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Charles L. Grant (1942–2006)

Autor(a) de The X Files

180+ Works 6,588 Membros 112 Críticas 11 Favorited

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Obras por Charles L. Grant

The X Files (1994) 770 exemplares
Whirlwind (1995) 754 exemplares
Gallery of Horror (1983) — Editor — 223 exemplares
The Pet (1986) — Autor — 173 exemplares
Shadows (1978) — Editor — 141 exemplares
Goblins / Whirlwind [omnibus] (1994) 129 exemplares
Symphony (1997) 120 exemplares
The Hour of the Oxrun Dead (1977) 114 exemplares
Tales from the Nightside (1981) 109 exemplares
The Orchard (1986) 98 exemplares
The Soft Whisper of the Dead (1982) 89 exemplares
Genesis (1998) 84 exemplares
For Fear of the Night (1988) 81 exemplares
The Nestling (1982) 80 exemplares
Shadows 3 (1980) — Editor — 77 exemplares
Nightmare Seasons (1982) 77 exemplares
Shadows 4 (1981) — Editor — 75 exemplares
The Sound of Midnight (1978) 72 exemplares
The Hush of Dark Wings (1999) 71 exemplares
In A Dark Dream (1989) 70 exemplares
Winter knight (1999) 69 exemplares
The Grave (1981) 68 exemplares
Shadows 5 (1982) — Editor — 67 exemplares
Blood River Down (1986) 67 exemplares
Riders in the Sky (1999) 67 exemplares
In The Mood (Millennium Quartet) (1998) 66 exemplares
The Last Call of Mourning (1979) 65 exemplares
Seven Spears of the W'Dch'Ck (1988) 65 exemplares
Night Visions 2: Dead Image (1985) — Editor — 64 exemplares
Greystone Bay (1985) — Editor — 64 exemplares
The Long Night of the Grave (1986) 62 exemplares
Hunting Ground (2000) 59 exemplares
Night Songs (1984) 59 exemplares
Raven (1993) 59 exemplares
Shadows 8 (1985) — Editor — 59 exemplares
The Black Carousel (1994) 58 exemplares
Fears (1983) — Editor — 57 exemplares
The Dark Cry of the Moon (1985) 56 exemplares
Web of Defeat (1987) 55 exemplares
Dialing the Wind (1989) 55 exemplares
When the Cold Wind Blows (2001) 55 exemplares
Shadows 6 (1983) — Editor — 54 exemplares
The Shadow of Alpha (1976) 51 exemplares
Bloodwind (1982) 51 exemplares
Shadows 7 (1984) — Editor — 50 exemplares
Shadows 2 (1978) — Editor — 47 exemplares
Midnight (1985) — Editor — 46 exemplares
Legion (1979) 43 exemplares
Nightmares (1979) — Editor — 43 exemplares
Horrors (1866) — Editor — 43 exemplares
Something Stirs (1991) 42 exemplares
The Tea Party (1985) 42 exemplares
Agnes Day (1987) 41 exemplares
Final Shadows (1991) — Editor — 40 exemplares
Jackals (1994) 39 exemplares
Watcher: Based on the Apocalypse (1997) 38 exemplares
668: The Neighbor of the Beast (1992) 37 exemplares
Terrors (1982) — Editor — 37 exemplares
Shadows 9 (1986) — Editor — 37 exemplares
Ascension (1977) 36 exemplares
The Seaharp Hotel (1990) — Editor — 35 exemplares
Doom City (1987) — Editor — 34 exemplares
By the Time I Get to Nashville (1820) 34 exemplares
A Glow of Candles (1981) 32 exemplares
In the Fog: The Final Chronicle of Greystone Bay (1993) — Editor; Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
After Midnight (1986) 29 exemplares
Best of Shadows (1988) — Editor — 28 exemplares
Once Upon A Time/east (1993) 25 exemplares
Shadows 10 (1987) — Editor — 22 exemplares
Gothic Ghosts (1997) 22 exemplares
Hudson Hawk (1991) 20 exemplares
Quiet Night of Fear (1981) 20 exemplares
Daughter of Darkness (1992) 20 exemplares
Time: The Semi-Final Frontier (1994) 20 exemplares
The Curse (1979) 18 exemplares
The Witches Eye (1986) 15 exemplares
The King of Satan's Eyes (1984) 15 exemplares
Tail of the Arabian Knight (1986) 14 exemplares
Patch of the Odin Soldier (1987) 12 exemplares
Skeleton Key (1986) 12 exemplares
The Last Alien (1987) 12 exemplares
The Ravens of the Moon (1978) 12 exemplares
Nightmare Session (1986) 11 exemplares
Fire Mask (1991) 11 exemplares
Academy of Terror (1986) 11 exemplares
The Enemy Within (1987) 10 exemplares
When Dark Descends (2006) 10 exemplares
Cemetery Dance Issue 58 (2008) 7 exemplares
Silver Huntress (1983) 7 exemplares
DEATH CYCLE (Midnight Place) (1993) 6 exemplares
If Damon Comes 5 exemplares
Voices Out of Time (2013) 5 exemplares
Spinning Tales With The Dead (2006) 4 exemplares
River Witch (1979) 3 exemplares
Alptraum (1992) 3 exemplares
Science Fiction Special 39 (1981) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
RiverRun (1979) 3 exemplares
El susurro de la medianoche (1978) 3 exemplares
Mountain Witch (1990) 3 exemplares
Something's Watching (1992) 3 exemplares
White Wolf Calling 3 exemplares
The Velvet Hart (1985) 2 exemplares
Coin Of The Realm 2 exemplares
Moon Witch (1980) 2 exemplares
Ombre 2 exemplares
Haus der Nacht (1989) 2 exemplares
Love-Starved 2 exemplares
Chameleon (1995) 2 exemplares
Peacemaker 2 exemplares
Out There 2 exemplares
Una tranquila noche de terror (1983) 2 exemplares
The Sheeted Dead 1 exemplar
Alice Smiling 1 exemplar
This Old Man 1 exemplar
Riding the Black 1 exemplar
Penny Daye 1 exemplar
Crystal 1 exemplar
Ellen, In Her Time 1 exemplar
Seacliff (1984) 1 exemplar
Akta X. Smrtící šepot (1996) 1 exemplar
The Bloodwind (1982) 1 exemplar
Quietly Now 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 884 exemplares
The Dark Descent (1987) — Contribuidor — 719 exemplares
Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror (1988) — Contribuidor — 598 exemplares
Dark Forces (1980) — Contribuidor — 567 exemplares
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993) — Contribuidor — 441 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (1991) — Contribuidor — 310 exemplares
October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween (2000) — Contribuidor — 259 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Contribuidor — 242 exemplares
Grails: Quests of the Dawn (1992) — Contribuidor — 235 exemplares
Borderlands 1 (1990) — Contribuidor — 234 exemplares
Revelations (1997) — Contribuidor — 213 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Zombies (1993) — Contribuidor — 202 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (1987) — Contribuidor — 200 exemplares
Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981) — Contribuidor — 196 exemplares
The Dark (2003) — Contribuidor — 177 exemplares
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (1998) — Contribuidor — 170 exemplares
Robert Bloch's Psychos (1997) — Contribuidor — 167 exemplares
Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King (1982) — Contribuidor — 165 exemplares
The Museum of Horrors (2001) — Contribuidor — 150 exemplares
Borderlands 2 (1991) — Contribuidor — 145 exemplares
Dark Masques (2001) — Contribuidor — 136 exemplares
Cutting Edge (1985) — Contribuidor — 126 exemplares
Nebula Award Stories Sixteen (1982) — Contribuidor — 123 exemplares
Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975) — Contribuidor — 107 exemplares
Nebula Winners Fourteen (1980) — Contribuidor — 104 exemplares
The Bradbury Chronicles: Stories in Honor of Ray Bradbury (1991) — Contribuidor — 104 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 (2002) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Terror (1992) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
Perpetual Light (1982) — Contribuidor — 99 exemplares
Orbit 11 (1972) — Contribuidor — 96 exemplares
Nebula Winners: 12 (1978) — Contribuidor — 87 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of New Terror (2004) — Contribuidor — 85 exemplares
The Horror Hall of Fame (1991) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
Best New Horror 3 (1992) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
The Ultimate Zombie (1993) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
In the Field of Fire (1987) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Return to the Twilight Zone (1994) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
Tales of the Dead (1981) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Night Visions: In the blood (1984) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
Confederacy of the Dead (1993) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares
The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VIII (1980) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Post Mortem (Short Stories Anthology) (1989) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales (1988) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 10: Ghosts (1988) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Masques: All New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1984) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
The Architecture of Fear (1987) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII (1985) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Ripper (1988) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Halloween Horrors (1984) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series X (1982) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIV (1986) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
Tales by Moonlight II (1988) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare: 30 Terrifying Tales (1993) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
Psycho-Paths (1840) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
The Best New Horror: Volume Six (1995) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Taverns of the Dead (2005) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVI (1988) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Chrysalis (1977) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Touch Wood (1993) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
Future Quest (1973) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
The Complete Masters of Darkness (1991) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Chrysalis 5 (1979) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny (2013) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Chrysalis 3 (1978) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Best Of Masques (1988) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Vampires in Love: Stories with a Bite (2010) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
The New Mind (Anthology 9-in-1) (1973) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Nursery Crimes (1993) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences (1992) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Chrysalis 4 (1979) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Outoja tarinoita 6 (1955) 19 exemplares
Horrorscape: New Masterpieces of Horror, Vol. 1 (1996) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Orbit 16 (1975) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
The Arts and beyond: Visions of man's aesthetic future (1977) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Dead End: City Limits : An Anthology of Urban Fear (1991) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Mummy: A Chrestomathy of Cryptology (1980) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Wild Things Live There: The Best of Northern Frights (2001) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales (1996) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Gaslight and Ghosts (1988) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Dark Sins, Dark Dreams: Crime in Science Fiction (1978) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
When the Black Lotus Blooms (1990) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Northern Frights 2 (1994) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
New Dimensions No. 13 (1982) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Don't Turn Out the Light (2005) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Amazing Stories Vol. 48, No. 5 [March 1975] (1975) — Autor — 3 exemplares

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A set of four novellas set in Grant's fictional town of Oxrun Station. Atmospheric and spooky, and well written, with some odd situations that are more novel than a lot of horror fiction.
 
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kitsune_reader | 2 outras críticas | Nov 23, 2023 |
I'm not convinced this book was written to be YA but it comes across that way because of the focus on the teenage protagonist, his schoolmates, parents etc. In theory, here was an interesting idea: teenage boy who feels put upon, with bullying from boys in the football team, and parents who belittle his ambition to be a veterinarian, retreats into a fantasy world which then turns into reality. His animal posters on the bedroom wall, which he views as friends and talks to, begin to take on a life of their own, as the horse in one fades out and a phantom horse begins to stalk those associated with him. He has found a protector, who turns out to be overprotective. Meanwhile, a nasty serial killer with delusions of being a werewolf has arrived in town and started killing kids.

Perhaps the story suffered from being stretched too thin over so many bases. We have the serial killer story which doesn't last long, the teenage angst thread running throughout which does get a bit wearing unfortunately, and the spectral horse plot. Plus the irresponsible and unpleasant behaviour of the boy's parents. The story did seem to sag a bit in the middle, and although the 'good guys' in the story, especially the girl he has a crush on - can't really be love given how he treats her - have more life to them - the girl is the most sympathetic character in the book - and in theory the reader should be concerned when they also start to be menaced, the overall effect, I'm afraid, is a 'so what'. Nasty people get stomped on so there isn't much to be concerned about, and the ending is rather a cliche. So only a 2-star rating.
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kitsune_reader | 4 outras críticas | Nov 23, 2023 |
 
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archivomorero | Jul 4, 2023 |
[[Charles L. Grant]] is another author who rates a mention in Stephen King's [Danse Macabre], which I have been using as a masters class of sorts in horror writing. Uncle Stevie lists Grant's [The Sound of Midnight] as one of his favorites.

[The Pet] is a terribly creative story, detailing a teenager's psychic ability to bring the posters of animals on his walls to life - mind you, not so much as spirit animals but more avenging terrors. It will be awhile before I look at a horse in the same way I used to, as noble an benevolent rather than blood-lusty. The sheer creativity with which Grant draws the terror out is masterful, both in the creation of the avenging animal and the lengthening of the tension. And the story ends with a not-so-mainstream twist.

4 bones!!!!
Recommended!!!!
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blackdogbooks | 4 outras críticas | Sep 1, 2022 |

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Obras
180
Also by
96
Membros
6,588
Popularidade
#3,718
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
112
ISBN
320
Línguas
19
Marcado como favorito
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