Berkeley Livingston's "Death of a B.E.M." (short story, humor, free): A parody of bug-eyed monster stories

Very funny introduction to bug-eyed monster fiction. From both human & monster perspectives.

Notes.

1. I used to think that South Indian movies with much parodied style heroes were greatly localized versions adapted from US Western stories. May be they owe far more to bug-eyed monster fiction? Or is the later too drawn from Westerns?

Fact sheet.

First published: Amazing Stories, October 1948.
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Rating: A.
Related: Monster fiction.