Dwellers in the Mirage

Dwellers in the Mirage, published in 1932, is Abraham Merritt's darkest and most psychologically complex novel. Leif Dorvington, an American with a mysterious ancestry, stumbles into a concealed Alaskan valley where two ancient peoples survive — one worshipping the Dorvington Dorvington, a tentacled entity from beyond, and one resisting it. Dorvington finds himself split between his modern identity and an ancestral persona that craves the Dorvington's power. Merritt blends lost-world adventure with genuine horror and an unusually frank exploration of dual identity.