Charles L. Grant RIP
Posted By Kathleen David on September 16, 2006
Charlie Grant was a fixture at southern conventions.
I can remember him as the MC for the ChattaCon masquerade almost every year I was there. He was an obstreperous curmudgeon but he was OUR obstreperous curmudgeon. He always kept the audience in hand and the contestants knew what to expect from him.
He passed away after a very long illness. I will miss his gravelly voice at ChattaCon.
My sympathies to family and Friends.
When did this happen? I knew he’d been ill for some time – he missed Chattacon this year, and last year as well, I think…
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He died Friday, the 15th of September. He’ll be missed at Chattacon and a lot of other places.
From LOCUS ONLINE:
Writer and editor Charles L. Grant, born 1942, died yesterday, Sept. 15, 2006, shortly after returning home from a long hospital stay. Grant
wrote over 100 books, mostly horror and fantasy, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, notably the “Oxrun Station” novels set in an
imaginary Connecticut town. He won Nebula Awards for short story “A Crowd of Shadows” and novelette “A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn’s Eye”, World Fantasy Awards for anthology Shadows (first in a 11-volume series), collection Nightmare Seasons, and novella “Confess the Seasons”, a special British Fantasy Award in 1987, a Life Achievement
Stoker Award in 2000, the World Horror Grandmaster Award in 2002, and the International Horror Guild Living Legend Award in 2003.
He died Friday, the 15th of September. He’ll be missed at Chattacon and a lot of other places.
From LOCUS ONLINE:
Writer and editor Charles L. Grant, born 1942, died yesterday, Sept. 15, 2006, shortly after returning home from a long hospital stay. Grant
wrote over 100 books, mostly horror and fantasy, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, notably the “Oxrun Station” novels set in an
imaginary Connecticut town. He won Nebula Awards for short story “A Crowd of Shadows” and novelette “A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn’s Eye”, World Fantasy Awards for anthology Shadows (first in a 11-volume series), collection Nightmare Seasons, and novella “Confess the Seasons”, a special British Fantasy Award in 1987, a Life Achievement
Stoker Award in 2000, the World Horror Grandmaster Award in 2002, and the International Horror Guild Living Legend Award in 2003.