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Tanith Lee

(Tanith Lee Kaiine)

(1947 - )
(Wife of John Kaiine)
aka
Esther Garber

About Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee is one of the leading fantasy authors writing today. She has written over 50 novels and short story collections, among them the best-selling Flat Earth series. She is also the author of another Overlook fantasy series, The Secret Books of Paradys. She has won the World Fantasy Award numerous times as well as the August Derleth Award.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Killing Violets

Tempting The Gods
( Selected Stories of Tanith Lee, book 1)

Series

Birthgrave
1. The Birthgrave (1975)
2. Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1977)
aka Shadowfire
3. Quest for the White Witch (1978)

Novels Of Vis
1. The Storm Lord (1976)
2. Anackire (1983)
3. The White Serpent (1988)

Four-BEE
1. Don't Bite the Sun (1976)
2. Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)

Castle of Dark
1. The Castle of Dark (1978)
2. Prince on a White Horse (1982)
3. Dark Castle, White Horse (1986)

Flat Earth
1. Night's Master (1978)
2. Death's Master (1978)
3. Delusion's Master (1981)
4. Delirium's Mistress (1986)
5. Night's Sorceries (1987)
The Lords Of Darkness (omnibus) (1987)
Night's Daughter (omnibus) (1987)

Blood Stone
1. Kill the Dead (1980)
2. Sabella (1980)
Sometimes After Sunset (omnibus) (1980)

Silver Metal Lover
1. The Silver Metal Lover (1981)
2. Metallic Love (2005)

Secret Books of Paradys
1. The Book of the Damned (1988)
2. The Book of the Beast (1988)
3. The Book of the Dead (1986)
aka Paradys
4. The Book of the Mad (1993)
The Secret Books of Paradys (omnibus) (2007)

Tanaquil
1. Black Unicorn (1989)
2. Gold Unicorn (1994)
3. Red Unicorn (1997)

Blood Opera
1. Dark Dance (1992)
2. Personal Darkness (1993)
3. Darkness, I (1994)

Claidi Journals
1. Law of the Wolf Tower (1998)
     aka Wolf Tower
2. Wolf Star (2000)
     aka Wolf Star Rise
3. Queen of the Wolves (2001)
     aka Wolf Queen
4. Wolf Wing (2002)
The Claidi Journals Collection: Books I - III (omnibus) (2003)

Secret Books of Venus
1. Faces Under Water (1998)
2. Saint Fire (1999)
3. A Bed of Earth (2002)
4. Venus Preserved (2003)

Lionwolf
1. Cast a Bright Shadow (2004)
2. Here in Cold Hell (2005)
3. No Flame But Mine (2007)

Piratica
1. Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of Girl's Adventure upon the High Seas (2004)
2. Return to Parrot Island (2006)
3. The Family Sea (2007)

Selected Stories of Tanith Lee
1. Tempting The Gods (2007)
2. Hunting the Shadows (2009)

Imaginings
1. Cold Grey Stones (2012)

Novels

Animal Castle (1972)
Companions on the Road (1975)
The Winter Players (1976)
Volkhavaar (1977)
Shon the Taken (1979)
Electric Forest (1979)
Day by Night (1980)
Lycanthia (1981)
aka The Children of Wolves
Sung in Shadow (1983)
The Beautiful Biting Machine (1984)
Days of Grass (1985)
Madame Two Swords (1988)
A Heroine of the World (1989)
The Blood of Roses (1990)
Into Gold (1991)
Louisa the Poisoner (1992)
Heart-Beast (1992)
Elephantasm (1993)
Eva Fairdeath (1994)
Vivia (1995)
When the Lights Go Out (1995)
Reigning Cats and Dogs (1995)
The Gods Are Thirsty (1996)
White as Snow (2000)
Mortal Suns (2003)
Death of the Day (2004)
L'Amber (2006)
Greyglass (2011)
To Indigo (2011)
Killing Violets: Gods' Dogs (2012)

Omnibus

Biting the Sun (1999)
When Darkness Falls (2003) (with Susan Krinard and Evelyn Vaughn)
Winter Moon (2005) (with Mercedes Lackey and C E Murphy)

Collections

Princess Hynchatti: And Some Other Surprises (1972)
Champions of the Road (1979)
Unsilent Night (1981)
Cyrion (1982)
Red as Blood (1982)
aka Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
Tamastara (1984)
aka The Indian Nights
The Gorgon: And Other Beastly Tales (1985)
Women as Demons (1985)
Dreams of Dark and Light (1986)
Forests of the Night (1989)
Nightshades: Thirteen Journeys into Shadow (1993)
Sages and Swords: Heroic Fantasy Anthology (2006) (with Eugie Foster, Ed McFadden and Vera Nazarian)
Sounds and Furies: World Horror Convention Special Edition (2010)
Disturbed by Her Song (2010) (writing as Esther Garber) (with Judas Garbah)
The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy (2012) (with Lin Carter, Paul Di Filippo, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Robert E Howard, Clive Jackson, Fritz Leiber, E Hoffmann Price, Thomas Burnett Swann, Lawrence Watt-Evans and Gene Wolfe)

Novellas

The Betrothed (1968)
Indigara: Or, Jet and Otis Conquer the World (2007)

Series contributed to

MagicQuest
6. The Dragon Hoard (1971)
15. East of Midnight (1977)

Voyage of the Basset
1. Islands in the Sky (1999)

Anthologies containing stories by Tanith Lee

Short stories

	Sun City (1974)
	The Demoness (1976)
	The Truce (1976)
	Huzdra (1977)
	Odds Against the Gods (1977)
	In the Balance (1978)
	Paper Boat (1978)
	Sleeping Tiger (1978)
	Winter White (1978)
	Deux Amours d'une Sorcerie (1979)
	A hero at the Gates (1979)
	Monkey's Stagger (1979)
	The Murderous Dove (1979)
	Northern Chess (1979)
	Perfidious Amber (1979)
	Red as Blood [short story] (1979)		Nebula (nominee)
	The Thaw (1979)
	Cyrion in Bronze (1980)
	Cyrion in Wax (1980)
	One Night of the Year (1980)
	A Room with a Vie (1980)
	The Squire's Tale (1980)
	Wolfland (1980)
	You Are my Sunshine (1980)
	Because Our Skins are Finer (1981)
	The Dry Season (1981)
	Gemini (1981)
	Magritte's Secret Agent (1981)
	Meow (1981)
	Sirriamnis (1981)
	When the Clock Strikes (1981)
	Cyrion in Stone (1982)
	The Gorgon [short story] (1982)		World Fantasy
	A Lynx with Lions (1982)
	Mirage and Magia (1982)
	Southern Lights (1982)
	Written in Water (1982)
	Anna Medea (1983)
	Black as Ink (1983)
	Blue Vase of Ghosts (1983)
	Chand Veda (1983)
	Elle est Trois (La Mort) (1983)		World Fantasy
	Il Bacio (Il Chiave) (1983)
	La Reine Blanche (1983)
	Nunc Dimittis (1983)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	The Beautiful Biting Machine [short story] (1984)
	Bite Me Not, or Fleur de Feu (1984)
	Bright Burning Tiger (1984)
	A Day in the Skin (1984) aka The Century We Were Out of Them
	Draco, Draco (1984)
	Foreign Skins (1984)
	The Hunting of Death: The Unicorn (1984)
	The Ivory Merchants (1984)
	Medra (1984)
	Oh, Shining Star (1984)
	The One We Were (1984)
	Pinewood (1984)
	Simon's Wife (1984)
	Tamastara [short story] (1984)
	Three Days (1984)
	The Tree: A Winter's Tale (1984)
	Under the Hand of Chance (1984)
	The Vampire Lover (1984)
	After the Guillotine (1985)
	Blood-Mantle (1985)
	Quatt-Sup (1985)
	Into Gold [short story] (1986)
	Black as a Rose (1987)
	By Crystal Light Beneath One Star (1987)
	Children of the Night (1987)
	Crying in the Rain (1987)
	The Daughter of the Magician (1987)
	Dooniveh, the Moon (1987)
	Game Players (1987)
	Night's Daughter, Day's Desire (1987)
	The Prodigal (1987)
	Death Dances (1988)
	The Devil's Rose (1988)
	A Madonna of the Machine (1988)
	The Unrequited Glove (1988)
	Ceres Passing (1989)
	Discovered Country (1989)
	Don't Get Lost (1989)
	Down Below (1989)
	I Was Guillotined Here (1989)
	The Janfia Tree (1989)
	The Lancastrian Blush (1989)
	Nicholas (1989)
	Rachel (1989)
	The Rakshasa (1989)
	Sweet Grapes (1989)
	The Tenebris Malgraph (1989)
	White as Sin, Now (1989)
	Zelle's Thursday (1989)
	The Nightmare's Tale (1990)
	Beautiful Lady (1991)
	The Glass Dagger (1991)
	Lost in Our World (1991)
	The Marble Web (1991)
	The Mermaid (1991)
	The Moon is a Mask (1991)
	Morcara's Room (1991)
	The Weasel Bride (1991)
	Nightshade (1993)
	Unnalash (1993)
	Winter Flowers (1993)
	The Witch of the Moon (1993)
	The Beast (1995)
	The Champion (1995)
	King's Mage (1995)
	La Dame (1995)
	She Sleeps in a Tower (1995)
	Tiger I (1995)
	Flowers for Faces, Thorns for Feet (1996)
	The Reason for Not Going to the Ball (1996)
	Cain (1997)
	All the Birds of Hell (1998)
	Jedella Ghost (1998)		British Fantasy Society (nominee)
	The Pandora Heart (1998)
	Wolfed (1998)
	Yellow And Red (1998)
	The Sky-green Blues (1999)
	Where the Town Goes at Night (1999)		British Fantasy Society (nominee)
	The Abortionist's Horse (a Nightmare) (2000)
	La Vampiresse (2000)
	Rapunzel (2000)
	That Glisters Is (2000)
	A Wolf At the Door (2000)
	Eustace

Awards

	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1976) : The Birthgrave
	World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1979) : Night's Master
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1980) : Red as Blood [short story]
	British Fantasy Society Best Novel winner (1980) : Death's Master
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1982) : Delusion's Master
	World Fantasy Best Short story winner (1983) : The Gorgon [short story]
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1984) : Nunc Dimittis
	World Fantasy Best Short story winner (1984) : Elle est Trois (La Mort)
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1987) : Dreams of Dark and Light
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1987) : Night's Master
	British Fantasy Society Best Short story nominee (1998) : Jedella Ghost
	British Fantasy Society Best Short story nominee (1999) : Where the Town Goes at Night
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (2006) : Metallic Love

Books about Tanith Lee

Opulent Darkness: The Werewolves of Tanith Lee (1999) by Justine Larbalestier
The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene (2000) by Mavis Haut

Links to other websites

tanithlee.com

Tanith Lee recommends

A Telling of Stars (2003) Caitlin Sweet "A strong and imaginative first novel, full of gems, and of humane insight. Ultimately haunting."	The Talisman (2003) (Sea Horses, book 2) Louise Cooper "Louise Cooper is one of the finest storytellers of her generation."	The Captain's Witch (2005) Rosemary Hawley Jarman "One of the greatest dark fantasies ever written - in any genre."
Brass Man (2005) (Agent Cormac, book 3) Neal Asher "Asher has lit up the sky of science fiction like a new sun."	Killing Kiss (2008) (Vampire Gene Trilogy, book 1) Sam Stone "A deceptively readable date with darkness - watch your step."	Elfland (2009) (Aetherial Tales, book 1) Freda Warrington "A glittering treasure trove and a stunning read for Warrington's multitude of fans."
City of Dreams and Nightmare (2010) (City of a Hundred Rows, book 1) Ian Whates "Born story-teller Ian Whates takes us on a gripping, terrifying trip-of-a-lifetime."

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