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. His story 'Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street' was adapted into an episode of Tales from the Darkside titled 'The Milkman Cometh' in 1987, the same year he wrote the Introduction and Afterward to Tor Books' publication of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Grant's favorite Irving story. 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. Lafferty, Avram Davidson, and Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem. Contributors include Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Al Sarrantonio, R.A. Grant also edited the award-winning Shadows anthology, running eleven volumes from 1978-1991. 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.

In 1987-1988, he served as President of the Horror Writers Association. Career įrom 1973 to 1977, Grant was Secretary of Science Fiction Writers of America.

Army military police in Vietnam and was awarded a Bronze Star. Then, from 1968 to 1970, Grant served in the U.S. from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1964 and taught for four years. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, Deborah Lewis, Timothy Boggs, Mark Rivers, and Steven Charles.Ĭharles L. Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, Deborah Lewis, Steven Charles, Mark Rivers, Timothy BoggsĬharles Lewis Grant (Septem– September 15, 2006) was an American novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called ' dark fantasy' and 'quiet horror'.

Shadows 3 by Charles L. Grant