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''The Monster Men'' is a novel by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs -- his take on the MadScientist theme. Professor Maxon, having disposed of his latest attempt to create life, takes to the ocean to recover. In Southeast Asia, he chooses to take his experiments up again on a DesertedIsland. Pirates, treachery, and miswrought experiments threaten him and his beautiful daughter Virginia.

Can be found [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/96 here]].

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!!Tropes included
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Number 13 is the point at which everything goes haywire.
* AfterActionHealingDrama: Bulan collapses, and Virgina nurses him through.
* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: Sing speaks in pidgin...which fools some characters into overlooking his intelligence and perceptive nature.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: How Virginia deduces Bulan's character: he's good-looking, in contrast to the hideous other creations.
* BlueBlood: von Horn. He doesn't see why his suit to Virginia can be objectional, in light of it.
* BridalCarry: Par for the course for rescues or abductions.
%%* CannotSpitItOut: Bulan
* CelestialDeadline: Attributed to Chinese medicine
* CreatingLife: Professor Maxon is able to Frankenstein human(oid) bodies and bring them to life. They don't appreciate it.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Sing, the old Chinese cook, who is scorned by the other workers and can only barely speak English nevertheless proves to be the most heroic, resourceful, and noble character of the book: tracking the escaped Monster Men when they kidnap Virginia, treating injuries and sickness, and, despite his age, fighting for Virginia's rescue. He's more of a father to her than her actual (insane) father is.
* CrushBlush: Virginia, when she is caught studying her rescuer.
* DamselInDistress: Virginia--this wouldn't be an ERB novel without one.
** DamselOutOfDistress: Also Virginia, who has NervesOfSteel and is quite capable of taking care of herself.
%%* DangerousDeserter: von Horn, it turns out.
* DesertedIsland: The setting for most of it. It's kind of hard to dispose of (synthetic) bodies in civilized places...
%%* DumbMuscle: Professor Maxon's creatures.
* DyingCurse: Showered, ineffectively, on a traitor.
* EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler: Bulan isn't actually a creation of the Professor; he's a socialite who happened to get hit on the head and was included in the experiment...somehow]].
* EngagementChallenge: Whoever rescues Virginia can court her.
* EvilVirtues
-->''Whatever faults and vices were Carl von Horn's cowardice was not one of them,''
* FriendOrFoe: Sing shoots at ships he takes for pirates because being taken by pirates is too horrible to risk.
%%* GoodSamaritan: Sing, it turns out.
* HungryJungle: Much of the island. They meet various monsters and savages in it.
%%* JustAFleshWound: Bulan's injuries at the end
%%* LoveAtFirstSight: Number 13 for Virginia.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Virginia is practically a textbook example. Her father is legitimately insane, obsessed with with his Frankenstein-like creations, they're on a DesertedIsland, she's [[TheIngenue sweet, trusting, and innocent]] while also being [[SilkHidingSteel quite intelligent and strong-willed.]]
* MarsNeedsWomen: One of the monster men abducts Virginia. Because...of course he does.
%%* MeaningfulRename: Bulan.
* TheMedic: Sing treats several injuries.
%%* MysteriousPast
* ParentalMarriageVeto: At least, if you want the fortune.
%%* {{Pirate}}
* ThePromise: Maxon promises that if he rescues Virginia, von Horn can marry her.
%%* RagsToRoyalty: Bulan
%%* RescueRomance: Bulan and Virginia
%%* {{Revenge}}: von Horn tries to inspire this in Number Thirteen.
* RuleOfSeven: how long it has been since von Horn went anywhere under American jurisdiction.
%%* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Virginia's choice
* TheSoulless: It is taken for granted that the created men have no souls.
* SuddenlySuitableSuitor: Not needed -- but it still happens. See EasyAmnesia.
%%* TapOnTheHead: It cures Professor Maxon
* ThunderEqualsDownpour: The breakup of the monsoon.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: von Horn argues for the creature's deaths.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Sing, the Chinese cook speaks entirely in very bad pidgin.
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