The best of Jules de Grandin : 20 classic occult detective stories

Author

Seabury Quinn

Call Number

• MYSTERY QUIN (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : Night Shade, 2020.

Physical Description

xiv, 545 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

""Hercule Poirot meets Fox Mulder . . . raises genuine shivers. "--Kirkus Reviews. A collection of the 20 greatest tales of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales. Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn. Quinn's short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales's original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshipers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin's knack for solving mysteries--and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)--captivated readers for nearly three decades.The Best of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents twenty of the greatest published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order with stories from the 1920s through the 1940s, this collection contains the most incredible of Jules de Grandin's many awe-inspiring adventures." --Amazon

Contents

• The isle of missing ships (Weird Tales, February 1926)
• The house of horror (Weird Tales, July 1926)
• The great god Pan (Weird Tales, October 1926)
• Restless souls (Weird Tales, October 1928)
• The black master (Weird Tales, January 1929)
• The devil's rosary (Weird Tales, April 1929)
• The house without a mirror (Weird Tales, November 1929)
• Stealthy death (Weird Tales, November 1930)
• Satan's stepson (Weird Tales, September 1931)
• The bleeding mummy (Weird Tales, November 1932)
• The thing in the fog (Weird Tales, March 1933)
• The hand of glory (Weird Tales, July 1933)
• The mansion of unholy magic (Weird Tales, October 1933)
• Red gauntlets of Czerni (Weird Tales, December 1933)
• The jest of Warburg Tantavul (Weird Tales, September 1934)
• Hands of the dead (Weird Tales, January 1935)
• Witch-house (Weird Tales, November 1936)
• Suicide Chapel (Weird Tales, June 1938)
• The house where time stood still (Weird Tales, March 1939)
• The Green God's ring (Weird Tales, January 1945).