Carl Richard Jacobi
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| Born |
Carl Richard Jacobi July 10, 1908 Minneapolis, Minnesota, US |
| Died | August 25, 1997 (aged 89) St Louis Park, Minnesota, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Philip Spayne, King Marling, James K. Vermont, Richard Carle, Matthew South, Stephen Benedict, Jackson Cole (house name at Thrilling magazine group/Standard Publications). |
| Occupation | writer |
| Known for | "Mive", "Revelations in Black", "Carnaby's Fish", "The Unpleasantness at Carver House", "The Coach on the Ring" |
Carl Richard Jacobi (July 10, 1908 – August 25, 1997) was an American journalist and author. He wrote short stories in the horror and fantasy genres for the pulp magazine market, appearing in such pulps of the bizarre and uncanny as Thrilling, Ghost Stories, Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Planet Stories and Strange Stories. He also write stories crime and adventure which appeared in such pulps as Thrilling Adventures, Complete Stories, Top-Notch, Short Stories, The Skipper, Doc Savage, and Dime Adventures Magazine. He also produced some science fiction, mainly space opera, published in such magazines as Planet Stories. He was one of the last surviving pulp-fictioneers to have contributed to the legendary American horror magazine Weird Tales during its "glory days" (the 1920s and 1930s). His stories have been translated into French, Swedish, Danish and Dutch.
Jacobi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1904 and lived there throughout his life. He was a lifelong bachelor. He was a voracious reader, gulping down at an early age quantities of Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, H.G. Wells as well as the Frank Merriwell and Tom Swift boys' adventure yarns. He was always a writer; at his junior high school he earned good pocket-money concocting his own 'dime novels'(short story booklets) and selling them to fellow students as 10 cents-a-piece.
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