The Metal Monster
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About This Book
Set in the remote Himalayas, the METAL MONSTER follows a group of botanists who discover the seemingly reanimated Darius III of Persia and legions of soldiers. The group is saved by a mysterious woman, Norhala. Seemingly magical, Norhala inhabits a hidden city and controls strange metal automatons capable of joining together and forming colossal monsters, each possessing powerful weapons fully capable of defeating all the armies on Earth.
Chapters (34)
- THE METAL MONSTER
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER I. VALLEY OF THE BLUE POPPIES
- CHAPTER II. THE SIGIL ON THE ROCKS
- CHAPTER III. RUTH VENTNOR
- CHAPTER IV. METAL WITH A BRAIN
- CHAPTER V. THE SMITING THING
- CHAPTER VI. NORHALA OF THE LIGHTNINGS
- CHAPTER VII. THE SHAPES IN THE MIST
- Mutely we faced each other, white and wan in the ghostly light.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE DRUMS OF THUNDER
- CHAPTER IX. THE PORTAL OF FLAME
- CHAPTER X. “WITCH! GIVE BACK MY SISTER”
- CHAPTER XI. THE METAL EMPEROR
- CHAPTER XII. “I WILL GIVE YOU PEACE”
- CHAPTER XIII. “VOICE FROM THE VOID”
- CHAPTER XIV. “FREE! BUT A MONSTER!”
- CHAPTER XV. THE HOUSE OF NORHALA
- CHAPTER XVI. CONSCIOUS METAL!
- CHAPTER XVII. YURUK
- CHAPTER XVIII. INTO THE PIT
- CHAPTER XIX. THE CITY THAT WAS ALIVE
- CHAPTER XX. VAMPIRES OF THE SUN
- CHAPTER XXI. PHANTASMAGORIA METALLIOUE.
- CHAPTER XXII. THE ENSORCELLED CHAMBER
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE TREACHERY OF YURUK
- CHAPTER XXIV. RUSZARK
- CHAPTER XXV. CHERKIS
- CHAPTER XXVI. THE VENGEANCE OF NORHALA
- CHAPTER XXVII. “THE DRUMS OF DESTINY”
- CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FRENZY OF RUTH
- CHAPTER XXIX. THE PASSING OF NORHALA
- CHAPTER XXX. BURNED OUT
- CHAPTER XXXI. SLAG!
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