The Metal Monster is a fantasy novel by American writer Abraham Merritt. It was first serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1920 and features the return of Dr. Goodwin who first appeared in The Moon Pool. THE EDITION CONTAINS THE FULL TEXT AS PUBLISHED IN ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY - JULY 7, 1920. THE PUBLISHER THANKS AUTHOR CHRIS L. ADAMS FOR PROVIDING THE PROLOGUE AND FIRST WO CHAPTERS - WHICH ARE ALMOST ALWAYS OMITTED FROM THE BOOK VERSIONS OF THIS NOVEL. The epic adventure 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 barely escaped and the possibility of other such monsters out there. This book was a favorite of H. P. Lovecraft, though he at first avoided the revised version, at the suggestion of C. M. Eddy, Jr. According to his March 6, 1934 letter to James F. Morton: "Other recent items on my calendar are ... A. Merritt's old yarn The Metal Monster, which I had never read before because Eddy told me it was dull. The damn'd fool! (nephew — not our late bibliophilick friend) Actually, the book contains the most remarkable presentation of the utterly alien and non-human that I have ever seen. I don't wonder that Merritt calls it his "best and worst" production. The human characters are commonplace and wooden – just pulp hokum – but the scenes and phaenomena... oh, boy!