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 Polytechnic Institute and State University, 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
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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
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- Confess the Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983, tie)
- Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner (1983, tie)
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