Melanie Tem

• May-1991
• / Horror
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Following her brother Ethan's brutal kidnapping and murder, twelve-year-old Lucy loses her hold on the real world and begins seeing apparitions of her dead brother, and is soon drawn to the evil force that took his life...

• Oct-1992
• / Horror
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A family of female werewolves, united by their primitive rituals, runs through the streets of Denver in desperate pursuit of their youngest member, an uninitiated, half-human runaway whose reckless life threatens the survival of the group...

• Aug-1994
• / Horror
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Compelled by a hungry spirit to journey to the ghost town Revenant, a group of people grieving for their dead children and spouses find a second chance to contact them, and choose between the worlds of the living and the dead...

• 1995
• / Science Fiction
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cutting-edge fiction has never sliced so deeply Reach beyond the limits of convention and rationality and into the darkest corners of the human soul in this new volume of taboo-shattering short fiction. Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge continues...

• Nov-1995
• / Horror
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While the sated women of his vampire family hibernate, the men oversee their southern-bound convoy, and one son, compelled by a dream that leaves him no peace, must overcome a great personal weakness in order to save an innocent life. Original....

• Jul-1996
• / Horror
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Twenty-year-old Valerie Kittridge is horrified to learn that her father has had a stroke. As an only child and with her mother dead, her father is all she has in the world, and she leaves her life as a film student in California to nurse her father b...

• Aug-1999
• / Horror
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Many residents of the Tides nursing home see the past more clearly than the present. So when Marshall, an elderly patient with Alzheimer's disease, begins to see a mysterious woman named Faye, no one pays all that much attention. Even Marshall's daug...

• Apr-2002
• / Horror
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Leila, a woman who is only able to see the world in colors and shapes due to her near blindness, is plunged into a world of terror when she is kidnapped by Russell, a man who believes that her blindness is caused by the evil that lurks within her hea...

• May-2003
• / Horror
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The Devil, they say, is in the details. The small decisions we make every day. But for the Harkness family, this expression is all too literally true. For many years the members of this family have gotten seemingly helpful advice at key moments in th...

• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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Things happen when Greg is around...all kinds of things bet broken, yet you can't relaly say he's destructive because you never see him break anything. Other kids are getting hurt or getting into trouble all the time, yet you can't put your finger o...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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Nineteen tales of dark, psychological horror from the pen of one of the modern masters of dark Fiction, award-winning author Melanie Tem. Contents include:The Ice Downstream / Sitting with the Driver / The Rock / The Co-op / Secrets / Daddy's Side /...

• Feb-2013
• / Horror
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For Renata Burgess -- wife, mother, social worker and writer -- Friday, March 18, 1988, is just the start of a busy weekend. Her daughter's going to a birthday party sleepover. Her elder son will be over for Sunday dinner, her nine-year-old boy cla...

• Nov-2014
• / Gothic
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For Alexandra Kove, the path of her life took her far from the claustrophobic forest where her father raised her. She believed that she had to escape, that her only road was away from the family and circumstances of her birth. Now, her road has turne...

• May-2016
• / Literary
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He came from a long line of alkies, addicts, and ne'er-do-wells. Sobriety wasn’t enough -- he needed a new life.In Out of the House of Darkness, we meet Neil as he works to make up for the decades he lost to severe alcoholism. This isn't a story ab...

• Nov-2016
• / Cozy Mystery
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While investigating the possible exploitation of a friend's father with Alzheimer's, small-town amateur sleuth Ruth Torgesson runs afoul of the violent local militia movement and remnants of the Ku Klux Klan....

• Mar-2017
• / Horror
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Singularity gathers award-winning writer Melanie Tem's most important short fiction, highlighting her diversity and mastery of her art. Melanie Tem's stories are often haunted by ghosts and monsters, ghosts and monsters revealed as all too human. ...

• Feb-2018
• / Horror
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• Sep-2021
• / Fantasy
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Nothing is simple in fifteen-year-old Casey's life. She has two families and two houses and two rooms of her own. Sometimes this makes her feel lucky, but other times she feels practically homeless. She also has a brother with Asperger's. He's intere...