page_title: A. Merritt
section_title: Short stories
hierarchical_section_title: A. Merritt / Work / Short stories
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (August 1927, vol. 8, no. 2) featuring The Woman of the Wood by A. Merritt.
context_page_description: Abraham Grace Merritt – known by his byline, A. Merritt – was an American Sunday magazine editor and a writer of fantastic fiction.
  The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 1999, its fourth class of two deceased and two living writers.
context_section_description: "Through The Dragon Glass" (1917) Available online
  "The People of the Pit" (1918) Available online
  "Three Lines of Old French" (1919) Available online
  "Prologue" (The Metal Monster, 1920)
  The Pool of the Stone God (as W. Fenimore, 1923) Available online
  "The Women of the Wood" (1926) Available online
  "The Drone" (also known as "The Drone Man", 1934) Available online
  "The Rhythm of the Spheres" (originally a chapter called "The Last Poet and the Robots" or "The Last Poet & the Wrongness of Space" in the 1934 round robin novel titled Cosmos, revised in 1936 as a stand-alone work) Available online
  "The Whelming of Cherkis" (excerpt from The Metal Monster, 1946)
  "When Old Gods Wake" (fragment, 1948) Available online
  "The White Road" (fragment, 1949) Available online
  "The Fox Woman" (incomplete, 1949) Available online
  "Pilgrimage, or, Obi Giese" (1985)
  "Bootleg and Witches" (fragment, 1985)
  "The Devil in the Heart" (outline, 1985)
  "The Dwellers in the Mirage" (original ending of the novel with same name, 1985)
caption: The August 1926 Weird Tales cover-featured the first publication of "The Woman of the Wood"
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