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Greystone Bay #4
In the Fog: The Final Chronicle of Greystone Bay
Short stories by Craig Shaw Garner, Nancy Holder, Steve Rasnic Tem, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and others chronicle the final bone-chilling day of the unholy town of Greystone Bay
300 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1986
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About the author
Charles L. Grant
309 books263 followersCharles 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.
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.
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June 11, 2016
Greystone Bay is a fictional seaside town somewhere between Boston and Rockport (I assume), a tourist town in summer, but a desolate, haunted wasteland in winter. It is the home to many supernatural occurrences: countless hauntings of the eloquent, 'quiet' style, and others more Grand Guignol, gruesome horror painted with the bright, vivid colors of an EC comic.
It was kind of sad reading this last installment in the shared-world quartet as I bid farewell to the bay; in particular, saying goodbye to the Seaharp Hotel, the Ice Pond, North Hill, the cemetery, the dreary bars along the piers, and the fog that never dissipated.
The standouts in this last installment, 'In the Fog' are Kathryn Ptacek's 'The Home', about a nursing home on an island that is cut off from the mainland in more ways than one - the atmosphere on this one is top-shelf. Nancy Holder's 'O' Love, Thy Kiss' tells the genesis of the bay community, a melodramatic slowburn about witches and curses and unrequited love. Steve Rasnic Tem's 'Ice House Pond' weaves a tragic ghost story with hungry spirits trapped deep in the ice (with a beautiful last page that weaves in Nordic myths of the apocalypse). And creator and editor, Charles L. Grant, closes it out with 'Josie in the Fog'. In typical Grant fashion, his terse poetry hits the nerve and then slices right through it. A fine way to end a memorable quartet from the old horror glory days.
As the fog rolls in...
It was kind of sad reading this last installment in the shared-world quartet as I bid farewell to the bay; in particular, saying goodbye to the Seaharp Hotel, the Ice Pond, North Hill, the cemetery, the dreary bars along the piers, and the fog that never dissipated.
The standouts in this last installment, 'In the Fog' are Kathryn Ptacek's 'The Home', about a nursing home on an island that is cut off from the mainland in more ways than one - the atmosphere on this one is top-shelf. Nancy Holder's 'O' Love, Thy Kiss' tells the genesis of the bay community, a melodramatic slowburn about witches and curses and unrequited love. Steve Rasnic Tem's 'Ice House Pond' weaves a tragic ghost story with hungry spirits trapped deep in the ice (with a beautiful last page that weaves in Nordic myths of the apocalypse). And creator and editor, Charles L. Grant, closes it out with 'Josie in the Fog'. In typical Grant fashion, his terse poetry hits the nerve and then slices right through it. A fine way to end a memorable quartet from the old horror glory days.
As the fog rolls in...
July 20, 2022
This was a total cover bug for me. I mean helllloooooo look at that amazing cover!! 😯
I had no idea this was an anthology collection. I’ll admit I was disappointed until I read my absolute fav story! O love, thy kiss by Nancy Holder. It was set in the late 1600-1700s and entails a witch-hunt. I LOVED this story. I loved the writing style of that century and I loved the storyline itself. Reading the male’s perspective on his lust and love over Elizabeth and Gabrielle was so good! I would have loved to have read a full novel on this storyline it was that good!
The next story in the book that I loved was Ice House Pond by Steve Rasnic Tem. This story kind of picks up where the previous one left off and entails secrets surrounding an ice house. This story is the one I believe inspired the cover for the book! 👏😆
Since I loved these 2 stories the most I’m rating the book a 4!
I had no idea this was an anthology collection. I’ll admit I was disappointed until I read my absolute fav story! O love, thy kiss by Nancy Holder. It was set in the late 1600-1700s and entails a witch-hunt. I LOVED this story. I loved the writing style of that century and I loved the storyline itself. Reading the male’s perspective on his lust and love over Elizabeth and Gabrielle was so good! I would have loved to have read a full novel on this storyline it was that good!
The next story in the book that I loved was Ice House Pond by Steve Rasnic Tem. This story kind of picks up where the previous one left off and entails secrets surrounding an ice house. This story is the one I believe inspired the cover for the book! 👏😆
Since I loved these 2 stories the most I’m rating the book a 4!
January 27, 2014
Just. Wow. Excellent stories, quiet, restrained, human-centered....pathos...all the good stuff.
January 22, 2016
Unfortunately, I feel this is the weakest book of the series. Unlike the previous volumes, this felt more disconnected from the whole
June 25, 2020
I liked most of this book, but it had a different set up than the others. One of the stories really dragged - to the point where I considered whether to stop reading the book entirely.
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