Seabury Quinn 44 min read

Over kaiserschmarrn and coffee, the little occult detective Jules de Grandin sighs with homesickness for Paris, until the shrill of the doorbell heralds a case of the walking dead.

Seabury Quinn's 1937 story is a classic supernatural mystery starring the beloved occult sleuth Jules de Grandin. Atmospheric, colorful, entertaining pulp horror. Read it for a shivery tale where a Parisian ghostbreaker takes on a man pledged, body and soul, to something dead.

In its time

Published in 1937, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

44 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).