Seabury Quinn

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Seabury Quinn

1889–1969

Best remembered for the wildly popular Jules de Grandin stories in Weird Tales, this prolific pulp writer mixed occult chills, detective plotting, and a flair for fast-moving adventure. He also worked as a lawyer and journalist, bringing an unusually practical background to some of the magazine era’s most entertaining supernatural fiction.

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Pledged to the Dead

Pledged to the Dead

by Seabury Quinn

About the author

Born on January 1, 1889, Seabury Grandin Quinn was an American writer, journalist, and government lawyer who became one of the most recognizable names in pulp fiction. He is most closely associated with Weird Tales, where his fiction reached a huge audience during the magazine’s classic years.

Quinn’s best-known creation was Jules de Grandin, a flamboyant occult detective who appeared in a long-running series of stories. Those tales helped make him one of the magazine’s most popular contributors, and they remain the work readers most often connect with his name.

Outside fiction, Quinn also had a substantial legal career, including government work, which gave him a somewhat unusual path into genre writing. He died on December 24, 1969, leaving behind a large body of supernatural and mystery fiction that still appeals to readers who enjoy classic pulp horror.