It cast no shadows.Īs it struck upward the summits were outlined hard and black and I saw that the whole mountain was shaped like a hand. It was like the flash of a searchlight through an azure mist. The beam drove up through a column of blue haze whose edges were marked as sharply as the rain that streams from the edges of a thunder cloud. North of us a shaft of light shot half way to the zenith. “The People of the Pit” is one of Merritt’s early works, and it begins with two gold prospectors in the wilds of Alaska spotting an unearthly beam of light at night: In his 1932 Dwellers in the Mirage he introduced an entire invisible city hidden in a valley protected by a mirage. In his 1923 The Face in the Abyss, he introduced invisible winged serpents that effectively had cloaking devices to make themselves invisible.
Merritt would regularly include invisibility in his fiction.
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