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Steve Rasnic Tem


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STEVE RASNIC TEM's short fiction has been compared to the work of Franz Kafka, Dino Buzzati, Ray Bradbury, and Raymond Carver, but to quote Joe R Lansdale: "Steve Rasnic Tem is a school of writing unto himself." His 200 plus published pieces have garnered him a British Fantasy Award, and nominations for the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards.
 

Genres: Horror
 
Novels
   Excavation (1987)
   Daughters (2001) (with Melanie Tem)
   The Book of Days (2003)
   The Man on the Ceiling (2008) (with Melanie Tem)
   Deadfall Hotel (2012)
   Blood Kin (2014)
   Ubo (2017)
   The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack (2018)
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Collections
   Decoded Mirrors (1978)
   Fairytales (1985)
   Absences (1991)
   Beautiful Strangers (1992) (with Melanie Tem)
   City Fishing (2000)
   The Far Side of the Lake (2001)
   The Hydrocephalic Ward (poems) (2003)
   Invisible (2009)
   In Concert (2010) (with Melanie Tem)
   Ugly Behavior (2012)
   Onion Songs (2013)
   Here with the Shadows (2014)
   Absent Company (2014)
   Out of the Dark (2018)
   Figures Unseen (2018)
   The Harvest Child and Other Fantasies (2018)
   Everything is Fine Now (2019)
   Thanatrauma (2021)
   The Night Doctor and Other Tales (2022)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Firestorm (1982)
   Celestial Inventories (1991)
   Halloween Street (1999)
   Cold & Damp (2017)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
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Imaginings
   7. Twember (2013)
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Non fiction show
 
Steve Rasnic Tem recommends
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The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future (2023)
Christi Nogle
"Christi Nogle uses lush, inventive descriptions with surreal touches to create stories which both haunt and surprise. Her voice is distinctive, her characters richly and deeply portrayed. I was swept away."
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Halloween Season (2020)
Lucy A Snyder
"Lucy Snyder’s stories have a natural, folksy feel. At first they seem like the kinds of stories your aunt might tell you, or your grandmother. The characters feel quite familiar—you might recognize a neighbor, or a favorite uncle. Snyder’s impressive ear for the way real people actually talk draws you in, and sometimes you’re well into a story before you realize just how disturbing the situation she’s narrating actually is. And when the horror does come it is precisely, almost lovingly described. I’m always eager to see a Lucy Snyder story in the table of contents because I know it’s going to be one of the most original in the book."
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Slob (1987)
(Chaingang, book 1)
Rex Miller
"We need these periodic trips into the human heart of darkness. In Slob Rex Miller undertakes this journey with uncompromising language and story."

Anthologies containing stories by Steve Rasnic Tem
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Vagabond: Fairy Tale Issue (2024)
(Vagabond , book 1)
edited by
Charles Eugene Anderson
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Vagabond 1 (2024)
Fairy Tale Edition
edited by
Charles Eugene Anderson
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The Fiends in the Furrows III (2023)
Final Harvest
(Fiends in the Furrows, book 3)
edited by
David T Neal and Christine M Scott

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Awards
Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (1982) : The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry
World Fantasy Best Short Story nominee (1983) : Firestorm
Bram Stoker Best First Novel nominee (1988) : Excavation
Bram Stoker Best Short Story nominee (1990) : Bodies and Heads
Bram Stoker Best Short Story nominee (1991) : Back Windows
Bram Stoker Best Short Story nominee (2000) : Halloween Street
Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (2001) : The Man on the Ceiling [short story]
Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (2014) : Blood Kin
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2017) : Ubo


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