Charles L. Grant RIP

datlow.RemoveThis@datlow.com wrote:

> This from Douglas E. Winter this morning:
>
> Charlie Grant died last night at home of a heart attack. It happened
> very quickly, around 11pm. He had been watching a baseball game on
> television with Kathy and his son, Jack. Kathy and Jack went to the
> kitchen for some food, and when they returned a few minutes later, he
> was gone.
>
> Ten days ago, Charlie had been able, at long last, to return home.
> That had been his hope -- to die at home, and not in the hospital.
> Particularly after all he had been through, the end was merciful, and
> what he wanted.
>
> Tom and Elizabeth McDonald are helping Kathy with arrangements for the
> funeral, and a possible memorial service I'm preparing an official
> statement/ obituary, which I'll send along -- with any additional
> information -- as soon as it's known.

Very sad news, of course, but I'm glad to hear that he passed away at
home rather than in a hospital setting.

Thanks for passing this along.

Yrs,

Michael
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This is very sad. Thank you for passing it along. I wish more of
Grant's short fiction had been collected during his lifetime.

Jim
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jrock DeleteThis @locallink.net wrote:
> This is very sad. Thank you for passing it along. I wish more of
> Grant's short fiction had been collected during his lifetime.
>
> Jim

Alas! At least Charlie died peacefully at home as he would have wished,
I understand. I remember we were together on the New Voices in Horror
panel (I think it was) at the first World Fantasy Convention in
Providence. We were together again with the rest of the panel for a
return bout at a Providence WFC decades later, but he wouldn't let me
call it Old Farts of Horror - he thought that was disrespectful. Fine
writer and a congenial chap.
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This is indeed sad news, but at least there is one consolation: imagine
all the great stories that will now be waiting for us to read when we
join him in the Afterlife.

Personally, I can't wait.

Kevin L. O'Brien
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The visitations will be on wednesday, 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. at the
Iliff-Ruggiero Funeral Home in Newton NJ.

The funeral will be held 11 a.m. on Thursday at Christ Episcopal
Church in Newton.

As soon as I get the directions, I'll post them here.
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For anyone planning to drive who lives in the area:

Take Route 80 west ( Route 80 can be approached via the NJ Turnpike to
Route 280, or from the Parkway - depending on where people are coming
from. Since 80 is the main east-west route through northern NJ, most
people can find it and know their direction to it.

On Route 80 west, continue most of the way across NJ to EXIT 25 toward
STANHOPE / NEWTON, following signs for 206 North. 206 is a mostly
2-lane road that takes you through a number of towns and lots of
traffic lights. It's almost 15 miles or so into Newton from Route 80.
Route 206 bears left at a blinking light (with a service station in
front of you) just before it enters Newton.

The Ififf-Ruggiero Funeral home is a large white "house" on Main
Street the left just after you enter town - just past the Acme
shopping center.

Christ Church is also on Main Street a little further into town. It's
a small town, so you can't miss it.





datlow RemoveThis @datlow.com wrote:
> The visitations will be on wednesday, 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. at the
> Iliff-Ruggiero Funeral Home in Newton NJ.
>
> The funeral will be held 11 a.m. on Thursday at Christ Episcopal
> Church in Newton.
>
> As soon as I get the directions, I'll post them here.
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biochemborg.DeleteThis@earthlink.net wrote:

> This is indeed sad news, but at least there is one consolation: imagine
> all the great stories that will now be waiting for us to read when we
> join him in the Afterlife.
>
> Personally, I can't wait.
>
> Kevin L. O'Brien

Bearing in mind you claimed that you were about to die one year ago,
and are supposedly deep in the throes of chemotherapy even now, I
presume that won't be too far away.

PS. Please pass on my regards to your oncologist "Susan Anton". I trust
she is still using your mother's email address.
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hauntedriver RemoveThis @hotmail.com wrote:
> biochemborg RemoveThis @earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > This is indeed sad news, but at least there is one consolation: imagine
> > all the great stories that will now be waiting for us to read when we
> > join him in the Afterlife.
> >
> > Personally, I can't wait.
> >
> > Kevin L. O'Brien
>
> Bearing in mind you claimed that you were about to die one year ago,
> and are supposedly deep in the throes of chemotherapy even now, I
> presume that won't be too far away.
>
> PS. Please pass on my regards to your oncologist "Susan Anton". I trust
> she is still using your mother's email address.

The fact that you would try to hijack a condolences thread for your
own petty purposes just shows why so many have such a low opinion of
you Chris. Shame on you.

Willie
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williemeikle wrote:

> hauntedriver DeleteThis @hotmail.com wrote:
> > biochemborg DeleteThis @earthlink.net wrote:
> >
> > > This is indeed sad news, but at least there is one consolation: imagine
> > > all the great stories that will now be waiting for us to read when we
> > > join him in the Afterlife.
> > >
> > > Personally, I can't wait.
> > >
> > > Kevin L. O'Brien
> >
> > Bearing in mind you claimed that you were about to die one year ago,
> > and are supposedly deep in the throes of chemotherapy even now, I
> > presume that won't be too far away.
> >
> > PS. Please pass on my regards to your oncologist "Susan Anton". I trust
> > she is still using your mother's email address.
>
> The fact that you would try to hijack a condolences thread for your
> own petty purposes just shows why so many have such a low opinion of
> you Chris. Shame on you.
>
> Willie

As you've just done?

No one has hijacked any thread. But death is a serious issues, as is
cancer, so when I see someone who lied about having cancer just to
elicit sympathy from the members of a discussion group expressing
empathy for a third party who has recently passed away, it irks.

If you call that a 'purpose' then you should perhaps think about taking
a pill for your psychosis. There is no 'purpose', just forthrightedness.
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hauntedriver RemoveThis @hotmail.com (Chris Barker) wrote (in part):

> No one has hijacked any thread. But death is a serious issues, as is
> cancer, so when I see someone who lied about having cancer just to
> elicit sympathy from the members of a discussion group expressing
> empathy for a third party who has recently passed away, it irks.
>
> If you call that a 'purpose' then you should perhaps think about taking
> a pill for your psychosis. There is no 'purpose', just forthrightedness.

Your post isn't about death or even cancer, but about your intense
dislike of Kevin. And somehow I doubt that others share your opinion on
the seriousness of your one-sided feud with him. But frankly, this
isn't about what is or is not "serious". Darfur and global warming are
serious issues, but you don't find them discussed here. It's about what
constitutes *appropriate* behavior for this forum, a distinction that
will forever elude your grasp, Chris.

Yrs,

Michael
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smee wrote:

>
> Your post isn't about death or even cancer, but about ....

Oh bugger off, Michael, or at least grow up. Usenet is full of people
like you telling everyone else what they really mean. I mean what I
say, no more, no less.

KLOB is a fruitcake. Whenever he crops up on my radar, expressing
vaguely fruitcake views, then I shall have a pop at him.

Besides, you forget than in addition to his being caught out telling a
rather nasty lie (the lie about having cancer), I have first hand
experience of his lying when he lied to try and prop up John Pelan's
attempt to slither out of the Isomedia scandal. Thus KLOB's first
contribution to ABGF discussion was to prolong and intensify a
particularly unpleasant conflict.

The fact that people like you and the Rodens and Pelan welcome KLOB
with open arms just goes to show what childish hypocrites you are. He's
everything you claim to dislike - a print on demand vanity publisher, a
notorious liar, a creator of sock puppets, a poor writer, a
troublemaker - but because he kisses your collective derriere where I
plant my size twelve boot, you put aside your objections and throw him
the occasional bone.

Lying about having cancer is about as low as it gets. You, however,
appear to hold a different view. Hmm....I wonder why?

CB
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hauntedriver.DeleteThis@hotmail.com (Chris Barker) wrote (in part):

> smee wrote:
>
>> Your post isn't about death or even cancer, but about your intense
>> dislike of Kevin. And somehow I doubt that others share your opinion
>> on the seriousness of your one-sided feud with him. [Some of Chris'
>> snippage restored.]
>
> Oh bugger off, Michael, or at least grow up. Usenet is full of
> people like you telling everyone else what they really mean.
> I mean what I say, no more, no less.
> KLOB is a fruitcake. Whenever he crops up on my radar, expressing
> vaguely fruitcake views, then I shall have a pop at him.

<remainder of rant snipped>

Thank you for so eloquently reinforcing my original point, Chris.

Perhaps you might consider confining all of your future
socially-maladapted, on-line activities to your new private playground,
The Horror Sanctuary, where you and your numerous secret admirers may
wallow to your heart's content in vitally crucial and relevant matters
such as Isomedia, sock puppetry, suspect eBay auctions, the length of
your current enemies list, musings on who might be stalking you, and
discourses on who you will next be challenging to a bout of fisticuffs,
leaving those poor souls who remain behind at a.b.g.-f. to the mundane
task of discussing ghost fiction.

Yrs,

Michael
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Charles Grant

born September 12, 1942, Hackettstown, New Jersey died September 15,
2006, Newton, New Jersey

Charles Lewis Grant, 64, one of the post-war generation's most
honored and influential fantasy and horror writers, died of a heart
attack at home in Newton, New Jersey, following a long illness. The
son of an Episcopalian priest, Grant attended Trinity College in
Hartford, Connecticut, with thoughts of following in his father's
footsteps; but he soon changed his majors to English and History.
After graduation from Trinity in 1964, he returned to New Jersey (the
setting for all of his major novels) to teach high school. His first
serious efforts at writing fiction came in 1966, when he attended the
meetings of a local writers' club. In April 1968, he made his first
sale, to The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction. Later that month,
he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and served in Vietnam with the
Military Police at Qui Nhon, where he was seriously wounded twice.

After two years of active duty, Grant returned to teaching, but
dedicated himself to writing, producing five novels that were never
published. His first published novel, The Shadow of Alpha (1976), as
well as Ascension (1977) and Legion (1979) were science fiction, but he
soon shifted his attention to horror, creating the "Oxrun Station"

series, which includes the novels The Hour of the Oxrun Dead (1977),
The Sound of Midnight (1978), The Last Call of Mourning (1979), The
Grave (1981), The Bloodwind (1982), The Soft Whisper of the Dead
(1982), The Dark Cry of the Moon and The Long Night of the Grave (both
1986), as well as two collections of novelettes, Nightmare Seasons
(1982) and The Orchard (1985).

In 1978, Grant unveiled the short story anthology series Shadows,
setting a new and insistently literary standard for horror fiction
anthologies. In the introduction to its first volume, Grant offered
his enduring manifesto, championing "a quiet way to scream" - a
literature of "dark fantasy" that became known as "quiet
horror."

Although critically acclaimed as a writer and editor, Grant sometimes
wrote pseudonymously for financial or simply entertaining reasons. He
penned a best-selling series of romances as Felicia Andrews; occult
adventure novels as Geoffrey Marsh; humorous fantasies and other novels
as Lionel Fenn, Timothy Boggs, Mark Rivers, and Simon Lake. But his
devotion to horror fiction was unrelenting - as witness the novels
Night Songs (1984), The Tea Party (1985), The Pet (1986), For Fear of
the Night (1988), In a Dark Dream (1989), Stunts (1990), Something
Stirs (1991), Raven (1993), Jackals (1994); his "Millennium
Quartet,"
Symphony (1997), In the Mood (1998), Chariot (1998), and Riders in the
Sky (1999); his "Black Oak" series; his final story collection The
Black Carousel (1995); and two New York Times best-selling
"X-Files"
novels.

Grant wrote more than 110 books and 200 short stories, and edited more
than two dozen short fiction anthologies. He received (among other
awards and honors) the Nebula, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram
Stoker Awards. He was also presented with Lifetime Achievement Awards
from the Horror Writers Association, the British Fantasy Society, and
the World Horror Convention. He was a past president of the Horror
Writers Association and past Vice President of the Science Fiction
Writers of America. As writer, editor, mentor, and friend, he nurtured
the careers of countless younger writers throughout the world.
Grant is survived by his wife of 24 years, Kathryn Ptacek of Newton;
his brother, John C. Grant of Washington, New Jersey; a son, Ian M.
Grant and his wife Caroline of Juneau, Alaska; a daughter, Emily
Stalnaker and her husband Aaron of Akron, Ohio; two grandchildren,
Payton M. Grant and Aaron Robert Stalnaker; and many cousins. He was
predeceased by his parents, Reverend Sydney E. and Minerva (Clark)
Grant.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Charles L.
Grant Memorial Fund, which will be established to help further the
careers of young writers and editors of fantasy and horror fiction.
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