Steve Rasnic Tem

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

Steve Rasnic Tem
Born	1950 (age 74–75) 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 Tem
Children	4

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 Museum	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

• List of horror fiction authors