Joseph Payne Brennan (1918–1990)
Autore di Nine Horrors and a Dream
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di Joseph Payne Brennan
AS EVENING ADVANCES 2 copie
The House On Stillcroft Street 2 copie
Canavan's Back Yard 2 copie
DEATH POEMS 2 copie
Der Todesbote 1 copia
Varulven — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Weird Tales, March 1953 1 copia
Macabre 23 1 copia
H.P.L.: An Evaluation 1 copia
Chronicles of Lucius Lessing 1 copia
The Willow Platform 1 copia
The hunt [short story] 1 copia
THE INTANGIBLE THREAT 1 copia
Mrs. Clendon's Place 1 copia
Long Hollow Swamp 1 copia
Death Of A Derelict 1 copia
Macabre: #21 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Collaboratore — 187 copie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Collaboratore — 166 copie
Epos : the work of American and British Poets (vol. 10, no. 2 Winter 1958) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Brennan, Joseph Payne
- Data di nascita
- 1918-12-20
- Data di morte
- 1990-01-28
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Attività lavorative
- fantasy writer
horror writer - Organizzazioni
- Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 50
- Opere correlate
- 52
- Utenti
- 402
- Popolarità
- #60,416
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 23
- Preferito da
- 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!… (altro)