The Horror on the Links, Seabury Quinn
The Horror on the Links, Seabury Quinn
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The Horror on the Links
The Complete Tales of Jules De Grandin, Volume One

Author: Seabury Quinn

Narrator: Paul Woodson

Unabridged: 25 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2017

Synopsis

Seabury Quinn's short stories were featured in well more than half of the pulp magazine 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.

Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, 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.

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 Michelle on March 25, 2021

Not bad. I give it 3.5 stars. I found the lead character Jules de Grandin totally insufferable. But then I have the same opinion of Sherlock Holmes. Both are a couple of freeloaders who accidentally solve a case now and then. Dr Towbridge is much denser than Dr Watson (in the books anyway). This is......more

Goodreads review by Doug on February 15, 2020

One should take it as a warning when the introductory essay, written by literally one of Quinn/de Grandin's biggest fans and editorial contributors, instructs you to not read them back to back [not more than one a week is the instruction given] and then spends the remaining wordcount explaining why......more

Goodreads review by Glen on December 14, 2020

A large collection of stories about Jules de Grandin, known as the Supernatural Sherlock Holmes. After the first couple of stories, it settles down to a formula. de Grandin and his Watson, Dr. Trowbridge, would be minding their own business in New Jersey, when the paranormal rears its head. Trowbrid......more

Goodreads review by Shadowdenizen on May 31, 2017

4.5 stars.......more

Goodreads review by Dean on June 08, 2018

I have read a lot of pulp over the years. I like pulp and don't mind the purple prose or the normally predictable tales. I have read some Seabury Quinn over the years so I was excited to get this. Unfortunately, the stories told here were just bad and not entertaining in the least. I did not find the......more

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