Massington," which tells of a bizarre grasp at immortality "The Hunt," a playfully creepy yarn about an obsessive chase and "The Mail for Juniper Hill," in which a tipsy but determined postman refuses to let anything - even death - keep him from his appointed rounds. Other selections include "Canavan's Back Yard," featuring a property with a gruesome history "I'm Murdering Mr. Less familiar but equally gripping tales include "Levitation," in which a carnival-goer has an unfortunate encounter with a hypnotist "The Calamander Chest," the story of a low-priced antique that turns out to be no bargain "Death in Peru," involving a lethal curse the darkly humorous "On the Elevator" and "The Green Parrot," which recounts a Good Samaritan's bad timing.
This collection, originally published by Arkham House in 1958, features stories published by Weird Tales and other pulp magazines of the 1950s - including the much-anthologized "Slime," which inspired the ever-popular thriller The Blob. Collectors and fans will delight in this inexpensive reissue of Brennan's hard-to-find classic, Nine Horrors and a Dream. The stories, etc.: Dagon, Polaris, Celephais, Hypnos, The Cats of Ulthar, The Strange High House in the Mist, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Silver Key, Through the Gates of the Silver Key, The Outsider, The Music of Erich Zann, The Rats in the Walls, Cool Air, He, The Horror at Red Hook, The Temple, Arthur Jermyn, The Picture in the House, The Festival, The Terrible Old Man, The Tomb, The Shunned House, In the Vault, Pickman's Model, The Haunter of the Dark, The Dreams in the Witch-House, The Thing on the Doorstep, The Nameless City, The Lurking Fear, The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour Out of Space, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness.Acclaimed by Stephen King as "a master of the unashamed horror tale," Joseph Payne Brennan wrote hundreds of tales of terror, suspense, and fantasy. Contains thirty-six of Lovecraft's best short stories, sketches and short novels, plus his fine essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature. Collected by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei.
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