THE VENERABLE OCCULT DETECTIVE JULES DE GRANDIN FIRST APPEARED 100 YEARS AGO.
The story was called "THE HORROR ON THE LINKS" and it first appeared in the October 1925 (how apropos) issue of WEIRD TALES. Created and written by Seabury Quinn, the occult detective would become extremely popular and made Quinn the most popular writer in that ground-breaking pulp. There would ultimately be 92 Jules de Grandin stories written by Seabury Quinn up until the year 1951 and Arkham House would eventually published a handful of them in book form in 1966. I have one or two volumes of Quinn's de Grandin stories and they're pretty great and a lot of fun.
The OG cover from WEIRD TALES October 1925 kinda sucks -- it shows a giant flea chasing a dog -- so instead I'm going to show a later, much better cover which actually features Seabury Quinn's story on the cover.
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