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The Moon Pool
Chapitres (37)
- Dedication 0:00
- Foreword 0:09
- I: The Thing on the Moon Path 2:46
- II: “Dead! All Dead!” 19:56
- III: The Moon Rock 29:44
- IV: The First Vanishings 47:35
- V: Into the Moon Pool 59:23
- VI: “The Shining Devil Took Them!” 1:21:46
- VII: Larry O’Keefe 1:46:40
- VIII: Olaf’s Story 1:57:13
- IX: A Lost Page of Earth 2:12:21
- X: The Moon Pool 2:26:25
- XI: The Flame-Tipped Shadows 2:56:03
- XII: The End of the Journey 3:24:31
- XIII: Yolara, Priestess of the Shining One 3:33:36
- XIV: The Justice of Lora 3:47:44
- XV: The Angry, Whispering Globe 4:06:52
- XVI: Yolara of Muria vs. the O’Keefe 4:26:10
- XVII: The Leprechaun 4:58:13
- XVIII: The Amphitheatre of Jet 5:11:39
- XIX: The Madness of Olaf 5:28:05
- XX: The Tempting of Larry 5:58:04
- XXI: Larry’s Defiance 6:32:12
- XXII: The Casting of the Shadow 6:54:18
- XXIII: Dragon Worm and Moss Death 7:15:03
- XXIV: The Crimson Sea 7:39:21
- XXV: The Three Silent Ones 7:56:02
- XXVI: The Wooing of Lakla 8:10:06
- XXVII: The Coming of Yolara 8:36:32
- XXVIII: In the Lair of the Dweller 8:59:23
- XXIX: The Shaping of the Shining One 9:22:31
- XXX: The Building of the Moon Pool 9:43:26
- XXXI: Larry and the Frog-Men 10:00:34
- XXXII: “Your Love; Your Lives; Your Souls!” 10:13:25
- XXXIII: The Meeting of Titans 10:29:32
- XXXIV: The Coming of the Shining One 10:46:50
- XXXV: “Larry—Farewell!” 11:06:09
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The Moon Pool, in novel form, is a combination and fix-up of two previously published short stories: “The Moon Pool,” and “Conquest of the Moon Pool.” Initially serialized in All-Story Weekly, Merritt made the interesting choice of framing the novel as a sort of scientific retelling, going so far as to include footnotes from fictional scientists, to give this completely fantastic work an air of authenticity.
In it we find the adventuresome botanist William T. Goodwin embarking on a quest to help his friend Throckmortin, whose wife and friends have fallen victim to a mysterious temple ruin on a remote South Pacific island. A series of coincidences provides Goodwin with a colorful cast of accompanying adventurers, and they soon find themselves in a mysterious futuristic underworld.
The Moon Pool is an important entry in the Lost World genre, in no small part because it was a significant influence on H. P. Lovecraft—hints of The Moon Pool can be seen in his short story “The Call of Cthulhu,” and hints of Merritt’s Nan-Madol can be seen in Lovecraft’s R’lyeh.
Today, The Moon Pool is a pulp classic, featuring many of the themes, tropes, and archetypes that characterized so many of the pulp adventure works of the era.