About this book
A carefully prepared print edition.
In The Moon Pool, Dr. Walter Goodwin is drawn into a terrifying mystery after hearing of a luminous being that rises beneath the moon and takes the living. What begins as a strange tale from the islands of the South Pacific becomes a descent into an underground world of ancient races, advanced powers, and forces that blur the line between science, myth, and the supernatural.
A. Merritt’s celebrated adventure blends lost-world exploration, pulp fantasy, weird fiction, romance, and cosmic menace. The novel’s hidden civilizations, radiant horrors, and moral conflict between pride, love, fear, and self-sacrifice helped shape the imaginative territory later explored by fantasy and weird fiction writers.
For readers who enjoy classic scientific romances, early fantasy adventure, mysterious ruins, subterranean kingdoms, and the eerie grandeur of pre-Lovecraft weird fiction, The Moon Pool remains a vivid journey into wonder and dread.
