![]() I first read Brennan’s “Slime” in the Les Daniels’ Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media. These are out and out horror stories rather than examinations of cosmicism. He did write a few Lovecraftian stories in the Cthulhu Mythos. He liked liches/reanimated corpses out for vengeance. ![]() Brennan’s stories are on the gruesome side. The writing is straight forward, the atmosphere is built with everyday language. Most of his stories probably don’t go much past 5,000 words. Brennan also self-published three books, two of horror and one of his psychic detective, Lucius Leffing, stories.īrennan writes a pure form of horror story. He produced a small press magazine, Macabre from 1957 to 1976 for a total of twenty-two issues. A tale of a protoplasmic horror from the ocean depths with an insatiable hunger is a chiller. One of the stories, “Slime” ( Weird Tales, 1953) has become a classic. ![]() He actually started in the western pulp magazines with around 23 stories from 1948 to 1956. The past week I have been re-reading Joseph Payne Brennan (1918-1990).īrennan was the last major author to come out of Weird Tales magazine in the early 1950s. I used to read a fair amount of horror back in the 1980s but lost interest in reading the newer authors. October puts me in the mood for reading horror fiction. ![]()
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