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who talked endlessly about his medical symptoms, and showed eccentric behavior like a need to try out any food, tobacco and medicine he found on his coworkers desks. Occasionally he would dress in a kilt and play serenades for his coworkers with some of his huge collection of instruments he kept in a
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His fiction, eight complete novels and a number of short stories, was only a sideline to his journalism career. One of the best-paid journalists of his era, Merritt made $ 25,000 per year by 1919, and at the end of his life was earning $ 100,000 yearly—exceptional sums for the period. His financial
259:, New York City, where he accumulated collections of weapons, carvings, and primitive masks from his travels, as well as a library of occult literature that reportedly exceeded 5000 volumes. He died suddenly of a heart attack, at his winter home in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, in 1943. 1568:, a Sunday newspaper supplement that often featured scientific and historical oddities. Shaver thought Merritt had seen the caves but could only mention them in fiction. One might also suspect that Merritt's novels had influenced Shaver's beliefs. 364:
What sets Merritt apart from the typical pulp author, however, is his lush, florid prose style and his exhaustive, at times exhausting, penchant for adjective-laden detail. Merritt's fondness for micro-description nicely complements the
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was published in 1948, after Merritt's death; it was written by Bok using previously unpublished material as well. Both these books were also illustrated by Bok and published by the small press The New Collectors Group in hardcover.
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Merritt married twice, once in the 1910s to Eleanore Ratcliffe, with whom he raised an adopted daughter, and again in the 1930s to Eleanor H. Johnson. He lived in the Hollis Park Gardens neighborhood of
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A closer examination shows that it was adapted directly from Merritt's novel. The film includes many characters, situations, scenes and speeches from the novel, none of which are present in
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in 1919, he produced a series of novels about caverns, lost races, ancient ray machines, shell-shaped hovercraft, and other marvels. He was also a member of the original
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Shaver's main literary model was Abraham Merritt. Merritt isn't read much today, but his fantasy novels were quite popular throughout the '20s and '30s. Beginning with
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discovered a number of poems among his papers. Though some may have been written by other authors, they were credited to Merritt when published.
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in which the protagonist Kimball Kinnison references the book and a quotation from it "Luka—turn your wheel so I need not slay this woman!"
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about which he refused to ever speak, but would, as Haining claims, mark a turning point in Merritt's life. He was assistant editor of
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from 1912 to 1937 under Morrill Goddard, then its editor from 1937 until his death. As editor, he hired the unheralded new artists
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Merritt's first fantasy story was published in 1917, "Through the Dragon Glass" in the November 14 issue of Frank Munsey's
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The film does not credit Merritt with the story; it gives that honor to screenplay author Alfredo Salazar instead.
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The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies
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locked closet at work. He was well liked for his fairness and inability to fire any employees.
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on his list of "The Thirteen Best Supernatural Horror Novels" in the May 1983 issue of
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this Mexican horror film is usually said to have been inspired by Tod Browning's
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inducted him in 1999, its fourth class of two deceased and two living writers.
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or Russians and his heroines often virginal, mysterious and scantily clad.
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themes: lost civilizations, hideous monsters, etc. His heroes are gallant
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success allowed him to pursue world travel—he invested in real estate in
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N. G. Christakos, "Three By Thirteen: The Karl Edward Wagner Lists" in
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Merritt's work has been adapted only rarely for films. These include:
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Robert Bloch, "Robert Bloch's Ten Favorite Horror-Fantasy Novels" in
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Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926–1965
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L'aventure mystérieuse de Poe à Merritt ou l'orphelins de Gilgamesh
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cover-featured the first publication of "The Woman of the Wood".
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fused Merritt's unfinished story with his own conclusion, 1946)
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A. Merritt—His Life and Times (1985) with Jack Chapman Miske
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Black Prometheus: A Critical Study of Karl Edward Wagner
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by Eric Leif Davin, Lexington Books, 2005, pages 409–10.
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An Autobiography of A. Merritt (1985) with Walter Wentz
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Letter to Mr. Louis De Casanova, July 23, 1931 (1985)
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Indian Rocks Beach
Speculative fiction
supernatural fiction
Sunday magazine
fantastic fiction
Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
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Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The American Weekly
Virgil Finlay
Hannes Bok
polio
Elizabeth Kenny
Jamaica
Ecuador
orchids
witchcraft
magic
monkshood
wolfbane
datura
peyote
cannabis
hypochondriac
Queens
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