Seabury Quinn
Seabury Quinn was born on New Year’s Day, 1889. He died Christmas Eve, 1969. At one time he was the most popular author publishing in Weird Tales. These days, his fame pales in comparison to that of HPL, REH, and CAS.Some people really like his work, while others (looks at Rusty Burke) consider him to be a hack. I’ve not read enough of his work to have an opinion (yet).
The stories about his occult detective, Jules de Grandin, were recently published in an affordable five volume edition. Quinn wrote more than just de Grandin stories, though. I’m going to try to read some of them this year as well as start working my way through the de Grandin stories.
There are some good non-JdeG collections out there, such as Someday I’ll Kill You and Demons of the Night. Also some story collections on kindle. I think some of these these stories were later rewritten into JdeG stuff too. Or maybe he rewrote early adventures – I suppose it was good enough for Stephen King at one point.
Roads is probably Quinn’s best work though.
JdeG is very frustrating in that there is a “reset button” after every story, despite time marching on. Never any reference to a previous adventure, and the “ghosts – hah!” becomes curious when you killed a werewolf two weeks back.
I’ve got a couple of those collections and intend you spend some time with them. And I agree with you about Roads. I did a post on it years ago for Christmas.