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The Horror on the Links

The Complete Tales of Jules De Grandin, Volume One

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The Horror on the Links

By: Seabury Quinn
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
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Seabury Quinn's short stories were featured in well more than half of the pulp magazine Weird Tales' original publication run.

His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin's knack for solving mysteries - and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!) - captivated for nearly three decades.

Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin presents all 93 published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero.

©2017 The Estate of Seabury Quinn; Jules de Grandin stories copyright 1925–1938 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co.; Jules de Grandin stories copyright 1938–1951 by Weird Tales (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Dark Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Ghosts Occult Paranormal Paranormal Romance Science Fiction Supernatural Suspense Scary Detective France Romance Mystery
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jule de grandin

a fantastic thrill ride of adventures of ghosts ,vampires, ghouls and other worldly things. I enjoyed every minute of it.

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Not Bad

I thought these adventures were not bad, a bit strange in places, I don't think I would get the second book.

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A must for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak!

Super tales with exceptional narration. I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this collection. Dr Jule Di Grandin is a brilliant character who’s eccentricities are balanced by his forever faithful friend and accomplice Dr Samuel Trowbridge. Full of delightful idiosyncrasies, these tales will leave you wanting more.

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Great pulp horror

the explanations where a bit off. Sometimes you expect a creature and the horror gets going then it just stops.

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Pulp fiction at it finest

No Nobel prizes for literature will be awarded here but if you just want a number of short entertaining listens then this collection delivers. The only downside is that the narrator is completely incapable of doing foreign accents which is painful given that the protagonist is supposed to be French. His accent ranges between Jamaica and Newcastle, occassionally stopping for a brief visit to Scotland. In any other book it would be intolerable, but given the pulp fiction flavour it adds a "so bad it's good" touch.

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Enjoyable

Fun short simple stories. Nothing here is exceptional but enjoyable. Some of the solutions are flawed and the Dr Watson character seems rather more stupid than he should be refusing to believe in ghosts and the supernatural even after encountering them multiple times. But still an enjoyable series of stories.

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Can’t stand Trowbridge!!!

I think this ‘compendium' of short should have been listened to singly as short stories (like Jonathan Mayberry's). Put together in one volume, they all start to sound alike after the third story!
Can’t help comparing de Grandin to Poirot.
Trowbridge is a more naive and irritating sidekick compared to Poirot's Fraser. He always starts a new story poohing, questioning and disbelieving the events recounted and gives his own opinion of what he thought happened, usually a psychological breakdown. (I usually skip this part of the story). After more than 10 repetitions of this ‘can’t happen in this modern country' (or something like that), you start to question his intelligence. After all, he’s only seen and gone through these supernatural events umpteen times!! Almost gave up, but decided to leave listening for a few weeks. It helped me finish the book.
Published as single short stories, the repetitive and irritating questioning of de Grandin's explanations and actions will make the stories more palatable.

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