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I am glad you gave me the opportun

I am glad you gave me the opportunity of revising “The Metal Monster” before reprinting it. I have never been • satisfied with it. It has some of the best writing in it that I ever did — and some of the worst. It has long been a problem child.
Nor do I and never did, like the title. But it is too late to do anything about that. So I have simply condensed here and there, cut out redundancies and built up a point or two.

Three versions of the story exist, the first being the original magazine serialization.
The second version is entitled "The Metal Emperor." It appeared as an eleven-part serial in Hugo Gernsback's Science And Invention magazine from October 1927 to August 1928. It is an abridged version of the first story, with the leading character's name changed to Louis Thorton.
The third version was a "revised version" which was published in the August 1941 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries.

In 1911, Mober

In 1911, Moberly and Jourdain published a book entitled An Adventure under the names of "Elizabeth Morison" and "Frances Lamont" [...] the two published versions of the ladies' accounts (the earlier-written of which, from November 1901, had only previously been published in the second, small print-run, edition of An Adventure in 1913).
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moberly...

[Merritt] was an influence on H. P. Lovecraft, who considered his story "The Moon Pool" (1918) one of the ten

[Merritt] was an influence on H. P. Lovecraft, who considered his story "The Moon Pool" (1918) one of the ten best stories in weird fiction.
-- https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Abr...

"Listen to me, Goodwin." He took up his walk impatiently. "Cut the bated-breath approach you use whenever you talk about that bunch of animated fire-works. You scientific people are such slaves to fact that when you meet a new one that isn't in your own neat little catalogue you either pass it by with the haughty air or hold up your hands in wonder and scream."

“Why should I?” He was almost wrathful. “You scientific people build up whole philosophies on the basis of things you never saw, and you scoff at people who believe in other things that you think they never saw and that don’t come under what you label scientific. You talk about paradoxes⁠—why, your scientist, who thinks he is the most skeptical, the most materialistic aggregation of atoms ever gathered at the exact mathematical centre of Missouri, has more blind faith than a dervish, and more credulity, more superstition, than a cross-eyed smoke beating it past a country graveyard in the dark of the moon!”

There is some question as to whether Robert E. Howard is the true author of Almuric. It was not published until after his death and some speculate that it was written by his editor, Otis Adelbert Kline, and published as Howard's. Some of the writing, and the ending in particular, seem inconsistent with Howard's previous work. It may be that Howard created a draft for such a story that was later finished by another writer.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almuric...