Charles Lewis Grant (September 12, 1942 – September 15, 2006) was a novelist and
short story writer specializing in what he called "
dark fantasy" and "quiet
horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of
Geoffrey Marsh,
Lionel Fenn,
Simon Lake,
Felicia Andrews, and
Deborah Lewis.
Grant won a
World Fantasy Award for his
novella collection
Nightmare Seasons, a
Nebula Award in 1976 for his short story "A Crowd of Shadows", and another Nebula Award in 1978 for his novella "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye," the latter telling of an actor's dilemma in a post-literate future. Grant also edited the award-winning
Shadows anthology, running eleven volumes from 1978-1991. Contributors include
Stephen King,
Ramsey Campbell,
Al Sarrantonio,
R.A. Lafferty,
Avram Davidson, and
Steve Rasnic and
Melanie Tem. Grant was a former Executive Secretary and Eastern Regional Director of the
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and president of the
Horror Writers Association. His story "Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street" was adapted into an episode of
Tales from the Darkside entitled "The Milkman Cometh" in 1987.
Grant wrote 12 books (9 novels and three collections of four related novellas with interstitial material) set in the fictional Connecticut town of Oxrun Station. (See the starred titles below.) Three of these were intentionally pastiches of classic Universal and Hammer horror films, and feature a vampire, a...
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