The Dark Angel, Seabury Quinn
The Dark Angel, Seabury Quinn
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The Dark Angel
The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume Three

Author: Seabury Quinn

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Unabridged: 24 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/30/2019


Synopsis

Seabury 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.

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 third volume, The Dark Angel, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from "The Lost Lady" to "The Hand of Glory", as well as "The Devil's Bride", the only novel featuring de Grandin, which was originally serialized over six issues of Weird Tales. It also includes a foreword by Darrell Schweitzer and an introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg.

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 July 23, 2018

4.5 stars.......more

Goodreads review by Riju on May 26, 2021

The book contains a novel (The Devil's Bride), a novella-length tale (The Ghost Helper) and nine short stories. All of them feature the indefatigable occult action hero Jules de Grandin, where he takes on all sorts of supernatural villains and beasties. Once upon a time these tales were immensely po......more

Goodreads review by Glen on November 15, 2023

Another great collection of de Grandin tales! Even includes the sole novella, The Devil's Bride. Peak de Grandin here!......more

Goodreads review by Liz on August 03, 2023

First off, there is a thirty minute introduction, some of which is repeated in other volumes. There is some bashing of Quinn's work by HPL, who has gained in popularity while Quinn who was more popular when first published has faded from the public sphere. There is a lot of background information, i......more

Goodreads review by Peter on October 26, 2018

The Dark Angel by Seabury Quinn Please give my Amazon review a helpful vote - [URL not allowed]-re... Given that this is a collection of 1920s-era Pulp fiction, I was totally surprised by how good these stories were. According to the introduction, the author Seabury Quinn was a prolifi......more