Seabury Quinn – författare

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 worshippers, 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.

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 worshippers, 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 third volume, The Dark Angel, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from "The Lost Lady" (1931) to "The Hand of Glory" (1933), as well as "The Devil''s Bride", the only novel featuring de Grandin, which was originally serialized over six issues of 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 worshippers, 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.

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 worshippers, 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.

Included are:

SYMPATHY FOR ZOMBIES, by John Gregory BetancourtLARGER THAN LIFE, by Lawrence Watt-EvansPLAGUE PIT, by Sydney J. BoundsCOOL AIR, by H.P. LovecraftTHE LAST BEST FRIEND, by C.J. HendersonUNDER THE SHADOW OF JONAH, by Jack DannZOMBIES ON BROADWAY, by Jack DolphinSOME NOTES ON THE "ZOMBI," by Lafcadio HearnTHE HOLLOW MAN, by Thomas BurkeOUTSIDE THE BOX, by John HaggertyWHILE ZOMBIES WALKED, by Thorp McCluskyTHE CORPSE MASTER, by Seabury QuinnWHAT THE MOON BRINGS, by George T. WetzelNIGHTFALL ON THE DEAD SEA, by Ray Faraday NelsonBUB AND THE ZOMB BOYS, by A. R. MorlanTHE MENTAL GANGSTER, by John Russell FearnTHE DIGGING AT PISTOL KEY, by Carl JacobiCRIME AND AUTHORITY, by C.J. HendersonDEAD MEN WORKING IN THE CANE FIELDS, by William SeabrookHERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR, by H.P. LovecraftI WALTZED WITH A ZOMBIE, by Ron GoulartBLACK CANAAN, by Robert E. Howard

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What started as a lighthearted flirtation with a beautiful, strangely dressed maiden under the New Orleans moonlight ended with young Ned Minton pledged to eternal love with a girl who had died a century before -- a promise enforced by the all-too-real fangs of the demon-serpent who guarded her. Ned's only hope is that French physician and occult investigator Jules de Grandin can get to the bottom of it and end the curse that keeps the lovely Julie d'Ayen shackled to the material world -- before the eldritch serpent's fangs end Ned.

Within the past year, the Chateau Broussac has had no less than six tenants; no renter has remained in possession for more than two months, and each tenancy has terminated in a tragedy of some sort.

Now the de Broussac family has commissioned Jules de Grandin to discover the reason for these problems...