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Steve Rasnic Tem (born 1950) is an American author. He was born in Jonesville, Virginia.
Steve Rasnic Tem | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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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)
- Scarecrows. Appalachian Tales (2024)
- Everyday Horrors (2024)
Stories[6]
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| After we're gone | 2013 | Tem, Steve Rasnic (Sep 2013). "After we're gone". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (9): 83. | |
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