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Jules de Grandin is a fictional occult detective created by Seabury Quinn for Weird Tales Dr Watson -like figure), de Grandin fought ghosts , werewolves , satanists , etc. in over ninety stories between 1925 and 1951 . Jules de Grandin and Dr. Trowbridge lived in Harrisonville, New Jersey . De Grandin was a French physician and expert on the occult, and member of the French Sûreté. Often, the supernatural entities in the mysteries are revealed to be not supernatural, but the actions of insane, evil, depraved human beings. Occult detective stories are a sub-genre of the detective story. ...
Seabury Grandin Quinn (aka Jerome Burke) (1889 - 1969) was a pulp magazine author most famous for his stories of the supernatural detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales to great success. ...
This page is about the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine and its heirs. ...
Dr. John H. Watson is a fictional character, the sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, the fictional 19th century detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. ...
For other uses, see Ghost (disambiguation). ...
A werewolf in folklore and mythology is a person who changes into a wolf, either by purposefully using magic in some manner or by being placed under a curse. ...
Satanism is a religious or philosophical movement centered around Satan or another entity identified with Satan, or centered around the forces of nature, particularly human nature, represented by Satan as an archetype. ...
Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This article is about the U.S. state. ...
Sûreté (French for surety but transliterated as safety or security(1)) is a term used in French speaking countries or regions in the organizational title of a civil police force. ...
The Complete Adventures of Jules de Grandin .
References
"The Complete Adventures of Jules de Grandin". The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box . 16 November 2006. <http://www.batteredbox.com/SeaburyQuinn/Jules.htm>.
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Isabelle gave birth to twins, Jacques-Yves and Anatole de Grandin in 1785. My research indicates that (1) the unnamed Grandin mentioned here was, in fact, Anatole de Grandin and (2) there was a child born of this union. A. Child(ren) of Jacques-Yves de Grandin and Seraphine Austin
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De Grandin soon comes to suspect that the girdle was formerly used to mark a woman first for leadership and later for human sacrifice to the bloodthirsty Satanic cult of the Yezidis. Her interrogation leads de Grandin to a sort of Black Mass where a baby is sacrificed on an altar which is the naked body of the kidnapped bride. De Grandin while he often serves as judge, jury and executioner, is not above sympathizing with some of the villains who have been driven to their actions by unfair treatment at the hands of others.
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