Satans of Saturn

by Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffmann Price

This 280-page book brings back a long lost space opera by two of the best SF authors of the days when Argosy serialized the finest of SF and adventure, Satans On Saturn. In addition, Richard A. Lupoff, who collected and introduces these stories, provides two tales by Price called "Web of Wizardry" and "Selene Slays by Night" as well as an important novelette from Kline, "The Man from the Moon". The cover art is by Allan Koszowski and is reminiscent of the demon in 1957's Curse of the Demon with Dana Andrews, isn't it?

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

A popular pulp era writer who served on the original Weird Tales editorial staff & appeared frequently in the magazine's early issues, Kline is perhaps best known for his novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. He wrote "Planet of Peril" (1929) and two other novels set on the planet Venus and written in the storytelling form of the John Carter of Mars novels, prompting Burroughs to write his own stories set on Venus. In return, Kline wrote two novels set on Mars, as well as several jungle adventurers quite reminiscent of Burroughs's Tarzan.

In the mid-1930s Kline largely abandoned writing to concentrate on his career as a literary agent (most famously for fellow Weird Tales author Robert E. Howard, pioneer sword and sorcery writer and creator of Conan the Barbarian). Kline represented Howard from the Spring of 1933 until Howard's death in June 1936, and continued to act as literary agent for Howard's estate thereafter.