THE FEASTER FROM AFAR Joseph Payne Brennan 1st HC LTD

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THE FEATER FROM AFAR AND OTHER GHASTLY TALES: The Collected Weird Tales of Joseph Payne Brennan Volume One by Joseph Payne Brennan. Rio Rancho, NM; Midnight House; 2008. 1st edition hardcover.Joseph Payne Brennan was the last of the great Weird Tales authors as well as an accomplished poet, editor, and publisher. When Weird Tales folded just as Brennan was coming into his own as a master of the supernatural tale Brennan’s main market for his fiction disappeared. Throughout the next few years Brennan launched a one-man crusade to keep the Weird Tales tradition alive in the pages of his small-press magazine Macabre. Published infrequently and run on a shoestring budget, Macabre still did a fine job of carrying the flag for stories of the weird and uncanny. In addition to work by other authors familiar to Arkham House and Weird Tales devotees, much of Brennan’s own poetry and prose appeared in its pages. In the 1970s and 1980s t was a renewed interest in Brennan’s fiction with a new collection from Arkham House, volumes collecting his Lucius Leffing tales of detection, and even a mass-market paperback with an introduction by no less than Stephen King. However, for over twenty years, most of Brennan’s fiction has been out of print. This is a situation we are pleased to be able to rectify. This is the first of four volumes that will collect read more