This early work by Abraham Grace Merritt was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Metal Monster' is a fantasy novel about Dr. Goodwin's travels in the Himalayas and the mysterious metal beings he encounters there. It tells the tale of adventurous explorers who discover an unknown world. Abraham Grace Merritt - also known by his byline, A. Merritt - was born on the 20th January, 1884 in New Jersey, America. Merritt's stories typically revolved around conventional pulp magazine themes. His heroes are gallant Irishmen or Scandinavians, his villains treacherous Germans or Russians and his heroines often virginal, mysterious and scantily clad. Merritt married twice, once in the 1910s to Eleanore Ratcliffe, with whom he raised an adopted daughter, and again in the thirties to Eleanor H. Johnson.
Hidden in the heart of unknown Asia, a fantastic world of living metal awaited: Monsters of solid metal, pulsating with an unearthly electric life, wise with wisdom not of this world--and dreaming of the day when the harder-than-steel horde ...
They are led to a hidden valley occupied by what they name "The Metal Monster", a strange metal city occupied by the metal animate Things Norhala commands.
“We can do nothing, Goodwin — nothing. Whatever is to be steps forth now from the womb of Destiny.” Again there came that distant rolling — louder, now. Again the Thing trembled. “The drums,” whispered Ventnor. “The drums of destiny.
The Metal Monster is a fantasy novel by American writer Abraham Merritt.
"The Metal Monster" from Abraham Grace Merritt. American magazine editor and a writer of fantastic fiction (1884-1943).
The story starts with a foreword where Merritt is assigned the duty to relay Dr. Walter T. Goodwin's incredible tale of his encounter in the Trans-Himalayan mountains to the world, to let everyone know the terrible fate Goodwin's group ...
The Metal Monster is a fantasy novel by American writer Abraham Merritt.
In a way, this work is a continuation of Merritt's first novel, "The Moon Pool" (1919), as it is a narrative of America's foremost botanist, Dr. Walter T. Goodwin, narrator of that earlier adventure as well.
Abraham Merritt tells a tale of awe and wonder as well as horror and dread to the speculative fiction and fantasy. ,,The Metal Monster" features the return of Dr. Walter T. Goodwin who first appeared in ,,The Moon Pool".
In a way, this work is a continuation of Merritt's first novel, "The Moon Pool" (1919), as it is a narrative of America's foremost botanist, Dr. Walter T. Goodwin, narrator of that earlier adventure as well.