Carl Jacobi (writer)

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Carl Richard Jacobi (born July 10, 1908 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ; died August 25, 1997 in St. Louis Park , Minnesota) was an American writer and journalist, best known for writing horror , crime , and science fiction -Stories that he published in the pulp magazines of the era from the late 1920s .

Life

Jacobi was the son of Richard Cleveland and Matie Jacobi, nee Hoffman. He studied at the University of Minnesota , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1931 . He then worked as a journalist, including as a reporter for the Minneapolis Star , as an editor for Midwest Media and Minnesota Quarterly and in the PR department of the Key Center of War Information . As early as 1928 he had published his first short story in Weird Tales , which was recognized by HP Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith , and others followed, mainly from the field of horror and weird fiction .

When the situation at the pulp magazines worsened in 1942, Jacobi became an employee again and worked in an arms factory for the next 20 years, but continued to publish short stories. He never made the switch from pulp magazine to paperback, also because attempts with longer forms were unsuccessful. Donald Wandrei , together with August Derleth, founders of Arkham House , which also publishes Lovecraft, had been a fellow student of Jacobi. Arkham House has now published three volumes of Jacobi's Weird Fiction ( Revelations in Black , 1947, Portraits in Moonlight , 1964, and Disclosures in Scarlet , 1972). Above all, the first volume with the cover story Revelations in Black , a vampire story that some consider to be one of the best of the genre, established Jacobi's reputation as an important horror author.

In 1988 Jacobi was awarded the Minnesota Fantasy Award . In 1997 he died at the age of 89 in St. Louis Park near Minneapolis, the city he had hardly left in his life.

bibliography

Collections
  • Revelations in Black (1947)
  • The Tomb from Beyond (1947)
  • Portraits in Moonlight (1964)
  • Disclosures in Scarlet (1972)
  • East of Samarinda (1989)
  • Smoke of the Snake (1994)
  • Masters of the Weird Tale: Carl Jacobi (2014)
  • The Tenth Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack (2014)
Short stories
  • Mive (1928)
  • Moss Island (1930)
  • The Haunted Ring (1931, also as: The Coach on the Ring )
  • The Tomb from Beyond (1932)
  • Revelations in Black (1933)
  • The Last Drive (1933)
  • A Pair of Swords (1933)
  • Smoke of the Snake (1934)
  • The Cane (1934)
  • The Satanic Piano (1934)
  • Phantom Brass (1934)
  • Jungle Wires (1934)
  • Satan's Roadhouse (1934)
  • The Man from Makassar (1935)
  • Deceit Post (1935)
  • Sumpitan (1935)
  • Quarry (1935)
  • The Face in the Wind (1936)
  • Black Passage (1936)
  • Death Rides the Plateau (1936)
  • Dead Man's River (1937)
  • Spider Wires (1937)
  • The World in a Box (1937)
  • Tiger Island (1937)
  • The Kite (1937)
  • East of Samarinda (1937)
  • A film in the Bush (1937)
  • Head in His Hands (1937)
  • Death on Tin Can (1937)
  • The King and the Knave (1938, also as: The Devil Deals )
  • Holt Sails the "San Hing" (1938)
  • Leopard's Tracks (1938)
  • Cosmic Teletype (1938)
  • The War of the Weeds (1939)
  • Death's Outpost (1939)
  • Sagasta's Last (1939)
  • Trial By Jungle (1939)
  • A Study in Darkness (1939)
  • Spawn of Blackness (1939)
  • Sky Trap (1940)
  • The Phantom Pistol (1941, also as: The Spectral Pistol )
  • The Lost Street (1941, with Clifford D. Simak, also as The Street That Wasn't There )
  • Redemption Trail (1941)
  • Hamadryad Chair (1942)
  • Cosmic Castaway (1943)
  • Assignment on Venus (1943)
  • Writing on the Wall (1944, also as: The Cosmic Doodler )
  • Canal (1944)
  • Submarine I-26 (1944)
  • Doctor Universe (1944)
  • Double Trouble (1945)
  • Carnaby's Fish (1945)
  • Enter the Nebula (1946)
  • Tepondicon (1946)
  • The Corbie Door (1947)
  • The Digging at Pistol Key (1947)
  • Lodana (1947)
  • Portrait in Moonlight (1947)
  • The Random Quantity (1947)
  • The Lorenzo Watch (1948)
  • The La Prello Paper (1948)
  • Gentlemen, the Scavengers! (1948)
  • The Jade Scarlotti (1948)
  • Incident at the Galloping Horse (1948)
  • Matthew South and Company (1949)
  • The Historian (1950)
  • The Spanish Camera (1950)
  • The Gentleman Is an Epwa (1953)
  • The White Pinnacle (1954)
  • Made in Tanganyika (1954)
  • The Dangerous Scarecrow (1954, also as: Witches in the Cornfield )
  • Strangers to Straba (1954)
  • The Long Voyage (1955)
  • The Martian Calendar (1957)
  • The Aquarium (1962)
    • German: The monster from below. In: August Derleth (Ed.): Rendezvous with the Würgeengel. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 36), 1976.
  • Kincaid's Car (1964)
  • Exit Mr. Smith (1966)
  • He Looked Back (1966)
  • The Unpleasantness at Carver House (1967)
  • The Cocomacaque (1970)
  • The Player at Yellow Silence (1970)
  • The Singleton Barrier (1971)
  • Mr. Iper of Hamilton (1972)
  • Round Robin (1972)
  • Sequence (1972)
  • The Royal Opera House (1972)
  • Eternity When? (1974)
  • The Music Lover (1974)
  • Chameleon Town (1975)
  • Test Case (1975)
  • Hamadryad (1975)
  • Forsaken Voyage (1979)
  • The Elcar Special (1979)
  • The Pit (1980, also as: The Chadwick Pit )
  • The Black Garden (1981)
  • The Syndicate of the Snake (1983)
  • The Phantom from 512 (1984)
  • Josephine Gage (1984)
  • Pawns of the River-King (1984)
  • Ghoul Game (1984)
  • Hall of the Devil-Flag (1984)
  • The Hand of Every (1985)
  • The Monument (1985)
  • Woman of the Witch-Flowers (1985)
  • Rails of the Yellow Skull (1986)
  • Offspring (1986)
  • I Model My Soul (1986)
  • Bride of the Tree Man (1986)
  • The Dark Slayer (1986)
  • Prisoners of Vibration (1987)
  • Manuscript for the Damned (1987)
  • A Quire of Foolscap (1987)
  • Your Witness, Tuan (1987)
  • Coffin Crag (1987)
  • The Tunnel (1988)
  • The Nebula and the Necklace (1988)
  • The Return of Fabian Blair (1988)
  • Monorail To Eternity (1988)
  • Blood over the Footlights (1988)
  • The Rienza Lectures (1988)
  • Heliograph (1989)
  • Light in the Jungle (1989)
  • Pursuit to Perihelion (1989)
  • The Brothers Dalfey (1989)
  • Dyak Reward (2000)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Jacobi , Fancyclopedia 3 , accessed on 28 March 2018th
  2. ^ Lee Server: Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. Facts on File, 2002, p. 155.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobi, Carl Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1997
Place of death Minneapolis , Minnesota