Charles L. Grant - Secrets of the Heart

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SECRETS OF THE

HEART

Charles L. Grant

When Poul Anderson was president of SFWA, the job nearly killed

him; and when his term was over, there were few suckers willing to take the

position. Eventually I was talked into it; I accepted on the condition that we

radically transform the organization. A committee of ex-presidents and other

interested people was created, and thorough reforms proposed.

One needed reform was to hire an executive secretary, someone to do

much of the routine work that was killing off presidents. Unfortunately,

SFWA had almost no money.

“That’s all right,” one of the ex-presidents said. “We’ll find some

starving young writer and pay him enough to let him live in a garret.”

And lo, the search began. We wanted someone articulate, willing to work

for beans, and living in New York; and oddly enough there were quite a few

candidates for the post. Unfortunately, although all were articulate and eager

and willing to work for slave wages, none lived in New York City; and we

really did need someone able to get to Publishers’ Row and pound on desks

once in a while.

Then Charles L. Grant applied. He lived in New Jersey, only an hour

by bus from Manhattan. He’d been writing for several years, but his career was

interrupted by military service, and he was starting over. He wanted to learn

more about the writing business, and Lord knows, the SFWA post would

teach him that.

So I hired him. I admit I had reservations. Charlie seemed so

mild-mannered and polite that I wondered if he would be tough enough to

survive in a post that a lot of young writers thought they could fill better than he

could. I needn’t have worried. Charles L. Grant turned out to be the best thing

that ever happened to SFWA, and the organization probably wouldn’t still

exist if he hadn’t put in his years of service.

Since that time, Charles Grant has become well known. He edits

Shadows, a series of horror-story anthologies, and has almost singlehandedly

revived the quiet, understated horror story.

“Secrets of the Heart” is typical Grant, and it’s no surprise that it was

nominated for a Nebula.

I’m all alone in the house now, a terrible thing to be when

you’re used to so many people being around all the time. But the

others are gone. A few of them, of course, were able to leave when

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