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b'My guest and I discuss\\xa0The Moon Pool\\xa0by Abraham\\nMerritt. An international group of scientists and explorers investigate a\\nmysterious alien being that snatches innocent travelers in the South Pacific\\nand ends up discovering a lost underground civilization.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nwww.nobleknight.com\\n\\nVault of the Drow by Gary Gygax \\u2014 $22\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nMerrit, A.: CREEP, SHADOW, CREEP; MOON POOL; DWELLERS IN THE\\nMIRAGE; et al\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\n\\u201cThe most immediate influences upon AD&D were probably de Camp\\n& Pratt, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, H. P. Lovecraft, and A.\\nMerrit\\u201d\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nAbraham Merritt\\n\\nborn 1884, died 1943\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nWikipedia names H. Rider Haggard, Robert W. Chambers, Helena\\nBlavatsky and Gertrude Barrows Bennett (writing as Francis Stevens) as \\u201cheavy\\ninfluences.\\u201d\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nHe was a major influence on Appendix N authors H. P. Lovecraft and\\nMichael Moorcock. He was referenced in the\\xa0Lensman\\xa0series by\\nE. E. Smith.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nBorn in Beverly, New Jersey. Primarily a journalist. Assistant\\neditor of\\xa0The American Weekly\\xa0from 1912 to 1937 and then\\neditor until his death in 1943.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nMerritt\\u2019s first fantasy story was \\u201cThrough the Dragon Glass\\u201d\\n(1917)\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nThe Moon Pool\\xa0originally\\nappeared in\\xa0All-Story Weekly\\xa0as two short stories \\u201cThe Moon\\nPool\\u201d (1918) and \\u201cConquest of the Moon Pool\\u201d (1919). Later reworked into a\\nnovel, apparently something of the original story was lost. Writes Lovecraft in\\n1934:\\xa0Merritt is certainly great stuff \\u2014 he has a subtle command of an\\nunique type of strangeness which no one else has been able to parallel.\\xa0\\nYou are absolutely right in considering his original Moon Pool novelette \\u2014 as\\npublished in the All-Story for June 22, 1918 \\u2014 his best work.\\xa0 The sequel\\n\\u2014 The Conquest of the Moon Pool \\u2014 was relatively commonplace and tainted with\\nthe atmosphere of cheap popular fiction.\\xa0 It is a major crime that many of\\nthe best touches were taken out of the novelette when it was fused with its\\nsequel to form the ultimate book version.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nNan Madol -\\xa0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Madol\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nNext we will be reading:\\n\\nThe King of Elfland\\u2019s Daughter\\xa0by Lord Dunsany -http://www.fadedpage.com/books/20120938/20120938.html\\n\\nThe Doom That Came to Sarnath, From Beyond, The Temple, The Music\\nof Erich Zann, Herbert West - Reanimator, The Lurking Fear, The Rats in the\\nWalls\\xa0and\\xa0The\\nCall of Cthulhu\\xa0by H. P. Lovecraft -http://cthulhu.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Fiction\\n\\nDwellers in the Mirage\\xa0by Abraham Merritt -\\xa0http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100151.txt\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nGeoffrey Winn\\ngdwinn@comcast.net\\n\\n\\xa0Support the show, shop below...NOBLE KNIGHT GAMES'