Creep to Death is a collection of poetry written by Joseph Payne Brennan. It was first published in 1981.
Description[]
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."
Contents[]
- I Envy the Deer
- Winter Dusk
- Artifice
- Snow at Night
- My Adolescent Dreams
- Potter's Field
- Advent of Autumn
- Abandoned Factory Yard
- Encounter
- Skeleton
- Walking in New Haven
- Age
- Remembering Wind
- The Watcher
- Rat
- Three Buzzards
- Deserted Farm, New England
- Death of a Minor Poet
- Old Victorian House
- Nightmare One
- Nightmare Two
- Nightmare Three
- Drought
- Reminiscence: Emergency Room
- Refrain
- The Older Gods
- Halloween Snow
- The Follower
- At the Cemetery Gate
- Burnt Summer
- The Soundless Scream
- Words: Late Winter
- Beyond the Night
- The Haunted Ways
- Tides
- The Waxwork Woods
- The One Silence
- On the Death of Scootch, My Cat
- Sorcerer's Web
- New England Farmer Dying
- Mummy
- November Day
- Empty Rooms
- Ice Forest at Midnight
- The Cold Cliffs
- Epitaph for Earth
- Early Autumn
- Sunday Morning
- When Cedar Woods
- Writhing Wind
- The Closer Light
- The Abandoned Boudoir
- Junkman
- Selection
- Where in Blinding Light
- The Acts of Hours
- Time and Falling Snow
- Marsh Moment
- Poe's Lake
- Bleak November Days
- Down Endless Years
- My Father's Death
- Grottos of Horror
- The Collector
- Marrow Cold
- My True Love
- Dust
- The Horror
- The Ugly Avoided Places
- Gradations of Death
- Summation
- Sea Grotto
- The Leech Collector
- Farrison
- After Fifty
- Hell: A Variation
- My Nineteenth Nightmare
- Century's End
- Junkyard in Winter
- Final Assignation
- The Trail I Took
- Written in Despair
- Return
- Walk on, My Darling
- Nightmare by Doris Philbricl Brennan
- Alone by Doris Philbrick Brennan
- Path to Nowhere by Doris Philbrick Brennan