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DON HUTCHISON
Sometime this month Popular Library will begin issuing a new series of paperbacks featuring the adventures of Jules de Grandin, the popular occult detective who roamed the sinister pages of the old Weird Tales pulp magazine from 1926 right up into the late 40s. The de Grandin stories were all written by Seabury Quinn, the editor of a mortician's journal who did his Weird Tales writing on the side; they were by far the most popular tales printed in the nowlegendary fantasy magazine.
Numerically the de Grandin yarns total 93, chronologically they span a quarter-century, making the little French sleuth one of the most durable of all pulp heroes-even though he was never honored with a magazine of his own.
Our old friend and pulp magazine expert, Bob Weinberg, is editor of the series. With Bob in command of the reprints it is almost unnecessary to report that none of the original stories will be updated and they are being presented in their original form, without rewriting. Bob states that he is concentrating on stories from the early period; the latest piece used in any of the reprints is from 1935 and most of the tales are from the 1920s, Covers for the entire series will be executed by Joe Gross, the excellent graphic artist who handled the Avenger pulp reprints for Paperback Library.
As editor of the series, Bob has even prepared a map of Harrisonville, New Jersey, the mythical town which formed the setting for many of the bizarre adventures of de Grandin and his faithful friend Dr. Trowbridge.
Editor Weinberg writes; “Each book will also contain an afterword written by me on the stories in the book, giving some background to the tales, when they were published, and any significant information about them and about Quinn. ..I tried to include a fairly good amount of information about Quinn's life including some rare letters and notes which I had in my possession. Some of the stories reprinted include ‘The DevilPeople’, 'Mephistopholes and Company, Ltd,', 'The Great God Pan’, ‘The Serpent Woman", 'A Bargain in Souls', and nearly all of the very early stories published in 1926-1927."
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Fellow columnist Don Miller commented recently on the prolificacy of Brett Halliday, author of the Michael Shayne novels, As most mystery fans know, Brett Halliday is the pseudonym of ex-pulp-writer Davis Dresser. Sorry to disillusion you, Don, but Dresser has nothing to do with the novelettes appearing monthly in the Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine; they're all hacked out by anonymous ghosts who work under the Halliday by-line.
CAPTAIN GEORGE'S PENNY DREADFUL, a weekly review established in | 1968, is published by the Vast Whizzbang Organization, 594 Markham Street, Toronto, Ontario.