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The Black Wheel : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Black Wheel
''The Black Wheel'' is a fantasy novel written by A. Merritt and Hannes Bok. Merritt had completed the first seven chapters, roughly 20,000 words, before his death in 1943. Bok wrote the remainder of the novel, twenty chapters of more than 60,000 words, working from "a sketchy plot outline" left by Merritt. The story concerns the discovery of a centuries-old shipwreck, complete with the preserved bodies of its crew, and the consequences for the passengers and crew of the cruise ship that comes across it.〔Sam Moskowitz, "Fantasy Book Reviews", ''Fantastic Novels'', January 1949, p.113.〕 ==Publication history==
''The Black Wheel'' was originally published in 1947, by the specialty publisher New Collectors Group, in a stated hardcover edition of 1000 copies (although more were reportedly printed). According to Robert Weinberg: "The New Collectors Group was the joint effort of Paul Dennis O'Connor, Stanley Mullen and Martin Greenberg (not to be confused with Martin H. Greenberg)]]. Their first two hardcovers were ''The Fox Woman and Blue Pagoda'' and ''The Black Wheel'', both by A. Merritt and Hannes Bok. Bok was a science fiction artist and a lifelong fan of Merritt's work. The two books were short novels begun but never finished by Merritt. Bok finished both novels and provided the illustrations for the books as well. Both books did reasonably well considering that neither story was very good. The company broke up early in 1948 when the other partners grew disillusioned with O'Connor's business practices. Greenberg withdrew from the press and with another fan, David Kyle, formed Gnome Press." 〔Robert Weinberg, Science Fiction Specialty Publishers'' in Hall, Hal W. (ed) ''Science Fiction Collections: Fantasy, Supernatural and Weird Tales''. Haworth Press, 1983, p. 123〕 In 1976, ''The Black Wheel'' was included in an omnibus collection of Merritt-Bok collaborations issued by Arno Press. A mass market paperback was released by Avon Books in 1981.〔(ISFDB bibliography )〕
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