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 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.

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)
• 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)
• Queneau's Alphabet. A Story Cycle (2025)

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.

See also

• List of horror fiction authors