A. Merritt

Abraham Merritt ( born January 20, 1884 in Beverly, New Jersey; † August 21, 1943 in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida ) was an American journalist and author.

Life

Merritt dropped out of school and took at the age of 17 years participated in excavations in Yucatán. He was one of the first white men who visited the Mayan city of Tulum. At 18, he was a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper. At 24, he was co-editor of this newspaper. From 1937, Merritt was editor of The American Weekly, a Hearst - sheet. His hobbies belonged subtropical horticulture, he also played the harp. Merritt was married twice, with Eleanore Ratcliffe and Eleanor H. Johnson.

Works

Merritt was with Edgar Rice Burroughs and Henry Rider Haggard of the most influential American writers adventure literature of the 1920s and '30s. The basic pattern of his novels depicts a male hero who visits a forgotten culture along with a helper and gets into all kinds of supernatural adventures. Many set pieces of adventure literature include how non-human peoples, superior technology, sunken continents, decadence. The main element here is the romance with a woman from the popular culture. In the end, the hero who settles with the heroine in the popular culture prevails. Sometimes, however, died also his mistress and he returns in "our" civilization back ( The Face in the Abyss ).

List of Works

  • The Moon Pool, magazine All Story June 22, 1918
  • The Dwellers in the Mirage, magazine Argosy 23 January to 25 February 1932
  • The Ship of Ishtar 1924. Borden Publishing Company, Los Angeles, California. Illustrated by Virgil Finlay.
  • The Woman of the Wood
  • Burn Witch Burn! ( The German dolls of Madame Mandilip )
  • Creep Shadow, filmed as "The Devil Doll " starring Lionel Barrymore.
  • The Face in the Abyss (1931 ) Horace Livermore Light, New York, NY
  • Through the Dragon Glass in Argosy All Stories Weekly, 1917
  • People of the Pit ( 1918)
  • The Metal Monster ( 1920)
  • Seven Footprints to Satan (1927 )
  • The Drone Man ( 1934)
  • The Fox Woman and the Blue Pagoda (1946 ), completed by Hannes Bok
  • The Fox Woman and Other Stories (1949 ), Collective
  • The Black Wheel 1948 ended Hannes Bok

Works on German

  • Fly, witch, flee! , 1973 Pabel, Rastatt / Baden
  • Ship of Ishtar, 1977 Pabel, Rastatt / Baden, translated by Lore Straßl.
  • King of the two deaths, 1977 Pabel, Rastatt / Baden
  • Queen in the kingdom of shadows, 1978, Pabel, Rastatt / Baden
  • The Cave of the Kraken, 1978 Pabel, Rastatt / Baden
  • The Serpent Mother, 1980, Pabel, Rastatt / Baden, also at Fischer, Frankfurt / Main in 1987 as The Face in the Abyss
  • The people of Fata Morgana, 1986 Fischer, Frankfurt / Main
  • Metal city, 1987, ibid
  • The Moon Pond, 1988, Fischer, ibid. In addition, published by Heyne Verlag in 1978 as the Mondsee.
  • Island of the magician, 1999, flash, Windeck, ISBN 3-932171-97-7, HC, follows the Pabel - released 1977 Ship of Ishtar, translated by Lore Straßl.
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