He wrote hundreds of stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. This new edition of his increasingly rare compilation, The Shapes of Midnight, presents 10 of his best stories.
This collection, originally published by Arkham House in 1958, features stories published by Weird Tales and other pulp magazines of the 1950s — including the much-anthologized "Slime," which inspired the ever-popular thriller The Blob.
Joseph Payne Brennan, friend of H.P. Lovecraft and an accomplished horror author in his own right, published this groundbreaking essay on Lovecraft in 1955.