Some Reviews of A. Merritt’s Writings:
“A glimmering, glittering web of imagination…” -New York Times
“A genius, unique, eerie and compelling...fertility of imaginative resource." -Saturday Review of Literature
“Merritt weaves a web of fantasy against a background of lost civilization with poignancy and poetry. He crafts stories of tremendous action and excitement.” -Hartford Times
“The greatest of American horror-writers His stories carry within them the true note of fear the dread of the unknown that lies latent even within civilized man. Stories that grow like the unfolding of an evil flower whose deadly fragrence is both overpoweringly sweet and hateful to the senses, to a teriffic climax.” -The Science Fiction Encyclopedia.
“The most famous of all fantasy writers.” -Issac Asimov
“The supreme fantasy genius...his works are classics.” -The Encylcopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy