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Steve Rasnic Tem

Steve Rasnic Tem (born 1950) is an American author. He was born in Jonesville, Virginia.

Rasnic attended college at Virginia Tech, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He earned a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado and studied creative writing at Colorado State University. He married Melanie Kubachko, and the couple took the joint surname "Tem".[1] They had four children and lived in Colorado.

Rasnic Tem's short fiction has been compared to the work of Franz Kafka, Dino Buzzati, Ray Bradbury, and Raymond Carver,[citation needed] but to quote Joe R. Lansdale: "Steve Rasnic Tem is a school of writing unto himself." His 500 plus published pieces have garnered him a British Fantasy Award, a World Fantasy Award[2] and four Bram Stoker Awards.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Excavation (1986)
  • Daughters (2001) (with Melanie Tem)
  • The Book of Days (2002)
  • The Man on the Ceiling (2008) (with Melanie Tem)
  • Among the Living (2011)
  • Deadfall Hotel (2012)
  • Blood Kin (2014)[3][4]
  • In the Lovecraft Museum (2015)
  • Ubo (2017, Solaris) – ISBN 1781085110
  • The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack (2018)

Short fiction

Collections

  • Decoded Mirrors: Three Tales After Lovecraft (1978)
  • Fairytales (1985)
  • Absences: Charlie Goode's Ghosts (1991)
  • City Fishing (2000)
  • Imagination Box (2001) (with Melanie Tem)
  • The Far Side of the Lake (2001)
  • The Hydrocephalic Ward (2003)
  • In Concert (2010) (with Melanie Tem)
  • Ugly Behavior (2012)
  • Twember (2013)
  • Onion Songs (2013)
  • Celestial Inventories (2013)
  • Here with the Shadows (2014)
  • Out of the Dark. A Storybook of Horrors (2017)
  • A Primer to Steve Rasnic Tem (2017)
  • Figures Unseen: Selected Stories (2018)
  • Everything Is Fine Now (2018)
  • The Harvest Child and Other Fantasies (2018)
  • The Night Doctor and Other Tales (2019)
  • Thanatrauma (2021)
  • Everyday Horrors (2024)
  • Queneau's Alphabet. A Story Cycle (2025)

Stories

(Uncollected)

  • Kiss (1981)
  • Night Cry (1981)
  • The Owl wth Human Eyes (1981)
  • White Rose (1981)
  • Early Warning (1981)
  • Interlude in a Laboratory (1981)
  • Again, the Hit-and-Miss (1981)
  • A Fairytale (1982)
  • Housewarming (1982)
  • The Reincarnation (1982)
  • On a Path of Marigolds (1982)
  • Shadows on the Grass (1983)
  • The Moths (1983)
  • First Rights (1983)
  • The Day it Rained Vaginas (1984)
  • The End of the Yarn (1984)
  • Spidertalk (1984)
  • Piano Moon (1985)
  • Katherine's Shadow (1986)
  • Self-Possessed (1986)
  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff (1986)
  • In Control (1986)
  • Presents of Mind (1986) (with Edward Bryant, Dan Simmons & Connie Willis)
  • Wake (1987)
  • L is for Love (1987)
  • Her New Parents (1988)
  • The Lie (1988)
  • The Double (1988)
  • Motherson (1989)
  • The Deep Blue Sea (1989)
  • The Strangers (1989)
  • Black (1989)
  • Bodies and Heads (1989)
  • Back Windows (1990)
  • My Wife, with the Yellow Hair (1990)
  • Playing Dead (1990)
  • The Adoptions (1990)
  • The Regulars (1991)
  • Plainclothes (1991)
  • Going North (1992)
  • The Process (1992)
  • Blue Alice (1992)
  • Devourings (1993)
  • Passing Through (1993)
  • The Child Killer (1993)
  • The Garden, in Autumn (1994)
  • Release of Flesh (1994)
  • Sampled (1995)
  • Shades (1995) (with Roma Felible)
  • After the Night (1995)
  • Blood Knot (1995)
  • Close to You (1996)
  • Elena (1996)
  • Sharp Edges (1997)
  • Andrew (1997)
  • What Slips Away (1998)
  • Each Day (1998)
  • The Cough (1998)
  • Heat (1999)
  • Creeps (2000)
  • This Thing Called Love (2002)
  • Denegare Spasticus (2003)
  • Espectare Necrosis (2003)
  • Excerpt: First Entry in The Book of Days (2003)
  • Yesterday (2004)
  • Spirited (2005)
  • Mysteries of the Colon (2005)
  • The House by the Bulvarnoye Koltso (2007)
  • Burning Snow (2008)
  • Noppero-Bo (2008)
  • Shadow (2009)
  • The Stench (2009)
  • Last Drink Bird Head (2009)
  • Red Light (2009)
  • Shaggy Dog Story (2010)
  • Old Men on Porches (2010)
  • The Passing (2010)
  • S.D. Watkins, Painter of Portraits (2010)
  • Living Arrangement (2010)
  • Cattiwampus (2011)
  • El Lagarto (2011)
  • The Ex (2011)
  • Pillows (2011)
  • To Denver (With Hiram Battling Zombies (2012)
  • Scree (2012)
  • Waiting at the Crossroads Motel (2012)
  • The Old Man Beset by Demons (2012)
  • Jack and Jill (2012)
  • Miranda Jo's Girl (2012)
  • Congregate (2012)
  • The Sleeping Ute (2013)
  • The Monster Makers (2013)
  • Home Invasion (2013)
  • Lookie-Loo (2013)
  • Crawldaddies (2014)
  • The Grave House (2015)
  • In the Lovecraft Museum (2015)
  • Deep Fracture (2015)
  • The Common Sea (2017)
  • I Saw Santa (2017)
  • Love Letters (2018)
  • A Space of One's Own (2018)
  • Eidetic (2019)
  • Night Vision (2019)
  • Captain Zack & the Data Raiders (2019)
  • Miguel Prays While His Mother Cries (2019)
  • Bigger Than Life (2019)
  • Z is for Zombie (2020)
  • Conversations with the Departed (2020)
  • E is For Eye (2020)
  • Mummies (2021)
  • Do You Remember? (2022)
  • The Year of the Robot Suicides (2022)
  • Eye of the Storm (2022)
  • The Man in the Mirror (2022)
  • N Is for Night (2022)
  • The Sire (2022)
  • Y Is for Yesterday (2022)
  • Subsidence (2023)
  • W Is for Whispers (2023)
  • H Is for the Hunt (2023)
  • F Is for the Farm (2023)
  • P Is for Phantasies (2023)
  • Higher Powers (2023)
  • Tutti i Morti (2023)
  • A Is for Alphabet (2023)
  • Sundown in Duffield (2023)
  • The Return (2024)
  • Imago (2024)
  • He Has Always Lived in This House Alone (2024)
  • The Stroll (2024)
  • Carcinogenesis (2024)
  • Jolly (2024)
  • Before and After (2024)
  • Prime Purpose (2025)

Anthologies

  • The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (1982)
  • High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1987)

Poetry

(Uncollected)

  • My Daughter (1978)
  • The Other State (1978)
  • The Hydrocephalic Ward (1979)
  • Lighting the Colony (1980)
  • Alternate Worlds Ghazal (1980)
  • The Landed Gentry (1980)
  • The New Weather (1980)
  • Dragon Lore (1980)
  • Seeding the Last Freedom (1980)
  • Changes (1981)
  • On Defining & Not Defining Speculative Poetry (1981)
  • The Swimmer (1982)
  • Dinosaurs (1982)
  • ESP (1982)
  • Three Cinquains (1982)
  • Time Paradox Cinquain (1982)
  • Dirt Under His Nails (1982)
  • Syrup (1982)
  • Doubles (1983)
  • Faery (1983)
  • The Lovers (1983)
  • After the Collapse (1983)
  • First Contact (1983)
  • The Dreaming Machine Dreams it Becomes Human (1984)
  • The Dreaming Machine Eats an Apple (1984)
  • The Dreaming Machine Has a Nightmare (1984)
  • Ghost Signs (1987)
  • Ancient Astronomies (1988)
  • No Man Is (1988)
  • Looking Back at Apollo (1989)
  • Nocturne (1989)
  • The Adolescence of NGC 4535 (1992)
  • Head (1992)
  • Belly (1993)
  • Cells (1993)
  • Ulcer (1995)
  • Dark at the Door (1995)
  • Shreve House (1995)
  • The Dead Who Do Not Sleep Under Green Street (1995)
  • Digits (1997)
  • Genital (1997)
  • Heart (1997)
  • Limbs (1997)
  • Lung (1997)
  • Muscle (1997)
  • The Little Match Girl (1997)
  • Creatures Without Names (2002)
  • What Must Not Happen (2004)
  • What Happens at Night (2004)
  • This is the Last Time I'm Telling the Truth (2004)
  • The Window (2004)
  • The Colors of Dark (2004)
  • All Used Up (2004)
  • Hair (2004)
  • The Troll on 23rd Ave (2006)
  • The Great Man's Apology (2007)
  • How to Play Dead (2010)
  • Pumpkin Eater (2010)
  • 39 (2011)
  • After We're Gone (2013)
  • In Quietude (2016)
  • Wraith (2017)
  • The Night Arrives (2019)
  • Leaving Home (2020)


Awards

Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.
The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry 1982 Philip K. Dick Award Nominated
Firestorm 1983 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction Nominated
Excavation 1987 Bram Stoker Award First Novel Nominated
Leaks 1988 British Fantasy Award Short Story Won
Bodies and Heads 1989 Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Nominated
Back Windows 1990 Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Nominated
Head 1992 Asimov's Readers' Poll Poem 10th Place [5]
High Fantastic 1996 World Fantasy Award Anthology Nominated
Halloween Street 1999 International Horror Guild Award Short Fiction Nominated [6]
1999 Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Nominated
City Fishing 2000 Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Nominated
2000 International Horror Guild Award Collection Won
The Man on the Ceiling

(with Melanie Tem)

2000 Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Won
2000 International Horror Guild Award Long Story Won
2001 World Fantasy Award Novella Won
2009 Shirley Jackson Award Novel Nominated [7]
In These Final Days of Sales 2001 Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Won
Imagination Box

(with Melanie Tem)

2002 International Horror Guild Award Collection Nominated
The Book of Days 2003 International Horror Guild Award Novel Nominated
The Breavement Photographer 2003 International Horror Guild Award Short Fiction Nominated
Invisible 2005 Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Nominated
2005 International Horror Guild Award Short Fiction Nominated
The Disease Artist 2006 International Horror Guild Award Short Fiction Nominated
In Concert

(with Melanie Tem)

2008 Asimov's Readers' Poll Novelette 3rd Place [8]
A Letter from the Emperor 2011 Locus Award Short Story Nominated [9]
2011 Theodore Sturgeon Award Short Science Fiction Finalist [10]
Blood Kin 2014 Bram Stoker Award Novel Won
In the Lovecraft Mueseum 2016 Shirley Jackson Award Novella Nominated [11]
Ubo 2017 Bram Stoker Award Novel Nominated
2018 Locus Award Horror Novel Nominated
2023 Bram Stoker Award Lifetime Achievement Won

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Adam Meyer, "Tem, Steve Rasnic", in David Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic writers. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1998; ISBN 1558622063 (pp. 589-90)
  2. ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on October 15, 2013. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  3. ^ Shearer, Chris. "Book Review: 'Blood Kin' by Steve Rasnic Tem". Fearnet. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  4. ^ Denardo, John. "BEST BETS FOR SPECULATIVE FICTION BOOKS—FEBRUARY 2014". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
  5. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_1993
  6. ^ https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html
  7. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2009
  8. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Asimovs_Reader_Poll_2009
  9. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
  10. ^ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?41+2011
  11. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Shirley_Jackson_Awards_2016