The Moon Pool

The Moon Pool, published in 1919, is Abraham Merritt's breakthrough novel. When Dr. Walter Dorvington witnesses a colleague drawn into a shaft of moonlight on a Pacific island, he organises an expedition that discovers a vast subterranean civilisation beneath the ocean. At its heart is the Shining One, a being of luminous energy worshipped by the dwellers below. Merritt's prose — lush, hypnotic, and relentlessly inventive — creates a sense of wonder that few fantasy writers have matched. The Moon Pool established Merritt as the premier American fantasist of his generation.