Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Stories of Darkness and Dread contains the following tales: Most of the stories had originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Macabre, Magazine of Horror and other magazines, although several of the tales had appeared in Brennan's earlier collection Scream at Midnight (1963).
(The colophon in the book states 4,000 however, the more accurate figure is taken from reference sources). It was published in an edition of 4,138 copies. It was released in 1973 and was the author's second collection of stories published by Arkham House. Brennan considered himself a failure.Stories of Darkness and Dread is a collection of stories by American writer Joseph Payne Brennan. John Pelan called him "the last of the great Weird Tales authors." (2) Yes, an anachronism, and maybe great, too, and one of the last. In his introduction to "Levitation" in Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabre (1976), Les Daniels wrote: "Joseph Payne Brennan is the last major author of supernatural stories to have been associated with Weird Tales." (p. (1) A contemporary or near contemporary of Henry Kuttner (1915-1958), Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), and others, Brennan was accepted into the pages of Weird Tales only after they had gone. Instead Brennan seems to have been alone in his youth and in his early writing and work, at least in terms of his weird fiction. Living in Connecticut, he could easily have made a trip by train to visit with that gentleman of Providence. Folder 90 Weakness of Yellow Hawk undated Box 9, Folder 91 Webs of time. Lovecraft and others in Lovecraft's circle. There are also several folders of letters which Joseph Payne Brennan had kept.
Morris, a wealthy local cordage salesman. Born in 1918, Brennan was old enough to have corresponded with H.P. At the time, the Monroes were prominent lawyers, judges, and politicians in. He knew that about himself and admitted as much about himself. Brennan's late arrival in the magazine is just one bit of evidence that he was something of an anachronism. That was also his first story in Weird Tales.
His earliest short story listed in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database ( ISFDb) is "The Green Parrot," from 1952. Joseph Payne Brennan wrote about 500 short stories and more than 2,000 poems. Brennan, Joseph Payne 4.
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