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The Thing of a Thousand Shapes
Otis Adelbert Kline · 1923 · Horror & Gothic
A Weird Tales serial of a young heir, a closed gray casket, uncanny materializations and rural panic around an apparently dead psychical researcher in 1920s Illinois.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 27 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Otis Adelbert Kline at the Pulp Desk
Neighbors and Watchers
The Farm Road Gathering
Peoria Farm Country
Peoria Farm CountryThe rural roads, neighboring farms, schoolhouse meeting place, pine grove and route between town and Uncle Jim Braddock's farm
The Braddock Household and Vigil
The TelegramThe little yellow missive left no room for doubt.
Joe Brings the NewsThere was trouble brewing around the farms.
This edition
- Title
- The Thing of a Thousand Shapes
- Author
- Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946)
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 54 original artworks · 27 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 6 · about 12,933 words
- Reading time
- 52 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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