 Crane initially sent his a manuscript of more than 21 @,@ 000 words to McClure 's , along with several other works including " The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky " , but it remained unpublished for nearly a year . After McClure 's eventual rejection , The Monster appeared in the August 1898 issue of Harper 's Magazine with illustrations by Peter Newell . A year later , it was published in the United States by Harper & Brothers Publishers in a collection titled The Monster and Other Stories , which included two other works by Crane , " The Blue Hotel " and " His New Mittens " . The first British edition , which added an additional four stories , was published in 1901 . 
