Seabury Quinn was born on New Year's Day 1889 in Washington. At the age of eleven, after the reading of Dracula, he became interested in supernatural legends, primitive religions, mysticism, witchcraft, necromancy and funeral rites, subjects in which he became a true scholar. He studied law in Washington and was enlisted to fight in World War I. Back in his country, he began working as a journalist and story writer, most of the horror, which he sent to pulp magazines of the time, such as the famous Weird Tales, who between 1923 and 1952 published 159 short stories – 92 of them starring Jules de Grandin – thus becoming the most popular author in the history of this magazine.