The Phantom Fighter

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The Phantom Fighter
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Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Phantom-Fighter
Author Seabury Quinn
Cover artistFrank Utpatel
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Supernatural fiction, detective fiction
Publisher Mycroft & Moran
Publication date
1966
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages263 pp

The Phantom Fighter is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author Seabury Quinn. It was released in 1966 by Mycroft & Moran in an edition of 2,022 copies. The stories are about Quinn's detective Jules de Grandin and were originally published in the magazine Weird Tales . Quinn was still alive in 1966, and he revised and modernized the stories in this collection.

Contents

The Phantom Fighter contains the following tales:

  1. "Terror on the Links"
  2. "The Dead Hand"
  3. "Children of Ubasti"
  4. "The Jest of Warburg Tantavul"
  5. "The Corpse-Master"
  6. "The Poltergeist"
  7. "The Wolf of Saint Bonnet"
  8. "Restless Souls"
  9. "The Silver Countess"
  10. "The Doom of the House of Phipps"

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