Carl Jacobi
Carl Richard Jacobi was a Minneapolis-born writer who spent his entire life in Minnesota.
Educated at the University of Minnesota, he began publishing stories in campus magazines before graduating in 1931.
He worked as a journalist for the Minneapolis Star and later as an advertising trade journal editor before pursuing full-time writing.
Known primarily for macabre fiction, he also wrote science fiction, adventure, and weird-menace stories across a career spanning six decades.
His work appeared in numerous prestigious pulp magazines and anthologies internationally, with Arkham House publishing his first three collections.
A lifelong bachelor, he died in 1997 at age 89.
