Joseph Payne Brennan article.

Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:20 pm

I just posted a new article over at The Vintage Horror site. This one is about a great teller of weird tales, Joseph Payne Brennan. I really discovered that I liked his work while resaerching a different article I was going to watch. Hope you enjoy it.

Mark Justice · **Joined:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:28 am **Posts:** 1683

Nice work, Matt!

Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:50 pm

KentAllard · **Posted:** Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:58 pm

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KentAllard · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:38 pm

Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:37 pm

Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:33 pm

I finally managed to buy a copy of Shapes of Midnight, an anthology of Brennan's stories. I tried biding on several copies of his anthology, Nine Horrors and a Dream. All the copies were small looking paperback books but they kept going for over twenty dollars. One even went for more than thirty (it was signed though). So I gave up and found Midnight for a much better price on Amazon.

KentAllard · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:16 pm

A lot of older writers are becoming hard-to-find, like Brennan, Robert Aickman, Arthur machen, and even relatively recent authors like Karl Edward Wagner.

Of course, I've been looking for a copy of Deadneck Hootenanny for a while, and still can't find one.

Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:08 pm

I bought a book at Half-Priced books the other day titled The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories. It's huge and takes several great old horror writers and reprints their classics. There are over thirty stories in the M. R. James section alone. The one I'm really looking forward to diving into though may be the section of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes). The titles of his sound so intriguing.The Brazilian Cat, The Ring of Toth,The New Catacomb, The Brown Hand,The Horror of the Heights, and The Nightmare Room, just to name a few that grabbed me.

KentAllard · **Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:58 pm

Technology has made Horror of the Heights a bit out-dated, but I loved that story as a kid. I remember reading it in a collection of Gahan Wilson's favorite horror stories.

Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:20 pm

Hey Kent,

Sounds like you are pretty well read on the old time horror stories. Do you have a favorite story or writer from say the pre-1960's era?

KentAllard · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:07 am

Matt Cowan · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:54 am

Good list, I may have to track down some of those you listed.

My favorite pre-60's writers:

1. M.R. James
2. William Hope Hodgson
3. H.P. Lovecraft
4. Joesph Payne Brennan
5. Fritz Lieber
6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I haven't read a lot of his yet but I liked what I have read thus far)
7. Joesph Sheridan Le Fanu
8. Guy De Maupassant
9. Algernon Blackwood
10. Perceval Landon (I've only read one story by him but it is one of my absolute favorites, Thurnley Abbey)

I'll post the individual stories later. It might take me a bit to assemble them.

KentAllard · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:41 pm

Joseph Payne Brennan article.

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