So, you think you like to be scared.... Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the coveted Nebula, the unforgettable tales in this magnificent collection are the work of one of today's most respected masters of horror. Here are stories designed to carry the listener across fear's threshold, to terror... and beyond. Contents: A Crowd of Shadows (1976). Hear Me Now, My Sweet Abbey Rose (1978). Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street (1974). Come Dance with Me on My Pony's Grave (1973). The Three of Tens (1975). The Dark of Legends, the Light of Lies (1977). Caesar, Now Be Still (1978). White Wolf Calling (1975). The Rest Is Silence (1974). When All the Children Call My Name (1977). Secrets of the Heart (1980). A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye (1977), winner of the 1978 Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
Author
Charles Lewis Grant was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis. Grant won a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection Nightmare Seasons, a Nebula Award in 1976 for his short story "A Crowd of Shadows", and another Nebula Award in 1978 for his novella "A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye," the latter telling of an actor's dilemma in a post-literate future. Grant also edited the award winning Shadows anthology, running eleven volumes from 1978-1991. Contributors include Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, R.A. Lafferty, Avram Davidson, and Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem. Grant was a former Executive Secretary and Eastern Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and president of the Horror Writers Association.
