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."
Author
Joseph Payne Brennan was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. Brennan's first professional sale came in December 1940 with the publication of the poem, "When Snow Is Hung", which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor Home Forum, and he continued writing poetry up until the time of his death. He is the father of Noel-Anne Brennan who has published several fantasy novels.
