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- Legal Name: Tem, Steve Rasnic
- Birthplace: Jonesville, Virginia, USA
- Birthdate: 14 September 1950
- Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Rasnic_Tem
- Webpage: http://www.m-s-tem.com/
- Used These Alternate Names: Steve Rasnic , Steve Tem , Steve Resnic Tem
- Interviews: Dark Voices (Horrorstruck, May/June 1987) , Dark Voices (Horrorstruck, May-June 1988) , Writer on the Ceiling: A Conversation with Steve Rasnic Tem , Steve Rasnic Tem , Melanie Tem & Steve Rasnic Tem: October 30, 1997 , A Conversation with Steve Rasnic Tem
- ISFDB Record Number: 692
- Biography: Bio:Steve Rasnic Tem
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Steve Rasnic Tem
- Author Tags: best of year anthology (7) , horror (3) , bram stoker award for superior achievement in a first novel finalist (1) , to read 1987 (1) , philip k dick award finalist (1) , zombies (1) , dark fantasy (1) , shirley jackson award for best novel finalist (1) , honorable mention dozois years best (1)
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- Excavation (1987)
- Daughters (2001) with Melanie Tem
- The Book of Days (2003)
- The Man on the Ceiling (2008) with Melanie Tem
- Deadfall Hotel (2012)
- Absences: Charlie Goode's Ghosts (1991)
- Decoded Mirrors: 3 Tales After Lovecraft (1992)
- City Fishing (1999)
- Imagination Box (2001) with Melanie Tem
- The Far Side of the Lake (2001)
- The Hydrocephalic Ward (2003)
- In Concert (2010) with Melanie Tem
- Onion Songs (2013)
- The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (1982)
- High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction (1995)
- Fairytales (1990)
- Celestial Inventory (1991)
- Beautiful Strangers (1992) with Melanie Tem
- The Man on the Ceiling (2000) with Melanie Tem
- In These Final Days of Sales (2001)
- Origami Bird (2002)
- Hideout (1979)
- The Painters Are Coming Today (1979)
- City Fishing (1980) [only as by Steve Rasnic ]
- Forward (1980)
- At the Bureau (1980)
- Filmmaker (1980)
- Boy Blue (1980)
- Morning Talk (1981)
- The Messenger (1981)
- The Giveaway (1981)
- Interlude in a Laboratory (1981)
- The Sound of Hawkwings Dissolving (1981)
- Again, the Hit-and-Miss (1981)
- In All Things Moderation (1981)
- Stone Head (1982)
- A Fairytale (1982)
- The Reincarnation (1982)
- Housewarming (1982)
- Sleep (1982)
- Alan's Mother (1982)
- The Poor (1982)
- War on the Downside (1982)
-
Preparations for the Game (1982)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Preperations for the Game (1982) [as by Steve Rasnic ]
- Firestorm (1982)
- On a Path of Marigolds (1982)
- Crutches (1983)
- Derelicts (1983)
- When Coyote Takes Back the World (1983)
- First Rights (1983)
- The Sky Came Down to Earth (1983)
- The Farmer (1983)
-
Shadows on the Grass (1983)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Shadows in the Grass (1983)
- The Moths (1983)
- Mechanic (1983)
- Ten Things I Know About the Wizard (1983)
- The Orchard (1983)
- Save the Children! (1983)
- The Enormous Lover (1983)
- The Bad People (1984)
- There's No Such Thing as Monsters (1984)
- The Day It Rained Vaginas (1984)
- The End of the Yarn (1984)
- Harvest Child (1984)
-
The Men and Women of Rivendale (1984)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: The Men & Women of Revendale (1984)
- Dark Shapes in the Road (1984)
- Spidertalk (1984)
- Punishment (1984)
- The Overcoat (1984)
- Rider (1984)
- Worms (1984)
- Pulled Down to Sleep (1985)
- August Freeze (1985)
- In a Guest House (1985)
- The Little Dead Girl (1985)
- Piano Moon (1985)
- Father's Day (1985)
- The Battering (1985)
- Night, The Endless Snowfall (1986)
- Daddy (1986)
- Bloodwolf (1986)
- Self-Possessed (1986)
- Bite (1986)
- Katherine's Shadow (1986)
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff (1986)
- Embrace of Clay, Embrace of Straw (1986)
- Prosthesis (1986) with Melanie Tem
- Trickster (1986)
- Buzz (1986)
- Presents of Mind (1986) with Edward Bryant and Connie Willis and Dan Simmons
- Wake (1987)
- Leaks (1987)
- Little Cruelties (1987)
- Hidey Hole (1987)
- Fogwell (1987)
- Mother Hag (1987)
- The Sing (1987) with Melanie Tem
- Dinosaur (1987)
- Last Dragon (1987)
- The Woman on the Corner (1987)
- L Is for Love (1987)
- Among the Old (1988)
- Her New Parents (1988)
- The Double (1988)
- Boxer (1988)
- The Lie (1988)
- Be Mine (1988)
- Grim Monkeys (1988)
- Motherson (1989)
- The Strangers (1989)
- Carnal House (1989)
- Riverbanks (1989)
- Resettling (1989) with Melanie Tem
- Hooks (1989)
- The Unmasking (1989)
- Safe House (1989)
- Merry-Go-Round (1989)
- Markers (1989)
- Bodies and Heads (1989)
- Back Windows (1990)
- Playing Dead (1990)
- In the Trees (1990)
- Fairytales (1990)
- Escape on a Train (1990)
- Strands (1990)
- My Wife, with the Yellow Hair (1990)
- The Adoptions (1990)
- Ancient Grass (1990)
- Aquarium (1990)
- The Dancers in the Leaves (1990)
- Kite (1990) with Melanie Tem
- The Visible Man (1990)
- Celestial Inventory (1991)
- The Secret Flesh (1991)
- Jesse (1991)
- Charlie Goode's Ghosts (1991)
- Hearts (1991)
- Bouquet (1991)
- Cutlery (1991)
- Absences (1991)
- Goode Farm (1991)
- Wanderlust (1991)
- The Regulars (1991)
- Robin in the Mists (1991)
- Writing in the Dark (1991)
- Adleparmeun (1991)
- Brutes (1991)
- The Tenth Scholar (1991) with Melanie Tem
- Plainclothes (1991)
- This Icy Region My Heart Encircles (1991) with Melanie Tem
- At the End of the Day (1991)
-
Mask of the Hero (1991)
with
Melanie Tem
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Mask of The Hero (1991) [as by Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem ]
- Taking Down the Tree (1991)
- Underground (1992)
- Hungry (1992)
- Thrumm (1992)
- Vintage Domestic (1992)
- Vulture: A Tale of the Penguin (1992)
- Sirens (1992)
- Mirror Man (1992)
- Guardian Angels (1992)
- Going North (1992)
- Decodings (1992)
- The Process (1992)
- Beautiful Strangers (1992) with Melanie Tem
- The Snow People (1992)
- Blue Alice (1992)
- Rat Catcher (1992)
- Re: Vision (1992)
- Breaking the Rules (1992)
- Little Poucet (1993)
- Doodles (1993)
- Passing Through (1993)
- The Doors of Hypertext (1993)
- Devourings (1993)
- Ice House Pond (1993)
- The Child Killer (1993)
- The Hunt (1993)
- Safe at Home (1993) with Melanie Tem
- Pathetic Fallacy (1993)
- Brooms Welcome the Dust (1993)
- The Final Apprentice (1993)
- The Wood-Carver's Son (1993) [only as by Steve Rasnic ]
- Angel Combs (1994)
- Release of Flesh (1994)
- The Garden, in Autumn (1994)
- More Than Should Be Asked (1994) with Melanie Tem
- Time and the Exile (1994)
- Lost Cherokee (1994)
- The Marriage (1994) with Melanie Tem
- Janael (1995)
- A Hundred Wicked Little Witches (1995)
- Mouths (1995)
- Archetype (1995)
- Tall Skies (1995)
- Blood Knot (1995)
- Disturb Not Her Dream (1995)
- Sampled (1995)
- Shades (1995) with Roma Felible
- Nvumbi (1995) with Melanie Tem
- After the Night (1995)
- Presage (1995)
- Mama (1995) with Melanie Tem [also as by Steve Tem and Melanie Tem ]
- The Hideaway Man (1996)
- The Rains (1996)
- Ghost in the Machine (1996)
- A Cascade of Lies (1996)
- Jason's Nightmare (1996)
- Elena (1996)
- Close to You (1996)
- Jungle J.D. (1996)
- The Perfect Diamond (1996) with Melanie Tem [also as by Melanie Tem and Steve Tem ]
- The Burdens (1996)
- Sharp Edges (1997)
- The Man Under the Bridge (1997)
- What Slips Away (1998)
- The Doll Thief (1998)
- Lost (1998) with Melanie Tem [also as by Steve Tem and Melanie Tem ]
- Houses Creaking in the Wind (1998)
- After Work (1998)
- The Cough (1998)
- Daytimer (1998)
- December (1998)
- Each Day (1998)
- Voices in the Dark (1998)
- Heat (1999)
- The Mouse's Bedtime Story (1999)
- Halloween Street (1999)
- Tricks & Treats: One Night on Halloween Street (1999)
- The Man on the Ceiling (2000) with Melanie Tem
- Creeps (2000)
- The Slow Fall of Dust in a Quiet Place (2000)
- Cubs (2000)
- Pareidolia (2000)
- Eggs (2000)
- Jake's Body (2000)
- Bad Dogs Come Out of the Rain (2000)
- In These Final Days of Sales (2001)
- Cats, Dogs, and Other Creatures (2001)
- North (2001) with Melanie Tem
- The Far Side of the Lake (2001)
- Origami Bird (2002)
- This Thing Called Love (2002)
- Outside (2002)
- Denegare Spasticus (2003)
- Espectare Necrosis (2003)
- The Bereavement Photographer (2003)
- A Dream of the Dead (2003)
- Out Late in the Park (2003)
- Snapping Turtles (2003)
- Time Machines (2003)
- The Dreaming Machine Dreams of its Creators (2003)
- Werewolf, Manhattan (2003)
- Empty Morning (2004) with Melanie Tem
- An Ending (2004)
- Inside William James (2004)
- Spirited (2005)
- The Company You Keep (2005)
- The Carving (2005)
- Invisible (2005)
- Mysteries of the Colon (2005)
- The Disease Artist (2006)
- Pit's Edge (2006) with Melanie Tem
- Sometimes I Get Lost (2006)
- The Masque of Edgar Allan Poe (2006)
- The High Chair (2006)
- Strangeness (2007)
- Unknown (2007)
- 2:00 pm: The Real Estate Agent Arrives (2008)
- Creation Story (2008)
- Burning Snow (2008)
- Welcome to Rodeomart (2008)
- In Concert (2008) with Melanie Tem
- Noppero-Bo (2008)
- Off the Map (2008)
- The Artist and His Mother (2009)
- From "Deadfall Hotel" (2009)
- The Stench (2009)
- Shadow (2009)
- Show Night (2009)
- Slapstick (2009)
- When We Moved On (2009)
- Charles (2009)
- The Day Before the Day Before (2009)
- Smoke in a Bottle (2009)
- Last Drink Bird Head (2009)
- Red Light (2009)
- The Cabinet Child (2009)
- The Green Dog (2010)
- Telling (2010)
- A Letter from the Emperor (2010)
- The Glare and the Glow (2010)
- Bees from the Hive (2010) with Melanie Tem
- The Figure in Motion (2010)
- Grandfather Wolf (2010)
- Shaggy Dog Story (2010)
- Chain Reaction (2010)
- Dying on the Elephant Road (2010)
- S. D. Watkins, Painter of Portraits (2010)
- The Ex (2011)
- Visitors (2011)
- Pillows (2011)
- Back Among the Shy Trees (2011)
- Miri (2011)
- At Play in the Fields (2011)
- Ephemera (2011)
- To Denver (With Hiram Battling Zombies) (2012)
- Skullbees (2012)
- Twember (2012)
- Scree (2012)
- Waiting at the Crossroads Motel (2012)
- The Old Man Beset by Demons (2012)
- Jack and Jill (2012)
- Domestic Magic (2012) with Melanie Tem
- Congregate (2012)
- Bedtime Story (2013)
- The Last Moments Before Bed (2013)
- The Monster in the Field (unpublished)
- White Rose (unknown)
- My Daughter (1978) [only as by Steve Rasnic ]
- The Hydrocephalic Ward (1979)
- The New Weather (1980) [also as by Steve Rasnic ]
- Seeding the Last Freedom (1980)
- Lighting the Colony (1980)
- The Landed Gentry (1980)
- Alternate Worlds Ghazal (1980) [only as by Steve Rasnic ]
- Dragon Lore (1980)
- Changes (1981)
- Directions for Killing the Automated House (1981)
- The Swimmer (1982)
- Dinosaurs (1982)
- ESP (1982)
- Time Paradox Cinquain (1982)
- Three Cinquains (1982)
- Dirt Under His Nails (1982)
- Syrup (1982)
- The Lovers (1983)
- First Contact (1983)
- Doubles (1983)
- The Dreaming Machine's First Dream (1984)
- The Dreaming Machine Acquires Arms (1984)
- The Dreaming Machine Dreams of Other Machines (1984)
- The Dreaming Machine Dreams of the Future (1985)
- The Dreamer Acquires Legs (1985)
- The Dreaming Machine Dreams of a Life After Death (1986)
- Ghost Signs (1987)
- Ancient Astronomies (1988)
- Nocturne (1989)
- Looking Back at Apollo (1989)
- Nightcrawlers (1991)
- Skin (1992)
- Brain of Shadows (1992)
- Head (1992)
- Cells (1993)
- Belly (1993)
- Ulcer (1995)
- The Dead Who Do Not Sleep Under Green Street (1995)
- Shreve House (1995)
- Dark at The Door (1995)
- Poe's Grave (1995)
- The Little Match Girl (1997)
- Creatures Without Names (2002)
- Bone (2003)
- When You Think of Them (2003)
- Hair (2004)
- The Troll on 23rd Ave (2006)
- The Great Man's Apology (2007)
- The Sadness (2009)
- How to Play Dead (2010)
- Pumpkin Eater (2010)
- Letter (TASP #3) (1978) [only as by Steve Rasnic ]
- Afterword (The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry) (1982)
- Introduction (The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry) (1982)
- Late Night Thoughts on Horror Fiction (1986)
- Letter (Fantasy Review, November 1986) (1986)
- Off the Subject I: On Genre, Magical Realism, and Writing Seriously (1987)
- Off the Subject II: Background and Foreground (1987)
- One View: Creating Character in Fantasy and Horror Fiction (1987)
- Letter (Crypt of Cthulhu #46) (1987)
- Fictional Horrors and the Horrors of Real Life (1988)
- Letter (Short Form, February 1990) (1990)
- Hauntings: The Power of the Past (1991)
- Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 1992) (1992)
- The Subject Matter of Horror (1992)
- The Varieties of Ghostly Experience (1992)
- Introduction (High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction) (1995)
- Introduction (Naming of Parts) (2000)
- Speak Softly and Listen (introduction) (2001)
- Afterword (In These Final Days of Sales) (2001)
- Why Horror? (2003)
- Introduction (The Hydrocephalic Ward) (2003)
- Introduction (Some of Your Blood) (2006)
- Tribute to Charles L. Grant (2008)
- Brazil (2010)
- The Trial (1988) by Franz Kafka
- The Literary Ghost: Contemporary Ghost Stories (1992) by Larry Dark