Seabury Quinn

Seabury 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. 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.

Quinn was a contemporary of Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.

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