A. Merritt's 'The Metal Monster' – Argosy All-Story Weekly, Aug 1920
A colossal metallic entity — angular, geometric, and coldly inhuman — looms over a small terrified human figure, its massive cubist head rendered in steely blues and greens against a pale mountainous backdrop. This is the cover for A. Merritt's 'The Metal Monster,' serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly. The machine-being's sheer scale dwarfs its victim, conveying unstoppable mechanical menace. Merritt's gift for cosmic horror made this one of early pulp fiction's most unsettling creature concepts.
Oh man — a geometric metal TITAN crushing puny humans beneath its cubist gaze, on the cover of the granddaddy of all pulp magazines! Merritt's cosmic horror meets Constructivist nightmare fuel, and I absolutely cannot believe I found this in a dusty cardboard box for fifty cents!
“ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY The Metal Monster by A. Merritt Another Amazing Story by the Author of "The Moon Pool" 10¢ PER COPY AUGUST 7 BY THE YEAR $4.00”
