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Merritt helped popularize the idea that the greatest adventures are not across oceans or among the stars, but beneath our feet. Again and again, Merritt sends his characters downward into hidden worlds. The Moon Pool is perhaps the clearest example. What begins as a scientific expedition soon becomes a descent into a sealed subterranean realm,…
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The catfish is found in some medieval encyclopedias. It is a monster that lives in rivers. The female lays her eggs and immediately abandons them, but the male stays to keep watch over them until they hatch and the offspring grow large enough to be safe on their own. While on guard, the male builds…
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those of us who do venture deeply into his work quickly discover something far more imposing. [Clark Ashton] Smith’s imagination is vast, luxuriant, and final, as though one had strayed into a world already immeasurably old, already in decline, and wholly indifferent to human ambition or consolation. — Read on grognardia.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-ensorcellment-of-january.html
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