The Horror on the Links
Subtitle: The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume One
By: Seabury Quinn ; edited by George A. Vanderburgh
Contributors: Vanderburgh, George A., editor, writer of introduction; Weinberg, Robert E., writer of introduction
Series: The complete tales of Jules De Grandin -- Volume one
Publisher: Night Shade
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9781597808934
Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories; American Paranormal fiction
Other titles: Contained in (work): Weird tales.
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "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 Robert Weinberg"--

"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"--
Notes: Stories originally appeared in Weird Tales, between 1925 and 1928.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- George A. Vanderburgh and Robert E. Weinberg -- 1925.; title: The horror on the links -- (Weird tales, October 1925); title: The tenants of Broussac -- (Weird tales, December 1925) -- 1926.; title: The isle of missing ships -- (Weird tales, February 1926); title: The vengeance of India -- (Weird tales, April 1926); title: The dead hand -- (Weird tales, May 1926); title: The house of horror -- (Weird tales, July 1926); title: Ancient fires -- (Weird tales, September 1926); title: The great god Pan -- (Weird tales, October 1926); title: The grinning mummy -- (Weird tales, December 1926) -- 1927.; title: The man who cast no shadow -- (Weird tales, February 1927); title: The blood-flower -- (Weird tales, March 1927); title: The veiled prophetess -- (Weird tales, May 1927); title: The curse of Everard Maundy -- (Weird tales, July 1927); title: Creeping shadows -- (Weird tales, August 1927); title: The white lady of the orphanage -- (Weird tales, September 1927); title: The poltergeist -- (Weird tales, October 1927) -- 1928.; title: The gods of east and west -- (Weird tales, January 1928); title: Mephistopheles and Company, Ltd. -- (Weird tales, February 1928); title: The jewel of seven stones -- (Weird tales, April 1928); title: The serpent woman -- (Weird tales, June 1928); title: Body and soul -- (Weird tales, September 1928); title: Restless souls -- (Weird tales, October 1928); title: The chapel of mystic horror-- (Weird tales, December 1928).