dreams
I Wonder Why?
My Heart and I
Think of Me
The Ballad of the Cub
Piddling Pete
The Winged Flames
The Non-Fiction
Miscellaneous Articles
CONTENTS
WHAT IS FANTASY?
BACKGROUND OF ‘DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE’
BACKGROUND OF ‘BURN, WITCH, BURN!’
BACKGROUND OF ‘CREEP, SHADOW!’
The Autobiography
The Autobiography of A. Merritt
The Delphi Classics Catalogue
Series Contents
Alphabetical List of Titles
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