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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.
Charles L. Grant was born in Newark, New Jersey. He received a B.A. from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut in 1964 and taught for four years. Then, from 1968–1970, Grant served in the U.S Army military police in Vietnam and was awarded a Bronze Star.
Career
From 1973 to 1977, Grant was Secretary of Science Fiction Writers of America. In 1987-1988, he served as President of the Horror Writers Association.
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 twelve books (eight novels and four collections of four related novellas each, with interstitial material) set in the fictional Connecticut town of Oxrun Station. Three of these were intentionally pastiches of classic Universal and Hammer horror films, and feature a vampire, a werewolf, and an animated mummy. There is a loose continuity running through the Oxrun Station books, with characters from one novel making minor appearances in others.
Personal life
Grant's first wife is Debbie Voss, with whom he had two children, Ian Matthew and Emily Kathryn. Ian has two sons Payton and Logan; Emily has a son, Aaron, and a daughter, Ella. In February, 1982, Grant married writer and editor Kathryn Ptacek.
Death
Suffering ill health in his later years, Grant died on September 15, 2006 from a heart attack.
Short fiction
"The House of Evil" (1968) F&SF, Dec
"Afternoon of the Banjo" (1971) The Little Magazine, Spr
"The Summer of the Irish Sea" (1972) Orbit 11, ed. Damon Knight
"Come Dance with Me on My Pony’s Grave" (1973) F&SF, Jul
"Girl of My Dreams" (1991) Obsessions, ed. Gary Raisor
"Peacemaker" (1991) Borderlands 2, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone
"Make a Wish Upon the Moon" (1991) Dead End: City Limits, ed. Paul F. Olson & David B. Silva
"One Life, in an Hourglass" (1991) The Bradbury Chronicles, ed. William F. Nolan & Martin H. Greenberg
"The Awful Truth in Arthur's Barrow" (1992) Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer
"The Alien Visitor, Probably from Someplace Else" (1993) Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, Jan
"Sons" (1993) Confederacy of the Dead, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer
"In the Still, Small Hours" (1993) Deathport, ed. Ramsey Campbell
"Josie, In the Fog" (1993) In the Fog, ed. Charles L. Grant
"The Dead Speaketh Not, They Just Grunt Now and Then" (1993) The Ultimate Zombie ed. John Betancourt & Byron Preiss
"Name That Tune" (1993) Monsters in Our Midst, ed. Robert Bloch
"Holding Hands" (1993) Touch Wood, ed. Peter Crowther
"The Mask of Truth Has Many Holes" (1993) Cemetery Dance #15, Winter
"After You’ve Gone" (1994) Phobias, ed. Wendy Webb, Richard Gilliam, Edward E. Kramer & Martin H. Greenberg
"Sometimes, in the Rain" (1994) Northern Frights 2, ed. Don Hutchison
"Always, in the Dark" (1994) Return to the Twilight Zone, ed. Carol Serling & Martin H. Greenberg
"Prologue" (1995) The Black Carousel, by Charles L. Grant
"Penny Tunes for a Gold Lion" (1995) The Black Carousel, by Charles L. Grant
"Will You Be Mine?" (1995) The Black Carousel, by Charles L. Grant
"Lost in Amber Light" (1995) The Black Carousel, by Charles L. Grant
"The Rain is Filled with Ghosts Tonight" (1995) The Black Carousel, by Charles L. Grant
"Epilogue" (1995) The Black Carousel, by Charles L. Grant
"Gray" (1995) Dark Destiny: Proprietors of Fate, ed. Edward E. Kramer
"Riding the Black" (1997) Revelations, ed. Douglas E. Winter
"Haunted" (1997) Psychos, ed. Robert Bloch
"The Soft Sound of Wings" (1998) In the Shadow of the Gargoyle, ed. Nancy Kilpatrick & Thomas S. Roche
"Cody" (1999) Horror at Halloween, ed. Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher
"Whose Ghosts These Are" (2001) The Museum of Horror, ed. Dennis Etchison
"For My Birthday, Another Candle" (2003) 13 Horrors, ed. Brian A. Hopkins
"Brownie and Me" (2003) The Dark: New Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow
"Friday Night at the Wicked Swan" (2005) Taverns of the Dead, ed. Kealan Patrick Burke
