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Seabury Quinn

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522: 555: 214: 541: 355:, of Normal, Illinois. Edited by Gene Christie, it contains his early stories. It has two of the "Major Sturdevant and his Washington Nights' Entertainment series", subtitled "Stories of the Secret Service", and two more featuring Professor Forrester, another amateur detector of crimes. It also contains one of the most complete bibliographies of Quinn yet published. 242:, published in book form in 1933 by Clement Williams of Kansas City, Kansas, with a foreword by C. A. Renouard (of the Renouard School of Embalming) and Clement Williams (of the Clement Williams School of Embalming). This was distilled from a lecture he gave in 1914. The text was extant as early as least 1924 / 1925, being serialized in 209:
describing the De Grandin stories "as indeed rather undistinguished", claiming they are full of stereotyped characters and poorly resolved plots. Quinn wrote several non-De Grandin tales in the 1940s and 1950s; Stableford states Quinn's "best stories here are ironically perverted love stories", such
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on March 19, 1918, followed by "Was She Mad?" on March 25, 1918. He published "The Stone Image" in 1919. He introduced Jules de Grandin as a character in 1925 (taking the character's surname from his own middle name), and continued writing stories about him until 1951. The longest of the de Grandin
33: 257:, published by the Williams Institute of Mortuary Science, Kansas City 1940, with an introduction by Quinn, dated January 1940. This had a series of definitions of terms that had puzzled his students. 224:
His writing was secondary to his career as a lawyer specializing in mortuary jurisprudence. He taught this subject at mortuary schools for many years, and for some 15 years was the editor of
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Although the De Grandin stories were enormously popular on their initial publication, modern critics tend to regard them as the weakest part of Quinn's work, with
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edition in 1967–77. A three-volume omnibus reportedly including all the de Grandin stories was issued by Battered Silicon Dispatch Box in 2001.
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In 1937 he returned to Washington to represent a chain of trade journals, and there subsequently became a government lawyer for the duration of
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into a beautiful young woman. It has been described as a "bold and striking celebration of sexual confusion" in the style of
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wrote that Seabury Quinn's best stories were his "ironically perverted love stories", such as "The Globe of Memories" (1937).
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All of the Jules deGrandin stories were reprinted in 5 hardcover volumes in 2018 & 2019 by Night Shade Books.
143:, December 1917. (His story "Painted Gold" may have been written earlier.) "Demons of the Night" was published in 481: 300: 191:(Mycroft & Moran, an imprint of Arkham House), 1966. A broader selection of the stories, including the novel 311: 269: 167:. He alternated between law and journalism all his life. He published over five hundred short stories. 585: 580: 362: 352: 564: 276:
and other trade journals. His Jerome Burke material, not necessarily in sequence, is available in
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A facsimile of the 1948 Arkham House edition of "Roads" was published 2017 by Shadowridge Press.
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Of his professional work, only two books were published. The first was
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was a friend of Quinn's and wrote a tribute to him after he died.
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An Encyclopedic Law Glossary For Funeral Directors and Embalmers
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as "The Globe of Memories" (1937) and "Glamour" (1939).
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His first published work was "The Law of the Movies", in
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Ten of the Jules de Grandin stories were collected in
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St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers
125:In 1910 Quinn graduated from the law school of the 76: 64: 42: 23: 129:and was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar. 333:, a collection of stories by Quinn, edited by 278:This I Remember: Memoirs of a Funeral Director 8: 121:Seabury Quinn was born January 1, 1889, in 553: 484:, "In Loving Tribute: I Remember Seabury". 31: 20: 641:National University School of Law alumni 432:Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction 412:. 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Index


Washington, D.C.
pulp magazine
author
occult detective
Jules de Grandin
Weird Tales
Washington, D.C.
National University
World War I
Robert W. Chambers
World War II
Roads
Santa Claus
Arkham House
Popular Library
paperback
Brian Stableford

Brian Stableford
embalming
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
Robert E. Howard
H. P. Lovecraft
Clark Ashton Smith
Mary Elizabeth Counselman
sex change
Pierre Louÿs
Stephen Fabian

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