#JosephPayneBrennan (December 20, 1918 – January 28, 1990) was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Of Irish ancestry, he was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and he lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked as an Acquisitions Assistant at the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University for over 40 years.
Brennan published several hundred short stories (estimates range between four and five hundred), two novellas and reputedly thousands of poems.
His stories appeared in over 200 anthologies and have been translated into German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish.
He was an early bibliographer of the work of #HPLovecraft.
As a fiction writer, Brennan started out writing westerns stories for the #PulpMagazines, then switched to #HorrorStories for #WeirdTales in 1952. He began publishing his own magazine, Macabre, which ran from 1957 to 1976. Several of his short story collections concern an #OccultDetective named #LuciusLeffing in the vein of #Carnacki and #AlgernonBlackwood's John Silence. #WeirdFiction #DarkFantasy #Horror
Brennan's Short Story Anthology, Scream at Midnight, and his brief H. P. Lovecraft evaluation now available online.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70817
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72004