Steve Rasnic Tem | |
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Born | 1950 (age 73–74) Jonesville, Virginia, U.S. |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | American |
Education | Virginia Tech Virginia Commonwealth University (BA) Colorado State University |
Genre | Horror fiction |
Notable awards | British Fantasy Award World Fantasy Award |
Spouse | Melanie Kubachko |
Children | 4 |
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)
- Markers (1989). Cemetery Dance Magazine.[5]
- Absences: Charlie Goode's Ghosts (1991)
- Celestial Inventory (1991)
- Beautiful Stranger (1992) (with Melanie Tem)
- City Fishing (2000)
- The Far Side of the Lake (2001)
- 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)
- 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)
- Rough Justice (2023)
Stories[6]
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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Paradox | 2014 | Tem, Steve Rasnic (Jan 2014). "Paradox". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (1): 67–71. |
Anthologies edited
- The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (1982)
- High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1987)
Poetry
Collections
- The Hydrocephalic Ward (2003)
List of poems
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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After we're gone | 2013 | Tem, Steve Rasnic (Sep 2013). "After we're gone". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (9): 83. |
See also
Notes
- ^ 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)
- ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on October 15, 2013. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
- ^ Shearer, Chris. "Book Review: 'Blood Kin' by Steve Rasnic Tem". Fearnet. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
- ^ Denardo, John. "BEST BETS FOR SPECULATIVE FICTION BOOKS—FEBRUARY 2014". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
- ^ "Cemetery Dance #2: Relling, Little, Elliott, Partridge". Cemetery Dance Publications. Retrieved May 15, 2019.
- ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
External links
- Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem Official Website Archived 2012-11-28 at the Wayback Machine
- Bibliography
- Steve Rasnic Tem at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Story behind Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasnic Tem - Online Essay