Steve Rasnic Tem

• 1980
• / Science Fiction
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HIGH TECH WAR -- AND HOW TO AVOID IT The answer is simple: you would have peace? Then prepare for war. This wisdom is as old as armies. Yet after a few generations, the peace that was paid for with soldiers' blood comes to seem the normal thing, t...

• Jan-1987
• / Horror
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DIG DEEP… Into the muddy black earth of Simpson Creeks -- where the guilty and the damned live under a dark shadow of agonizing fear. DIG DEEPER… Into the rotting floorboards of the old Taylor house -- where archaeologist Reed Taylor is ...

• 1988
• / 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...

• 1989
• / Horror
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In this stunning new collection, GAHAN WILSON invites two hungry strangers to a beach party. One sports a grin, the other a saw... TANITH LEE invokes a dreadful demon in the mind of a love-starved woman ... JOE HALDEMAN carves a chilling verse of ter...

• Nov-1994
• / Horror
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• Nov-1995
• / Fantasy
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A finalist for the World Fantasy Award.

Many important fantasists and science fiction writers have lived and written in Colorado from the 1940s to the 1990s. For some, Colorado did not feature prominently in their work. But for others, its high mo...

• May-2001
• / Horror
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Collecting 33 of Tem's finest quiet tales of the supernatural.  Since his stories first began appearing in print in the late 1970s, Steve Rasnic Tem has established himself as one of the most prolific and respected voices in modern supernatural fict...

• Apr-2003
• / Horror
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The authorâ�,��"�s second novel, The Book of Days consists of a short story told each day by a man trying to talk himself back to sanity. A kind of literary sampler quilt, these daily inventions emulate the styles of everything from traditional ghos...

• Sep-2004
• / Horror
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A gruesome collection of stories delves into the mysterious creatures and dark forces that lurk in the shadows, featuring contributions from such noted horror authors as Don Tumasonis, Lee Thomas, Mark Samuels, and Joseph A. Ezzo. Original....

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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No ax murderers hunting sexy teens. No brutal torture for torture's sake. Phantom goes beyond the scare From paranoid gold prospectors to lonely curators, Satan-worshipping Long Island teens, metaphysics-obsessed television reporters, and to Peter a...

• Sep-2010
• / Fantasy
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The first collection of this dynamic writing duo's science fiction stories, In Concert also includes their short story "The Man on the Ceiling," the first short story ever to win the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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Steve Rasnic & Melanie Tem : In Concert collects the collaborative short fiction of Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem, who have worked at the cutting edge of imaginative fiction for over a quarter century. In the twenty-one tales herein, the reader wi...

• Jan-2012
• / Suspense
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• Apr-2012
• / Horror
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Think of it as the vacation resort of the collective unconscious. The Deadfall Hotel is where our nightmares go, it's where the dead pause to rest between worlds, and it's where Richard Carter and his daughter Serena go to rediscover life -- if the t...

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
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Eric should have never answered the phone. He knew it was his brother, or his mother -- they were the only ones who ever called. But Marie's fingertips on his back were gently insistent, urging him to answer . . .And so begins Eric's journey back int...

• Aug-2012
• / Horror
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The author reveals the following story "...began with a dreadful image at the end of a dream. I couldn't remember the other details of that dream, but I was determined to find out where that image might have come from."...

• Sep-2012
• / Fantasy
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Eighteen more short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the pro-rate online magazine that Hugo Award-winning editor Lou Anders of Pyr Books says is "rapidly becoming my favorite short fiction magazine of all time." Au...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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Onion Songs is a collection of 42 short stories spanning the writing career of Steve Rasnic Tem, with an emphasis on the bizarre, the off-beat and the meditative. Here Tem confronts the big questions of human experience (ageing, death, identity, rela...

• Sep-2013
• / Fantasy
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Celestial Inventories features twentytwo stories collected from rare chapbooks, anthologies, and obscure magazines, along with a new story written specifically for this volume. All represent the slipstream segment of Steve Rasnic Tem’s large bod...

• Feb-2014
• / Horror
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Steve Rasnic Tem's new novel Blood Kin is set in the southern Appalachians of the U.S., alternating between the 1930s and the present day. It's a dark Southern Gothic vision of ghosts, witchcraft, secret powers, snake-handling, Kudzu, Melungeons, and...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A photographer discovers the unexpected in the faces of dead children. ...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A hermit lives his life by means of an endless inventory. ...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A truck driver’s carelessness creates a surrealistic tableau of wreckage....

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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An isolated man discovers he’s part of a terrifying community. ...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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Failed relationships play out against a backdrop of extinction....

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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An artist devotes his career to contracting diseases. From Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasmic Tem (winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards), this story is one of a set of evocative, transfor...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A nuclear holocaust results in a new mythology....

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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Two small children turn parenthood into a fairytale....

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A girl moves onto a strange street when she fails to return from trick-or-treating. From Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasmic Tem (winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards), this story is one o...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A plague of head explosions become a new form of terrorism. From Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasmic Tem (winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards), this story is one of a set of evocative, tr...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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An elderly man is haunted by the children he didn’t have....

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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The world’s worst salesman finds both philosophy and theology in his failed profession....

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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An office worker and his wife fade into a literal invisibility. From Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasmic Tem (winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards), this story is one of a set of evocative...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A pilot discovers dragons on another world. ...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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The French fairytale transformed. From Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasmic Tem (winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards), this story is one of a set of evocative, transformative, boundary-cro...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A student discovers the nature of monstrosity....

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A man relives his childhood through the eyes of a mouse....

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A seemingly pointless life finds final expression in bits of folded paper. ...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A grieving father seeks healing among aliens....

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A couple's aging dismantles reality. From Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasmic Tem (winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards), this story is one of a set of evocative, transformative, boundary-...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A child seeks his mother in a world of wooden transformations. From Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasmic Tem (winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards), this story is one of a set of evocative,...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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A man with a strange aphasia lives his life backwards. From Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasmic Tem (winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards), this story is one of a set of evocative, transfo...

• Aug-2014
• / Horror
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ABSENT COMPANY collects two of Steve Rasnic Tem's early books of ghostly, supernatural tales: the 33 stories in The Far Side of the Lake combined with his haunting exploration of the intersection of reality and delusion, the novelette Among the Livin...

• Feb-2017
• / Science Fiction
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A blend of science fiction and horror, award-winning author Steve Rasnic Tem’s new novel is a chilling story exploring the roots of violence and its effect on a possible future. Daniel is trapped in Ubo. He has no idea how long he has been impri...

• Jul-2017
• / Erotica
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• Feb-2018
• / Horror
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• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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In the worlds of Steve Rasnic Tem a father takes his son “fishing” in the deepest part of downtown, flayed rabbits visit a suburban back yard, a man is haunted by a surrealistic nightmare of crutches, a father is unable to rescue his son from ...

• Oct-2018
• / Fantasy
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Fall is Laura's favorite time of year, but this autumn, things are different. She's a teenager now, and the season brings new changes and challenges. Laura's decided she's too old for trick-or-treating and wants a more grown-up Halloween experienc...

• Nov-2018
• / Fantasy
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THE HARVEST CHILD AND OTHER FANTASIES collects the wide range of Steve Rasnic Tem’s fantasy tales for the first time. These 39 stories include sword & sorcery sagas, chronicles of fairies, elves, witches, wizards, magical creatures, Robin Hood, fun...

• Nov-2018
• / Literary
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Fairy Tales are in our DNA. We think we know them. Read along to explore the familiar, the unique, and the undiscovered - reimagination of the Fairy Tale.Eight talented authors explore what these words mean to them in stories ranging from the silly t...

• Nov-2019
• / Horror
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These stories by award-winning author Steve Rasnic Tem drag from the darkness ghosts that haunt us all. Between these covers lurk the spectres of grief, loss, and loneliness: a man discovers he is far from alone in his empty home, a forlorn wife is g...

• Nov-2021
• / Horror
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All my life I've dreamed of the dead.Thanatrauma: the dread of it erodes you, the shadows waiting at the end, the impending conclusion, the troubling dream from which you will not wake.These 21 stories - four published here for the first time - explo...

• Mar-2022
• / Horror
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This new collection of 25 stories, including two appearing here for the first time, collects the best of Steve Rasnic Tem's dark fiction published since his landmark Centipede tome Out of the Dark: A Storybook of Horrors. A number have appeared in va...

• May-2022
• / Horror
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In this all-ages collection award-winning horror author Steve Rasnic Tem showcases a variety of ghosts and other creatures eager to keep you up all night with the lights on. Read about the two best friends chased by a strangely familiar figure. Or th...

• Sep-2022
• / Horror
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An annual anthology of strange and darksome tales, which this year profiles the work of 18 contemporary scribes:Steve Rasnic Tem, Christi Nogle, Luciano Marano, Joshua Rex, Jo Kaplan, M.C. St. John, John Garland Wells, Harrison Demchick, Daniel B...

• Oct-2023
• / Dark Fantasy
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Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints: A is for Alphabet by Steve Rasnic TemIn the...

• Oct-2024
• / General Fiction
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Kafkaesque isn't a term that's used often or even lightly. So when it finds itself tied to any modern-day author, you know you'll be in for a real treat. And that's just what we've come to expect from Steve Rasnic Tem. His work often embodies the sam...

• Oct-2024
• / General Fiction
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Steve Rasnic Tem grew up in Lee County Virginia, the westernmost county in the state. It was the heart of Appalachia, isolated, yet beautiful. He has said Growing up in that small place, it was hard to imagine ever becoming a writer. To me wanting to...

• Nov-2024
• / Horror
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Everyday horrors, the unexpected twists encountered during an otherwise normal day. The skewed perspectives, those moments of transformative paranoia when everything appears as it might through a funhouse lens. The dreamlike narratives and rhythms wh...