Seabury Grandin Quinn (aka Jerome Burke) (1889 - 1969) was a pulp magazineauthor most famous for his stories of the supernaturaldetectiveJules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales to great success. He published his first short story, The Stone Image, in 1919. His first book, Roads (a surprising new origin for Santa Claus, drawn from the original Christian legends) was published by Arkham House in 1948. 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as the pulps ) were inexpensive fiction magazines. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Supernatural fiction is a classification of literature used to describe fiction exploiting or requiring as plot devices or themes some contradictions of the commonplace natural world and materialist assumptions about it. ... Mystery fiction is a distinct subgenre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). ... Jules de Grandin is a fictional supernatural detective created by Seabury Quinn for Weird Tales magazine. ... This page is about the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine and its heirs. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... A common portrayal of Santa Claus. ... Arkham House is a weird fiction specialty publishing house founded by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
His writing was a sideline. He was 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 Casket & Sunnyside, a leading trade journal.
Quinn was a contemporary of Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ...
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Seabury Grandin Quinn (aka Jerome Burke) (1889 - 1969) was a pulp magazine author most famous for his stories of the supernaturaldetective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales to great success.
Quinn was a contemporary of Robert E. Howard, H. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.
His father, Samuel Seabury (1706-1764), originally a Congregationalist minister in Groton, was ordained deacon and priest in the Church of England in 1731, and was a rector in New London, Connecticut, from 1732 to 1743, and in Hempstead, Long Island, from 1743 until his death.
SeaburyQuinn was born in Washington, D.C. on January 1, 1889.
Quinn from all accounts was the antithesis of the Lovecraft circle, he was no poor Art for Art's sake, reclusive, psychologically-suspect autodidact -- basically, he had a life: a wife, a son, a number of jobs teaching, editing trade magazines, a degree and an on again-off again law career.
Besides this, Quinn pushed the limits of sexual propriety with stories having themes or broad hints of incest ("The Jest of Warburg Tantavul"), and lesbian behaviour ("The Poltergeist"), besides the requisite nude scenes to serve as cover fodder.
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