Kensch, Otto
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, House name.
An Australian pseudonym, or more likely House Name, used on several unremarkable Scientific Thrillers titles. Of most sf interest are Time Has a Door (1949 chap), in which a twentieth-century scientist Time-Travels to a Ruined Earth where Devolution has created Monsters, and Sleep Is Death (coll 1950 chap), the title story involving a crime writer and his Doppelganger, a figure who literally takes over its sibling's body. The Kensch byline was also used for four stories in the Australian magazine Thrills Incorporated 1950-1951, beginning with "Method for Murder" (April 1950 Thrills Incorporated). [JC/DRL]
"Otto Kensch"
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Scientific Thriller
- Time Has a Door (Sydney, New South Wales: Transport Publishing, 1949) [novella: chap: Scientific Thriller series: pb/Maurice Bramley]
- Death Is a Habit (Sydney, New South Wales: Transport Publishing, 1949) [novella: chap: Scientific Thriller series: pb/Maurice Bramley]
- Sleep Is Death (Sydney, New South Wales: Transport Publishing, 1950) [coll: chap: Scientific Thriller series: pb/Maurice Bramley]
- Murder Has Wings (Sydney, New South Wales: Transport Publishing, 1950) [novella: chap: Scientific Thriller series: pb/Maurice Bramley]
- Image of Death (Sydney, New South Wales: Transport Publishing, 1950) [novella: chap: Scientific Thriller series: pb/Maurice Bramley]
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