iv read and heard alot about Mr. Kline and recently got my first taste of his work
well recently i got a collectors replica of weird tales #1 1923 for my collection
in it is the first of many seriels Mr Kline contributed to WT called the thing of 1,000 shapes a rather scary ghost story of a shapechangeing ghost but his writing is superb and some parts of the story gave me jumps lol and its a two parter so i have to get the next replica
im thinking of buying one of his planet stories volumes
im just not sure wich one
iv read and heard alot about Mr. Kline and recently got my first taste of his work
well recently i got a collectors replica of weird tales #1 1923 for my collection
in it is the first of many seriels Mr Kline contributed to WT called the thing of 1,000 shapes a rather scary ghost story of a shapechangeing ghost but his writing is superb and some parts of the story gave me jumps lol and its a two parter so i have to get the next replica
im thinking of buying one of his planet stories volumes
im just not sure wich one
I'd vote for Swordsman.
well i plan to buy swardsman of mars vary soon
if its half as good as that weird tales story i think im in for a treat
Zounds! Where be the problem with that?
Just started Swordsman, and I am digging it.
i havent been able to get swardsman of mars yet but i just started reading port of parel AKA buccaneers of venus in e book form so far its very good
i just finished another of otis adelbert klines early weird tales stories the corpse on the third slab a story in which a dead man helps solve his own murder
kline is one of my faverate authers like henry kuttner both men could write horror and fantasy both superbly well
i will get swardsman of mars soon
cant at the moment i just ordered a replica of weird tales the may/june/july issue it has a short story by kline and also an editorial by kline called why weird tales? it explanes why they published horror fiction
i will get swardsman of mars as the next book in my collection
almuric looks great to as im a big Robert E Howard fan i also read that otis adelbert kline was insturmental in getting almuric published in weird tales way back when
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Kline operated as Howard's literary agent for many years, and placed a number of his stories in the pulps even after his death. There is a fanzine called OAK LEAVES that includes correspondence between Kline and Howard's family following REH's suicide.
Why Weird Tales is an incredibly prescient article, and for my money I think it may be the most important piece of writing Otis Adelbert Kline ever published. I think you will quite enjoy it, and the replica of the Weird Tales issue in question is a real beauty for many reasons, not the least of which being its enormous "bedsheet" size or its collaboration between H. P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs".
That latter story was the inspiration for the title of the Pathfinder Module "Entombed with the Pharaohs," by the way, and is a highly enjoyable read.
Erik
thanks for the heads up the why weird tales artical will be the first thing i read
that lovecraft houdini collaberation is another story im looking forwerd to
the issue also has 3 other stories that sold the issue for me
the malignant entity by OAK
the werewolf of st bonnot by Seabury Quinn
and the loved dead by CM Eddy the story that saved weird tales from bankruptcy in 1924
well i just recived the may june july issue of weird tales replica
and i just finished the why weird tales artical by the great otis adelbert kline its great and very interesting
and i agree with him a weird tale is a good thing every now and then
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I thought his bit about "perhaps one day the writers in these pages will be recognized" was prescient, especially given the creeping literary canonization of Lovecraft, with Robert E. Howard and even Clark Ashton Smith and C. L. Moore coming into view on the horizon.
the issue also has a short story by kline called the malignant entity a weird mystary story about a flesheating creature it was also published in amazing stories in 1928
klines stories just seem to grab me his first weird tales story was a two part seriel called the thing of a thousand shapes appered in the first issue i remember when i receved the second issue replica in the mail i hurridly ripped open the package like a kid on christmas day so i could finish the story
oh and also i read the lovecraft houdini collabration imprisoned with the pharaohs it was great also my dad was watching nova the other night about the sphinx and i showed him the cover painting on the weird tales issue he though it was a nice painting of the sphinx
Is Kline's essay available anywhere else than in the original and the reprint? I'd love to read that.
klines why weird tales essay is available in the coffie table book called the weird tales story
Thanks, Jjb1011jjb.
for christmas this year i got two books by otis adelbert kline from pulpville press
tam son of the tiger which i just finished its a great novel
and i also got port of peril a novle set on venus havnt started that one yet
looks like ill be buying swardsman of mars next month and possably outlaws of mars as well