Seabury Quinn

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Seabury Grandin Quinn , pseudonym Jerome Burke (born January 1, 1889 in Washington, DC ; died December 24, 1969 ) was an American genre writer. He was best known for his occult stories about the detective Jules de Grandin, which appeared in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales . Quinn was the forensic doctor full-time . In this field he published specialist literature for undertakers and embalmers and worked as an editor of specialist magazines and as a lecturer at technical schools.

Life

Seabury Quinn was born in Washington, DC, where he also grew up. In 1910 he graduated from National University Law School (now part of George Washington University ). After serving in the Army in World War I, Quinn moved to New York , where he worked as a lecturer and editor in forensic medicine with a focus on funeral law.

His first published story was The Law of the Movies , which appeared in The Motion Picture Magazine in December 1917 . This was followed by other publications in contemporary pulp magazines such as Detective Story Magazine , Weird Tales or The Magazine of Horror . In the October 1925 issue of Weird Tales , he introduced the character of detective Jules de Grandin, about whom Quinn would write a total of 93 stories, most of which appeared in Weird Tales . Quinn the most prolific writer of Weird Tales , because 165 of the total of 279 published editions included a contribution by him. The popularity of Quinn's stories surpassed that of his contemporaries Robert E. Howard and HP Lovecraft , whose work only received greater attention posthumously.

In 1937 he moved back to Washington and worked briefly as a publishing representative. During World War II he worked as a lawyer with government agencies. In addition to this legal activity and the detective stories, he published under the pseudonym Jerome Burke articles for an undertaker journal called The Dodge Magazine . These articles, which were mostly based on anecdotes from undertakers, appeared collectively under the title This I Remember: The Memoirs of a Funeral Director .

In 1952, Seabury Quinn had to end his professional career after a series of strokes and retired. This also meant the end of his work as a writer. His last short story, Master Nicholas , was not published until 1965 in the winter edition of The Magazine of Horror . Quinn died on Christmas Eve 1969.

In 2017 Quinn posthumously received the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award for forgotten or no longer adequately appreciated science fiction authors.

bibliography

Jules de Grandin (short story series)
  • The Horror on the Links (1925, also as: Terror on the Links )
  • The Tenants of Broussac (1925)
  • The Isle of Missing Ships (1926)
  • The Vengeance of India (1926)
  • The Dead Hand (1926)
  • The House of Horror (1926)
    • German: The House of Secrets. In: HW Mommers , AD Krauss (Ed.): 2 horror stories. Heyne (Heyne anthologies # 16), 1966. Also called: The bone peeler. In: Herbert van Thal (Ed.): Screams from the Chamber of Terror. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 28), 1975.
  • Ancient Fires (1926)
  • The Great God Pan (1926)
  • The Grinning Mummy (1926)
  • The Man Who Cast No Shadow (1927)
  • The Blood-Flower (1927)
  • The Veiled Prophetess (1927)
  • The Curse of Everard Maundy (1927)
  • Creeping Shadows (1927)
  • The White Lady of the Orphanage (1927)
  • The Poltergeist (1927)
  • The Gods of East and West (1928)
  • Mephistopheles and Company, Ltd. (1928)
  • The Jewel of Seven Stones (1928)
  • The Serpent Woman (1928)
  • Body and Soul (1928)
  • Restless Souls (1928)
    • German: restless souls. In: Charles G. Waugh, Martin Greenberg (1941–2011) (Eds.): Vampire. Bastei Lübbe (Bastei Lübbe General Series # 13134), 1988, ISBN 3-404-13134-7 .
  • The Chapel of Mystic Horror (1928)
  • The Black Master (1929)
  • The Devil-People (1929)
  • The Devil's Rosary (1929)
  • The House of Golden Masks (1929)
  • The Corpse Master (1929)
  • Trespassing Souls (1929)
  • The Silver Countess (1929)
  • The House Without a Mirror (1929)
  • Children of Ubasti (1929)
    • German: The ogre. In: Michel Parry (ed.): Eight Teufelseier. Pabel (Vampire Paperback # 42), 1976.
  • The Curse of the House of Phipps (1930, also as: The Doom of the House of Phipps )
  • The Drums of Damballah (1930)
  • The Dust of Egypt (1930)
  • The Brain-Thief (1930)
  • The Priestess of the Ivory Feet (1930)
  • The Bride of Dewer (1930)
  • Daughter of the Moonlight (1930)
  • The Druid's Shadow (1930)
  • Stealthy Death (1930)
  • The Wolf of St. Bonnot (1930)
  • The Lost Lady (1931)
  • The Ghost Helper (1931)
  • Satan's Stepson (1931)
  • The Devil's Bride (1932)
    • German: The Devil's Bride. Luther (horror expert # 9), 1971.
  • The Dark Angel (1932)
  • The Heart of Siva (1932)
  • The Bleeding Mummy (1932)
  • The Door to Yesterday (1932)
  • A Gamble in Souls (1933)
  • The Thing in the Fog (1933)
  • The Hand of Glory (1933)
  • The Chosen of Vishnu (1933)
  • Malay Horror (1933)
  • The Mansion of Unholy Magic (1933)
  • Red Gauntlets of Czerni (1933)
  • The Red Knife of Hassan (1934)
  • The Jest of Warburg Tantavul (1934)
  • Hands of the Dead (1935)
  • The Black Orchid (1935)
  • The Dead-Alive Mummy (1935)
  • A Rival from the Grave (1936)
  • Witch House (1936)
  • Children of the Bat (1937)
  • Satan's Palimpsest (1937)
  • Pledged to the Dead (1937)
  • Living Buddhess (1937)
  • Flames of Vengeance (1937)
  • Frozen Beauty (1938)
  • Incense of Abomination (1938)
  • Suicide Chapel (1938)
  • The Venomed Breath of Vengeance (1938)
  • Black Moon (1938)
  • The Poltergeist of Swan Upping (1939)
  • The House Where Time Stood Still (1939)
  • Mansions in the Sky (1939)
  • The House of the Three Corpses (1939)
  • Stoneman's Memorial (1942)
  • Death's Bookkeeper (1944)
  • The Green God's Ring (1945)
  • Lords of the Ghostlands (1945)
  • Kurban (1946)
  • The Man in Crescent Terrace (1946)
  • Three in Chains (1946)
  • Catspaws (1946)
  • Lotte (1946)
  • Eyes in the Dark (1946)
  • Clair de Lune (1947)
  • Vampire Kith and Kin (1949)
  • Conscience Maketh Cowards (1949)
  • The Body-Snatchers (1950)
  • The Ring of Bastet (1951)
  • The Phantom Fighter: Ten Memoirs of Jules de Grandin, Sometime Member of La Sûreté Général, La Faculté De Medicine Légal De Paris, Etc., Etc. (1966, collection)
  • Jules de Grandin (Popular Library, collective edition)
    • 1 The Adventures of Jules de Grandin (1976)
    • 2 The Casebook of Jules de Grandin (1976)
    • 3 The Skeleton Closet of Jules de Grandin (1976)
    • 5 The Hellfire Files of Jules de Grandin (1976)
    • 6 The Horror Chambers of Jules de Grandin (1977)
  • The Compleat Adventures of Jules de Grandin (2001, 3 vols., Collective edition)
  • The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin (Collective Edition)
    • 1 The Horror on the Links (2017) [C]
    • 2 The Devil's Rosary (2017) [C]
    • 3 The Dark Angel (2018) [C]
novel
  • Alien Flesh (1977)
Collections
  • Is the Devil a Gentleman? (1970)
  • The Vagabond-at-Arms (2002)
  • Night Creatures (2003)
  • Anthology of Sci-Fi V34: The Pulp Writers: Seabury Quinn (2013)
Non-fiction
  • Weird Crimes & Servants of Satan (1999)
Short stories
  • The Stone Image (1919)
  • The Cloth of Madness (1920)
  • The Phantom Farmhouse (1923)
  • Out of the Long Ago (1925)
  • Itself (1925)
  • Written in Blood (1926)
  • The Monkey God (1927, also called The Best Proof , 2009)
  • In the Fog (1927, Professor Forrester )
  • The Ghost of Towneley Towers (1928, Professor Forrester )
  • The Problems of Professor Forrester (1928)
  • The Vagabond-at-Arms (1933)
  • The Bride of God (1933)
  • The Tiger's Cubs (1933)
  • The Spider Woman (1934)
  • The Web of Living Death (1935)
  • Strange Interval (1936)
  • The Globe of Memories (1937)
  • Roads (1938)
    • German: Strassen. In: Hugh Walker (Ed.): The Enchanted Crusade. Pabel (Terra Fantasy # 91), 1981.
  • The Temple Dancer (1938)
  • Twilight of Gods (1938)
  • Fortune's Fool (1938)
  • As' Twas Told to Me (1938)
  • Lynne Foster Is Dead! (1938)
  • More Lives Than One (1938)
  • The Fire-Master (1939)
  • Susette (1939)
  • Washington Nocturne (1939)
  • The Door Without a Key (1939)
  • The Lady of the Bells (1939)
  • Uncanonized (1939)
  • Glamor (1939)
  • Mortmain (1940)
  • The Golden Spider (1940)
  • The Gentle Werewolf (1940)
  • The Lesser Brethren Mourn (1940)
  • The Last Waltz (1940)
  • Doomed (1940)
  • Two Shall Be Born (1941)
  • Some Day I'll Kill You! (1941)
  • Wake and Remember (1941)
  • I Married a Ghost (1941)
  • Song Without Words (1941)
  • Shanghai in Manhattan (1941)
  • There Are Such Things (1941)
  • Birthmark (1941)
  • The Bush Sorceress (1942)
  • Fate Rolls the Bones (1942)
  • Who Can Escape ... (1942)
  • Is the Devil a Gentleman? (1942)
  • Never the Twain ... (1942)
  • Repayment (1943)
    • German: snake conjuring. In: Kurt Singer (Ed.): 13 horror stories. Heyne (Heyne Anthologies # 36), 1972.
  • A Bargain with the Dead (1943)
  • The Miracle (1943)
  • Louella Goes Home (1943)
  • The Unbeliever (1944)
  • Bon Voyage, Michele (1944)
  • Take Back That Which Thou Gavest (1945)
  • Hoodooed (1947)
  • Masked Ball (1947)
  • Mrs. Pellington Assists (1947)
  • And Give Us Yesterday (1948)
  • The Merrow (1948)
  • Such Stuff as Dreams (1948)
  • If Two Are Dead (1949)
  • Dark O 'the Moon (1949)
  • Blindman's Buff (1949)
  • Congo Fury (1950)
  • Dark Rosaleen (1950)
  • The Last Man (1950)
  • Rebels' Rest (1950)
  • Brands from the Burning (1951)
  • Fling the Dust Aside (1951)
  • The Scarred Soul (1952)
  • Master Nicholas (1963)

literature

Web links

Commons : Seabury Quinn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Seabury Quinn  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This I Remember on Batteredbox.com
personal data
SURNAME Quinn, Seabury
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quinn, Seabury Grandin (full name); Burke, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American genre writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1969