Dr. Simon Reads Appendix N Part Seventeen: A Merritt
Dr. Simon Reads Appendix N Part Seventeen: A Merritt This is a sporadic feature, in which I explore classic fantasy and science fiction works as recommended in the original Dungeon Masters Guide. By now, I’d hope you know what the whole “Appendix N” thing is about, but if not, I refer you back to the first in the series where I look at the works of Poul Anderson. This time around, I have reached the works of: A Merritt Abraham Grace Merritt, known as A Merritt, was born in New Jersey in 1894, died in Florida in 1943 of a heart attack. Merritt worked primarily as a journalist, bringing in good pay, and the novel writing was more of a sideline for him. He enjoyed travel (which explains the globe-trotting nature of his stories) and collected plants associated with rituals and magic (which is probably why his protagonist Goodwin, from some of the stories, is a botanist by trade). His biography paints him as a benevolent eccentric, a collector of occult literature and tribal