The Casebook of Jules de Grandin

Jules de Grandin #2

by Seabury Quinn

9 • Teller of Tales • essay by Robert A. W. Lowndes
15 • Children of Ubasti • [Jules de Grandin] • (1929) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
51 • The House of Horror • [Jules de Grandin] • (1926) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
79 • The Silver Countess • [Jules de Grandin] • (1929) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
111 • The Corpse-Master • [Jules de Grandin] • (1929) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
137 • Ancient Fires • [Jules de Grandin] • (1926) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
169 • The Serpent Woman • [Jules de Grandin] • (1928) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
201 • The Chapel of Mystic Horror • [Jules de Grandin] • (1928) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
249 • Afterword (The Casebook of Jules de Grandin) • essay by Robert Weinberg

Genres: Horror, Occult Detective, Fantasy

252 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Best know as an American pulp author for Weird Tales, for which he wrote a series of stories about occult detective Jules de Grandin. He was the author of non-fiction legal and medical texts and editor of Casket & Sunnyside, a trade journal for mortuary jurisprudence. He also published fiction for Embalming Magazine, another mortuary periodical.

Reviews

[Bill Kerwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The occult detective Jules de Grandin and his "Watson" (Dr. Trowbridge) continue to keep Harrisonville, New Jersey safe from the forces of darkness.

In these seven tales they encounter: 1) cannibalistic cat people from the upper Nile, 2) a mad bone-surgeon hellbent on revenge, 3) the bloodthirsty effigy of a medieval countess, 4) a zombie-master and his reanimated crew, 5) sinister gypsies and reincarnated lovers, 6) a kidnapped baby and a very big snake, and 7) the re-embodied ghosts of a chapter of Knights Templar planning a ritual human sacrifice in upstate New York.

And as always, they rescue many imperiled young maidens in various stages of undress.

[Glen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun collection of short stories featuring the Sherlock Holmes of Supernatural Crime, Jules De Grandin. He and his sidekick, Dr. Trowbridge, stop horrible menaces in semi-rural New Jersey.

Great stuff.

[Ronald · Rating 5 out of 5]

read some time in 1987