Series: Misc
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0020228724
Pages: 288 pages
Publisher: Scribner
Reader Rating: 10 out of 10
Votes: 1
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0020228724
Pages: 288 pages
Publisher: Scribner
Reader Rating: 10 out of 10
Votes: 1
Description: Very much in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard, Merritt was one of the early avatars of swords & sorcery fantasy novels. He emerged from the pulp magazines of the 50s to write novels which went on to influence a generation after him.
_Dwellers in the Mirage_ I found to be a very nice combination of all the things that make early fantasy readable. By turns sly and frightening and full of the high-hat adventure that characterizes fantasy of this period.
Leif Langdon feels as though he never really belonged in the modern world and this feeling is confirmed when he disappears into a separate society hidden by a natural phenomenon. He feels strangely at home with this lost society and discovers the role that he was meant to play in life.
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