Witches in the Corrnfield: Best Weird Stories of Carl Jacobi V...

Minnesota author Carl Jacobi was a widely published author of pulp fiction in the first half of the 20th century. A versatile writer, he produced many works ranging from adventure to science fiction to romance, often set in distant, exotic locations, but is best known for his horror stories, which appeared in Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and elsewhere. H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth were admirers of his writing. n the 1940s, Jacobi began receiving recognition for his decades of writing weird, fantasy, and science fiction. Arkham House published Revelations in Black (1947), and two further collections appeared in subsequent decades.This second volume of Jacobi’s best weird fiction includes a representative selection of his tales from the 1940s through the 1980s. Among them are such tales of supernatural revenge as “The Lorenzo Watch” and “The Spanish Camera”; “Incident at Galloping Horse” and other tales of voodoo in the Caribbean; “The Unpleasantness at Carver House,” a brooding tale of psychological terror; and “The Aquarium” and other tales of sea horror. Jacobi draws upon his Minnesota roots in “Witches in the Cornfield” and other stories. The volume has been assembled by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction, who has added an illuminating introduction and a bibliography.

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