Right, I should have been more clear: Brennan did place a few
stories with the pulps during the tail end of their reign,
but the overwhelming bulk of his material was placed
elsewhere. He is not--as I would define it, at least--a pulp
author.
For those interested in catching up on his work, Darkside
Press is planning a comprehensive, four-volume collection of
all his supernatural tales (i.e. Lucius Leffing will not
appear):
http://www.darksidepress.com/brennanfeaster.html
I've likely already strayed too far from noir and hardboiled,
so I'll leave it there.
Ron C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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> Behalf Of foxbrick
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:56 AM
> To:
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> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: occult PIs: Joseph Payne
Brennan
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> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Ron Clinton"
<clinton65@...> wrote
> in response to John Armstrong:
> >
> > No, Brennan came after the age of the pulps. He
was more of an Arkham
> > author.
>
> Seek out his NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM and you'll
have a good sense of
> what he was about. He did contributed to WEIRD
TALES, at the end of its
> pulp phase, with such stories as "Slime" (his BLOB
story).
>
> Brennan also published a little magazine, MACABRE,
that was one of the
> rallying points for horrorists in the '60s (along
with Robert Lowndes's
> MAGAZINE OF HORROR and its stablemates, and such
less-focused others as
> FANTASTIC and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE
FICTION). It
> continued into the '70s, by which time it was joined
by WHISPERS and
> WEIRDBOOK and a host of others.
>
> Todd Mason, who would suggest that Brennan's style
was pretty much
> fully formed by the mid-'50s at latest.
>
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