Otis Adelbert Kline 47 min read

When Dr. Dorp is called to a house plagued by a violent, unseen presence, chairs hurled by invisible hands, he brings not a medium but a radio man's science to unmask the radio ghost.

Otis Adelbert Kline's 1927 story is an ingenious scientific-detective and horror tale. Clever, atmospheric golden-age pulp. Read it for an inventive early yarn that grounds its haunting in real, accurate radio science, where a psychic investigator meets a poltergeist with technology rather than séance, in a thrilling blend of ghost story and scientifiction.

In its time

Published in 1927, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

47 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul