Re: RARA-AVIS: occult PIs: Joseph Payne Brennan

From: John Armstrong ( pachuco@telus.net)
Date: 10 Jun 2008


Thanks to all for the info -

Ron Clinton wrote:
>
> Right, I should have been more clear: Brennan did place a few stories with
> the pulps during the tail end of their reign, but the overwhelming bulk of
> his material was placed elsewhere. He is not--as I would define it, at
> least--a pulp author.
>
> For those interested in catching up on his work, Darkside Press is
> planning
> a comprehensive, four-volume collection of all his supernatural tales
> (i.e.
> Lucius Leffing will not appear):
>
> http://www.darksidepress.com/brennanfeaster.html
> <http://www.darksidepress.com/brennanfeaster.html>
>
> I've likely already strayed too far from noir and hardboiled, so I'll
> leave
> it there.
>
> Ron C.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
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> [mailto: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> > Behalf Of foxbrick
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:56 AM
> > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: occult PIs: Joseph Payne Brennan
> >
> > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>, "Ron Clinton" <clinton65@...>
> wrote
> > in response to John Armstrong:
> > >
> > > No, Brennan came after the age of the pulps. He was more of an Arkham
> > > author.
> >
> > Seek out his NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM and you'll have a good sense of
> > what he was about. He did contributed to WEIRD TALES, at the end of its
> > pulp phase, with such stories as "Slime" (his BLOB story).
> >
> > Brennan also published a little magazine, MACABRE, that was one of the
> > rallying points for horrorists in the '60s (along with Robert Lowndes's
> > MAGAZINE OF HORROR and its stablemates, and such less-focused others as
> > FANTASTIC and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION). It
> > continued into the '70s, by which time it was joined by WHISPERS and
> > WEIRDBOOK and a host of others.
> >
> > Todd Mason, who would suggest that Brennan's style was pretty much
> > fully formed by the mid-'50s at latest.
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
>

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