"The Malignant Entity" first featured in the magazine 'Weird Tales', written by Chicago born Otis Adelbert Kline. When police chief McGraw of the detective bureau arrives at Dr. Dorp's lab, he finds the scientist with his friend Evans. The detective asks the two men to help him examine the death scene of the eminent chemist and inventor, Albert Townsend. And when they get there, the whitened skeleton of Professor Townsend, fully clothed in garments that hung like rags on a scarecrow, lay on the floor of the laboratory. Dr. Dorp and his team set about trying to discover the mystery of Townsend's death…