Charles L. Grant died of a heart attack in his home on Friday evening, September 15. His wife, Kathy, and brother, Jack, were with him. Following 2 1/2 years of hospital care, he return to his New Jersey home 10 days earlier, to pass away at home with his family rather than in a hospital.

Grant was a writer and editor. Although best known for dark fantasy and horror, he wrote over 100 books and 200 short stories in several genres and using several pseudonyms, including: Felicia Andrews, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Deborah Lewis and Geoffrey Marsh.

A former officer and the first Executive Secretary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Grant received SFWA's Nebula Awards for "A Crowd of Shadows" and "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye." His work was nominated for over 20 other awards and he received 3 World Fantasy Awards, the British Fantasy Society's Special Award for life achievement, Horror Writers Association's Lifetime Achievement Award and the World Horror Convention's Grandmaster Award.

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.

New Jersey Herald obituary.

Posted September 16, 2006, updated 9/20.