STORIES OF DARKNESS AND DREAD

by Joseph Payne Brennan

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4138 copies printed. Collects seventeen short stories and a prose poem. Brennan's forte was the small-town horror story ... New England towns where characters are swallowed up by the gulf separating an antiquarian past from a soullessly modernized present. Many of the stories presciently anticipate the dark fantasy movement of the 1970s through the

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