From the first edition's dust jacket... Creep To Death assembles over eighty of the author's more recent poems, primarily in the horror-fantasy genre. It is his seventh book of poems. Years ago, August Derleth stated: "Brennan is not adequately appreciated as a poet in America." The Capitol Times of Madison, Wisconsin perhaps summarized it best: "Joseph Payne Brennan is that kind of poet who may well be read years from now when the considerably more publicized among his contemporaries have been delegated to a relatively unimportant niche in American literary history."