A Rival From the Grave, Seabury Quinn
A Rival From the Grave, Seabury Quinn
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A Rival From the Grave
The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume Four

Author: Seabury Quinn

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Unabridged: 25 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/20/2023

Synopsis

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 captivated readers for nearly three decades.

The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. The fourth volume, A Rival from the Grave, includes all the stories from "The Chosen of Vishnu" (1933) to "Incense of Abomination" (1938).

About Seabury Quinn

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shadowdenizen on December 10, 2020

Another set of adventures for the redoubtable Jules de Grandin. While not high literature, they are quite rousing to read, and an excellent example of the pulp fiction genre, and Seabury Quinn deserves more recognition, and to be in the same category (IMO) as Robert E Howard, HPL, and CA Smith for be......more

Goodreads review by Per on January 31, 2023

The Chosen of Vishnu [URL not allowed] Malay Horror [URL not allowed] The Mansion of Unholy Magic [URL not allowed] Red Gauntlets of Czerni [URL not allowed] The Red Knife of Hassan [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Dale on October 13, 2018

The conceited blonde French occultist rides again! Jules de Grandin was an occult detective in the same vein as Carnacki the Ghost-Finder and John Silence. The stories were published in Weird Tales, a 1930’s and 1940’s pulp magazine that also featured the stories of HP Lovecraft (Cthulhu Mythos) and......more

Goodreads review by Tracy on September 11, 2018

Old genre fiction is often delightful, sometimes perturbing, and almost always informative in terms of the history of the genre in question. The Jules de Grandin stories were new to me, as was the author, Seabury Quinn. The stories in this volume, #4 of 5, were all published in Weird Tales in the 19......more

Goodreads review by Steve on August 13, 2022

More Jules de Grandin mysteries... See my review of volume one for the background, everything in that review applies to this volume. The writing continues to improve a bit over time. This volume had a higher percentage of supernatural stories compared to the stories where de Grandin debunks some beli......more

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