The Face in the Abyss and Other Fantastic Tales

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. A.Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss and Other Fantastic Tales" is the seventeenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. He squared off with an unimaginable power of the supernatural. After weeks of toiling through treacherous country, Nicholas Graydon and his partners found themselves lost in the Peruvian wilderness on a hunt for lost Incan treasure. Seemingly alone in this wild region, they soon encountered Suarra, a mysterious and beautiful woman who promised Graydon by all her power, and by that of the mysterious Snake Mother, that she would help him... But Suarra's promise took Graydon and his companions through the mountain valleys of Yu-Atlanchi where they came face to face with dinosaurs, strange, unimaginable beasts, and worst of all...their own greed. Although Suarra's promise was to help Graydon, the stalwart American adventurer soon found himself facing the deadliest of consequences. And before long he was compelled to not only prove his worth to the Snake Mother, but to also win a battle of wills between himself and the dreaded Face in the Abyss...