Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee (born 1947) is a prolific British writer of fantasy, science fiction and horror.

Names

• Tanith Lee
• Esther Garber

Selected Bibliography

Novels

• The Dragon Hoard (1971) Lee's first published work
• Animal Castle (1972)
• Companions on the Road (1975)
• The Winter Players (1976)
  • these two collected in Companions On the Road (1977)
• Volkhavaar (1977)
• East of Midnight (1977)
• The Castle of Dark (1978)
• Prince on a White Horse (1982)
  • these two collected in Dark Castle, White Horse (1986)
• Electric Forest (1979)
• Shon the Taken (1979)
• Sabella, or The Blood Stone (1980)
• Kill the Dead (1980)
• Day by Night (1980)
• Lycanthia, or The Children of Wolves (1981)
• Sung in Shadow (1983; reinterpretive Romeo & Juliet)
• Days of Grass (1985)
• Madame Two Swords (1988) (limited ed. of 600)
• A Heroine of the World (1989)
• The Blood of Roses (1990)
• Heart-Beast (1992)
• Elephantasm (1993)
• Eva Fairdeath (1994)
• Vivia (1995)
• Reigning Cats and Dogs (1995)
• Louisa the Poisoner (1996)
• When the Lights Go Out (1996)
• The Gods Are Thirsty (1996)
• Islands in the Sky (1999)
• White as Snow (2000)
• Mortal Suns (2003)
• 34 (2004) (as Esther Garber)
• Fatal Women (2004) (as Esther Garber)
• Death of the Day (2004)
• L'Amber (2006)
• Indigara (2007)

Series

The Birthgrave Trilogy

• The Birthgrave (1975) Lee's first book
• Shadowfire (US title: Vazkor, Son of Vazkor) (1978)
• Quest for the White Witch (1978)

The Four-BEE Series

• Don't Bite the Sun (1976)
• Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)
  • collected in Drinking Sapphire Wine (1979)

The Novels of Vis

• The Storm Lord (1976)
• Anackire (1983)
  • collected in The Wars of Vis (1984)
• The White Serpent (1988)

Tales from the Flat Earth

• Night's Master (1978)
• Death's Master (1979)
• Delusion's Master (1981)
• Delirum's Mistress (1986)
• Night's Sorceries (1987) (collection of novellas)

The S.I.L.V.E.R. Series

• The Silver Metal Lover (1981) reinterpretive Beauty & the Beast
• Metallic Love (2005)

Unicorn trilogy

• Black Unicorn (1991)
• Gold Unicorn (1994)
• Red Unicorn (1997)

The Secret Books Of Paradys

• The Book of the Damned (1988)
• The Book of the Beast (1988)
• The Book of the Dead (1991)
• The Book of the Mad (1993)

The Secret Books of Venus

• Faces Under Water (1998)
• Saint Fire (1999)
• A Bed of Earth (2002)
• Venus Preserved (2003)

Blood Opera sequence

• Dark Dance (1992)
• Personal Darkness (1993)
• Darkness, I (1994)

The Wolf Tower Sequence, also called the Claidi Journals

• Law of the Wolf Tower, US title: Wolf Tower (1998)
• Wolf Star Rise, US title Wolf Star (2000)
• Queen of the Wolves, US title Wolf Queen (2001)
  • collected in The Claidi Journals Collection (2003)
• Wolf Wing (2002)

The Piratica Series

• Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas (2004)
• Piratica II: Return to Parrot Island (2006)
• Piratica III: The Family Sea (2007)

The Lionwolf Trilogy

• Cast a Bright Shadow (2004)
• Here in Cold Hell (2005)
• No Flame But Mine (2007)

Short story collections

• Princess Hynchatti and Some Other Surprises (1972) revised fairy tales for children
• Unsilent Night (1981) The Nesfa Press, limited ed. of 1000
• Cyrion (1982) related short stories
• Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (1983) reinterpretive fairy tales
• Tamastara, or The Indian Nights (1984)
• Night Visions (1984)
• The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales (1985)
• Dreams of Dark and Light (1986)
• Forests of the Night (1989)
• Women as Demons: The Male Perception of Women Through Space and Time (1989)
• Nightshades: Thirteen Journeys into Shadow (1993)
• Tempting the Gods: The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee, Volume 1 (2009)
• Hunting the Shadows: The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee, Volume 2 (2009)

Television scripts

• Blake's 7 episodes:
  • "Sarcophagus"
  • "Sand"

Short Stories

• "Age" in The Ultimate Dragon edited by Byron Preiss, John Betancourt, & Keith R.A. DeCandido (Dell, 1995).
• "The Beautiful Biting Machine" in Arrows of Eros edited by Alex Stewart (Hodder and Stoughton: New English Library, 1989).
• "La Dame" in Sisters of the Night edited by Barbara Hambly and Martin H. Greenberg (1995)
• "Exhalted Hearts" in Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurences edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, & Edward E Kramer. Unnamable Press (1992)
• "Prince Amilec" in Don't Bet on the Prince edited by Jack Zipes (1987)
• "She Sleeps in a Tower" in The Armless Maiden edited by Terri Windling, 1995.
• "Simon's Wife" in Haunting Women edited by Alan Ryan. Avon (1984)
• "When the Clock Strikes" in Weird Tales #1 edited by Lin Carter v. 48 n. 1 (Spring 1981) Zebra Books (Kensington Publishing Company, New York, NY) copyright 1980 pp. 149 - 173
• "The Witch of the Moon" in The Ultimate Witch edited by Byron Preiss & John Betancourt (Dell, 1993)
• "The World Well Lost" in Warrior Enchantresses edited by Massie-Ferch & Greenberg (1996)
• "Wolfland" (1983) in Don't Bet on the Prince edited by Jack Zipes (1987).

Further reading

• Official website
• Daughter of the Night -- Annotated online bibliography
• Wikipedia
• Sarah Lefanu. "Robots and Romance: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Tanith Lee" in Susannah Radstone, editor, Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1988), pp. 121-136.

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