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Abraham Grace Merritt
Birth at
20 January 1884
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Born in Beverly, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he began to work as a reporter in the newspaper “Philadelphia Inquirer” and did not leave the journalistic career until the end of his days (since 1912 – in the weekly “American Weekly”, since 1937 – editor-in-chief). Belletristics was engaged as a hobby (the first publication is the story “Through the dragon glass” in the magazine “All-Story Weekly”, 1917), so he wrote relatively few works of art (among them are the occult-detective
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Born in Beverly, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he began to work as a reporter in the newspaper “Philadelphia Inquirer” and did not leave the journalistic career until the end of his days (since 1912 – in the weekly “American Weekly”, since 1937 – editor-in-chief).
Belletristics was engaged as a hobby (the first publication is the story “Through the dragon glass” in the magazine “All-Story Weekly”, 1917), so he wrote relatively few works of art (among them are the occult-detective “Seven steps to Satan” and “Gore, a witch, burn!”, based on Babylonian mythology “The ship Ishtar” dedicated to the the theme of the lost and the factory “Lost”.
The genuine innovation of the writer’s creative manner became evident only after his death, when the name of Merritt took an honorable place in the list of masters of the genre along with the names of Robert Howard and Howard Lovecraft.