The Shapes of Midnight - by Joseph Payne Brennan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This new edition of an increasingly rare compilation presents 12 of Brennan's most chillingly memorable tales, including "Diary of a Werewolf," "The Horror at Chilton Castle," and "Canavan's Back Yard.""--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"Joseph Payne Brennan is one of the most effective writers in the horror genre, and he is certainly one of the writers I have patterned my own career upon," declared Stephen King. "In fact," he added, "<i>The Shapes of Midnight</i> could serve as an exercise-book for the young writer who aspires to pen and publish his or her own weird tales."<br>A poet as well as a writer of horror fiction, Brennan worked at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library as an acquisitions assistant for over 40 years. He wrote hundreds of stories for <i>Weird Tales</i> and other pulp magazines. This new edition of his increasingly rare compilation, <i>The Shapes of Midnight, </i> presents 10 of his best stories.<br>Selections include "Diary of a Werewolf," a first-person account of bloody sprees; "The Corpse of Charlie Rull," recounting the rampage of a radioactive zombie; "The Pavilion," which unfolds at an abandoned seaside haunt with something ghastly beneath its pilings; "House of Memory," a wistful look at the past's imaginative grip; "The Willow Platform," featuring the machinations of a self-styled warlock; and other chillingly memorable tales.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>A poet as well as a writer of horror fiction, Connecticut native Joseph Payne Brennan (1918-90) worked at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library as an acquisitions assistant for over 40 years. He wrote hundreds of stories for <i>Weird Tales</i> and other pulp magazines and published his own periodical, <i>Macabre, </i>from 1957 to 1976.
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