Steve Rasnic Tem

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

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". 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, 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 and four Bram Stoker Awards.

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)
 * In the Lovecraft Museum (2015)
 * Ubo (2017, Solaris) – ISBN 1781085110
 * The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack (2018)

Collections

 * Decoded Mirrors: Three Tales After Lovecraft (1978)
 * Fairytales (1985)
 * Markers (1989). Cemetery Dance Magazine.
 * 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)

Anthologies edited

 * The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (1982)
 * High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction (1987)

Collections

 * The Hydrocephalic Ward (2003)