This week is the 100th Anniversary of the publication of maybe my favorite pulp-era fantasy novel, A
This week is the 100th Anniversary of the publication of maybe my favorite pulp-era fantasy novel, A. Merritt’s Moon Pool, and I’m not alone: the creator of Dungeons and Dragons, Gary Gygax, said that the Moon Pool was his favorite fantasy novel and A. Merritt his favorite novelist.So many stories from this era are borderline unreadable, but Moon Pool is intensely readable and modern. Ghostly, weird, it blurred the line between horror, science fiction, fantasy, and lost race stories at a time when these genre categories were much more porous and fluid than they are now. There was no scifi yet in the fixed form we’d know, certainly no fantasy, no horror - just an amorphous kind of story called “weird fiction.” It made me want to look into the real-life setting of the story, the weird, mysterious Nan Madol ruins on the Melanesian island of Pohnape. -- source link
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