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Charles L. Grant Books in Order
Charles Lewis Grant is a masterful novelist and short story writer, renowned for his dark fantasy and quiet horror styles. Under various pseudonyms, including Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis, he has crafted a diverse array of works. Grant's writing has garnered significant acclaim, including a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection Nightmare Seasons. He has also won two Nebula Awards: one in 1976 for the short story "A Crowd of Shadows," and another in 1978 for the novella "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye." Grant's anthology series, Shadows, has been a major success, running 11 volumes from 1978 to 1991 and featuring contributions from notable authors such as Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell.
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Charles L. Grant's book series? Charles L. Grant has written 18 book series. The most notable is the Black Oak series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Charles L. Grant
- #1
Genesis(1998) - #2
The Hush of Dark Wings(1999) - #3
Winter Knight(1999) - #4
Hunting Ground(2000) - #5
When the Cold Wind Blows(2001)
- #1When All the Children Call My Name(1977)
- #2
Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose(1978) - #3
If Damon Comes(1978) - #4
Coin of the Realm(1981) - #5Night\'s Swift Dragons(1982)
- #6Confess the Seasons(1982)
- #7This Old Man(1987)
- #8Sometimes in the Rain(1994)
- #9
A Glow of Candles and Other Stories(1978) - #10
Tales from the Nightside(1981) - #11
Black Wine (With: Ramsey Campbell)(1986) - #12
The Black Carousel(1995) - #13
Scream Quietly(2011)
- #1
Vampire Diary (By: Robert E. Weinberg)(1994) - #2
Caravan of Shadows (By: Richard Lee Byers)(1995) - #3
Silver Crown (By: Bill Bridges)(1995) - #4
On a Darkling Plain (By: Richard Lee Byers)(1995) - #5
Conspicuous Consumption: Werewolf (By: Stewart von Allmen)(1995) - #6
Wyrm Wolf (By: Edo Van Belkom)(1995) - #7
Mage: Such Pain (By: Don Bassingthwaite)(1995) - #8
Netherworld (By: Richard Lee Byers)(1995) - #9
House of Secrets (By: James A. Moore)(1995) - #10
Breathe Deeply (By: Don Bassingthwaite)(1995) - #11
Beyond the Shroud (By: Rick Hautala)(1996) - #12
The Ebon Mask (By: Richard Lee Byers)(1996) - #13
The Road to Hell (By: Robert E. Weinberg)(1996) - #14
Shadows on the Hill (By: Jackie Cassada)(1996) - #15
Blood Relations (By: Doug Murray)(1996) - #16
Hell Storm (By: James A. Moore)(1996) - #17
Call To Battle (By: Doug Murray)(1996) - #18
As One Dead (By: Don Bassingthwaite,Nancy Kilpatrick)(1996) - #19
The Ascension Warrior (By: Robert E. Weinberg)(1996) - #20
Watcher(1997) - #21
War in Heaven (By: Robert E. Weinberg)(1998) - #22
Quintessential World of Darkness (By: Rick Hautala)(1998) - #23
Dark Kingdoms (By: Richard Lee Byers)(1998) - #24
Eternal Hearts (By: Lucy Taylor)(1999) - #25
Slave Ring (By: Tim Dedopulos)(2003) - #26
Orpheus: Haunting the Dead (By: Seth Lindberg,Stefan Petrucha,Allen Rausch)(2003) - #27
The Overseer (By: Tim Dedopulos)(2003) - #28
The Puppet-Masters (By: Tim Dedopulos)(2003) - #29
The Last Battle (By: Bill Bridges)(2004)
- #1
Once Upon A Time In The East(1993) - #2
By the Time I Get to Nashville(1994) - #3
Time: The Semi-Final Frontier(1994)
- #1
Fantasy Tales 1 (By: Stephen Jones,David A. Sutton)(1989) - #2
Fantasy Tales 2 (By: Stephen Jones,David Sutton)(1990) - #3
Fantasy Tales 3 (By: Stephen Jones,David Sutton)(1990) - #4
Fantasy Tales 4 (With: Kim Newman,Steve Rasnic Tem,Stephen Jones,David A. Sutton)(1990) - #5
Fantasy Tales 5 (By: Stephen Jones,David Sutton)(1990) - #6
Fantasy Tales 6 (By: Stephen Jones,David Sutton)(1991) - #7
Fantasy Tales 7 (By: Stephen Jones,David Sutton)(1991)
- #1
The Really Ugly Thing from Mars(1990) - #2
Kent Montana and the Reasonably Invisible Man(1991) - #3
Kent Montana and the Once and Future Thing(1991) - #4
The Mark of the Moderately Vicious Vampire(1992)
- #1
The King of Satan's Eyes(1984) - #2
The Tail of the Arabian, Knight(1986) - #3
The Patch of the Odin Soldier(1988) - #4
The Fangs of the Hooded Demon(1988)
- #1
The Cats (By: Nick Sharman)(1977) - #2
Legion of the Dead (By: Hugh B. Cave)(1979) - #3
Night Songs(1984) - #4
Cat Magic (By: Whitley Strieber)(1986) - #5
Shadow Child (By: Joseph A. Citro)(1987) - #6
The Kill Riff (By: David J. Schow)(1988) - #7
Crucifax (By: Bob Eggleton,Ray Garton)(1988) - #8
Dreamthorp (By: Chet Williamson)(1989) - #9
Rest in Peace (By: Jack MacLane)(1990) - #10
Where the Chill Waits (By: T. Chris Martindale)(1991) - #11
Sineater (By: Elizabeth Massie)(1992) - #12
Nightscape (By: Stephen R. George)(1992) - #13
Dark Silence (By: Rick Hautala)(1992) - #14
Animals (By: Craig Spector,John Skipp)(1993) - #15
I Am Dracula (By: C. Dean Andersson)(1993) - #16
Undertaker's Moon (By: Ronald Kelly)(2011) - #17
Wild Card (By: Jean Tennant)(2016) - #18
Night Visions (By: Stanley Wiater)(2020)
- #1
Daughter of Darkness(1992) - #2
Something's Watching(1992) - #3
Death Cycle(1993) - #4
He Told Me To(2017)
- #1
Symphony(1997) - #2In the Mood(1998)
- #3Chariot(1998)
- #4
Riders in the Sky(1999)
- #1Night Visions: In the Blood(1984)
- #2
Night Visions(1985) - #3
Night Visions 2(1985) - #4
Night Visions 3(1986) - #5
Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart(1986) - #6
Night Visions 6(1988) - #7
Night Visions 8(1990) - #8
Night Visions 9(1991) - #9
Night Visions 10(2001) - #10
Night Visions 11(2004) - #11
Night Visions 12(2006)
- #1
The Hour of the Oxrun Dead(1977) - #2
Sound of Midnight(1978) - #3The Last Call of Mourning(1979)
- #4The Grave(1981)
- #5
The Bloodwind(1982) - #6
Nightmare Seasons(1982) - #7
The Soft Whisper of the Dead(1982) - #8
The Dark Cry of the Moon(1985) - #9The Long Night of the Grave(1986)
- #10
The Orchard(1986) - #11
Dialing the Wind(1988)
- #1
The Shadow of Alpha(1976) - #2
Ascension(1977) - #3
Legion(1979)
- #1
Nightmare Session(1986) - #2
Academy of Terror(1986) - #3
The Witches Eye(1986) - #4
Skeleton Key(1986) - #5
The Enemy Within(1986) - #6
The Last Alien(1987)
- #1
The Curse(1977) - #2
Voices Out of Time (As: Deborah Lewis)(1977) - #3The Ravens of the Moon(1978)
- #4
A Quiet Night of Fear(1981) - #5The Nestling(1982)
- #6
The Tea Party(1985) - #7
The Pet(1986) - #8For Fear of the Night(1987)
- #9
The Seven Spears Of The W'dch'ck (As: Lionel Fenn)(1988) - #10In a Dark Dream(1989)
- #11Stunts(1990)
- #12Something Stirs(1991)
- #13
Fire Mask(1991) - #14
Hudson Hawk (As: Geoffrey Marsh)(1991) - #15
Heritages from Our Founding Fathers(1991) - #16
Raven(1993) - #17
Jackals(1994)
- #1
Orbit 11(1972) - #2
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1974(1974) - #3
Nebula Awards 10(1975) - #4
Nebula Award Stories Ten(1976) - #5
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV(1976) - #6
Graven Images: Three Original Novellas Of Science Fiction(1977) - #7
Whispers(1977) - #8
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V(1977) - #9
Chrysalis 1(1977) - #10
Nebula Awards 12(1978) - #11
Shadows(1978) - #12The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI(1978)
- #13
Chrysalis 3(1978) - #14
Shadows 2(1979) - #15
Nightmares(1979) - #16
The Year's Best Horror Stories Series VII(1979) - #17
Chrysalis 4(1979) - #18Chrysalis 5(1979)
- #19
Shadows 3(1980) - #20
Mummy!(1980) - #21
Shadows 4(1981) - #22
Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King(1982) - #23
Nebula Awards 16(1982) - #24Shadows 5(1982)
- #25
Perpetual Light(1982) - #26The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror(1983)
- #27
Fears(1983) - #28
Shadows 7(1984) - #29
Masques(1984) - #30
Shadows 8(1985) - #31
Midnight(1985) - #32
The First Chronicles of Greystone Bay(1985) - #33
The Year's Best Horror Stories(1985) - #34
Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985(1985) - #35
Shadows 9(1986) - #36The Years Best Horror Stories XIV(1986)
- #37
Halloween Horrors(1986) - #38
Terrors(1986) - #39
Horrors(1986) - #40
Shadows 6(1986) - #41The Dark Descent(1987)
- #42
Shadows 10(1987) - #43
In the Field of Fire(1987) - #44
Volume I: The Color of Evil(1987) - #45
The Year's Best Horror Stories XV(1987) - #46
Doom City(1987) - #47
The Best of Shadows(1988) - #48
Masters of Darkness II(1988) - #49
Gaslight & Ghosts(1988) - #50
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction(1988) - #51Prime Evil(1988)
- #52
The Year's Best Horror Stories XVI(1988) - #53
Ghosts(1988) - #54
Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghostly Horror(1989) - #55
Second Annual Collection(1989) - #56
Borderlands 1(1990) - #57
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams(1990) - #58
The Seaharp Hotel(1990) - #59
Night Terrors(1990) - #60
The Horror Hall of Fame(1991) - #61The Architecture of Fear(1991)
- #62
Final Shadows(1991) - #63
Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film(1992) - #64
Best New Horror 3(1992) - #65
After Midnight(1992) - #66
Monsters in Our Midst(1993) - #67The Giant Book of Zombies(1993)
- #68
Deathport(1993) - #69
In the Fog(1993) - #70
The Giant Book of Best New Horror(1993) - #71
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories(1993) - #72
The Mammoth Book of Zombies(1993) - #73
Grails(1994) - #74
Best New Horror 5(1994) - #75
Best New Horror 6(1995) - #76
Giant Book of Fantasy Tales(1996) - #77
Gallery of Horror(1996) - #78Robert Bloch's Psychos(1997)
- #79
Millenium(1997) - #80Gothic Ghosts(1997)
- #81
Eleventh Annual Collection(1998) - #82
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle(1998) - #83
Horror at Halloween(1999) - #84
Phantoms and Fiends(2000) - #85
October Dreams(2000) - #86The Museum of Horrors(2001)
- #87Dark Masques(2001)
- #88
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13(2002) - #89
13 Horrors(2003) - #90
The Dark: New Ghost Stories(2003) - #91The Mammoth Book of New Terror(2004)
- #92
Horrorscape(2005) - #93
The Best Of Borderlands, Vols. 1-5(2005) - #94Dark Territories(2008)
- #95
Classic Tales of Horror(2009) - #96
Horror at Halloween: Part Five(2011) - #97
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny(2013) - #98
Blurring the Line(2015) - #99
Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night(2019) - #100
Tomes of Terror(2020)
- #1Blood River Down(1986)
- #2
Web of Defeat(1987) - #3
Agnes Day(1987)
- #1Goblins(1994)
- #2
Hunter(1995) - #3
Ground Zero (By: Kevin J. Anderson)(1995) - #4
Whirlwind(1995) - #5
Ruins (By: Kevin J. Anderson)(1995) - #6
Antibodies (By: Kevin J. Anderson)(1997) - #7
Skin (By: Ben Mezrich)(1998) - #8
Fight the Future (By: Elizabeth Hand)(1998) - #9
I Want to Believe (By: Max Allan Collins)(2008) - #10
Perihelion (By: Claudia Gray)(2024)
About Charles L. Grant
Charles Lewis Grant is a masterful novelist and short story writer, renowned for his dark fantasy and quiet horror styles. Under various pseudonyms, including Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis, he has crafted a diverse array of works. Grant's writing has garnered significant acclaim, including a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection Nightmare Seasons. He has also won two Nebula Awards: one in 1976 for the short story "A Crowd of Shadows," and another in 1978 for the novella "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye." Grant's anthology series, Shadows, has been a major success, running 11 volumes from 1978 to 1991 and featuring contributions from notable authors such as Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell.
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