Leonard Cline's The Cult Murders

Cline wrote three pseudonymous novels for the pulp magazine.  All three are thrillers.  Cline didn't think much of them, having tossed them off very quickly in the aim of getting money to pay the fine that went along with his manslaughter plea and jail time, and to be able to keep his rural Connecticut home. Yet as pulp thrillers the three novels do have attractions. The first of these three, The Cult Murders, has just been reprinted.  Copies are available at Amazon US trade paperback and  Kindle ebook, at Amazon UK trade paperback and Kindle ebook, and at other Amazon sites. 

The Cult Murders concerns a Devil worshiping cult set up to fleece rich women of their fortunes. Originally serialized in 1928, this is the first publication in book form.

Leonard Cline's The Lady of Frozen Death and Other Weird Tales

I contacted Cline's daughter, Mary Louise Jarrett, in 1989, and then my research into Cline's life and works truly began. The first fruit of this research was the booklet, The Lady of Frozen Death and Other Weird Tales, published by Necronomicon Press in June 1992.  It includes Cline's pseudonymous weird tales (his pseudonym revealed publicly for the first time), written to make money while he was in jail. The booklet contains five stories, three of which were published as by "Alan Forsyth"--a shortening of Cline's maternal grandfather's name, Oscar Fitzalan Forsyth.  Two stories are published therein for the first time.

The main person behind Necronomicon Press was Marc Michaud, who had also happened to have been the editor at Pinnacle Books in 1983 responsible for the reprint of The Dark Chamber. Neither Cline's daughter nor myself saw the cover of The Lady of Frozen Death until it was published. Our dismay is hard to express adequately. The art is by Jason Eckhardt, who has done much fine work, but the presentation (color, artwork, and banner title) was so disappointing to both myself and Cline's daughter that it ceased any other Cline projects for Necronomicon Press.