Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990)
Auteur de Nine Horrors and a Dream
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Œuvres de Joseph Payne Brennan
AS EVENING ADVANCES 2 exemplaires
The House On Stillcroft Street 2 exemplaires
Canavan's Back Yard 2 exemplaires
DEATH POEMS 2 exemplaires
Apparition in the Sun [Lucius Leffing] 1 exemplaire
Essays in honor of Joseph P. Brennan 1 exemplaire
Der Todesbote 1 exemplaire
Varulven — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Weird Tales, March 1953 1 exemplaire
Macabre 23 1 exemplaire
The feaster from afar [short story] 1 exemplaire
H.P.L.: An Evaluation 1 exemplaire
Chronicles of Lucius Lessing 1 exemplaire
The Willow Platform 1 exemplaire
The mail for Juniper Hill [short story] 1 exemplaire
The hunt [short story] 1 exemplaire
THE INTANGIBLE THREAT 1 exemplaire
Mrs. Clendon's Place 1 exemplaire
Long Hollow Swamp 1 exemplaire
Death Of A Derelict 1 exemplaire
Macabre: #21 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Contributeur — 166 exemplaires
Alfred Hitchcock Presents More Stories My Mother Never Told Me (1964) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
Epos : the work of American and British Poets (vol. 10, no. 2 Winter 1958) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Brennan, Joseph Payne
- Date de naissance
- 1918-12-20
- Date de décès
- 1990-01-28
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Professions
- fantasy writer
horror writer - Organisations
- Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 50
- Aussi par
- 52
- Membres
- 400
- Popularité
- #60,685
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 23
- Favoris
- 4
I went into this book blind. I did not know who the author was, or when the book was written, only that the cover looked interesting and it was in one of my favorite genres (the horror anthology). I am very glad that I did, because it was like some kind of mirror into my own reading history.
In the afterword, there is a quote from Stephen King that calls Brennan "one of the most effective writers in the horror genre" and I have to agree. Not because of the actual chills in the stories (honestly, I didn't find that many) but because of the obvious influence he had on the genre, particularly Stephen King himself.
Reading the book, unaware of the history behind it, I felt myself thinking "This would have been perfect for Weird Tales." more than once. I was, of course, 100% right. Brennan wrote hundreds of stories for that classic magazine.
I also found myself thinking, "This guy loved him some Stephen King." It turns out I had it backwards!
These stories are nothing all that unique to the experienced reader of horror, and the "twists" in them are not twists at all, today. But this is because Brennan literally created many of them.
Of the stories in this collection, I found I liked The Pavillion best. A story of murder, guilt, and revenge(?) from beyond the grave, I found myself imagining it shot for shot in some early 80s horror anthology movie (Creepshow, of course).
Disappearance is another proto-King story. Indeed, I can see direct influences of several King stories here--the taciturn farmer with a secret, the missing family member, the grisly discovery. They all seem buried deep in our horror conscience now, thanks to stories like this.
As horror, honestly, there probably isn't much here for the modern fan, but as a glimpse into the roots of the genre this is a very interesting (and still quite fun!) read.
I'd like to thank the publisher for the review copy!… (plus d'informations)