The Isle of Missing Ships

by Seabury Quinn

Occult detective Jules de Grandin suspects deviltry is afoot—or afloat—as he investigates a series of missing ships for a client. What has happened to all those ships? And is the explanation a natural phenomenon...or something far more sinister? A classic tale from the author voted most popular by the readres of Weird Tales magazine!

57 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 4, 2022

About the author

Best know as an American pulp author for Weird Tales, for which he wrote a series of stories about occult detective Jules de Grandin. He was the author of non-fiction legal and medical texts and editor of Casket & Sunnyside, a trade journal for mortuary jurisprudence. He also published fiction for Embalming Magazine, another mortuary periodical.

Reviews

[Liz · Rating 3 out of 5]

The third story in the Jules de Grandin series. On their return trip from France Dr. Trowbridge and Jules de Grandin meet up unexpectedly on their ship. De Grandin has been hired by Lloyds of London to investigate a series of missing ships. When they near Malaysia their ship becomes one of the missing ships. They are taken as prisoners and must escape the clutches of a mad man who has an incredible history.
This story can be found in The Horror on the Links (Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume 1). This story was originally published in Weird Tales February 1926.