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| Author | Abraham Merritt |
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| Cover artist | Joseph Clement Coll |
| Language | English |
| Series | "The Moon Pool" June 22, 1918 "Conquest of the Moon Pool" Weekly: February 15 – March 22, 1919 |
| Genre | Lost World Fantasy |
| Publisher | All-Story Weekly Avon |
Publication date | 1919 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Serial, Hardback, and Paperback) |
| Pages | 254 |
| OCLC | 23108182 |
| Followed by | The Metal Monster |
The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by American writer Abraham Merritt. It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" (1918) and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool" (1919). These were then reworked into a novel released in 1919. The protagonist, Dr. Goodwin, would later appear in Merritt's second novel The Metal Monster (1920).[1]
Although Merritt did not invent the "lost world" novel—he followed in the footsteps of Bulwer-Lytton, Burroughs, Conan Doyle, and others—this work extended the tradition.
- ^ Walter Goodwin at the Fiction Mags Index