Joseph Payne Brennan
![Brennan's novelette "Slime" was the cover story in the March 1953 ''Weird Tales''](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Weird_Tales_March_1953.jpg)
Brennan's first professional sale came in December 1940 with the publication of the poem "When Snow Is Hung", which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor Home Forum, and he continued writing poetry up until the time of his death. As a fiction writer, Brennan started out writing westerns stories for the pulps, then switched to horror stories for ''Weird Tales'' in 1952. He began publishing his own magazine ''Macabre'', which ran from 1957 to 1976. Several of his short story collections concern an occult detective named Lucius Leffing in the vein of Carnacki and Algernon Blackwood's John Silence.
His 1958 collection ''Nine Horrors and a Dream'', containing the stories "Slime" (which has been reprinted at least fifty times) and "Canavan's Back Yard", is celebrated in an essay by Stephen Gallagher in the book ''Horror: 100 Best Books'', edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman. Stephen King has called him "a master of the unashamed horror tale". Don D'Ammassa considers that "His stories were noteworthy for their effective development of suspense and terror without the excesses of violence which characterise modern horror fiction".
Brennan's personality was described in an interview as "reserved: he is friendly but not flamboyant. He is most comfortable with his wife (Doris) and his dog (Chaucer). He is a gentle, softspoken, modest man. But beware, for beneath that ordinary exterior lurks the mind of a modern master of fright." Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1952
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9by Brennan, Joseph Payne, 1918-1990
Published 1982
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Published 1955
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14by Brennan, Joseph Payne, 1918-1990
Published 1989
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Published 1936
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Published 1975
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Published 1974
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Published 1955
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