Charles L. Grant

In a Dark Dream

Charles L. Grant

• 1990 WFA–Novel nominee
• 1989 Stoker–Novel nominee
• Score: 12.4

A horror story written by the author of “For Fear of the Night”, “The Pet”, “The Long Night of the Grave” and “The dark Cry on the Moon”. Hale, psychopath and murderer, has been released from the asylum. Declared sane now, Hale has but one thought in his still-twisted mind: revenge.

The Pet

Charles L. Grant

• 1987 WFA–Novel nominee
• Score: 6.37

Teenagers are being slaughtered by the Howler, a serial killer who stops in small towns just long enough to kill, just long enough to tear apart a family and a community. When he strikes in Ashford, the town reacts-setting limits on teens’ activities, monitoring who goes where-and parents become paranoid.

Seventeen-year-old Don Boyd doesn’t need the grief. He’s already under siege-he’s got family trouble, girl trouble, trouble with his high school classes and trouble with the jocks who rule the school. Surely the Howler will kill someone else, somewhere else, and then Don can go back to trying to escape notice.

But the Howler likes Ashford. And one frosty autumn night, the Howler chooses Don as his next victim. The attack is swift-but it doesn’t go as planned. Suddenly the killer and the boy are surrounded by an unnatural mist, by green fire, by the sound of iron striking iron.

And then the real horror begins.

The Nestling

Charles L. Grant

• 1983 WFA–Novel nominee
• Score: 6.33

 

The Last Call of Mourning

Charles L. Grant

• 1980 WFA–Novel nominee
• Score: 6.3

 

The Sound of Midnight

Charles L. Grant

• 1979 WFA–Novel nominee
• Score: 6.29

 

The Hour of the Oxrun Dead

Charles L. Grant

• 1978 WFA–Novel nominee
• Score: 6.28