#Joseph Payne Brennan

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The House on Stillcroft Street (Joseph Payne Brennan) "A carnivorous plant takes over reclusive collector Millward Frander's house -- and Millward himself."

The Festering (Guy N. Smith) "A couple move to the English countryside to escape urban life. Their plumbing is dodgy, so they have well dug in their garden. Unfortunately, an ancient, diseased corpse was buried there, and the lads who dig the well end up contracting the disease.

This disease causes you to grow disgusting boils all over and to leak stinking pus and slime from every orifice. It also increases sexual and aggressive urges. Those who get sick end up going on violent rampages and end up as a rancid puddle of noisome muck."

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It is always snowing in my deepest being

Joseph Payne Brennan

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Hunger Games Victor OCs

Sunrise on the Reaping also known as The Destroyer of Victor Headcanons is coming out next March which means I have a limited amount of time to get all my victor headcanons out before then. So for now here are all of my victor ocs, more information on them will be coming out at some point. If y'all are interested in hearing about any of them send me an ask, I am always looking for an excuse to bring them up.

1st Hunger Games: (2) Julius Paxton - 18

2nd Hunger Games: (11) Cob Granger - 18

3rd Hunger Games: (2) Clayton Foster - 18

4th Hunger Games: (2) Helen Payne - 17

5th Hunger Games: (1) Aurelius Morningstar - 18

6th Hunger Games: (7) Joseph Burl - 17

7th Hunger Games: (3) Deci Golding - 17

8th Hunger Games: (10) Farrier Santos - 18

9th Hunger Games: (1) Ophelia Kelley - 17

10th Hunger Games: (12) Lucy Gray Baird - 16

11th Hunger Games: (4) Mags Flanagan - 16

12th Hunger Games: (5) Newton Turbine - 16

13th Hunger Games: (7) Timber Holtzman - 17

14th Hunger Games: (11) Magnolia Tian - 16

15th Hunger Games: (8) Woof Fabrizio - 18

16th Hunger Games: (4) Brennan Murtaugh - 18

17th Hunger Games: (3) Hypatia Lovelace - 18

18th Hunger Games: (1) Sheen Allman - 18

19th Hunger Games: (6) Hafsa Mecca - 16

20th Hunger Games: (2) Bellona Flint - 17

21st Hunger Games: (4) Kaiona Minamoto - 18

22nd Hunger Games: (1) Euphoria Brightman - 18

23rd Hunger Games: (9) Meriweather Wheatley - 18

24th Hunger Games: (11) Ivy Touchet - 17

25th Hunger Games: (2) Valentino Altamura - 18

26th Hunger Games: (10) Raphael Armenta-Moreno - 18

27th Hunger Games: (4) Pearl Cascadia Wake - 16

28th Hunger Games: (7) Florence Bitterroot - 18

29th Hunger Games: (2) Mesa Ambrosius Barros - 18

30th Hunger Games: (11) Seeder Hayes - 18

31st Hunger Games: (1) Venus Ardent - 16

32nd Hunger Games: (8) Paisley Nainsook - 17

33rd Hunger Games: (5) Asterope Martinez - 16

34th Hunger Games: (4) Carrick Manannán - 19

35th Hunger Games: (10) Filipa Oeste - 15

36th Hunger Games: (4) Plover Monroe - 16

37th Hunger Games: (6) Devante Ford - 18

38th Hunger Games: (5) Porter Millicent Tripp - 17

39th Hunger Games: (11) Reese Arrowroot - 17

40th Hunger Games: (2) Artemisia Lyme - 18

41st Hunger Games: (3) Beetee Latier - 18

42nd Hunger Games: (10) Taurus Seleno - 17

43rd Hunger Games: (8) Ariadne Bolt - 17

44th Hunger Games: (1) Acrylic Smith - 18

45th Hunger Games: (11) Chaff Bushel - 15

46th Hunger Games: (3) Wiress Bissette - 18

47th Hunger Games: (2) Brutus Grossolano - 18

48th Hunger Games: (4) Dylan Burbank - 17

49th Hunger Games: (6) Poppy Rustweed - 15

50th Hunger Games: (12) Haymitch Abernathy - 16

51st Hunger Games: (2) Minerva Slate - 18

52nd Hunger Games: (3) Pyro Hoshino - 18

53rd Hunger Games: (9) Sif Fahlgren - 15

54th Hunger Games: (2) Hector Stark - 18

55th Hunger Games: (1) Agate Lux - 18

56th Hunger Games: (9) Grainier Bale - 18

57th Hunger Games: (4) Mariana Acosta-Foley - 17

58th Hunger Games: (1) Passion Diamante - 16

59th Hunger Games: (8) Cecelia Wooley - 18

60th Hunger Games: (7) Blight Whittle - 18

61st Hunger Games: (6) Christopher Mercury - 15

62nd Hunger Games: (2) Enobaria Arsenault  - 18

63rd Hunger Games: (1) Gloss Harding - 17

64th Hunger Games: (1) Cashmere Harding - 18

65th Hunger Games: (4) Finnick Odair - 14

66th Hunger Games: (10) Capri Butcher - 16

67th Hunger Games: (1) Augustus Braun -17

68th Hunger Games: (2) Paris Doré - 15

69th Hunger Games: (5) Celcie Ray - 15

70th Hunger Games: (4) Annie Cresta - 18

71st Hunger Games: (7) Johanna Mason - 17

72nd Hunger Games: (1) Dulce Caballero-Viñedo - 15

73rd Hunger Games: (2) Aeneus Bryce - 16

Notes:

The Victor of the 39th Game, Reese Arrowroot, was assigned male at birth and when they were reaped they were reaped as such. After winning their games they came out as genderfluid, but in terms of Hunger Games situations they fill the function of a male victor still.

Carrick Manannán turned 19 during his games making him the oldest victor to win.

In total there are 37 male victors (or filling the function of male) and 36 female victors. By the time of the Third Quarter Quell there are 30 female victors and 28 male victors left alive.

The first ten victors (with Lucy Gray presumed dead), Florence Bitterroot, Devante Ford, Kaiona Minamoto, Magnolia Tian, Valentino Altamura, and Paris Doré are dead by the time of the Third Quarter Quell.

Poppy Rustweed is the Female Morphling and Christopher Mercury is the Male Morphling.

Kaiona Minamoto is descended from Native Hawaiians who fled to the west coast before the fall of America, as well as being Japanese on her father's side. Hafsa Mecca is Arabic and part of small group in District 6 that still practice Islam. Paisley Nainsook is of Indian descent. Pyro Hoshino is of Japanese descent. Magnolia Tian is of Delta Chinese descent. Obviously there are more poc victors but I thought these names would stick out immediately and I wanted to give explanations.

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Two Bottles of Relish by Lord Dunsany (orig Time & Tide, Nov 12, 1932)

A variation on a locked door mystery - a body disposal without leaving the house mystery. This one stayed with me since childhood, though the premise wasn't as locked in as it could be.

Deathtracks by Dennis Etchison

A Nielson family survey taker visits a couple who look for hidden messages in TV laugh tracks to explain why their son died in Vietnam.

Always Together by Hugh B. Cave

One elderly twin murders the other and keeps up a ruse that she's still alive. A good setup for a twist in the tale which never happens.

Toilet Paper Run by Juleen Brantingham

Engaging story set in a girls' reform school, but the ending felt tacked on to fit the genre.

The Green Parrot by Joseph Payne Brennan (orig Weird Tales, July 1952)

Another boring entry in the "that person you thought was alive turns out was already dead" style of ghost story.

Fragment from a Charred Diary by Davis Grubb

Comedy piece about a man using a voodoo doll to commit the political assassinations of the 1960s, escalating from there.

The Scarf by Bernice Balfour

A disfigured woman concealing her face with a scarf and a curious newspaper delivery boy.

Sentences by Richard Christian Matheson

Comedy twist in the tale about a man getting his life rewritten.

Prickly by David A. Riley

A child corrupting Satanist with a monkey familiar kills himself in a British tenement building. Years later, strange creatures scuttle the halls, and children sing nursery rhymes about Prickly.

The Kennel by Maurice Level (orig Tales of Mystery and Horror, 1920)

A cuckold husband finds the body of his wife's lover and disposes of it.

Onawa by Alan Ryan

An adoptive native girl with a taste for blood

A Telephone Booth by Wade Kenny

A gambler can get tips from the future from a pay phone.

Straw Goat by Ken Wiseman

Folk horror with murderous farmers and a sacrificial straw goat.

Horrible Imaginings by Fritz Leiber

Long piece about a creep being obsessed with his neighbor, which I skipped.

The Blind Spot by Saki (orig Beasts and Super-Beasts, 1914)

Comedy piece about a killer servant.

The Dust by Al Sarrantonio

A simpleton shut-in is obsessed with dust.

It Grows on You by Stephen King

A vignette of small town misery which feels more like background to a fuller story. It's been re-written a few times, and later versions may be more tied in to the Castle Rock mythos and be more explicitly horrific. Something about a house getting a new wing built connected with people dying, but not much meat on the bones here.

The Copper Bowl by George Fielding Eliot (orig Weird Tales, December 1928)

Nasty proto-shudder pulp yellow peril story of a French Legionnaire's love being tortured by a Chinese despot.

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Horror Oozing Masterpiece: 'Slime' by Joseph Payne Brennan

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audiobook : H.P. Lovecraft, an evaluation by Joseph Payne Brennan

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The Seventh Incantation by Joseph Payne Brennan

I’ve made an error here: this item can’t be transcribed by an Australian due to weird differences in copyright law. Sorry gang!

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Hastur is defined as a Great Old One, spawn of Yog-Sothoth, the half-brother of Cthulhu, and possibly the Magnum Innominandum (AWD). In this incarnation, Hastur has several Avatars: 

The Feaster from Afar, a black, shriveled, flying monstrosity with tentacles tipped with razor-sharp talons that can pierce a victim's skull and siphon out the brain (EXP: "The Feaster from Afar", The Hastur Cycle(2nd ed.), pp. 272-82 [Joseph Payne Brennan]).

The King in Yellow.

thank you Lovecraft wiki. I seem to have a type.

Wait a new Malevolent episode dropped on this our shared-body monsterfuckers' holy day of Venom: The Last Dance premiere?

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Joseph Payne Brennan - Nightmare Need (Arkham House, 1964)

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The Shapes of Midnight by Joseph Payne Brennan, cover by Kirk Reinert (1980)

Cover illustrating Brennan’s 1953 classic story “Slime,” originally published in Weird Tales.

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This is apparently very bad, almost certainly a rip-off of a far better story but dang I love those front and back covers featuring Henry Fox art.

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Slime (Joseph Payne Brennan) "Originally published in the March 1953 issue of Weird Tales. The title creature is a black, amorphous blob from the bottom of the sea. In fact, it's so black that it's all but invisible at night; witnesses to its attacks pretty much see their friends and loved ones "taken by the darkness", as though the dark itself were alive and hungry."

The Dark (Lemony Snicket) "The Dark is about a young lad named Lazslo, who is terrified of the dark. He avoids “the dark” as it mainly hangs out in the basement. Then, one night “the dark” is in his room as his nightlight bulb loses its spark. Lazslo, the young lad, must come face-to-face with his fears of “the dark”."

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The striding ghosts that keep these rooms preserve their past in pantomime. Under a span of blue eternal stars the acts of early hours invoke infinity.

Joseph Payne Brennan

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The Corpse of Charlie Rull by Joseph Payne Brennan

Written in 1959 by Joseph Payne Brennan, The Corpse of Charlie Rull is an early zombie short story, predating 1968's Night of the Living Dead, and is one of the first stories that involves a zombie that wasn't resurrected by voodoo. It's also shockingly violent and nihilistic for its time, and, like Slime, was published in the short story collections The Shapes of Midnight and The Feaster from Afar, but, once again, because these can be prohibitively expensive, my man on YouTube Edward E. French has got you covered (as before, see below)! Charlie Rull is a homeless man who lives in the town dump outside of the town of Newbridge. Aside from being a chronic alcoholic, he's never harmed a single soul in his entire life. That all changes the day he's out for a walk and suffers a fatal heart attack after his years of hard-drinking and general unhealthy living catch up to him, and he promptly pitches forwards face-first into the cattail swamp that lies between the dump and a nearby scientific research facility. He lies there undiscovered for three days, but in those three days, he undergoes a few... changes. Y'see, the scientists working at that lab aren't aware of this, but their waste disposal system has sprung a leak, and radioactive chemicals have been steadily oozing into the swamp for some time now. After three whole days of floating in this toxic, swampy bath, Charlie comes back to what can charitably be called life, but he isn't quite himself. In addition to glowing and possessing immense, inhuman strength due to the experimental chemicals infusing every single cell of his body, he suffers from amnesia and remembers nothing of his former life. All he knows is pain, because, well, apparently having that much radiation coursing through you hurts a lot. The pain drives him mad and he promptly flies into a murderous rage, determined to kill anything else that lives upon the Earth. A salesman on his morning commute to work is startled when the waterlogged Charlie staggers into the road in front of him. Unable to stop, he hits him. As there are no other cars on the road, he decides to do a hit and run and speed away from the accident, but Charlie is no ordinary vehicular manslaughter victim. To the salesman's surprise, he not only gets back up, but flips his car over! He fortunately dies from fright before Charlie gets ahold of him, for, in his effort to pull the man out of the upside-down car by the hair, Charlie only succeeds in ripping his head off (!). That accomplished, he gives chase to a rabbit, but loses it in the woods before stumbling out towards the highway, where he sights his next victim, a hitchhiker. Handsome and well-groomed with a sweet 'stache and a charming smile, he's got what you might call a way with the ladies, and can charm his way into getting a ride from almost any woman. He especially enjoys being picked up by single women. Women he can use the rope and knives he keeps in his backpack. For, you see, he's no ordinary hitchhiker, but a wanted serial killer posing as one, and he's already planning his next murder when Charlie Rull emerges from the bushes. What will happen when professional murderer meets recently resurrected undead maniac? Listen to Edward E. French's excellent read of this short but chilling tale to find out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr_gi4KcqS4

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Nine Horrors and a Dream (1958)

by Joseph Payne Brennan

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Horror Oozing Masterpiece: Slime by Joseph Payne Brennan #shorts #horror...