โ Scribed by Brennan, Joseph Payne
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In the archives of imaginative fiction Joseph Payne Brennan made a permanent niche for himself with his first book, Nine Horrors. Never a prolific author, he wrought his tales with careful craftsmanship and economy of prose style.
Stories of Darkness and Dread presents a fine selection of 18 titles written since his previous volume. Some are only a few pages in length, all that is needed for the chilling shock of Delivery on Erdmore Street, and Apprehension, and Black Thing at Midnight. Others develop a sustained power for the supernatural force of City of the Seven Winds and The Keeper of the Dust. And while most of his work involves unearthly encounters, The Dump offers a nightmarish science-fiction view of the future calculated to make all readers content to be living today.
His method is civilized, his treatment literate. He often uses the milieu of his native Connecticut, the cities, the countryside, the seacoast as settings for the macabre or the terrifying, with sympathy and insight into the humblest of his characters who become caught in demonic stresses.
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The jacket is the work of Denis Tiani.
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Joseph Payne Brennan. Stories of Darkness and Dread. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1973. First edition. Octavo. 173 pages.
Stories of Darkness and Dread contains the following tales:
"City of the Seven Winds"
"The Keeper of the Dust"
"Zombique"
"The Seventh Incantation"
"Delivery on Erdmore Street"
"The Way to the Attic"
"Mr. Octbur"
"Episode on Cain Street"
"Killer Cat"
"In the Very Stones"
"The House at 1248"
"Black Thing at Midnight"
"Monton"
"Apprehension"
"The House on Hazel Street"
"The Man in Grey Tweeds"
"The North Knoll"
"The Dump"
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Horror tales, American
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