THE MOON POOL. Abraham Merritt

       Abraham Merritt

      THE MOON POOL

      A Sci-Fi Novel

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      2018 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-4285-6

      Table of Contents

       Foreword

       1. The Thing on the Moon Path

       2. “Dead! All Dead!”

       3. The Moon Rock

       4. The First Vanishings

       5. Into the Moon Pool

       6. “The Shining Devil Took Them!”

       7. Larry O’Keefe

       8. Olaf’s Story

       9. A Lost Page of Earth

       10. The Moon Pool

       11. The Flame–Tipped Shadows

       12. The End of the Journey

       13. Yolara, Priestess of the Shining One

       14. The Justice of Lora

       15. The Angry, Whispering Globe

       16. Yolara of Muria vs. the O’Keefe

       17. The Leprechaun

       18. The Amphitheatre of Jet

       19. The Madness of Olaf

       20. The Tempting of Larry

       21. Larry’s Defiance

       22. The Casting of the Shadow

       23. Dragon Worm and Moss Death

       24. The Crimson Sea

       25. The Three Silent Ones

       26. The Wooing of Lakla

       27. The Coming of Yolara

       28. In the Lair of the Dweller

       29. The Shaping of the Shining One

       30. The Building of the Moon Pool

       31. Larry and the Frog–Men

       32. “Your Love; Your Lives; Your Souls!”

       33. The Meeting of Titans

       34. The Coming of the Shining One

       35. “Larry — Farewell!”

      FOREWORD

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      The publication of the following narrative of Dr. Walter T. Goodwin has been authorized by the Executive Council of the International Association of Science.

      First:

      To end officially what is beginning to be called the Throckmartin Mystery and to kill the innuendo and scandalous suspicions which have threatened to stain the reputations of Dr. David Throckmartin, his youthful wife, and equally youthful associate Dr. Charles Stanton ever since a tardy despatch from Melbourne, Australia, reported the disappearance of the first from a ship sailing to that port, and the subsequent reports of the disappearance of his wife and associate from the camp of their expedition in the Caroline Islands.

      Second:

      Because the Executive Council have concluded that Dr. Goodwin’s experiences in his wholly heroic effort to save the three, and the lessons and warnings within those experiences, are too important to humanity as a whole to be hidden away in scientific papers understandable only to the technically educated; or to be presented through the newspaper press in the abridged and fragmentary form which the space limitations of that vehicle make necessary.

      For these reasons the Executive Council commissioned Mr. A. Merritt to transcribe into form to be readily understood by the layman the stenographic notes of Dr. Goodwin’s own report to the Council, supplemented by further oral reminiscences and comments by Dr. Goodwin; this transcription, edited and censored by the Executive Council of the Association, forms the contents of this book.

      Himself a member of the Council, Dr. Walter T. Goodwin, Ph.D., F.R.G.S. etc., is without cavil the foremost of American botanists, an observer of international reputation and the author of several epochal treaties upon his chosen branch of science. His story, amazing in the best sense of that word as it may be, is fully supported by proofs brought forward by him and accepted by the organization of which I have the honor to be president. What matter has been elided from this popular presentation — because of the excessively menacing potentialities it contains, which unrestricted