
Of Irish ancestry, he was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and he lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked as an Acquisitions Assistant at the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University for over 40 years. Our horrific story focuses on a hypnotist’s last performance at Morgan’s Wonder Carnival.Joseph Payne Brennan (Decem– January 28, 1990) was a prolific American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a distinguished poet.

“Levitation ” was a short story written by Joseph Payne Brennan and published in 1958 for Arkham House’s “Nine Horrors and a Dream”. Stephen has called Brennan “a master of the unashamed horror tale”. This is the horror master that terrified Stephen King. Several of his short story collections focus on a John Silence and Carnacki–styled occult detective named Lucius Leffing. He began publishing his own magazine Macabre, which ran from 1957 to 1976. His stories appeared in over 200 anthologies and have been translated into German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish.Īs a horror writer, Brennan wrote horror stories for Weird Tales in 1952. Brennan published between four and five hundred short stories, two novellas, and thousands of poems.

Joseph Payne Brennan was a writer and poet of fantasy and horror fiction. And, a backyard holds a gruesome secret for those who enter, as we fly back to another hypnotic tale with Joseph Payne Brennan. A man catches up with his dead friend under a pavilion. If you like any of our tales, crush or cut the like button below.Ĭheck out our other stories on YouTube and our websites.Ī werewolf recalls his hair-raising experiences in a diary.


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