Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit and contract purposes. Signed on the title page by Joseph Wrzos. Collects eleven stories first published in WEIRD TALES between 1923 and 1947. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#175374).

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Title

NIGHT CREATURES. With an Introduction by Peter Ruber & Joseph Wrzos

Publisher

Ash-Tree Press, Ashcroft, British Columbia

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

1553100549

ISBN 13

9781553100546

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

Signed

Signed

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The name of Seabury Quinn (1889–1969) is inextricably linked with the 'unique magazine', Weird Tales, to which he contributed some one hundred and fifty-nine stories and articles, making him that publication's most prolific contributor. His most conspicuous success was the series of tales featuring the occult detective Jules de Grandin, which always left readers clamouring for more. Indeed, de Grandin almost became to Quinn what Sherlock Holmes became to Arthur Conan Doyle: so overwhelmingly popular a creation that he threatened to overshadow completely his author's other successes. However, Seabury Quinn, like Conan Doyle, had a great deal more to offer than a single character. During his lifetime Quinn read widely in the fields of horror, supernatural, and weird fiction, as well as ranging further afield through books devoted to the occult, mysticism, witchcraft, legends, Satanism, and ancient religious customs. He was thus able to imbue his weird fiction with historical and socio

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