A Pulp Classic
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One of the books that turned me on to heroic fantasy fiction back in the early Seventies.
I've been a fan of Merritt's for a long time. He's little known outside a narrow field these days, but he knew how to drive a plot.
Our protagonist is "sucked" into a sculpure of a boat, finding himself part of the crew and forced to man the oars in a fantasy "Arabian Nights" setting.
That's just the start of a swashbuckling adventure worthy of a Douglas Fairbanks movie. There are sultry maidens, heroic rescues, and black magic, all you'd expect in a fantasy novel of the period.
The writing style seems pulpy and dated these days, but it's a great fast read, and should be on every fantasy reader's bookshelf, just so they can understand the history of the genre.
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