Since today is the 127th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Grace Merritt, whose works Gary Gygax listed among the most immediate influences upon AD&D alongside more widely lauded authors such as Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, and H.P. Lovecraft, it seemed as good a time as any to tilt once more against the windmill of cultural amnesia.Merritt's obscurity to contemporary readers ma