Jules de Grandin is a fictional occult detective that, from 1925-1951, starred in over 90 short stories by Seabury Quinn in the pulp magazine anthology series Weird Tales. In the pages of Weird Tales, Quinn also authored a serialized novel featuring de Jardin entitled The Devil’s Bride, which deals with a young girl being kidnapped by satanists. In 1966, Arkham House published a collection of 10 de Jardin stories as The Phantom Fighter, leading some fans to refer to the character by this nickname afterward. The character's methods of reasoning and investigation has led to comparisons with Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.
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Image: Weird Tales January 1928
Image: Weird Tales January 1929
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Occult detective fiction is a subgenre of detective fiction that combines the tropes of the main genre with those of supernatural, fantasy and/or horror fiction. Unlike the traditional detective who investigates murder and other common crimes, the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, demons, curses, magic, vampires, undead, monsters and other supernatural elements. Some occult detectives are portrayed as being psychic or in possession of other paranormal or magical powers.
Occult detective Carnacki inspecting the "queer, soft, flabby, spreading foot-print" of an apparent ghost, in the 1910 story "The Searcher of the End House"
Algernon Blackwood's Dr. John Silence
Norbert Sevestre's Sâr Dubnotal
Sax Rohmer's Moris Klaw
