Jacobi, Carl

   (1908–1997)

   Minnesota author of over 100 stories in pulp magazines including WT, Terror Tales, Amazing Stories, Short Stories, Galaxy, Fantastic Universe, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Thrilling Adventures,and Thrilling Mystery. HPL enjoyed Jacobi’s “Mive” (originally a prize-winning story in Fall 1928 issue of Minnesota Quarterly,the student magazine of the University of Minnesota) in WT (January 1932) and wrote to Jacobi about it (see SL4.24–25). Two stories show Lovecraftian influence: “The Tomb from Beyond” ( Wonder Stories,November 1933) and “The Aquarium” (in August Derleth’s Dark Mind, Dark Heart[1962]). Jacobi published three collections with Arkham House: Revelations in Black(1947), Portraits in Moonlight(1964), Disclosures in Scarlet(1972); a final collection of tales, Smoke of the Snake,appeared in 1994.

   See R.Dixon Smith, Lost in the Rentharpian Hills: Spanning the Decades with Carl Jacobi (1985).