The final tambler turned, behind the wall the unmistakable sound of a real to real cassette player starting,

I told you, Montague half screamed, I tried to warn you of the horrors that await behind these walls.

Pseudopod, episode 686, January 24th of 2020, that still feels weird to say, the Phantom Rider by Otis Adelbert Klein.

Hi everyone, welcome to Suitapod, the weekly horror podcast this story originally appeared in Weird Tales in November of 1924 and I the owner and John Halest

Stuart of a name which has a certain heft to it bow down to Otis A. and This was an assistant editor at Weird Tales from its inception.

He contributed numerous stories to the magazine and edited a single issue.

That would be the late July in 1924, in which appeared the infamous story, The Loved Dead,

which we ran last week.

In the mid-1930s, Klein largely abandoned writing to concentrate on his career as an agent,

most notably for fellow weird tales of author Robert E Howard who has appeared here

at escape artists several times in the past.

Klein is best known for an apocryphal literary feud with fellow author Edgar Rice Burrows,

in which he supposedly raised the latter's ire by producing close imitations of Burroughs' Martian novels, though set on Venus.

Burrows, the storygoers, then retaliated by writing his own Venus novels, whereupon Klein responded

with an even more direct intrusion on Burrows territory by boldly setting

two novels on Mars.

This gentle listeners is the literary equivalent of waving your hand in front of your opponent's face and yelling

Still not touching still not touching.

Klein's jungle adventure stories reminiscent of Burrows Tarzan tales have also

been cited as evidence of the conflict. While the two authors did

write the works in question, the theory that they did so as part of a feud is... Well, the

evidence is slim. The feud theory was originally set forth in a fan press article in 1913. The

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