Steve Rasnic Tem, Author . Subterranean $40 (250p) ISBN 978-1-931081-39-9
The traditional book of days, filled with readings commemorating each day's historical significance, provides a structure for this reflective fantasia on a father's love of family and despair at the challenges of parenthood. In a brief...
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Steve Rasnic Tem. New Pulp (www.newpulppress.com), $14.95 trade paper (220p) ISBN 978-0-9828436-9-7
As Tem notes in his introduction, the 19 short stories in this strong collection explore “the terrible things we do to ourselves and to each other.” He gets things rolling with the haiku-like “2PM: The Real Estate Agent Arrives,” which contains a...
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Steve Rasnic Tem. Chomu, $17 trade paper (370p) ISBN 978-1-907681-21-9
Tem (Deadfall Hotel) masterfully explores themes of identity and loss in this career-spanning collection of 42 short stories. He manages to beautifully spin these universal and often overused tropes in a refreshing way, using obscurity and...
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Steve Rasnic Tem. Centipede, $35 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61347-227-9
When a character in one of this collection’s 25 dark and disturbing tales reflects how “sometimes it takes all our effort to keep the anxiety of simply being human at bay,” he cuts to the core of the collection’s macabre machinations. Tem (Everything
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Steve Rasnic Tem. Centipede, $125 (400p) ISBN 978-1-61347-012-1
“No ordinary hotel” but more “a state of mind,” the eponymous setting for this haunting dark fantasy from horror eminence Tem (The Book of Days) provides the perfect backdrop for thoughtful ruminations on death and grieving. Richard Carter is still
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Steve Rasnic Tem, Author, Melanie Tem, Author . Wizards of the Coast/Discoveries $17.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7869-4858-1
With this nightmarish series of vignettes, the Tems take the reader on a jolting, surreal journey through partially autobiographical episodes of their family life. This narrative is a complete reworking of their novella (winner of the 2000 World...
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Steve Rasnic Tem, Author, Melanie Tem, Author . Centipede $65 (364p) ISBN 978-1-933618-56-2
Stoker and World Fantasy Award–winners Tem and Tem (The Man on the Ceiling
) present their first collaborative collection since 1992's Beautiful Strangers
. The 21 stories range from reimagining the classic creations of Frankenstein (̶
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Steve Rasnic Tem. Valancourt, $16.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-954321-05-2
World Fantasy Award winner Tem (The Night Doctor) is at his sharpest and most crushing in this collection of 21 horror shorts. In “Saudade,” a grieving widower takes a cruise at his daughters’ behest and discovers that vacations can become...
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