At times it flattened out and flowed through the carpet of mud like an inky pool occasionally it paused, seeming to shrink in upon itself, and reared up out of the ooze until it resembled an irregular cone or a gigantic hood. It slid through the soft ooze like a monstrous mantle of slime obscenely animated with questing life. IT WAS A great gray-black hood of horror moving over the floor of the sea. Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications | Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2019. Title: Nine horrors and a dream / Joseph Payne Brennan.ĭescription: Dover edition. Names: Brennan, Joseph Payne, 1918–1990, author. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data This Dover edition, first published in 2019, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Ballantine Books, Inc., New York, in 1958. 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.
Acclaimed by Stephen King as "a master of the unashamed horror tale," Joseph Payne Brennan wrote hundreds of tales of terror, suspense, and fantasy.
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