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Tanith Lee

(Tanith Lee Kaiine)

(1947 - 2015)
Wife of John Kaiine

aka Esther Garber

Tanith Lee is one of the finest writers to ever grace the field of speculative fiction. The author of around 100 novels and several hundred short stories, she wrote two episodes of the iconic TV series Blake’s 7, was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award – which she followed with two World Fantasy Awards, shortlistings for all manner of accolades including Nebula and BSFA Awards – and in 2013 she received a ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ from the organisers of World Fantasycon.

Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy

Series

Birthgrave
   1. The Birthgrave (1975)
   2. Shadowfire (1978)
     aka Vazkor, Son of Vazko
   3. Hunting the White Witch (1978)
     aka Quest for the White Witch

Novels Of Vis
   1. The Storm Lord (1976)
   2. Anackire (1983)
   3. The White Serpent (1988)

Four-BEE
1. Don't Bite the Sun (1976)
2. Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)

Flat Earth
   1. Night's Master (1978)
   2. Death's Master (1979)
   3. Delusion's Master (1981)
   4. Delirium's Mistress (1986)
   5. Night's Sorceries (1987)

Castle of Dark
   1. The Castle of Dark (1978)
   2. Prince on a White Horse (1982)
   3. Dark Castle, White Horse (1986)

Blood Stone
1. Kill the Dead (1980)
2. Sabella (1980)

Silver Metal Lover
1. The Silver Metal Lover (1982)
2. Metallic Love (2005)

Secret Books of Paradys
   1. The Book of the Damned (1988)
   2. The Book of the Beast (1988)
   3. The Book of the Dead (1986)
     aka Paradys
   4. The Book of the Mad (1993)

Tanaquil
   1. Black Unicorn (1989)
   2. Gold Unicorn (1994)
   3. Red Unicorn (1997)

Blood Opera
   1. Dark Dance (1992)
   2. Personal Darkness (1993)
   3. Darkness, I (1994)

Secret Books of Venus
   1. Faces Under Water (1998)
   2. Saint Fire (1999)
   3. A Bed of Earth (2002)
   4. Venus Preserved (2003)

Claidi Journals
   1. Law of the Wolf Tower (1998)
     aka Wolf Tower
   2. Wolf Star (2000)
     aka Wolf Star Rise
   3. Queen of the Wolves (2001)
     aka Wolf Queen
   4. Wolf Wing (2002)

Piratica
   1. Piratica (2003)
   2. Return to Parrot Island (2006)
   3. The Family Sea (2007)

Lionwolf
   1. Cast a Bright Shadow (2004)
   2. Here in Cold Hell (2005)
   3. No Flame But Mine (2007)

Selected Stories of Tanith Lee
1. Tempting The Gods (2008)
2. Hunting the Shadows (2009)

Colouring Books
   1. Colouring Books Gallery One (2020)
   2. Colouring Books Gallery Two (2020)
   3. Colouring Books: Gallery Three (2021)
   Turquoiselle (2014)

Ghosteria
Ghosteria Volume 1 (2014)
Ghosteria Volume 2 : Zircons May Be Mistaken (2014)

Blood of Roses
1. The Blood of Roses Volume 1 (2020)
2. The Blood of Roses Volume 2 (2020)

Novels

   Animal Castle (1972)
   Companions on the Road (1975)
   The Winter Players (1976)
   Volkhavaar (1977)
   Electric Forest (1979)
   Shon the Taken (1979)
   Day by Night (1980)
   Lycanthia (1981)
   Sung in Shadow (1983)
   The Beautiful Biting Machine (1984)
   Days of Grass (1985)
   Madame Two Swords (1988)
   A Heroine of the World (1989)
   The Blood of Roses (1990)
   Into Gold (1991)
   Louisa the Poisoner (1992)
   Heart-Beast (1992)
   Elephantasm (1993)
   Eva Fairdeath (1994)
   Vivia (1995)
   Reigning Cats and Dogs (1995)
   When the Lights Go Out (1995)
   The Gods Are Thirsty (1996)
   White as Snow (2000)
   Mortal Suns (2003)
   Thirtyfour (2004) (as by Esther Garber)
   Death of the Day (2004)
   L'Amber (2006)
   Greyglass (2011)
   To Indigo (2011)
   Killing Violets (2012)
   Ivoria (2012)
   Cruel Pink (2013)

Omnibus

   Biting the Sun (1999)
   When Darkness Falls (2003) (with Susan Krinard and Evelyn Vaughn)
   Winter Moon (2005) (with Mercedes Lackey and C E Murphy)
   Songs of Love Lost and Found (2012) (with Jo Beverley, Jacqueline Carey, Robin Hobb and Cecelia Holland)

Collections

   Princess Hynchatti (1972)
   Champions of the Road (1979)
   Unsilent Night (1981)
   Cyrion (1982)
   Red as Blood (1982)
     aka Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
   Tamastara (1984)
     aka The Indian Nights
   Women as Demons (1985)
   The Gorgon (1985)
   Dreams of Dark and Light (1986)
   Forests of the Night (1989)
   Nightshades (1993)
   Fatal Women (2004) (as by Esther Garber)
   Sages and Swords (2006) (with Eugie Foster, Ed McFadden and Vera Nazarian)
   Sounds and Furies (2010)
   Disturbed by Her Song (2010) (with Judas Garbah (as by Esther Garber) )
   Hauntings (2012) (with Paul Kane, Alison Littlewood, Mark Morris, Marie O'Regan, Robert Shearman, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Liz Williams)
   The Wildside Book of Fantasy (2012) (with Lin Carter, Paul Di Filippo, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Robert E Howard, Clive Jackson, Fritz Leiber, E Hoffmann Price, Thomas Burnett Swann, Lawrence Watt-Evans and Gene Wolfe)
   Space Is Just a Starry Night (2013)
   A Different City (2014)
   Phantasya (2014)
   Blood 20 (2015)
   Legenda Maris (2015)
   Dancing Through the Fire (2015)
   Obsidian (2016) (with Kelley Armstrong, Alison Littlewood, Maura McHugh, Laura Mauro, Marie O'Regan, Sarah Pinborough, Kari Sperring, Lisa Tuttle and Liz Williams)
   Animate Objects (2016)
   Redder Than Blood (2017)
   The Weird Tales of Tanith Lee (2017)
   Tanith By Choice (2017)
   Venus Burning: Realms (2018)
   Strindberg's Ghost Sonata (2019)
   Love in a Time of Dragons (2019)
   A Wolf at the Door: And Other Rare Tales (2019)

Novellas

   The Betrothed (1968)
   Indigara (2007)
   The Heart of the Moon (2019)
   At the Court of the Crow (2020)

Series contributed to

MagicQuest
6. The Dragon Hoard (1971)
15. East of Midnight (1977)

Dragonflight
   Black Unicorn (1989)
   Gold Unicorn (1994)
   Red Unicorn (1997)

Voyage of the Basset
1. Islands in the Sky (1999)

Imaginings
1. Colder Greyer Stones (2012)

Anthologies containing stories by Tanith Lee

Short stories

	Eustace
	Sun City (1974)
	The Demoness (1976)
	The Truce (1976)
	Huzdra (1977)
	Odds Against the Gods (1977)
	In the Balance (1978)
	Paper Boat (1978)
	Sleeping Tiger (1978)
	Winter White (1978)
	Deux Amours d'une Sorcerie (1979)
	A hero at the Gates (1979)
	Monkey's Stagger (1979)
	The Murderous Dove (1979)
	Northern Chess (1979)
	Perfidious Amber (1979)
	Red as Blood [short story] (1979)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	The Thaw (1979)
	Cyrion in Bronze (1980)
	Cyrion in Wax (1980)
	One Night of the Year (1980)
	A Room with a Vie (1980)
	The Squire's Tale (1980)
	Wolfland (1980)
	You Are my Sunshine (1980)
	Because Our Skins are Finer (1981)
	The Dry Season (1981)
	Gemini (1981)
	Magritte's Secret Agent (1981)
	Meow (1981)
	Sirriamnis (1981)
	When the Clock Strikes (1981)
	Cyrion in Stone (1982)
	The Gorgon [short story] (1982)		World Fantasy
	A Lynx with Lions (1982)
	Mirage and Magia (1982)
	Southern Lights (1982)
	Written in Water (1982)
	Anna Medea (1983)
	Black as Ink (1983)
	Blue Vase of Ghosts (1983)
	Chand Veda (1983)
	Elle est Trois (La Mort) (1983)		World Fantasy
	Il Bacio (Il Chiave) (1983)
	La Reine Blanche (1983)
	Nunc Dimittis (1983)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	The Beautiful Biting Machine [short story] (1984)
	Bite Me Not, or Fleur de Feu (1984)
	Bright Burning Tiger (1984)
	A Day in the Skin (1984) aka The Century We Were Out of Them
	Draco, Draco (1984)
	Foreign Skins (1984)
	The Hunting of Death: The Unicorn (1984)
	The Ivory Merchants (1984)
	Medra (1984)
	Oh, Shining Star (1984)
	The One We Were (1984)
	Pinewood (1984)
	Simon's Wife (1984)
	Tamastara [short story] (1984)
	Three Days (1984)
	The Tree: A Winter's Tale (1984)
	Under the Hand of Chance (1984)
	The Vampire Lover (1984)
	After the Guillotine (1985)
	Blood-Mantle (1985)
	Quatt-Sup (1985)
	Into Gold [short story] (1986)
	Black as a Rose (1987)
	By Crystal Light Beneath One Star (1987)
	Children of the Night (1987)
	Crying in the Rain (1987)
	The Daughter of the Magician (1987)
	Dooniveh, the Moon (1987)
	Game Players (1987)
	Night's Daughter, Day's Desire (1987)
	The Prodigal (1987)
	Death Dances (1988)
	The Devil's Rose (1988)
	A Madonna of the Machine (1988)
	The Unrequited Glove (1988)
	Ceres Passing (1989)
	Discovered Country (1989)
	Don't Get Lost (1989)
	Down Below (1989)
	I Was Guillotined Here (1989)
	The Janfia Tree (1989)
	The Lancastrian Blush (1989)
	Nicholas (1989)
	Rachel (1989)
	The Rakshasa (1989)
	Sweet Grapes (1989)
	The Tenebris Malgraph (1989)
	White as Sin, Now (1989)
	Zelle's Thursday (1989)
	The Nightmare's Tale (1990)
	Beautiful Lady (1991)
	The Glass Dagger (1991)
	Lost in Our World (1991)
	The Marble Web (1991)
	The Mermaid (1991)
	The Moon is a Mask (1991)
	Morcara's Room (1991)
	The Weasel Bride (1991)
	Nightshade (1993)
	Unnalash (1993)
	Winter Flowers (1993)
	The Witch of the Moon (1993)
	The Beast (1995)
	The Champion (1995)
	King's Mage (1995)
	La Dame (1995)
	She Sleeps in a Tower (1995)
	Tiger I (1995)
	Flowers for Faces, Thorns for Feet (1996)
	The Reason for Not Going to the Ball (1996)
	Cain (1997)
	All the Birds of Hell (1998)
	Jedella Ghost (1998)		British Fantasy Society (nominee)
	The Pandora Heart (1998)
	Wolfed (1998)
	Yellow And Red (1998)
	The Sky-green Blues (1999)
	Where the Town Goes at Night (1999)		British Fantasy Society (nominee)
	The Abortionist's Horse (a Nightmare) (2000)
	La Vampiresse (2000)
	Rapunzel (2000)
	That Glisters Is (2000)
	A Wolf At the Door (2000)

Awards

	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Birthgrave
	World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1979) : Night's Master
	British Fantasy Society Best Novel winner (1980) : Death's Master
	Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1980) : Red as Blood [short story]
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1982) : Delusion's Master
	World Fantasy Best Short Story winner (1983) : The Gorgon [short story]
	World Fantasy Best Short Story winner (1984) : Elle est Trois (La Mort)
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1984) : Nunc Dimittis
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1987) : Night's Master
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1987) : Dreams of Dark and Light
	British Fantasy Society Best Short Story nominee (1998) : Jedella Ghost
	British Fantasy Society Best Short Story nominee (1999) : Where the Town Goes at Night
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2006) : Metallic Love

Books about Tanith Lee

Opulent Darkness (1999) by Justine Larbalestier
The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee (2001) by Mavis Haut

Tanith Lee recommends

A Telling of Stars (2002)
Caitlin Sweet
"A strong and imaginative first novel, full of gems, and of humane insight. Ultimately haunting."

The Talisman (2004)
(Sea Horses, book 2)
Louise Cooper
"Louise Cooper is one of the finest storytellers of her generation."

Brass Man (2005)
(Agent Cormac, book 3)
Neal Asher
"Asher has lit up the sky of science fiction like a new sun."

The Captain's Witch (2005)
(Captain's Witch, book 1)
Rosemary Hawley Jarman
"One of the greatest dark fantasies ever written - in any genre."

Killing Kiss (2008)
(Vampire Gene Trilogy, book 1)
Sam Stone
"A deceptively readable date with darkness - watch your step."

Elfland (2009)
(Aetherial Tales, book 1)
Freda Warrington
"A glittering treasure trove and a stunning read for Warrington's multitude of fans."

City of Dreams and Nightmare (2010)
(City of a Hundred Rows, book 1)
Ian Whates
"Born story-teller Ian Whates takes us on a gripping, terrifying trip-of-a-lifetime."

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