For day 11 of Blogtober, here’s a reblog about another truly classic but relatively unknown book of cosmic horror. A. Merritt was practically the Stephen King of his day, his writings wildly popular, and his best is The Metal Monster. It is a story of explorers who not only discover a lost Persian civilization in the wilderness, but then find an unfathomable race of metal creatures that might very well be the next stage of evolution that will supplant humanity!