{"id":4669,"date":"2015-11-02T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2020-10-07T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T23:54:08","slug":"dr-jules-de-grandin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2015\/11\/02\/dr-jules-de-grandin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jules de Grandin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dr.Dr. Jules de Grandin<\/strong> is one of the best-known occult detectives, though probably overshadowed today. Created by Seabury Quinn<\/strong> (1889-1969), de Grandin is probably his best-known work and series. \u00a0A lawyer by training, who specialized in mortuary law, Quinn was an editor and writer within the funeral trade, but also wrote fiction on the side.<\/p>\n

De Grandin ran for over 90 stories in Weird Tales<\/em> from 1925 to 1951, and as I understand it was very popular, more so than Robert E. Howard<\/strong>‘s Conan<\/strong> or H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong>‘s works. De Grandin’s stories were often cover featured (about 60 of them!), usually with Margaret Brundage<\/strong> artwork.<\/p>\n

De Grandin is both a medical doctor and a former agent of the French Surete, and is like a blonde Hercule Poirot<\/strong>, with his strange French sayings. Similar to Sherlock Holmes<\/strong> and Dr. Watson<\/strong>, he lives in semi-retirement with his friend Dr. Trowbridge<\/strong> in Harrisonville, N.J., where most stories are set. For such a small town, a lot of weird things happened there. Often they find that the cases are not supernatural, but are caused by evil, depraved people.<\/p>\n

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Rounding out the characters, there is also Trowbridge’s housekeeper, Nora McGinnis<\/strong> as well as Jeremy Costello<\/strong> of the Harrisonville PD. \u00a0He usually brings them most of the cases they deal with.<\/p>\n

While most were short stories, there was one serialized novel, The Devil’s Bride<\/em>, which had a sinister group kidnapping a girl from Harrisonville to be the bride of the devil they worshiped.<\/p>\n

In 1966, Arkham House published a collection of 10 stories as The Phantom Fighter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I discovered him when I obtained the six paperback collections published by Popular Library and edited by Robert Weinberg<\/strong>. I would later learn that he had planned for a further six, but poor sales prevented that. Weinberg would reprint two stories intended for that second series in his Lost Fantasies<\/em> #9, and a third appeared in Incredible Adventures<\/em> #2.<\/p>\n

The Popular Library’s collections were:<\/p>\n