The Moon Pool

Abraham Merritt

I have now recorded The Moon Pool, by Abraham Merritt.  It was a gruelling effort, requiring more than 10 hours.  But that means plenty of shows!

Recordings

• 2017-02-17, HNtW 008, Foreword, Chapters 1—4 (no show on the 14th owing to my error)
• 2017-02-21, HNtW 009, Chapters 5—8
• 2017-02-24, HNtW 010, Chapters 9—11
• 2017-02-28, HNtW 011, Chapters 12—15
• 2017-03-03, HNtW 012, Chapters 16—18, plus introduction by Silverberg to U. of Nebraska Press edition
• 2017-03-07, HNtW 013, Chapters 19 & 20, plus New York Times book review
• 2017-03-10, HNtW 014, Chapters 21—23, plus beginning of Part 3 of Citadel of Lost Ships by Leigh Brackett
• 2017-03-14, HNtW 015, Chapters 24—26, and remainder of Citadel of Lost Ships Part 3.
• 2017-03-17, HNtW 016, Chapters 27—29, and a brief discussion of Auf Zwei Planeten by Kurd Lasswitz, courtesy of Willy Ley.
• 2017-03-21, HNtW 017, Chapters 30—33, and a brief discussion of the powers of two.
• 2017-03-24, HNtW 018, Chapters 34 & 35, concluding The Moon Pool, and Parts 4 & 5 of Citadel of Lost Ships, which thus also concludes.
• 2019-04-02, HNtW 058, Chapters 1—3 of the novelette The Moon Pool, as published in All–Story Weekly, 22 June 1918 (rebroadcast 2020-04-21 to correct order of segments)
• 2019-04-05, HNtW 059, Chapters 4—7, completing the novelette

Chapter List (Novel)

As printed, chapters are numbered with Roman numerals. For those who wish to follow along, the text of this work is available from Project Gutenberg.

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!”

Chapter List (Novelette)

1. The Throckmartin Mystery
2. Down the Moon Path
3. “Dead! All Dead!”
4. The Moon Rock
5. Av–o–lo–ha
6. Into the Moon Pool
7. The Dweller Comes

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