The A. Merritt Collection

Shame he’s not read more

This is an excellent collection of work by A Merrit, excellent but not complete, the Ship,of Ishtar and a couple of other books are missing, while the last three stories are in twice. Best of the bunch is The Moon Pool and The Face in the Abyss, which will both keep lovers of lost city fiction very happy indeed, all the stories are very well written with cracking action sequences, good dialogue, clear characterisation and good descriptive passages .He’s out of fashion now and not much read, but he was H P Lovercraft’s favourite author and Lovecraft was right.

A great read! I’m almost sorry to have finished the collection and recommend any fantasy lovers to read this collection, you won’t regret reading it.