Charles L. Grant

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  • Bibliography:
    73 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1976
  • Latest Book:
    September 2012
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Full Series List in Order

Black Oak

1 - Genesis (May-1998)
2 - The Hush of Dark Wings (Jan-1999)
3 - Winter Knight (Oct-1999)
4 - Hunting Ground (Jun-2000)
5 - When the Cold Wind Blows (Mar-2001)

Millennium Quartet

1 - Symphony (Feb-1997)
2 - In the Mood (Feb-1998)
Riders in the Sky (Dec-1999)

The Quest for the White Duck

1 - Blood River Down (Jun-2012)
2 - Web of Defeat (Sep-2012)
3 - Agnes Day (Sep-2012)

Multi-Author Series List

World of Darkness

Watcher (Jun-1997)

The X-Files

1 - Goblins (Dec-1994)
2 - Whirlwind (Jun-1995)

Book List in Order: 73 titles

  • The Shadow of Alpha

    Introducing Parric: an ordinary civil servant being ground up in a mill of paperwork, who is given a chance to work on an experimental government project -- to live secretly in a town entirely populated by androids -- whose very existence, if it ...

  • Legion

    The village had been called Town Central, where people learned to live with androids, and androids learned to live like humans. It had been an experiment to bolster a dying population, and it might have worked, given the chance. But there was the ...

  • A Garden of Blackred Roses

  • Quiet Night of Fear

    Welcome to Starburst … a quiet seaside resort where the people of the future escape into the past, and where only four things are certain … 1. Four people are dead. 2. You are next. 3. The murderer isn't human. 4. Night is falling....

  • Shadows 4

  • A Glow of Candles and Other Stories

  • Nightmare Seasons

    "Grant is one of the young generation of authors who have given us a new golden age of horror fiction. Having grown up on the classics of the genre, they now challenge the old masters with fantasies no less shocking or shivery, but enhanced with new ...

  • Terrors

  • Soft Whisper of the Dead

    From the shadows of a windswept night comes a dark, elusive stranger...one who stalks the cobblestone streets of Oxrun Station, moving silently from victim to victim. One who sleeps by day and rises at night to satisfy a strange and evil thirst...the...



  • Night Songs

    SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT THEY ARE SINGING SONGS OF DEATH… Colin Ross, twice thwarted in love, one abandoned, quit the mainland for Haven’s End, a wounded soul on an idyllic island, seeking to heal his life. But instead of peace, he is hurled ...

  • Nightmares

  • Shadows 8

  • Midnight

    Fiery lights are seen in the the small town of Oxrun Station. A series of strange murders, a group of odd, apparently possessed children terrorizing the adults of the town, all serve to make things interesting in the Chinese sense for toy store owne...

  • Tea Party

    After unknown buyers purchase Winterest a seventeenth-century stone mansion believed to be haunted, the neighboring residents receive and invitation to a tea party and find themselves caught in a whirlwind of supernatural vengeance and violence. D...

  • Shadows Eight

  • Shadows 5

  • After Midnight

    A collection of stories by such authors as Bernard Taylor, Ramsey Campbell, Bob Booth, and Alan Ryan concerns itself with the terrible mysteries that occur in the hours of darkness between midnight and dawn, when beasts rule and the wind blows cold...

  • The Pet


    Teenagers are being slaughtered by the Howler, a serial killer who stops in small towns just long enough to kill, just long enough to tear apart a family and a community. When he strikes in Ashford, the town reacts-setting limits on teens' activi...

  • Fears



  • Shadows

  • Horrors

  • Shadows 2

  • Shadows 3

    Contents: The brown recluse / Davis Grubb -- To see you with, my dear / Bruce Francis -- Avenging angel / Ray Russell -- The ghost who limped / R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- Opening a vein / Barry N. Malzberg, Bill Pronzini -- The partnership / William F. Nol...

  • Shadows Nine

  • Shadows 6

  • The Orchard

    It was a warm evening in Oxrun Station. Perfect for a picnic... If only they hadn't chosen to visit the orchard. That was the last lovely, memorable time. The first death could have been an accident. But the suicide, the mutilation murder, the...

  • Shadows 10

  • The Hour of the Oxrun Dead

    What Was Wrong With This Picture? Oxrun Station was the very picture of a charming old New England town, complete with warm and wise old folk, handsome young couples, healthy, happy children. No visitor could have suspected the truth. Nata...

  • Shadows 7



  • Sound of Midnight

    Fiery lights are seen in the the small town of Oxrun Station. A series of strange murders, a group of odd, apparently possessed children terrorizing the adults of the town, all serve to make things interesting in the Chinese sense for toy store owne...

  • Shadows Ten

  • The Dark Cry of the Moon

  • Doom City

  • The Long Night of the Grave

  • Night Visions: In the Blood

  • Shadows 9

  • Last Call of Mourning

    Upon returning home to Oxrun Station from travelling Europe, Cynthia Yarrow notices that her family has changed. Her Mother cuts herself but does not bleed. Her Father lay dead before her eyes but is alright just hours later. Cynthia's suspicions lie...

  • Spinning Tales with the Dead

    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...

  • For Fear of the Night



  • Grave

    Josh Miller has a talent for finding things. So far, the things people have asked him to find - antique tables, old movie posters - have been innocuous enough. And Andrea Montague, the daughter of a local writer, may be his most interesting find so f...

  • In a Dark Dream

  • Bloodwind

    THE BLOODWIND IS SILENTIt grows from hate and fear and jealousy, rising over Oxrun Station in a miasma of terror and anger. Its target: anyone who dares to speak or act against its master.To many in Oxrun Station, it is Pat Shavers who controls the B...

  • Dialing the Wind

    Night in Oxrun Station From the dark porch of a lightless house the music rises, seeking those listeners desperate for love...for only they will hear the hidden secrets of this very special song. Four people are trapped by their innermost desir...

  • Seaharp Hotel

  • Stunts

    As Brian Oakland and his friends prepare to perform their various "stunts" on Halloween, a man, twisted by years of isolation, sits in one of the houses in their neighborhood, contemplating revenge. Reprint. PW....

  • Tales from the Nightside

  • Fire Mask

  • Final Shadows

    In the stunning final volume of the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, editor Charles Grant closes a decade of award-winning fantasy with a last spectacular anthology of more than 450 pages of richly satisfying reading. Includes works by Tanith L...

  • Something Stirs

    The Pack, a group of teenagers, gathers to mourn at the Starlite Diner. Eddie, their leader, is dead. The survivors are all outcasts from high school's usual cliques:Scott, who heard the scream the night Eddie died; Katie, who lives with her senile g...



  • Daughter of Darkness

    The kids sense that there's something different about Midnight Place -- an eerie sensation that won't go away … a terror that turns out to be all too real. When exotic Lin Jasandy moves to Midnight Place, Cass Fuller is immediately wary of her. And...

  • Raven

    A cozy motel and restaurant becomes a haven to nine people during a deep-winter blizzard, but when someone among them starts killing off the others, the remaining survivors must identify and eliminate a murderer. Reprint....

  • In the Fog

    Turning horror and fantasy writers loose in a small town that is a natural--or unnatural--magnet for evil, the newest Greystone Bay collection includes stories by Craig Shaw Gardner, Elizabeth Engstrom, Nancy Holder, and many others. Reprint....

  • Jackals

    The pretty young woman whose car has broken down, signaling for help...the stubborn tailgater who follows too close, for too long...the wild driver who causes accidents but is never a victim of one... These are the jackals, hunters who follow the ...

  • Goblins

    The X-Files - 1

    Opening the X-Files... MeetMulder and Scully, FBI. The agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job: investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampagi...

  • Whirlwind

    The X-Files - 2

    UNNATURAL DISASTERS Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes. But this one is particularly puzzling. There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: both sexes, all races, ages, ethnic groups. There is no ev...

  • Symphony

    Millennium Quartet - 1

    When a preacher who has lost his faith suddenly discovers that he possesses the ability to heal and perform miracles, he becomes a reluctant participant in the battle against evil as he sets out to save a teenage girl and stop the occupants--who may ...

  • Watcher

    World of Darkness

    The Watchers of the Veil sned one of their own, the Silent Strider, into the hills of Tennessee as a series of brutal murders, leaving horribly dismembered bodies, terrorizes the region and the Watchers realize that a rogue Garou, member of a legenda...

  • In the Mood

    Millennium Quartet - 2

    Crops whither in the fields. Fish float belly-up in rivers, lakes, and oceans. Orchards are barren. Cattle and sheep are dying on their feet. The world is slowly starving to death.

    Deep in the American heartland, a terrible family reunion is t...

  • Genesis

    Black Oak - 1

    WHEN YOU ELIMINATE THE IMPOSSIBLE... Black Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by brilliant, enigmatic Ethan Proctor. He takes on cases that range from the normal to the unaccountably bizarre. Now one of his people, Sloan Delan...

  • Chariot

    In Chariot, the Horseman assailing mankind is Plague. A mutated version of smallpox sweeps the famine-ridden world, and people drop dead in their tracks. Only one place seems safe -- Las Vegas, Nevada. But Las Vegas is the current home of the Horsema...

  • The Hush of Dark Wings

    Black Oak - 2

    IS IT -PARANOIA, Black Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by brilliant, enigmatic Ethan Proctor. He is a careful man. Careful in what he says, careful in what he does. And very careful about which cases he takes. But when a le...

  • Winter Knight

    Black Oak - 3

  • Riders in the Sky

    Millennium Quartet

    It is the time of the Millennium, of great battles between good and evil. The hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse herald the last days of Mankind. The four novels of the Millennium Quartet reveal the cataclysms that await mankind at t...

  • Hunting Ground

    Black Oak - 4

    Ethan Proctor, the brilliant, enigmatic head of Black Oak Security, reluctantly submits to his employees' orders to take some R&R in Atlantic City. But his vacation soon develops into something entirely different -- a web of murder, lies, and...vampi...

  • When the Cold Wind Blows

    Black Oak - 5

    Paranormal investigator Ethan Proctor and his Black Oak Security team journey to the swampy woodlands northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, to look into a series of bizarre disappearances and brutal mutiliations that could be linked to a real-life wolfman. ...

  • The Black Carousel


    Night--the carnival grounds are empty...

    Or are they? Laughter and screams float faintly on the wind. Echoes of the day's fairgoers--or cries of the damned, rising form Hell?

    At the carnival's core is the black carousel, whirling to...

  • The Curse

    Syd and Theresa Guiness got out of their crowded city apartment and moved to a quaint house on a quiet cul de sac in the suburbs. Their dreamhouse. Then little things began to happen. Theresa was certain it was just her imagination and didn't pay ...

  • Blood River Down

    The Quest for the White Duck - 1

    Gideon Sunday, an ex-semi-professional American Football player, goes to his pantry to retrieve an awful bottle of his (dead) sister's fruit preserves. When he gets there, he discovers a meadow in his pantry. He closes the door, takes a few breaths, ...

  • Agnes Day

    The Quest for the White Duck - 3

    Book Three of the Quest for the White DuckGideon Sunday, an ex-football player who found himself mysteriously transported to the magical world of Chey, must find a way to stop Agnes, the evil wife of the sorcerer Wamchu....

  • Web of Defeat

    The Quest for the White Duck - 2

    When Gideon Sunday is handed a ball, he takes it and runs...Unfortunately, the game this unemployed football player has found himself in will probably get him killed.The minute he stepped through his pantry door into the magical land of Chey, Gideon ...

  • The Best of Shadows

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  • The Nestling

    • / General Fiction
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    THERE IS A REASON IT HAS RETURNED … Something has caused a grim and sudden change in Wyoming's Windriver Valley, something whose dark power was foretold in an ancient Indian prophecy Now after 20 years Jason Clarke comes home to a town gripped b...

  • Stories of Naples and the Camorra

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    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

Award-Winning Books by Charles L. Grant

Nightmare Seasons
1983 World Fantasy Award -- Anthology/Collection
Shadows
1979 World Fantasy Award -- Anthology/Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles L. Grant has published 73 books.

Charles L. Grant does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Web of Defeat, was published in September 2012.

The first book by Charles L. Grant, The Shadow of Alpha, was published in June 1976.

Yes. Charles L. Grant has 3 series.
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