Pledged to the Dead, Seabury Quinn
Pledged to the Dead, Seabury Quinn
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Pledged to the Dead

Author: Seabury Quinn

Narrator: Finn J.D. John

Unabridged: 1 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/17/2020


Synopsis

What started as a lighthearted flirtation with a beautiful, strangely dressed maiden under the New Orleans moonlight ended with young Ned Minton pledged to eternal love with a girl who had died a century before -- a promise enforced by the all-too-real fangs of the demon-serpent who guarded her. Ned's only hope is that French physician and occult investigator Jules de Grandin can get to the bottom of it and end the curse that keeps the lovely Julie d'Ayen shackled to the material world -- before the eldritch serpent's fangs end Ned.

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 Peter on March 15, 2019

Ned has a little flirt with an extremely beautiful girl clad in an old fashioned dress as he's on a trip to New Orleans. What's so special about Julie? His girl friend from back home and to friends-to-the family doctors are trying to save him from the girl and her jealous governess. Can the overcome......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on December 31, 2018

Interesting story, if quaint in its delivery. A woman comes to a doctor and desperately asks him to cure her fiancee. It turns out the fiancee, while visiting New Orleans, became entangled with a mysterious, beautiful woman and he has pledged his heart to her. Not because he wanted to, but because i......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on November 24, 2016

I don't think this is the first Jules de Grandin story I've read? These were big back in the 1920s & 1930s -- Jules de Grandin is an occult detective; the stories are narrated by one Dr. Trowbridge, who acts as Watson to his Holmes. This particular story has a young man who, through no (well, relativ......more

Goodreads review by Alexia on May 05, 2021

Extraño sin duda pero con una buena trama, no conecté del todo con la forma de escribir pero quiero echarle la culpa a qué leer en digital últimamente me cuesta un poco más. .......more

Goodreads review by Noah on January 17, 2015

Short and sweet. A story, really. I don't know what the publication date was, but this may be in the running for the first love/vampire/ghost Nola story I know of......more