![]() “Levitation” tells of a carnival-goer who has a bad encounter with a hypnotist. Here the slime was thrown up from the ocean bottom, and menaces a town in an unknown state. It may have been an inspiration for the movie The Blob but can’t find any proof of that. It kicks off with the novelette “Slime,” which was featured on the cover of the March 1953 issue of Weird Tales and is probably his most well-known work, reprinted many, many times. It contains 10 stories, five reprinted from magazines like Weird Tales, and the rest original. ![]() Nine Horrors reprints a book originally published by Arkham House in 1958. ![]() But all those collections are out of print.Īt present the only collections of his works in print are a couple of reprints from Dover Publications: Nine Horrors and a Dream and The Shapes of Midnight. He also created his own occult detective, Lucius Leffing. He then started his own small press that published his own magazines, and his stories were later anthologied and collected. He wrote several hundred short stories, and actually started writing pulp westerns before turning to weird fiction in the 1950s, almost all at Weird Tales. ![]() Joseph Payne Brennan (1918-90) is a weird-fiction author and poet. ![]() It always amazes me when I find a new pulp author and wonder why I hadn’t learned of them soon. ![]()
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