Charles L. Grant
Novelist, Author
1942 – 2006
Who was Charles L. Grant?
Charles Lewis Grant 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 twelve books set in the fictional Connecticut town of Oxrun Station.
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- Born
- Sep 12, 1942
Newark - Also known as
- Charles Lewis Grant
- Charles Grant
- C. L. Grant
- Steven Charles
- Geoffrey Marsh
- Felicia Andrews
- Lionel Fenn
- Spouses
- Kathryn Ptacek
(1982/02 - )
- Kathryn Ptacek
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College
- Bachelor of Arts
- Died
- Sep 15, 2006
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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