
Joseph Payne Brennan was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Of Irish ancestry, he was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and he lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked as an Acquisitions Assistant at the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University for over 40 years. Brennan published several hundred short stories, two novellas and reputedly thousands of poems. His stories appeared in over 200 anthologies and have been translated into German, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish. He was an early bibliographer of the work of H. P. Lovecraft.

Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories
2020
ISBN 9781945863523
The Monster book of monsters
1988
ISBN 9780517662939
The First Chronicles of Greystone Bay
1985
ISBN 9780812518528
Shadows 7
1984
ISBN 9780425095645
Whispers
1977
ISBN 9780515088816
Gallery of Horror
1983
ISBN 9780451454614
The Disciples of Cthulhu
1976
ISBN 9781568820545
100 Jahre WEIRD TALES - Die Jubiläumsedition - im Schuber

Fine Frights: Stories That Scared Me
1988
ISBN 9780812516708
Selections From The Pan Book of Horror Stories #4
1963
ISBN 9780425019108
Вампирские архивы: Книга 1. Дети ночи
2011
ISBN 9785699471423
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV
1976
ISBN 9780879972639
Weird Tales 2
1980
ISBN 9780890837153La casa de Cthulhu y otros relatos de horror
1977
ISBN 9788427008649
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous
1965
ISBN 9780394412276
Horror: Lo mejor del terror contemporáneo
1986
ISBN 9788427010321
Night Terrors
1989
ISBN 9780747232919The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V
1977
After Midnight
1992

Nine Horrors and a Dream
2019
ISBN 9780486834191
The Shapes of Midnight
2019
ISBN 9780486834320
H.P. Lovecraft: An Evaluation
2023
ISBN 9781667682723
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural
1968
The First World Fantasy Convention
1995
ISBN 9781887968027