The Horror on the Links: The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume One

by Seabury Quinn

Overview

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.

Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero.

The first volume, The Horror on the Links, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from “The Horror on the Links” (1925) to “The Chapel of Mystic Horror” (1928), as well as an introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949102628
Publisher:	Night Shade
Publication date:	10/22/2024
Series:	Jules de Grandin Series , #1
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.28(d)

About the Author

Seabury Quinn was a pulp magazine author, whose popular stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin were published in Weird Tales between 1925 and 1951. Quinn penned ninety-two short stories and one full-length novel featuring “the occult Hercule Poirot,” which were enormously popular with readers. Quinn died in 1969.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction—George A. Vanderburgh and Robert E. Weinberg

1925

The Horror on the Links (Weird Tales, October 1925)

The Tenants of Broussac (Weird Tales, December 1925)

1926

The Isle of Missing Ships (Weird Tales, February 1926)

The Vengeance of India (Weird Tales, April 1926)

The Dead Hand (Weird Tales, May 1926)

The House of Horror (Weird Tales, July 1926)

Ancient Fires (Weird Tales, September 1926)

The Great God Pan (Weird Tales, October 1926)

The Grinning Mummy (Weird Tales, December 1926)

1927

The Man Who Cast No Shadow (Weird Tales, February 1927)

The Blood-Flower (Weird Tales, March 1927)

The Veiled Prophetess (Weird Tales, May 1927)

The Curse of Everard Maundy (Weird Tales, July 1927)

Creeping Shadows (Weird Tales, August 1927)

The White Lady of the Orphanage (Weird Tales, September 1927)

The Poltergeist (Weird Tales, October 1927)

1928

The Gods of East and West (Weird Tales, January 1928)

Mephistopheles and Company, Ltd. (Weird Tales, February 1928)

The Jewel of Seven Stones (Weird Tales, April 1928)

The Serpent Woman (Weird Tales, June 1928)

Body and Soul (Weird Tales, September 1928)

Restless Souls (Weird Tales, October 1928)

The Chapel of Mystic Horror (Weird Tales, December 1928)

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin

"Hercule Poirot meets Fox Mulder . . . gruesomely effective, and purists who object to detective stories with paranormal elements will find that the moment each story crosses the border to the supernatural raises genuine shivers."—Kirkus Reviews

“Connoisseurs of pulp adventure . . . will be delighted.”—Publishers Weekly

"A collection of wonderfully fun mashups. Seabury Quinn's stories are bloody and action-packed, with the sort of shameless, disreputable charm that characterizes the best of the pulps. Even if there's little that's truly original in his work, his clever assortment of monsters and occult menaces make for tremendously entertaining stories. His admirers have every reason to be thrilled with these comprehensive new collections, and the writer will find new fans among those who enjoy truly weird horror."—Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog

"A fun, spooky trip back to the golden age of weird . . . De Grandin, 'his little blond mustache twitching like the whiskers of an excited cat,' is an exuberant, delightful creation."—Publishers Weekly

"Quite fun; [the stories] move quickly and offer up a tantalizing blend of mystery and the bizarre . . . [Quinn's] characterizations and pacing lead to stories that are quite satisfying."—Kirkus Reviews

“A true 'time lost literary treasure' brought back into print for the benefit of a new generation of appreciative readers, "The Dark Angel" is an extraordinarily entertaining read from cover to cover . . . unreservedly recommended for community library Science Fiction & Fantasy collections.”—Midwest Book Review

“Read this and you will get a blast of the past...It's nice to see the old stories gathered up and being shared again. Stories never die as long as there's still one storyteller left.”—Book Faerie

"Many of these stories have been unavailable for years. I applaud Night Shade Books for bringing these wonderful stories back into print. I can't wait for Volume Two! GRADE: A"—GeorgeKelley.org
 

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