Joseph Payne Brennan 1 hr 42 min read

The horror at Chilton Castle, the midnight bus, the vampire bat, the man who feared masks, a chilling gathering of weird tales and terrors from a modern master of the macabre short story.

Joseph Payne Brennan's 1963 collection is a superb assembly of horror stories by one of the genre's finest post-war craftsmen. Eerie, atmospheric, expertly chilling. Read it for classic supernatural dread done right, genealogical curses, night-time menaces, and quiet terrors, from an acknowledged master of weird fiction.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

1 hr 42 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).