Charles L. Grant

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Charles Lewis Grant (born September 12, 1942 in Hackettstown , New Jersey ; died September 15, 2006 in Newton , New Jersey) was an American writer of horror , fantasy, and science fiction . He also used the pseudonyms Felicia Andrews, Steven Charles, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, and Geoffrey Marsh.

Life

After attending high school in Kearny , New Jersey, Grant went to Trinity College in Connecticut in 1960 , where he began studying theology - his father was a pastor of the Episcopal Church - but then switched to English and history, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1964 . From 1968 to 1970 he served in the military police of the US Army in Quy Nhơn in Vietnam , where he was wounded twice and was awarded the Bronze Star . After completing his studies, he worked as a teacher for English and history at various schools in New Jersey until 1975, after which he was a freelance writer. From 1973 to 1977 he was executive secretary of the Science Fiction Writers of America .

In 1973 he married Debbie Voss, with whom he had a son and a daughter. In 1982 he married the writer Kathryn Ptacek for the second time. Grant died of a heart attack in 2006 at the age of 64 after years of deteriorating health.

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Grant's first publication was the short story The House of Evil , which appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1968 , but did not begin to publish on a larger scale until the mid-1970s after he had given up teaching. As early as 1974 he received his first Nebula nomination for his short story The Rest Is Silence . His first novel was The Shadow of Alpha , which is set in a post-apocalyptic , relapsed barbaric world, where residents struggle with plagues and hostile androids . With two sequels to the novel was Parric-Family - Trilogy expanded.

The Hour of the Oxrun Dead followed in 1977 , the first band in the Oxrun Station series, which is about satanic activities. Oxrun Station is an imaginary town in New England, among whose residents followers of various rather unusual cults live and as a result the residents are plagued by various manifestations of evil and children develop paranormal powers. The series includes 11 novels and a few short stories. These include The Sound of Midnight (1978), in which followers of a Welsh cult serve dark forces, and in The Bloodwind (1982) evil acts as a demonic wind that can take the form of a beast.

Grant is a representative of quiet horror , who dispenses with blatant and bloodthirsty forms of horror and concentrates on the psychological elaboration of the everyday horror of middle-class life in the American suburbs and leaves the coloring of supernatural horror largely up to the imagination of the reader.

Grant's better-known horror novels include The Nestling (1982, German as Die Schwingen des Todes ), in which a small town in Wyoming is haunted by an Indian demon in the form of an eagle, and The Pet (1986, German: Spukpferd ), where the fears and Adolescent protagonist's frustrations as a black stallion take on physical form.

In addition to Grant's Quiet Horror , his works include a number of stories from the field of dark fantasy , a mixture of genres of horror and fantasy. Examples include the short stories When All the Children Call My Name (1977), Come Dance with Me on My Pony's Grave (1973) and The Three of Tens (1975). Other sub-genres in which Grant was active were comic or parodic fantasy, an example here is the Quest for the White Duck trilogy, which Grant wrote under the pseudonym Lionel Fenn, as well as comic science fiction, for example the Kent Montana series (also called Lionel Fenn).

Grant was also honored as the editor of anthologies , in particular the Shadows series, which appeared in 11 volumes and a selection volume from 1978 to 1991.

Awards

bibliography

Series

Sorted by year of publication of the first volume.

Parric Family
  • The Shadow of Alpha (1976)
  • Ascension (1977)
  • Legion (1979)
Oxrun station
  • The Hour of the Oxrun Dead (1977)
  • The Sound of Midnight (1978)
  • If Damon Comes (1978, short story)
  • The Last Call of Mourning (1979)
  • A Night of Dark Intent (1981, short story)
  • Coin of the Realm (1981, short story)
  • Home (1981, short story)
  • Old Friends (1981, short story)
  • The Grave (1981)
  • Nightmare Seasons (1982, collection)
  • The Bloodwind (1982)
  • Night's Swift Dragons (1982, short story)
  • Now There Comes a Darker Day (1982, short story)
  • The Color of Joy (1982, short story)
  • Thou Need Not Fear My Kisses, Love (1982, short story)
  • Pride (1982, short story)
    • German: proud. In: Edward L. Ferman, Anne Jordan (eds.): The best horror stories. Knaur Horror # 1835, 1989, ISBN 3-426-01835-7 .
  • I See Her Sweet and Fair (1986, short story)
  • My Mary's Asleep (1986, short story)
  • Screaming, in the Dark (1986, short story)
  • The Last and Dreadful Hour (1986, short story)
  • The Orchard (1986, collection)
  • Dialing the Wind (1989, collection)
  • As We Promise, Side by Side (1989, short story)
  • Dialing the Wind (1989, short story)
  • The Chariot Dark and Low (1989, short story)
  • The Sweetest Kiss (1989, short story)
  • The Black Carousel (1994, collection)
  • Lost in Amber Light (1995, short story)
  • Penny Tunes for a Golden Lion (1995, short story)
  • The Rain Is Filled with Ghosts Tonight (1995, short story)
  • Will you be mine? (1995, short story)
Oxrun trilogy
  • The Soft Whisper of the Dead (1982)
  • The Dark Cry of the Moon (1986)
  • The Long Night of the Grave (1986)
Lincoln Blackthorne (as Geoffrey Marsh)
  • The King of Satan's Eyes (1984)
  • The Tail of the Arabian, Knight (1986)
  • The Patch of the Odin Soldier (1987)
  • The Fangs of the Hooded Demon (1988)
Private School (as Steven Charles)
  • 1 Nightmare Session (1986)
  • 2 Academy of Terror (1986)
  • 3 witch's eye (1986)
  • 4 Skeleton Key (1986)
  • 5 The Enemy Within (1987)
  • 6 The Last Alien (1987)
Quest for the White Duck (as Lionel Fenn)
  • 1 Blood River Down (1986)
  • 2 Web of Defeat (1987)
  • 3 Agnes Day (1987)
  • Kent Montana (as Lionel Fenn)
  • 1 Kent Montana and the Really Ugly Thing from Mars (1990)
  • 2 Kent Montana and the Reasonably Invisible Man (1991)
  • 3 Kent Montana and the Once and Future Thing (1991)
  • 4 The Mark of the Moderately Vicious Vampire (1992)
  • 5 668: The Neighbor of the Beast (1992)
Midnight Place (as Simon Lake)
  • 1 Daughter of Darkness (1992)
  • 2 Something's Watching (1993)
  • 3 Death Cycle (1993)
  • 4 He Told Me To (1993)
Diego (as Lionel Fenn)
  • 1 Once Upon a Time in the East (1993)
  • 2 By the Time I Get to Nashville (1994)
  • 3 Time: The Semi-Final Frontier (1994)
The X-Files
  • 1 Goblins (1994)
    • English: The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases: Living Shadows. vgs, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-8025-2345-8 .
  • 2 Whirlwind (1995)
  • Goblins / Whirlwind (1995, collective edition of 1 and 2)
  • Millennium Quartet
  • 1 Symphony (1997)
  • 2 In the Mood (1998)
  • 3 Chariot (1998)
  • 4 Riders in the Sky (1999)
Black Oak
  • 1 Genesis (1998)
    • German: The first Genesis act. Translated by Marcel Bieger. Knaur # 60741, 1998, ISBN 3-426-60741-7 .
  • 2 The Hush of Dark Wings (1999)
    • German: The second Genesis act. Translated by Marcel Bieger. Knaur # 60742, 1999, ISBN 3-426-60742-5 .
  • 3 Winter Knight (1999)
    • German: The Third Act of Genesis. Translated by Marcel Bieger. Knaur # 60743, 1999, ISBN 3-426-60743-3 .
  • 4 Hunting Ground (2000)
  • 5 When the Cold Wind Blows (2001)

Single novels

  • The Curse (1977)
  • The Ravens of the Moon (1978)
  • Mountainwitch (1980, as Felicia Andrews)
  • A Quiet Night of Fear (1981)
  • The Nestling (1982)
    • English: The Wings of Death: under the spell of a demon. Translated by Rolf Jurkeit. Heyne weird books # 12, 1984, ISBN 3-453-44066-8 .
  • Night Songs (1984)
  • The Tea Party (1985)
  • The Pet (1986)
  • The Seven Spears of the W'dch'ck (1988, as Lionel Fenn)
  • For Fear of the Night (1988)
  • In a Dark Dream (1989)
  • Stunts (1990)
  • Fire Mask (1991)
  • Something Stirs (1991)
  • Raven (1993)
  • Jackals (1994)
  • Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Watcher (1997)

Collections

  • Tales from the Nightside (1981)
  • A Glow of Candles and Other Stories (1981)
  • Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant (2012)

Short stories

  • The House of Evil (1968)
  • The Summer of the Irish Sea (1972)
  • Abdication (1973)
  • But the Other Old Man Stopped Playing (1973)
  • The Magic Child (1973)
    • German: The magic child. In: HJ Alpers (Hrsg.): Bestien für Norn 1980-03-00 ed.Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5722), 1980, ISBN 3-426-05722-0 .
  • Come Dance with Me on My Pony's Grave (1973)
    • English: Come dance with me on my pony's grave !. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 17 . Heyne SF&F # 3860, 1982, ISBN 3-453-30746-1 .
  • Weep No More, Old Lady (1973)
  • Everybody a Winner, the Barker Cried (1974)
  • Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street (1974)
  • The Key to English (1974)
  • The Rest Is Silence (1974)
    • German: The rest is silence. In: James Gunn (ed.): The day before the revolution. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6732), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6732-6 .
  • In Donovan's Time (1975)
  • To Be a Witch, in Three-Quarter Time (1975)
  • When Two or Three Are Gathered (1975)
  • White Wolf Calling (1975)
  • The Three of Tens (1975)
  • A Crowd of Shadows (1976)
  • Seven Is a Birdsong (1976)
  • From All the Fields of Hail and Fire (1976)
  • Through All His Blood Runs Shadow (1976)
  • Knock, and See What Enters (1977)
  • Red River Lies Drowning (1977)
  • The Shape of Plowshares (1977)
  • Treatise on the Artifacts of a Civilization (1977)
  • When All the Children Call My Name (1977)
  • The Dark of Legends, the Light of Lies (1977)
    • English: The dark of legends, the light of lies. In: Roy Torgeson (ed.): The monster from the swamp. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6729), 1982, ISBN 3-8118-6729-6 .
  • Eldorado (1977)
  • Gently Rapping (1977)
  • A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye (1977)
    • English: The light of candles, the eye of the unicorn. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (ed.): A locomotive for the tsar. Heyne SF&F # 3725, 1980, ISBN 3-453-30629-5 .
  • View, with a Difference (1978)
  • Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose (1978)
  • Caesar, Now Be Still (1978)
  • The Peace That Passes Never (1978)
    • German: The peace that never passes. In: Roy Torgeson (ed.): The corrupt woman. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6720), 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6720-2 .
  • Needle Song (1979)
  • What More Remains (1979)
  • When Dark Descends (1979, with Thomas F. Monteleone )
    • German: When the darkness falls. In: Roy Torgeson (ed.): On the eve of St. Poleander Day. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6716), 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6716-4 .
  • Benny, Kind and Gentle (1979)
  • Love-Starved (1979)
  • The Fourth Musketeer (1979)
  • And Weary of the Sun (1979)
    • German: And tired of the sun. In: Roy Torgeson (ed.): The great consecration. Moewig (Playboy Science Fiction # 6722), 1981, ISBN 3-8118-6722-9 .
  • The Last Ambition (1979)
  • Across the Water to Skye (1980)
  • In Silvered Shadows Are Born the Screams (1980)
  • The Other Room (1980)
  • Secrets of the Heart (1980)
  • A Garden of Blackred Roses (1980)
  • Digging (1981)
  • Something There Is (1981)
  • The Gentle Passing of a Hand (1981)
  • Every Time You Say I Love You (1981)
  • The Residents (1981)
  • Silver (1981)
  • Quietly Now (1981)
  • Essence of Charlotte (1982)
  • What in Solemn Silence (1982)
    • German: … something in serious silence. In: Friedel Wahren (Ed.): Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine 17th episode. Heyne SF&F # 3958, 1983, ISBN 3-453-30889-1 .
  • The Wind of Lost Migration (1982)
  • From a Single Word (1982)
  • Confess the Seasons (1982)
  • When Love Turned Round and Whispered You're Mine (1982)
  • Recollections of Annie (1983)
  • The Next Name You Hear (1983)
  • I Never Could Say Goodbye (1983)
  • Let No One Weep for Poor Sally Karnes (1983)
  • When I Grow Up (1983)
  • Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1984)
  • The Card (1984)
  • The Generation Waltz (1984)
  • The Old Men Know (1984)
  • And We'll Be Jolly Friends (1984)
  • Family (1984)
  • Friends in Dark Places (1984)
  • In the Blood (1984)
  • Poor Thing (1984)
  • To Laugh with You, Dear (1984)
  • What Are Deaths For (1984)
  • A Voice Not Heard (1984)
  • Andrew Patterson (1985)
  • Myra (1985)
  • Penny Daye (1985)
  • The Children, They Laugh So Sweetly (1985)
  • Give Us a Big Smile (1985)
  • Long Walk Home (1985)
  • An Image in Twisted Silver (1986)
  • The Price of a Toy (1986)
  • Crystal (1986)
  • Eyes (1986)
  • Out There (1986)
  • Constant Father (1987)
  • Everything to Live For (1987)
  • This Old Man (1987)
  • Listen to the Music in My Hands (1987)
  • One Spring in Wyoming (1987)
  • The Sheeted Dead (1987)
  • Ellen, in Her Time (1987)
  • Now and Again in Summer (1988)
  • Last Night, in the Kitchen (1988)
  • Spinning Tales with the Dead (1988)
  • My Shadow Is the Fog (1988)
  • City Boy (1988)
  • Snowman (1988)
  • By the Sea (1989)
  • The Last Cowboy Song (1989)
  • Alexandra (1990)
  • Alice Smiling (1990)
  • Pinto Rider (1990)
  • Kin (1991)
  • One Life, in an Hourglass (1991)
  • Girl of My Dreams (1991)
  • Peacemaker (1991)
  • Make a Wish Upon the Moon (1991)
  • The Awful Truth in Arthur's Barrow (1992, as Lionel Fenn)
  • Holding Hands (1993)
  • In the Still, Small Hours (1993)
  • Josie, in the Fog (1993)
  • Name That Tune (1993)
  • Sons (1993)
  • The Alien Visitor, Probably from Someplace Else (1993, as Lionel Fenn)
  • The Dead Speaketh Not, They Just Grunt Now and Then (1993, as Lionel Fenn)
  • The Mask of Truth Has Many Holes (1993, as Lionel Fenn)
  • After You're Gone (1994)
  • Always, in the Dark (1994)
  • Sometimes, in the Rain (1994)
  • Gray (1995)
  • Haunted (1997)
  • Riding the Black (1997)
  • The Soft Sound of Wings (1998)
  • Whose Ghosts These Are (2001)
  • For My Birthday, Another Candle (2003)
  • Brownie, and Me (2003)
  • Friday Night at the Wicked Swan (2005)
  • Such as It Is (2012)

Non-fiction

  • Writing and Selling Science Fiction (1977)

Anthologies

Greystone Bay
  • 1 The First Chronicles of Greystone Bay (1985)
  • 2 Doom City (1987)
  • 3 The SeaHarp Hotel (1990)
  • 4 In the Fog (1993)
Shadows
  • 1 Shadows (1978)
  • 2 Shadows 2 (1979)
  • 3 Shadows 3 (1980)
  • 4 Shadows 4 (1981)
  • 5 Shadows 5 (1982)
  • 6 Shadows 6 (1983)
  • 7 Shadows 7 (1984)
  • 8 Shadows 8 (1985)
  • 9 Shadows 9 (1986)
  • 10 Shadows 10 (1987)
  • 11 Final Shadows (1991)
  • The Best of Shadows (1988)
Single anthologies
  • Nightmares (1979)
  • Horrors (1981)
  • Terror (1982)
  • The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror (1983, also called Gallery of Horror )
    • German: The great cabinet of horrors. Translated by Rolf Jurkeit. Heyne weird books # 16, 1984, ISBN 3-453-44070-6 .
  • Fears (1983)
  • Midnight (1985)
  • Night Visions 2 (1985, also as Night Visions: Dead Image , 1987, and Night Terrors , 1989)
  • After Midnight (1986)
  • Gothic Ghosts (1997, with Wendy Webb)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of Kathryn Ptacek ( Memento from January 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Grant, Charles L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grant, Charles Lewis (full name); Grant, Charles (alternative spelling); Grant, CL (alternative spelling); Andrews, Felicia (pen name); Charles, Steven (pseudonym); Fenn, Lionel (pseudonym); Lake, Simon (pen name); Marsh, Geoffrey (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fantasy and horror writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Hackettstown , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 2006
Place of death Newton , New Jersey