Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant

Product Description Contents Introduction: My Friend Charlie by Stephen Jones Foreword by Stephen King Such As It Is But the Other Old Man Stopped Playing White Wolf Calling Through All His Blood Runs Shadow From All the Fields of Hail and Fire A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn s Eye When All the Children Call My Name Needle Song Not So Quiet, Maybe by Peter Straub A Garden of Blackred Roses Quietly Now Every Time You Say I Love You Coin of the Realm Old Friends Home Charlie Grant: Beginnings by Kim Newman A Night of Dark Intent Something There Is Pride Confess the Seasons Recollections of Annie And We ll Be Jolly Friends The Fire on the Mountain Burns No More by Thomas F. Monteleone The Generation Waltz Are You Afraid of the Dark? Penny Daye The Last and Dreadful Hour Crystal This Old Man Charlie by Nancy Holder Spinning Tales with the Dead Snowman Alice Smiling One Life, In an Hourglass Sometimes, in the Rain Riding the Black The Soft Sound of Wings An Interview with Charles L. Grant Nancy Kilpatrick Review Praise For Charles L. Grant The premier horror writer of his or any generation. Stephen King Charles L. Grant is in a class by himself spine-tingling story teller with an eerie imagination and a riveting style. Anyone interested in horror absolutely must pay attention to him. David Morrell Grant s style of horror takes hold of your spinal cord and plays it like a violin. His prose leaks with moody atmosphere, his characterisation is incisive and the pace never flags. Charles de Lint One of the best writing talents ever to grace the field of horror. Douglas E. Winter Grant is a superb stylist who knows how to induce shivers with simple language and quietly riveting images. San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle Grant is one of a small circle of quality horror authors whose elite numbers include Stephen King, Peter Straub, David Morrell, and a few others. Rocky Mountain News One of the genre s more literate practitioners. Always a careful scene-setter, Grant eschews gore for more subtle thrills. Kirkus Reviews Grant is one of the authors who have given us a new golden age of horror fiction. Publishers Weekly A fine writer and a hell of a good storyteller. Rave Reviews --Various About the Author Charles L. (Lewis) Grant (1942 2006) was born in Newark, New Jersey. A former teacher turned writer, as a military policeman in the US Army in Vietnam during the late 1960s he was awarded the Bronze Star. A prolific author and editor, he wrote in various genres under the pseudonyms Geoffrey Marsh , Lionel Fenn , Simon Lake , Felicia Andrews and Deborah Lewis . A winner three World Fantasy Awards and two Nebula Awards, Grant was also a recipient of the British Fantasy Society s Special Award and the Horror Writers Association s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2002 he was named Grand Master by the World Horror Convention.