"Hercule Poirot meets Fox Mulder . . . gruesomely effective.
"--Kirkus Reviews
22 collected 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 over half of Weird Tales's
original publication run. His most famous character, the French
supernatural 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.
Available for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of
Jules de Grandin series collects 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 fifth volume, Black Moon, includes all the stories from "Suicide
Chapel" (1938) to "The Ring of Bastet" (1951), as well as an
introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg and a foreword by
Stephen Jones.
