Seabury Quinn
From Free net encyclopedia
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. He published his first short story, The Stone Image, in 1919 This is erroneously ascribed as his first short story, as there are at least three which precede this. His first published piece was The Law of the Movies, in The Motion Picture Magazine, December 1917. His first short story was Painted Gold, Magazine Unknown, sometime around 1917/18. Demons of the Night was published in Detective Story Magazine in March 19th, 1918, followed by Was She Mad? on March 25th, 1918. His first book, Roads (a surprising new origin for Santa Claus, drawn from the original Christian legends) was published by Arkham House in 1948.
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. His Jerome Burke stories are still published in the Dodge embalming magazine.
Quinn was a contemporary of Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.