Charles L. Grant, Author Starfire $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-29673-0
A carefree summer gives way to terror when a teenager and his best friend become embroiled in a fiendish plot. Ages 12-up. (July)
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Charles L. Grant, Author Forge $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86278-7
One horseman shy of a full apocalypse, Grant's Millennium Quartet strides majestically through its third installment. Following the pattern established in Symphony and In the Mood, Grant foregrounds a tale of personal supernatural experience against
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Charles L. Grant, Author Forge $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86279-4
This tepid conclusion to Grant's Millennium Quarter shows the problems of a subtle approach to horrors with earthshaking potential. In the series's previous novels--Symphony, In the Mood and Chariot--Grant, a master of implied terror, used ominous...
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Charles L. Grant, Author Tor Books $15.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-93587-0
We are in Stephen King country. In the small town of Ashford, N.J., young Don Boyd contends with more than his share of problems and pressures: the high school jocks who are bullying him, the girls he doesn't know how to talk to, the breakup of his...
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Charles L. Grant, Author Doubleday Books $12.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-23893-9
The latest in this acclaimed series of anthologies of original horror stories maintains the quality standards set by its predecessors. Among the best work here: Lisa Tuttle's story of the maternal instinct gone awry, ""Jamie's Grave''; Bob Leman's...
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Charles L. Grant, Author Tor Books $17.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-93046-2
The ability to discover terror in unexpected contexts may not be unique after years of Hitchcock and Stephen King, but Grant's horror novels are distinguished by their sense of place and their fluid, rhythmic prose. The setting this time is a New...
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Charles L. Grant, Author Tor Books $19.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-312-85013-5
Teenagers' pranks are overshadowed by supernatural mayhem in this effective horror/thriller. In England after being fired from his New Jersey teaching job, Evan Kendal is troubled by inexplicable moments of chilling cold and darkness. At the same...
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Charles L. Grant, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07167-2
This unusual mystery features a suspenseful plot with a supernatural twist. Cliff Abbott and his friend Del are coming home from town, where one of Rushmore's oldest and finest buildings is on fire. As they are walking, they spot a man covered with...
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Charles L. Grant, Author Tor Books $18.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-312-85364-8
This smooth, sophisticated and frightening novel from the author of Stunts is set in a backwood motel lounge owned and run by Neil Maclaren, a former state trooper. The random group of people gathered at Maclaren's Food and Lodging on a snowy night...
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Charles L. Grant, Author Tor Books $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-09703-5
The last entry in a four-volume series, this grouping of Night Gallery -esque stories is an outstanding anthology of horror, with tales by such luminaries as Robert Bloch, Steve Rasnic Tem and Grant himself. This volume continues to present a number
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Charles L. Grant, Author Forge $20.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-312-85565-9
As with Grant's Raven, this chiller focuses on roadkills, chiefly of humans, this time along Tennessee's Potar Ridge. There wealthy Jim Scott runs a group of ``hunters'' whose prey are ``jackals''-upright subhumans who run in packs, howl on all...
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Charles L. Grant, Author Tor Books $19.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-312-85791-2
If you want a ride to another town cursed by an immemorial evil, Grant (In the Fog) is again at the ticket booth, in this atmospheric tale of a mysterious curse visited upon the inhabitants of Oxrun Station. Whenever the itinerant Pilgrim's...
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Charles L. Grant, Author Forge $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86274-9
It comes as no surprise that the leading exponent of subtle dark fantasy would have the apocalypse begin not with worldwide war, pestilence and famine, but with the eerie tolling of a church bell on a quiet summer night in rural New Jersey. Here, as
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Charles L. Grant, Author, Charles L. Grant, Other Doubleday Books $15.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-385-23894-6
For a decade, Grant's annual Shadows anthology has been one of the two best showcases of quality original short horror fiction (the other being Stuart Schiff's Whispers series). This satisfying collection contains 13 selections, among them: Ramsey...
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Simon Lake, Author, Charles L. Grant, Author Starfire $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-29442-2
Lake's supernatural thriller sustains interest, although several heavily descriptive passages slow the momentum. Cass, a self-deprecating 15-year-old, lives in a New Jersey suburb with her father, a policeman, and her mother, a writer. At a...
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