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  "description": "Acclaimed by Stephen King as \" a master of the unashamed horror tale,\" Joseph Payne Brennan wrote hundreds of tales of terror, suspense, and fantasy. Collectors and fans will delight in this inexpensive reissue of Brennan''s hard-to-find classic, Nine Horrors and a Dream. 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. Less familiar but equally gripping tales include \" Levitation,\" in which a carnival-goer has an unfortunate encounter with a hypnotist; \" The Calamander Chest,\" the story of a low-priced antique that turns out to be no bargain; \" Death in Peru,\" involving a lethal curse; the darkly humorous \" On the Elevator\"; and \" The Green Parrot,\" which recounts a Good Samaritan''s bad timing. Other selections include \" Canavan''s Back Yard,\" featuring a property with a gruesome history; \" I''m Murdering Mr. Massington,\" which tells of a bizarre grasp at immortality; \" The Hunt,\" a playfully creepy yarn about an obsessive chase; and \" The Mail for Juniper Hill,\" in which a tipsy but determined postman refuses to let anything — even death — keep him from his appointed rounds.",
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