Otis Adelbert Kline was a songwriter, an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price.

The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment:

- The Corpse on the Third Slab.

- The Man from the Moon.

- The Cup of Blood.

- Mignight Madness.

- The Malignant Entity.

- The Bird-People.

- The Thing of a Thousand Shapes.