The second of five volumes collecting the stories 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 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 second volume, The Devil's Rosary, includes all of the Jules de
Grandin stories from "The Black Master" (1929) to "The Wolf of St.
Bonnot" (1930), as well as a foreword by Stefan Dziemianowicz.