author
Otis Adelbert Kline
1891–1946
A lively pulp-era storyteller, he wrote swashbuckling fantasy and science fiction adventures and also worked behind the scenes as a literary agent. His tales, many first published in magazines like Weird Tales, helped shape early planetary romance.
4 Audiobooks
Meteor-Men of Mars
by Harry Cord, Otis Adelbert Kline
Thirsty blades
by Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffmann Price
Maza of the Moon
by Otis Adelbert Kline
The radio ghost
by Otis Adelbert Kline
About the author
Born in Chicago in 1891, Otis Adelbert Kline built a varied career as a songwriter, adventure novelist, and literary agent. Reliable reference sources describe him as a pulp-era writer whose fiction appeared widely in magazines, especially Weird Tales, and note his interest in Arabic studies and the Middle East.
He is best remembered for fast-moving fantasy and science fiction, including planetary romances and jungle adventures. Readers often connect his work with the grand, imaginative style of early pulp fiction, and later encyclopedic sources continue to single him out as a notable figure from that era.
Kline died in 1946, but his stories remain part of the long history of popular adventure writing. For listeners who enjoy classic speculative fiction, his work offers a window into the bold, colorful world of the pulps.