Acclaimed by Stephen King as "a master of the unashamed horror tale," Joseph Payne Brennan wrote hundreds of tales of terror, suspense, and fantasy. Collectors and fans will delight in this inexpensive reissue of Brennan's hard-to-find classic, Nine Horrors and a Dream. This collection, originally published by Arkham House in 1958, features stories published by Weird Tales and other pulp magazines of the 1950s — including the much-anthologized "Slime," which inspired the ever-popular thriller The Blob. Less familiar but equally gripping tales include "Levitation," in which a carnival-goer has an unfortunate encounter with a hypnotist; "The Calamander Chest," the story of a low-priced antique that turns out to be no bargain; "Death in Peru," involving a lethal curse; the darkly humorous "On the Elevator"; and "The Green Parrot," which recounts a Good Samaritan's bad timing. Other selections include "Canavan's Back Yard," featuring a property with a gruesome history; "I'm Murdering Mr. Massington," which tells of a bizarre grasp at immortality; "The Hunt," a playfully creepy yarn about an obsessive chase; and "The Mail for Juniper Hill," in which a tipsy but determined postman refuses to let anything — even death — keep him from his appointed rounds.

Nine Horrors and a Dream (Dover Literature: Gothic/Horror Short Stories)

Literature & Fiction

Brennan, Joseph Payne

Genre Fiction

Dover Publications

"Joseph Payne Brennan is one of the most effective writers in the horror genre, and he is certainly one of the writers I have patterned my own career upon," declared Stephen King. "In fact," he added, "The Shapes of Midnight could serve as an exercise-book for the young writer who aspires to pen and publish his or her own weird tales." A poet as well as a writer of horror fiction, Brennan worked at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library as an acquisitions assistant for over 40 years. He wrote hundreds of stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. This new edition of his increasingly rare compilation, The Shapes of Midnight, presents 10 of his best stories. Selections include "Diary of a Werewolf," a first-person account of bloody sprees; "The Corpse of Charlie Rull," recounting the rampage of a radioactive zombie; "The Pavilion," which unfolds at an abandoned seaside haunt with something ghastly beneath its pilings; "House of Memory," a wistful look at the past's imaginative grip; "The Willow Platform," featuring the machinations of a self-styled warlock; and other chillingly memorable tales.

The Shapes of Midnight

United States

Contains 3 dozen poems, many of which seem gentle at first but border on horror and leave one with a distinct chill.

Edges of night: [poems]

Pilot Press Books

Sixty selected poems

Sixty Selected Poems

New Establishment Pr

Sixty selected poems [Hardcover] Joseph Payne Brennan (Author)

Poetry

New Establishment Press

Chronicles of Lucius Leffing

Donald M. Grant, Publisher

Anthology of bizarre and weird tales

The Borders Just Beyond

Donald m Grant Pub Inc

Joseph Payne Brennan's extraordinary psychic investigator, Lucius Leffing is with us again And again The Adventures of Lucius Leffing rewards us with thirteen tales of the unusual, sometimes psychic sleuth Lucius Leffing. Together with his confidant/chronicler -- who is none other than Brennan himself -- Lucius Leffing has a fondness for times Victorian and cases bizarre.Leffing has been likened to Sherlock Holmes but he is hardly a pastiche. His small home at seven Autumn Street, New Haven, where he collects antique glass and sips cold sarsaparilla, and good brandy, exists in a contemporary world, and many of his cases are part of the present.

Adventures of Lucius Leffing

Ferreira, Luis

Some rubbing &amp; edgewear; small scuff at corner; small corner creases; overall clean &amp; tight. 176 pages

Ghor, Kin-Slayer: The Saga of Genseric's Fifth-Born Son

Wagner, Karl Edward

Schweitzer, Darrell

VAN VOGT, A.E.

Lupoff, Richard A.

Offutt, Andrew J.

Cole, Adrian

Saunders, Charles

Long, Frank Belknap

Tierney, Richard L.

Munn, H. Warner

Howard,Robert E.

Campbell, Ramsey

Moorcock,Michael

Lumley,Brian

Bradley,Marion Zimmer

Wellman, Manley Wade

Necronomicon Pr

The Feaster From Afar

Midnight House

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