Joseph Payne Brennan

A poet as well as a writer of horror fiction, Connecticut native Joseph Payne Brennan (1918-90) worked at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library as an acquisitions assistant for over 40 years. He wrote hundreds of stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines and published his own periodical, Macabre, from 1957 to 1976.

A poet as well as a writer of horror fiction, Connecticut native Joseph Payne Brennan (1918-90) worked at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library as an acquisitions assistant for over 40 years. He wrote hundreds of stories for Weird Tales and other pulp magazines and published his own periodical, Macabre, from 1957 to 1976. See less