Sacrebleu! cried de Grandin, the ghost, it is here! Name of a little blue pig, Friend Trowbridge! It was night in the old house. In the corner was a bit of mist shaped like a decomposed corpse with dropping eye-sockets. De Grandin fired at it, but it did not cease its advance. They grappled. (5 column-inches of tussle--Formula B1796341-m) Friend Trowbridge, cried the victorious Frenchman, this is almost uncanny. It is the spirit of a very evil being who lived on the continent of Shâlmali 900,000 years ago. Not for many years have I seen such a Thing. We must oppose it. But first, let us have some coffee prepared by your so-excellent Nora, after which we will enlist the aid of brave Sergeant Costello. And so on--ad infinitum ... ad somnum. - H. P. Lovecraft to E. Hoffmann Price, 24/27 March 1933 (from SL4.162-3) Lovecraft, in an example to Price on poor, formulaic storytelling also takes the opportunity to lampoon the occult detective Jules de Grandin, the most famous creation of Seabury Quinn, often considered the most popular author at Weird Tales...although time and criticism have been more kind to remember Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith. Lovecraft and Quinn had met and corresponded, but Lovecraft was not much impressed with the commercial-minded Quinn.
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