# Edith Throckmartin — The Moon Pool character guide

> Edith Throckmartin in The Moon Pool by A. Merritt.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Throckmartin, Miss Edith

**First appearance:** 0004-ii-dead-all-dead

## Snapshot

The vanished wife whose memory haunts the expedition and whose fate drives the men who loved her toward the Moon Pool's deadly threshold.

## Who they are

Edith Throckmartin is the woman whose disappearance with her husband's party first drew Goodwin into the mystery of the Moon Pool, her absence a wound that never quite closes. She exists in the narrative as a haunting presence, her name a caution and a goad, and the symbol of the rosy walls of the Moon Chamber is tied to her fate. Her story is the emotional engine that propels the early investigation and the reason the protagonists cannot turn back from the abyss.

## Relationships

### [Dr. Charles Stanton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/dr_charles_stanton)

_professional_

Dr. Stanton is a colleague and fellow scientist investigating the mysteries with Edith.

### [Dr. Charles Stanton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/dr_charles_stanton)

_professional_

Dr. Stanton is a colleague and fellow scientist investigating the mysteries with Edith.

### [Dr. Charles Stanton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/characters/dr_charles_stanton)

_professional_

Dr. Stanton is a colleague and fellow scientist investigating the mysteries with Edith.

## In the story

### [The Moon Pool](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/chapters/the-moon-pool)

Throckmartin's wife; vanishes after being drawn to the moon pool's light.

### [The Thing on the Moon Path](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/chapters/i-the-thing-on-the-moon-path)

Throckmartin's wife; mentioned as part of the expedition to Nan-Matal.

### [II: “Dead! All Dead!”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/chapters/ii-dead-all-dead)

Reported by Throckmartin as dead or worse, taken by the Dweller in the Moon Pool.

### [III: The Moon Rock](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/chapters/iii-the-moon-rock)

Throckmartin's wife; she is sensitive to the eerie sounds and expresses unease, yet remains supportive.

### [IV: The First Vanishings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/chapters/iv-the-first-vanishings)

Throckmartin's wife; finds Thora's kerchief fragment at the slab and insists on staying.

### [V: Into the Moon Pool](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_pool_se/chapters/v-into-the-moon-pool)

Screams upon seeing the Dweller; pleads with Throckmartin to let the being take her instead; resolves to face the danger together with her husband.

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