{"id":7986,"date":"2018-11-26T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:40:43","slug":"meet-otis-adelbert-kline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2018\/11\/26\/meet-otis-adelbert-kline\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Otis Adelbert Kline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Otis Adelbert Kline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A pulp author that I have not read, but which I have seen mention over the years is Otis Adelbert Kline<\/strong> (1891-1946). And usually what I read was that he had a rivalry with Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/strong> due to writing similar stories. That is probably not true, or not to the extent some make it. And this has probably overshadowed his other works.<\/p>\n

Kline wrote several novels and short stories, though writing wasn’t a major part of his career. He was also an associate editor at Weird Tales<\/em>. And he later focused more on his literary agency. Today, most of his novels and several of his short stories are still available.<\/p>\n

David Anthony Kraft<\/strong> divides Kline’s career into three periods. The first is from 1922 to 1928, where he did weird fiction and detective stories. He actually wrote The Planet of Peril<\/em> in 1922, long before it was published. The period of 1929 to 1935 is considered his best, where Kline did the Dragoman stories, several of his interplanetaries, and the jungle stories. Kline’s final period of 1936 to 1942, was apparently more mediocre pulp science fiction, often with others.<\/p>\n

His main works people know are his Mars, Venus, and jungle series:<\/p>\n

\""Argosy"<\/a>The Venus series includes:<\/p>\n