The Bride of Osiris

A hidden underground city has been established, deep in the earth, underneath Chicago. Ruled by Osiris, this city is the gateway to the Karneter, the afterlife, from which no man returns. Into this hidden realm, a woman is brought — she who will become The Bride of Osiris.

The Bride of Osiris (1927) – A three-part Egyptian serial story of Osiris, the Festival of Re, strange murders, the Am-mits, and the dungeons of Karneter
Chapter 1 – The Pock-Marked Man
Chapter 2 – The Mystic Symbol
Chapter 3 – A Clue And A Trap
Chapter 4 – The Muffled Figure
Chapter 5 – A Strange Rooming House
Chapter 6 – The Fate Of A Renegade
Chapter 7 – Walls With Ears—and Voices
Chapter 8 – The Hall Of The Two Truths

Part 2 – The Story So Far
Chapter 9 – Delra, Vestal Virgin
Chapter 10 – The Death Watch Begins
Chapter 11 – The Man In The Dungeon
Chapter 12 – The Temple Of Isis
Chapter 13 – Rafferty Limbers His Joints
Chapter 14 – The Festival Of Re

Part 3 – The Story So Far
Chapter 15 – Behind The Scenes
Chapter 16 – The Bride Of Osiris
Chapter 17 – In The Most Holy Place
Chapter 18 – The Vengeance Of Alcibar

Otis Adelbert Kline (1891–1946), born in Chicago, Illinois, was a songwriter, an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic.

In the mid-1930s Kline largely abandoned writing to concentrate on his career as a literary agent, primarily for author Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian. Kline represented Howard from the spring of 1933 till Howard’s death in June 1936, and continued to act as literary agent for Howard’s estate thereafter.

Kline is perhaps best known for an apocryphal literary feud with fellow author Edgar Rice Burroughs, over their respective Mars, Venus and jungle series of stories, but this was debunked when the source of the supposed feud admitted to making it all up.

The Bride of Osiris has 5 illustrations.