O A Kline: "The Thing of a Thousand Shapes," "The Corpse on the Third Slab," and "The Cup of Blood"

Here at MPorcius Fiction Log we are reading stories from the first issues of Weird Tales, those with 1923 cover dates. Today we'll tackle stories by Otis Adelbert Kline, whose "The Phantom Wolfhound" we read in our last episode."The Thing of a Thousand Shapes"This here is a serial published in two parts across the first issue of Weird Tales, the March 1923 number, and the second, the April 1923 ish. This early artifact of the weird has not been reprinted so I'm afraid we can't count on it being a blockbuster, but who knows, maybe we will enjoy it anyway--book editors aren't always right, after all.The narrator's only relative, Uncle Jim, has just died at the young age of forty-five. Uncle Jim financed the narrator's education so he could get an office job--the narrator's parents died in a fire when he was twelve. Uncle Jim lived on a big farm but left its operation to others--he was an amateur scientist who devoted all his time to his studies of the occult and psychic abilities. The…