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Title: The Malignant Entity Title Record # 54712
Author: Otis Adelbert Kline
Date: 1924-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Dr. Dorp
Series Number: 2
Language: English
Synopsis: The body of Professor Townsend is found in his lab, with all flesh cleaned from his skeleton. Police officers investigating are later found in the same condition. It turns out that the professor had created a form of life capable of quickly eating flesh. Available on page 234, Bleiler (Gernsback).
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Weird Tales, May-June-July 1924 1924-05-00 ed. Edwin Baird The Rural Publishing Corp.  
$0.50?$: US dollar
196
bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
mag R. M. Mally  
Amazing Stories, June 1926 1926-06-00 ed. Hugo Gernsback Experimenter Publishing Co.  
$0.25?$: US dollar
96
bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
mag Frank R. Paul Checkmark
Amazing Stories Quarterly, Fall 1934 1934-10-00 ed. uncredited Teck Publications, Inc.  
$0.50?$: US dollar
132
bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
mag Morey Checkmark
Strange Offspring 1946-01-00 ed. Benson Herbert Utopian Publications Ltd. (American Fiction #10)  
1/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
36
ph?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.
anth  
Amazing Stories, February 1966 1966-02-00 ed. Joseph Ross Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.  
$0.50?$: US dollar
164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Frank R. Paul Checkmark
Weird Tales, May-June-July 1924 2004-11-00 ed. Edwin Baird Girasol Collectables  
$50.00?$: US dollar
192
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth R. M. Mally Checkmark
The Malignant Entity 2016-09-25 Otis Adelbert Kline Endymion Press 978-1-5312-9865-4
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
chap  
The Malignant Entity 2017-12-30 Otis Adelbert Kline Roy Glashan's Library  
A$0.00?A$: Australian dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
chap Checkmark
Weird Tales 2019-00-00 ed. uncredited Pulp Classics on DVD      
other?The publication format is non-standard. The details are usually provided publication notes.
anth Margaret Brundage Checkmark
Compelling Science Fiction 2022-09-27 ed. uncredited Flame Tree Press (Gothic Fantasy) 978-1-83964-939-4
£20.00?£: UK pound
432
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
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