Book description
They called him Number Thirteen, the latest and best of Dr. Von Horn's
attempts to make life from lifeless chemicals. He found himself an
almost-human on Von Horn's hideaway jungle island off the coast of
Borneo. He saw the monsters that had preceded him and grew used to those
dreadful travesties of humanity.
Not until Number Thirteen met the American girl who was Von Horn's
unwilling prisoner did he realize how different he was from the others.
Because, monster or not, he turned against his master and threw in his
lot with the girl and his friends in their desperate effort to escape
the island of terror.
The story of THE MONSTER MEN is an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel of
savages, primitive monsters and jungles in the best Tarzan style.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950) was a prolific American author of
the 'pulp' era. The son of a Civil War veteran, he saw brief military
service with the 7th U. S. Cavalry before he was diagnosed with a heart
problem and discharged. After working for five years in his father's
business, Burroughs left for a string of disparate and short-lived jobs,
and was working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler when he decided to try
his hand at writing. He found almost instant success when his story
'Under the Moons of Mars' was serialised in All-Story Magazine
in 1912, earning him the then-princely sum of 0.
Burroughs went on to have tremendous success as a writer, his
wide-ranging imagination taking in other planets (John Carter of Mars
and Carson of Venus
), a hollow earth (Pellucidar), a lost world, westerns, historicals and
adventure stories. Although he wrote in many genres, Burroughs is best
known for his creation of the archetypal jungle hero, Tarzan
. Edgar Rice Burroughs died in 1950.
