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

Rasnic attended college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 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 200 plus published pieces have garnered him a British Fantasy Award, a World Fantasy Award[2] and a nomination for the Bram Stoker Awards.

Bibliography

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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)

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

Notes

External links

• Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem Official Website
• Bibliography
• Steve Rasnic Tem at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Story behind Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasnic Tem - Online Essay

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