Steve Rasnic Tem Books in Order

Steve Rasnic Tem is a celebrated author of dark and haunting fiction, born in the heart of Appalachia in Lee County, Virginia. He has published over 350 short stories, earning him numerous accolades, including the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. Tem's notable works include the short story collections City Fishing, The Far Side of the Lake, In Concert (co-written with his wife Melanie Tem), Ugly Behavior, Celestial Inventories, and Onion Songs, as well as the audio collection Invisible. His novels, such as Excavation, The Book of Days, Daughters, The Man In The Ceiling (co-written with Melanie Tem), and the recent Deadfall Hotel, showcase his mastery of the genre.

Bibliography verified: January 2026

Book Series by Steve Rasnic Tem

  • #1
    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One(2009)
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    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two(2010)
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    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three(2011)
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    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four(2012)
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    The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five(2013)
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    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six(2014)
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    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven(2015)
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    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight(2016)
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    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine(2017)
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    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Ten(2018)
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  • #11
    The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction(2018)
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    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven(2019)
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    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve(2020)
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    The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen(2021)
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  • #15
    The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fourteen(2022)
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    The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen(2024)
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  • #17
    The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Sixteen(2024)
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  • #18
    The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen(2025)
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  • #19
    The Umbral Anthology Of Science Fiction Poetry(1950)
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  • #20
    Other Worlds Volume 1(1979)
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  • #21
    Chrysalis 8(1980)
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  • #22
    Chrysalis 9(1982)
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  • #23
    Perpetual Light(1982)
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  • #24
    Chrysalis 10(1983)
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  • #25
    Shadows 8(1985)
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  • #26
    The First Chronicles of Greystone Bay(1985)
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  • #27
    Halloween Horrors(1986)
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  • #28
    Whispers VI(1987)
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  • #29
    Doom City(1987)
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  • #30
    Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold(1988)
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  • #31
    Book of the Dead(1989)
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  • #32
    Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror(1989)
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  • #33
    The Seaharp Hotel(1990)
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  • #34
    Best New Horror(1990)
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  • #35
    Best New Horror 2(1991)
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  • #36
    The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection(1991)
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  • #37
    Fourth Annual Collection(1991)
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  • #38
    Dante's Disciples(1991)
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  • #39
    Borderlands 3(1991)
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  • #40
    Best New Horror 3(1992)
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  • #41
    The Mammoth Book of Vampires(1992)
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  • #42
    Fifth Annual Collection(1992)
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  • #43
    Sinistre: An Antholgy of Rituals(1993)
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  • #44
    Deathport(1993)
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  • #45
    In the Fog(1993)
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  • #46
    100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories(1993)
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  • #47
    Best New Horror 4(1993)
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  • #48
    Hottest Blood(1993)
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  • #49
    Snow White, Blood Red(1993)
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  • #50
    The Ultimate Witch(1993)
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  • #51
    100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories(1993)
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  • #52
    Deadly After Dark(1994)
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  • #53
    The Giant Book of Terror(1994)
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  • #54
    Seventh Annual Collection(1994)
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  • #55
    Love in Vein(1994)
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  • #56
    Best New Horror 5(1994)
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  • #57
    100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories(1995)
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  • #58
    100 Wicked Little Witch Stories(1995)
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  • #59
    Tales of the Batman(1995)
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  • #60
    High Fantastic(1995)
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  • #61
    Dark Terrors(1995)
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  • #62
    Dark Terrors 2(1996)
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  • #63
    Giant Book of Fantasy Tales(1996)
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  • #64
    The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7(1996)
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  • #65
    A Nightmare's Dozen(1996)
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  • #66
    Dark Terrors 3(1997)
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  • #67
    The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8(1997)
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  • #68
    Black Swan, White Raven(1997)
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  • #69
    Horrors!: 365 Scary Stories(1998)
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  • #70
    100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment(1998)
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  • #71
    The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10(1999)
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  • #72
    October Dreams(2000)
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  • #73
    The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11(2000)
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  • #74
    Embraces: Dark Erotica(2000)
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  • #75
    The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12(2001)
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  • #76
    Fourteenth Annual Collection(2001)
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  • #77
    Dark Masques(2001)
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  • #78
    Fifteenth Annual Collection(2002)
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  • #79
    The Children of Cthulhu(2003)
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  • #80
    The Many Faces of Van Helsing(2004)
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  • #81
    Great Ghost Stories(2004)
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  • #82
    Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection(2004)
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  • #83
    A Walk on the Darkside(2004)
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  • #84
    The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15(2004)
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  • #85
    Corpse Blossoms(2005)
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  • #86
    Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition(2006)
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  • #87
    Mondo Zombie(2006)
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  • #88
    Evermore(2006)
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  • #89
    Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe(2008)
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  • #90
    Best New Horror 20(2009)
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  • #91
    Appalachian Winter Hauntings(2009)
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  • #92
    Legends Of The Mountain State 4(2010)
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  • #93
    Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror(2010)
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  • #94
    The Seventh Black Book of Horror(2010)
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  • #95
    Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within(2010)
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  • #96
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition(2010)
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  • #97
    Mountain Magic(2010)
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  • #98
    The Best of Talebones(2010)
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  • #99
    Visitants(2010)
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  • #100
    The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011(2011)
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  • #101
    Blood and Other Cravings: Original Stories of Vampires and Vampirism by Today's Greatest Writers of Dark Fiction(2011)
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  • #102
    Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre(2011)
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  • #103
    Best New Horror 22(2011)
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  • #104
    The Devil's Coattails(2012)
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  • #105
    Zombies Vs Robots: This Means War!(2012)
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  • #106
    Obsession: Tales of Irresistible Desire(2012)
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  • #107
    Dark Light(2012)
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  • #108
    Messing With Your Head(2012)
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  • #109
    Ghosts: Recent Hauntings(2012)
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  • #110
    Psychos(2012)
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  • #111
    Best New Horror 23(2012)
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  • #112
    Appalachian Undead(2012)
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  • #113
    Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane(2012)
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  • #114
    Dark World: Ghost Stories(2013)
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  • #115
    Shadows Edge(2013)
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  • #116
    The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF(2013)
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  • #117
    Best New Horror 24(2013)
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  • #118
    Turn Down the Lights(2013)
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  • #119
    Exotic Gothic 4(2014)
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  • #120
    Horror 101: The Way Forward(2014)
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  • #121
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition(2014)
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  • #122
    Night Terrors III(2014)
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  • #123
    Surreal Worlds(2015)
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  • #124
    Nightmares Unhinged(2015)
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  • #125
    Best New Horror #26(2015)
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  • #126
    The Monstrous(2015)
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  • #127
    The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories(2015)
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  • #128
    Uncertainties Volume II(2016)
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  • #129
    Scary Out There(2016)
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  • #130
    Best New Horror 27(2017)
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  • #131
    Galactic Empires(2017)
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  • #132
    Best New Horror 28(2018)
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  • #133
    Christmas Horror Vol. 2(2018)
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  • #134
    The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories(2018)
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  • #135
    Vagabond 001: Fairy Tale Edition(2018)
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  • #136
    The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison(2019)
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  • #137
    Best New Horror 29(2019)
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  • #138
    Thinking Horror Volume 2: The Horror Boom(2019)
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  • #139
    Blood Is Not Enough(2019)
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  • #140
    I AM THE ABYSS(2020)
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  • #141
    It Came from the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers(2020)
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  • #142
    Oculus Sinister(2020)
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  • #143
    The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror(2021)
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  • #144
    Best New Horror #31(2021)
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  • #145
    Close to Midnight(2022)
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  • #146
    Horror Library, Volume 8(2023)
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  • #147
    The Canterbury Nightmares(2023)
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  • #148
    Nightmare Abbey 4(2023)
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  • #149
    Nightmare Abbey 5(2024)
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  • #150
    Feisty Felines and Other Fantastical Familiars(2024)
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  • #151
    Nightmare Abbey 6(2024)
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  • #152
    Nightmare Abbey 7(2024)
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  • #153
    Nightmare Abbey 8(2025)
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  • #154
    Where the Silent Ones Watch(2025)
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  • #1
    Fantasy Tales 1 (By: Stephen Jones,David A. Sutton)(1989)
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  • #2
    Fantasy Tales 2 (By: Stephen Jones,David Sutton)(1990)
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  • #3
    Fantasy Tales 3 (By: Stephen Jones,David Sutton)(1990)
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  • #4
    Fantasy Tales 4 (With: Charles L. Grant,Kim Newman,Stephen Jones,David A. Sutton)(1990)
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  • #5
    Fantasy Tales 5 (By: Stephen Jones,David Sutton)(1990)
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  • #6
    Fantasy Tales 6 (By: Stephen Jones,David Sutton)(1991)
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  • #7
    Fantasy Tales 7 (By: Stephen Jones,David Sutton)(1991)
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  • #1
    Colder Greyer Stones (By: Tanith Lee)(2012)
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  • #2
    Last and First Contacts (By: Stephen Baxter)(2012)
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  • #3
    Stories from the Northern Road (By: Tony Ballantyne)(2012)
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  • #4
    Objects in Dreams (By: Lisa Tuttle)(2012)
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  • #5
    Microcosmos (By: Nina Allan)(2013)
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  • #6
    Feast and Famine (By: Adrian Tchaikovsky)(2013)
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  • #7
    Twember(2013)
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  • #8
    Strange Visitors (By: Eric Brown)(2014)
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  • #9
    Saint Rebor (By: Adam Roberts)(2015)
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  • #10
    Sleeps With Angels (By: Dave Hutchinson)(2015)
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  • #11
    The Light Warden (By: Liz Williams)(2015)
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  • #12
    Mementoes (By: Keith Brooke)(2016)
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  • #1
    Night Visions: In the Blood(1984)
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  • #2
    Night Visions(1985)
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  • #3
    Night Visions 2(1985)
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  • #4
    Night Visions 3(1986)
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  • #5
    Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart(1986)
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  • #6
    Night Visions 6(1988)
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  • #7
    Night Visions 8(1990)
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  • #8
    Night Visions 9(1991)
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  • #9
    Night Visions 10(2001)
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  • #10
    Night Visions 11(2004)
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  • #11
    Night Visions 12(2006)
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  • #1
    Yours to Tell(2017)
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  • #2
    Fairytales(1985)
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  • #3
    Absences(1991)
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  • #4
    Beautiful Strangers(1992)
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  • #5
    Decoded Mirrors(1992)
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  • #6
    City Fishing(2000)
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  • #7
    The Far Side of the Lake(2001)
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  • #8
    The Hydrocephalic Ward(2003)
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  • #9
    Invisible(2005)
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  • #10
    In Concert(2010)
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  • #11
    Ugly Behavior(2012)
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  • #12
    Onion Songs(2013)
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  • #13
    Here with the Shadows(2014)
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  • #14
    Absent Company(2014)
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  • #15
    Out of the Dark(2016)
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  • #16
    Figures Unseen(2018)
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  • #17
    The Harvest Child and Other Fantasies(2018)
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  • #18
    Everything is Fine Now(2019)
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  • #19
    Thanatrauma(2021)
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  • #20
    The Night Doctor and Other Tales(2022)
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  • #1
    Excavation(1986)
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  • #2
    In These Final Day of Sales(2001)
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  • #3
    Daughters(2001)
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  • #4
    The Book of Days(2003)
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  • #5
    The Man on the Ceiling (With: Melanie Tem)(2008)
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  • #6
    Deadfall Hotel(2012)
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  • #7
    Blood Kin(2014)
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  • #8
    Ubo(2017)
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  • #9
    The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack(2018)
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  • #10
    Firestorm(1982)
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  • #11
    Leaks(1987)
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  • #12
    Bodies and Heads(1989)
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  • #13
    Back Windows(1990)
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  • #14
    Celestial Inventories(1991)
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  • #15
    Halloween Street(1999)
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  • #16
    Among The Living(2011)
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  • #17
    Telling(2012)
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  • #18
    In The Lovecraft Museum(2015)
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  • #19
    Cold & Damp(2017)
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  • #1
    All Hallows Horror (By: Stephen Jones,John Llewellyn Probert)(2017)
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  • #2
    Waiting(2017)
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  • #3
    Rising (By: Stephen Jones)(2020)
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  • #1
    The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories: Volume One(2015)
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  • #2
    The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Two(2017)
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  • #3
    The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Three(2018)
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  • #4
    The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume Four(2020)
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  • #1
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition(2010)
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  • #2
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition(2011)
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  • #3
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition(2012)
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  • #4
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition(2013)
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  • #5
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition(2014)
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  • #6
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition(2015)
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  • #7
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition(2016)
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  • #8
    The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition(2017)
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  • #9
    The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition(2018)
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  • #10
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition(2020)
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  • #11
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1(2020)
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  • #12
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2(2021)
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  • #13
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3(2022)
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  • #14
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4(2023)
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  • #15
    The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5(2024)
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  • #16
    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 5(2024)
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About Steve Rasnic Tem

Steve Rasnic Tem is a celebrated author of dark and haunting fiction, born in the heart of Appalachia in Lee County, Virginia. He has published over 350 short stories, earning him numerous accolades, including the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. Tem's notable works include the short story collections City Fishing, The Far Side of the Lake, In Concert (co-written with his wife Melanie Tem), Ugly Behavior, Celestial Inventories, and Onion Songs, as well as the audio collection Invisible. His novels, such as Excavation, The Book of Days, Daughters, The Man In The Ceiling (co-written with Melanie Tem), and the recent Deadfall Hotel, showcase his mastery of the genre.

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