Thanks to all for the info -
Ron Clinton wrote:
>
> 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
> <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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On
> > 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
> >
> > --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.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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> >
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