From: mwbookrevw@aol.com (MWBOOKREVW)
Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews
Subject: Midwest Book Review: The Face in the Abyss
Date: 17 Aug 1995 10:26:04 -0400

Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Face in the Abyss
A. Merritt
Donald M. Grant, Publisher
PO Box 187, Hampton Falls, NH 03844
0-937986-01-1   $30.00

The Face in the Abyss is a classic from a "golden age" of science fiction.
A brilliant tale filled with weird imagination, marvelous writing, horror,
beauty, and it may well be called the most "visual" book ever written for
the world of fantasy. The Face in the Abyss is a grand book with a grand
cast of characters. Visualize a monstrous head that cries tears of gold,
locked deep in a cavern out of time forgotten. Consider also the
incredible, Snake Mother, who is both human and reptilian, and her battle
with the thing called the Lord of Evil. For this particular edition, the
artistic talents of Ned Dameron have been obtained for twenty
illustrations, most in full color, many as double-spread to complement
this wonderful tale. The images perfectly mesh with Merritt's fantasy.