Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Orbit 11 |
1972 |
Buy |
| The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1974 |
1974 |
Buy |
| Nebula Awards 10 |
1975 |
Buy |
| Nebula Award Stories Ten |
1976 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series IV |
1976 |
Buy |
| Graven Images: Three Original Novellas Of Science Fiction |
1977 |
Buy |
| Whispers |
1977 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series V |
1977 |
Buy |
| Chrysalis 1 |
1977 |
Buy |
| Nebula Awards 12 |
1978 |
Buy |
| Shadows |
1978 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VI |
1978 |
Buy |
| Chrysalis 3 |
1978 |
Buy |
| Shadows 2 |
1979 |
Buy |
| Nightmares |
1979 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Horror Stories Series VII |
1979 |
Buy |
| Chrysalis 4 |
1979 |
Buy |
| Chrysalis 5 |
1979 |
Buy |
| Shadows 3 |
1980 |
Buy |
| Mummy! |
1980 |
Buy |
| Shadows 4 |
1981 |
Buy |
| Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King |
1982 |
Buy |
| Nebula Awards 16 |
1982 |
Buy |
| Shadows 5 |
1982 |
N/A |
| Perpetual Light |
1982 |
Buy |
| The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror |
1983 |
Buy |
| Fears |
1983 |
Buy |
| Shadows 7 |
1984 |
Buy |
| Masques |
1984 |
Buy |
| Shadows 8 |
1985 |
Buy |
| Midnight |
1985 |
Buy |
| The First Chronicles of Greystone Bay |
1985 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Horror Stories |
1985 |
Buy |
| Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985 |
1985 |
Buy |
| Shadows 9 |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Years Best Horror Stories XIV |
1986 |
Buy |
| Halloween Horrors |
1986 |
Buy |
| Terrors |
1986 |
Buy |
| Horrors |
1986 |
Buy |
| Shadows 6 |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Dark Descent |
1987 |
Buy |
| Shadows 10 |
1987 |
Buy |
| In the Field of Fire |
1987 |
Buy |
| Volume I: The Color of Evil |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Horror Stories XV |
1987 |
Buy |
| Doom City |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Best of Shadows |
1988 |
Buy |
| Masters of Darkness II |
1988 |
Buy |
| Gaslight & Ghosts |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
1988 |
Buy |
| Prime Evil |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Horror Stories XVI |
1988 |
Buy |
| Ghosts |
1988 |
Buy |
| Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghostly Horror |
1989 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection |
1989 |
Buy |
| Borderlands 1 |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Year’s Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Seaharp Hotel |
1990 |
Buy |
| Night Terrors |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Horror Hall of Fame |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Architecture of Fear |
1991 |
Buy |
| Final Shadows |
1991 |
Buy |
| Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film |
1992 |
Buy |
| After Midnight |
1992 |
Buy |
| Monsters in Our Midst |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Giant Book of Zombies |
1993 |
N/A |
| Deathport |
1993 |
Buy |
| In the Fog |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Giant Book of Best New Horror |
1993 |
Buy |
| 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Zombies |
1993 |
Buy |
| Grails |
1994 |
Buy |
| Best New Horror 5 |
1994 |
Buy |
| Giant Book of Fantasy Tales |
1996 |
Buy |
| Gallery of Horror |
1996 |
Buy |
| Robert Bloch’s Psychos |
1997 |
Buy |
| Millenium |
1997 |
Buy |
| Gothic Ghosts |
1997 |
Buy |
| Eleventh Annual Collection |
1998 |
Buy |
| In the Shadow of the Gargoyle |
1998 |
Buy |
| Horror at Halloween |
1999 |
Buy |
| Phantoms and Fiends |
2000 |
Buy |
| October Dreams |
2000 |
Buy |
| The Museum of Horrors |
2001 |
Buy |
| Dark Masques |
2001 |
Buy |
| Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 |
2002 |
Buy |
| 13 Horrors |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Dark: New Ghost Stories |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of New Terror |
2004 |
Buy |
| Horrorscape |
2005 |
Buy |
| The Best Of Borderlands, Vols. 1-5 |
2005 |
Buy |
| Dark Territories |
2008 |
Buy |
| Classic Tales of Horror |
2009 |
Buy |
| Horror at Halloween: Part Five |
2011 |
Buy |
| Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny |
2013 |
Buy |
Black Oak Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Genesis |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Hush of Dark Wings |
1999 |
Buy |
| Winter Knight |
1999 |
Buy |
| Hunting Ground |
2000 |
Buy |
| When the Cold Wind Blows |
2001 |
Buy |
Charles Grant Short Stories/Novellas Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| When All the Children Call My Name |
1977 |
N/A |
| Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose |
1978 |
Buy |
| If Damon Comes |
1978 |
Buy |
| Coin of the Realm |
1981 |
Buy |
| Night’s Swift Dragons |
1982 |
N/A |
| Confess the Seasons |
1982 |
N/A |
| This Old Man |
1987 |
N/A |
| Sometimes in the Rain |
1994 |
N/A |
Classic World of Darkness Fiction Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Vampire Diary |
1994 |
Buy |
| Caravan of Shadows |
1995 |
Buy |
| Silver Crown |
1995 |
Buy |
| On a Darkling Plain |
1995 |
Buy |
| Conspicuous Consumption: Werewolf |
1995 |
Buy |
| Wyrm Wolf |
1995 |
Buy |
| Mage: Such Pain |
1995 |
Buy |
| Netherworld |
1995 |
Buy |
| House of Secrets |
1995 |
Buy |
| Breathe Deeply |
1995 |
Buy |
| Beyond the Shroud |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Ebon Mask |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Road to Hell |
1996 |
Buy |
| Shadows on the Hill |
1996 |
Buy |
| Blood Relations |
1996 |
Buy |
| Hell Storm |
1996 |
Buy |
| Call To Battle |
1996 |
Buy |
| As One Dead |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Ascension Warrior |
1996 |
Buy |
| Watcher |
1997 |
Buy |
| War in Heaven |
1998 |
Buy |
| Quintessential World of Darkness |
1998 |
Buy |
| Dark Kingdoms |
1998 |
Buy |
| Eternal Hearts |
1999 |
Buy |
| Slave Ring |
2003 |
Buy |
| Orpheus: Haunting the Dead |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Overseer |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Puppet-Masters |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Last Battle |
2004 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Glow of Candles and Other Stories |
1978 |
Buy |
| Tales from the Nightside |
1981 |
Buy |
| Black Wine |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Black Carousel |
1995 |
Buy |
| Scream Quietly |
2011 |
Buy |
Diego Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Once Upon A Time In The East |
1993 |
Buy |
| By the Time I Get to Nashville |
1994 |
Buy |
| Time: The Semi-Final Frontier |
1994 |
Buy |
Fantasy Tales Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Fantasy Tales 1 |
1989 |
Buy |
| Fantasy Tales 2 |
1990 |
Buy |
| Fantasy Tales 3 |
1990 |
Buy |
| Fantasy Tales 4 |
1990 |
Buy |
| Fantasy Tales 5 |
1990 |
Buy |
| Fantasy Tales 6 |
1991 |
Buy |
| Fantasy Tales 7 |
1991 |
Buy |
Kent Montana Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Really Ugly Thing from Mars |
1990 |
Buy |
| Kent Montana and the Reasonably Invisible Man |
1991 |
Buy |
| Kent Montana and the Once and Future Thing |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Mark of the Moderately Vicious Vampire |
1992 |
Buy |
| 668 |
1992 |
Buy |
| 668: Neighbor of the Beast |
1992 |
N/A |
Lincoln Blackthorne Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The King of Satan’s Eyes |
1984 |
Buy |
| The Tail of the Arabian, Knight |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Patch of the Odin Soldier |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Fangs of the Hooded Demon |
1988 |
Buy |
Macabre Ink Resurrected Horrors Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Cats |
1977 |
Buy |
| Legion of the Dead |
1979 |
Buy |
| Night Songs |
1984 |
Buy |
| Cat Magic |
1986 |
Buy |
| Shadow Child |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Kill Riff |
1988 |
Buy |
| Crucifax |
1988 |
Buy |
| Dreamthorp |
1989 |
Buy |
| Rest in Peace |
1990 |
Buy |
| Where the Chill Waits |
1991 |
Buy |
| Sineater |
1992 |
Buy |
| Nightscape |
1992 |
Buy |
| Dark Silence |
1992 |
Buy |
| Animals |
1993 |
Buy |
| I Am Dracula |
1993 |
Buy |
| Undertaker’s Moon |
2011 |
Buy |
| Wild Card |
2016 |
Buy |
| Night Visions |
2020 |
Buy |
Midnight Place Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Daughter of Darkness |
1992 |
Buy |
| Something’s Watching |
1992 |
Buy |
| Death Cycle |
1993 |
Buy |
| He Told Me To |
2017 |
Buy |
Millennium Quartet Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Symphony |
1997 |
Buy |
| In the Mood |
1998 |
Buy |
| Chariot |
1998 |
Buy |
| Riders in the Sky |
1999 |
Buy |
Oxrun Station Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Hour of the Oxrun Dead |
1977 |
Buy |
| Sound of Midnight |
1978 |
Buy |
| The Last Call of Mourning |
1979 |
Buy |
| The Grave |
1981 |
Buy |
| The Bloodwind |
1982 |
Buy |
| Nightmare Seasons |
1982 |
Buy |
| The Soft Whisper of the Dead |
1982 |
Buy |
| The Dark Cry of the Moon |
1985 |
Buy |
| The Long Night of the Grave |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Orchard |
1986 |
Buy |
| Dialing the Wind |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Black Carousel |
1995 |
N/A |
Parric Family Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Shadow of Alpha |
1976 |
Buy |
| Ascension |
1977 |
Buy |
| Legion |
1979 |
Buy |
Private School Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Nightmare Session |
1986 |
Buy |
| Academy of Terror |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Witches Eye |
1986 |
Buy |
| Skeleton Key |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Enemy Within |
1986 |
Buy |
| The Last Alien |
1987 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Curse |
1977 |
Buy |
| Voices Out of Time |
1977 |
Buy |
| The Ravens of the Moon |
1978 |
Buy |
| A Quiet Night of Fear |
1981 |
Buy |
| The Nestling |
1982 |
Buy |
| The Tea Party |
1985 |
Buy |
| The Pet |
1986 |
Buy |
| For Fear of the Night |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Seven Spears Of The W’dch’ck |
1988 |
Buy |
| In a Dark Dream |
1989 |
Buy |
| Stunts |
1990 |
Buy |
| Something Stirs |
1991 |
Buy |
| Fire Mask |
1991 |
Buy |
| Hudson Hawk |
1991 |
Buy |
| Heritages from Our Founding Fathers |
1991 |
Buy |
| Raven |
1993 |
Buy |
| Jackals |
1994 |
Buy |
The Quest For The White Duck Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Blood River Down |
1986 |
Buy |
| Web of Defeat |
1987 |
Buy |
| Agnes Day |
1987 |
Buy |
Charles L. Grant was one of the most respected horror writers of the late 20th century. He won two Nebula Awards for his short fiction and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers Association. His approach to horror — slow, atmospheric, and psychologically driven — earned the label “quiet horror” and influenced a generation of writers.
Grant wrote prolifically across novels, short stories, and edited anthologies. His Oxrun Station series, set in a fictional Connecticut town plagued by supernatural events, ran to 12 novels. He also edited the long-running Shadows anthology series and contributed to the shared-world fiction of the Classic World of Darkness. He published under several pen names and continued writing until his death in 2006.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Charles L. Grant written?
Charles L. Grant has written 229 books across seventeen series.
What was Charles L. Grant's first book?
Charles L. Grant’s first book is Orbit 11, published in 1972.
What is Charles L. Grant best known for?
Grant is best known for popularizing “quiet horror,” a style that relies on atmosphere and dread rather than graphic violence. Stephen King called him “one of the premier horror writers of his or any generation.” His Oxrun Station series, spanning 12 novels set in a haunted Connecticut town, is considered a landmark of the genre.