Witch-House, from Weird Tales by Virgil Finlay (Nov. 1936)

Jules de Grandin, Occult Detective - art by Vincent Di Fate (1976)

"What could they signify - those three little bitter oranges piled in a pyramid on a dead girls' chest?"

"Her fingers tightened as she smiled at him. 'My dear,' she whispered in a throaty, husky voice, 'I knew you would come back to me'...." - Seabury Quinn

Mont Sudbury - Song Without Words

(Weird Tales - July 1941)

Virgil Finlay “Roads” by Seabury Quinn (1948) book cover

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June 1938. Aside from its Margaret Brundage cover painting and the Seabury Quinn story advertised on the cover, this issue of WEIRD TALES features, in no particular order: the short story "Slave of the Flames" by Robert Bloch; the first installment of "The Black Drama" by Manly Wade Wellman (under the pseudonym Gans T. Field); "From the Beginning" by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder, a pseudonym he shared with his brother); "Song of Death" by A.W. Calder; "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" by H.P. Lovecraft; "The Gray Champion" by Nathaniel Hawthorne; "Death Dallies Awhile" by Leslie F. Stone; the second installment of "Thunder in the Dawn" by Henry Kuttner; a Robert E. Howard poem; and various interior illustrations by Virgil Finlay.

Vintage Pulp - Weird Tales (Apr1938)

Art by Virgil Finlay

September 1937 - Cover art by: Margaret Brundage

The Devil's Bride

The Devil’s Bride

The Devil’s BrideSeabury Quinn | Warner Books | 1976 (first published 1932) | 254 pages On the eve of her wedding, nervous young bride-to-be Alice Hume is so stricken by an unsettling experience that she consults with occult detective Jules de Grandin. While attempting to engage with a Ouija board, Alice repeatedly receives the same cryptic, but insistent, message: “Alice come home.” Proceeding…

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WEIRD TALES Vol. 7. No. 2 (Popular Fiction, 1925).

RED ETHER!

Art: C. Barker Petri.

Lovecraft, Baudelaire, Seabury Quinn... !

"Glamour" by Seabury Quinn Avon Fantasy Reader #11 (1949) Cover by L. S.

Incense of Abomination, from Weird Tales by Virgil Finlay (March 1938)

Virgil Finlay illustration from, Roads: A Legend of Santa Claus by Seabury Quinn, 1948

"I took the candle-lantern and flashed it's feeble light into the coffin." - Seabury Quinn

C. C. Senf - Satan's Stepson

(Weird Tales - September 1931)

Cimmerian September #3 - The Tower of the Elephant

The Weird Tales issue for March 1933 hits the readers with yet another installment of Otis Adelbert Kline’s Buccaneers of Venus (that by now has got me curious enough that I’ll probably read it in October), yet another novelette by Seabury Quinn featuring Jules de Grandin, and then two stories by Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. As luck would have it, The Tower of the Elephant and The…

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Alice from The Devil's Bride (a novel by Seabury Quinn, 1976) | amazing art by Stephen Fabian.

My note: This novel was originally published in six parts in "Weird Tales" and is Quinn's tour-de-force. Alice, a young, beautiful golden-haired bride-to-be is abducted under mysterious circumstances during her wedding rehearsal. Doctors and occult investigators, de Grandin and Towbridge take on the case and soon uncover a global plot involving Satanists, Bolsheviks, and other assorted nasties seeking to make Alice the literal bride of Satan! Enjoyably preposterous, this tale features, cults, violence, murder, copious female nudity and lots of racism. Overwritten, like nearly all of Quinn's work, it still maintains a breathless pace and never lags even if the logic does. Implausible as hell, the journey is the thing. Recommended for fans of the obscure and the just plain weird. If you are a fan of the kinds of stories "Weird Tales" ran in its heyday, this is a must-have.