{"id":11971,"date":"2014-07-13T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=11971"},"modified":"2014-07-13T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T04:40:00","slug":"the-moon-pool-original-1918-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/13\/the-moon-pool-original-1918-version\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Moon Pool&#8221; (original 1918 version)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gaslight.mtroyal.ca\/moonpool.htm\">&#8220;The Moon Pool&#8221; (1918) by A. Merritt<\/a>, in its original 17,000 word novelette version.  The <em>H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia<\/em> states that Lovecraft&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>considered the novelette &#8220;The Moon Pool&#8221; (<em>Argosy<\/em> [<em>Argosy All-Story<\/em>], 22nd June 1918) one of the ten best weird tales in literature; he disliked the later novel version<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Basic .mobi (Kindle) and .epub conversions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neo-romantic.org.uk\/moon-pool-1918-mobi-epub.zip\">are here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly there appears to be no free audio-book reading, although Librivox has one for the later novel.  The novel is apparently a rather poorly-structured combination of the original story with a six-part sequel, all of which was then abridged for book form.  Merritt seems to have had the Elizabethan \/ folk tale approach to the &#8216;sanctity&#8217; of his texts, freely hacking them about and adding to them in order to fit each subsequent appearance.  <em>Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years<\/em> points out that few early SF fans ever got to read the original 1918 <em>Argosy All-Story<\/em> version, reading either the novel (1919) in book form or the <em>Amazing Stories<\/em> magazine reprint of the novel in May-July 1927. <em>Science-fiction: The Gernsback Years<\/em> claims the original story was not reprinted from 1918 through 1970, but I have found a record of what appears to be a reprint of it in <em>Famous Fantastic Mysteries<\/em>, Sept-Oct 1939.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/the_moon_pool3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/the_moon_pool3.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"The_Moon_Pool3\" width=\"529\" height=\"766\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11972\" \/><\/a>Illustration: Virgil Finlay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Moon Pool&#8221; (1918) by A. Merritt, in its original 17,000 word novelette version. The H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia states that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/07\/13\/the-moon-pool-original-1918-version\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}