Böcker av Otis Adelbert Kline

This volume assembles three of Otis Adelbert Kline's classic pulp tales from the 1920s. Here are "The Dragoman's Secret" and "The Dragoman's Confession," both from Oriental Stories, and "The Thing of a Thousand Shapes" from Weird Tales.

Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure and science-fiction novelist, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics. Introduction Writing the Fantastic Story The Venus Trilogy The Planet of Peril The Prince of Peril The Port of Peril The Mars Series The Swordsman of Mars The Outlaws of Mars Other Tales Maza of the Moon The Man from the Moon A Vision of Venus

Jan of the Jungle is a young boy, raised in isolation of lab by a weird scientist, with a chimpanzee as his only company. When he manages to escape, Jan finds himself in the surrounding forests and swamps of the Everglades, with his ape friend as a mentor in the wildlife. After tasting a freedom for the first time, Jan and his ape friend go through number of adventures, but as the time passes, Jan is getting anxious to learn about his origins and find his parents. Jan in India - As we continue to follow adventures of Jan of the Jungle, we find him engaged to his fiancée Ramona and reunited with his parents. Together with some friends, they start a cruise on the Indian Ocean. However, the happy days don''t last long for Jan as he gets thrown in the shark infested waters and Ramona gets abducted. Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure and science-fiction novelist, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics.

"The Swordsman of Mars" is a story of Harry Thorne, an outcast descendent of a noble family, in search for the grand adventure. He swaps bodies with a young hot-headed Martian Sheb Takkor, and gets transported to Mars, many years into the past. He arrives to a pulsating planet inhabited with scary beasts and creatures, fierce warriors, and beautiful and dangerous women, where he must confront various challenges in order to fulfill his destiny of a swordsman. "The Outlaws of Mars" is a continuation of a Mars series, this time with Jerry Morgan, a man with no future on Earth, who gets offered a new life on Mars. He starts out on the wrong foot, meeting a princess Junia and killing the fearsome-looking Martian beast he takes to be menacing her, which actually turns out to be her pet. After being imprisoned, Morgan becomes entangled in the politics of the Byzantine Martian royal court. Various adventures follow, with dazzling swordplay, feats of strength, and other trials, tribulations and treacheries. Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure and science-fiction novelist, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics.

The Planet of Peril tells the story of Robert Grandon, a restless young man who gets kidnapped by a mysterious scientist Dr. Morgan and finds himself transported to the planet Venus in the distant past in the body of a Venusian prince who has been enslaved by a beautiful and tyrannous Empress. After he manages to escape, Grandon starts his rise to leadership of an army of rebels. The Prince of Peril - Using his secret method Dr. Morgan projects a young Martian''s astral body into a certain Harry Thorne on Earth, who then gets transported to an ancient Venus. He arrives there in the body of Prince Zinlo of Olba, and he is soon forced to escape assassination, since an ambitious noble is killing off the Royals in a bid to seize the throne. With the help of the fellow interplanetary traveler Vorn Vangal he gets to know the planet and the rules of it. The Port of Peril - Robert Grandon and his Venusian wife Vernia, empress of Reabon were about to start their honeymoon when the terrible yellow pirates, lead by Huitsenni, kidnapped Vernia and took her to their hidden port. Grandon goes on a quest to save her, a quest that will put him on challenges, and against enemies beyond everything he had came across before. Otis Adelbert Kline was an adventure and science-fiction novelist, best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly became science-fiction classics.

Doris Lee is kidnaped and carried to an underground city beneath Chicago to become the bride of Mezzar Haskin, who rules there in Egyptian fashion under the name of Osiris. Alan Buell and Dan Rafferty, trying to find and rescue Doris, are captured in the subterranean city of Karneter and led before Osiris for trial. Rafferty is assigned a post as electrician, but Buell is chosen to impersonate the Osiris N at the Festival of Re when he will be put to death.

Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946) was an American adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline is best known for an apocryphal literary feud with fellow author Edgar Rice Burroughs, in which he supposedly raised the latter's ire by producing close imitations of Burroughs's Martian novels, though set on Venus -Planet of Peril, followed by Prince of Peril, and concluding with The Port of Peril.