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== Selected Bibliography ==
== Selected Bibliography ==
=== Books (novels and collections)===
=== Novels===
* ''[[The Dragon Hoard]]'' (1971)
* ''[[The Dragon Hoard]]'' (1971) Lee's first published work
* ''[[Animal Castle]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Animal Castle]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Princess Hynchatti and Some Other Surprises]]'' (1972)
* ''[[The Birthgrave]]'' ([[1975]])
* ''[[Companions on the Road]]'' (1975)
* ''[[Companions on the Road]]'' (1975)
* ''[[Don't Bite the Sun]]'' (1976)
* ''[[The Storm Lord]]'' (1976)
* ''[[The Winter Players]]'' (1976)
* ''[[The Winter Players]]'' (1976)
* ''[[Drinking Sapphire Wine]]'' (1977)
** these two collected in ''Companions On the Road'' ([[1977]])
* ''[[Volkhavaar]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Volkhavaar]]'' (1977)
* ''[[East of Midnight]]'' (1977)
* ''[[East of Midnight]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Shadowfire]]'' (US title: ''Vazkor, Son of Vazkor'') (1978)
* ''[[Quest for the White Witch]]'' (1978)
* ''[[The Castle of Dark]]'' (1978)
* ''[[The Castle of Dark]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Night's Master]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Prince on a White Horse]]'' (1982)
* ''[[Death's Master]]'' (1979)
** these two collected in ''[[Dark Castle, White Horse]]'' ([[1986]])
* ''[[Electric Forest]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Electric Forest]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Shon the Taken]]'' (1979)
* ''[[Shon the Taken]]'' (1979)
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* ''[[Day by Night]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Day by Night]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Lycanthia, or The Children of Wolves]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Lycanthia, or The Children of Wolves]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Delusion's Master]]'' (1981)
* ''[[The Silver Metal Lover]]'' (1981)
* ''[[Prince on a White Horse]]'' (1982)
* ''[[Cyrion]]'' (1982 collection featuring Cyrion)
* ''[[Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer]]'' (1983)
* ''[[Sung in Shadow]]'' (1983; reinterpretive Romeo & Juliet)
* ''[[Sung in Shadow]]'' (1983; reinterpretive Romeo & Juliet)
* ''[[Anackire]]'' (1983)
* ''[[Tamastara, or The Indian Nights]]'' (1984 collection)
* ''[[Night Visions]]'' (1984 collection)
* ''[[The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Days of Grass]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Days of Grass]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Delirum's Mistress]]'' (1986)
* ''[[Dreams of Dark and Light]]'' (1986 collection)
* ''[[Dark Castle, White Horse]]'' (1986 omnibus)
* ''[[Night's Sorceries]]'' (1987)
* ''[[The White Serpent]]'' (1988)
* ''[[The Book of the Damned]]'' (1988)
* ''[[The Book of the Beast]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Madame Two Swords]]'' (1988) (limited ed. of 600)
* ''[[Madame Two Swords]]'' (1988) (limited ed. of 600)
* ''[[Women as Demons (collection)|Women as Demons: The Male Perception of Women Through Space and Time]]'' (1989 collection)
* ''[[Forests of the Night]]'' (1989)
* ''[[A Heroine of the World]]'' (1989)
* ''[[A Heroine of the World]]'' (1989)
* ''[[The Blood of Roses]]'' (1990)
* ''[[The Blood of Roses]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Black Unicorn]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Heart-Beast]]'' (1992)
* ''[[The Book of the Dead]]'' (1991)
* Blood Opera sequence
** ''[[Dark Dance]]'' (1992)
** ''[[Heart-Beast]]'' (1992)
** ''[[Personal Darkness]]'' (1993 sequel to ''Dark Dance'')
* ''[[Elephantasm]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Elephantasm]]'' (1993)
* ''[[The Book of the Mad]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Nightshades: Thirteen Journeys into Shadow]]'' (1993 collection)
* ''[[Darkness, I]]'' (sequel to ''Personal Darkness'')
* ''[[Eva Fairdeath]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Eva Fairdeath]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Gold Unicorn]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Vivia]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Vivia]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Reigning Cats and Dogs]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Reigning Cats and Dogs]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Louisa the Poisoner]]'' (1996)
* ''[[When the Lights Go Out]]'' (1996)
* ''[[When the Lights Go Out]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Louisa the Poisoner]]'' (1996)
* ''[[The Gods Are Thirsty]]'' (1996)
* ''[[The Gods Are Thirsty]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Red Unicorn]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Faces Under Water]]'' (1998)
* ''[[Law of the Wolf Tower]]'' (1998; US title: ''Wolf Tower'')
* ''[[Islands in the Sky]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Islands in the Sky]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Saint Fire]]'' (1999)
* ''[[White as Snow]]'' (2000)
* ''[[White as Snow]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Wolf Star Rise]]'' (2000; US title ''Wolf Star'')
* ''[[Queen of the Wolves]]'' (2001; US title ''Wolf Queen'')
* ''[[A Bed of Earth]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Wolf Wing]]'' (2002)
* ''The Claidi Journals Collection'' (2003 omnibus of Wolf Tower, Wolf Star, Wolf Queen)
* ''[[Mortal Suns]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Mortal Suns]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Venus Preserved]]'' (2003)
* ''[[34]]'' (2004) (as Esther Garber)
* ''[[Piratica|Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Fatal Women]]'' (2004) (as Esther Garber)
* ''[[34]]'' (as Esther Garber)
* ''[[Fatal Women]]'' (as Esther Garber)
* ''[[Cast a Bright Shadow]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Death of the Day]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Death of the Day]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Metallic Love]]'' (2005; loose sequel to ''Silver Metal Lover'')
* ''[[Here in Cold Hell]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Piratica II]]'' (2006)
* ''[[L'Amber]]'' (2006)
* ''[[L'Amber]]'' (2006)
* ''[[No Flame But Mine]]'' (2007)
* ''[[Indigara]]'' (2007)


===Series===
===Series===
;''Biting the Sun'' (first part: ''[[Don't Bite the Sun]]'' (1976) and second part: ''[[Drinking Sapphire Wine]]'' (1977))
;Birthgrave series: ''The Birthgrave'' ... ''Shadowfire'' (Vazkor, Son of Vazkor) ... Quest for the White Witch
;Dark Dance series: ''Dark Dance'' ... ''Personal Darkness'' ... ''Darkness, I''


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


=== Collections ===
;The Four-BEE Series
* [[Women as Demons (collection)|Women as Demons]] ([[1985]])
* ''[[Don't Bite the Sun]]'' ([[1976]])
* ''[[Drinking Sapphire Wine]]'' ([[1977]])
** collected in ''Drinking Sapphire Wine'' ([[1979]])


===Television scripts===
;The Novels of Vis
*''[[Blake's 7]]'' episodes:
* ''[[The Storm Lord]]'' ([[1976]])
** "[[Sarcophagus (Blake's 7 episode)|Sarcophagus]]"
* ''[[Anackire]]'' ([[1983]])
** "[[Sand (Blake's 7 episode)|Sand]]"
** 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]])


===unsorted works===
;The Secret Books Of Paradys
* Animal Castle. Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1972)
* ''[[The Book of the Damned]]'' ([[1988]])
* The Blood of Roses
* ''[[The Book of the Beast]]'' ([[1988]])
* ''[[The Book of the Dead]]'' ([[1991]])
* ''[[The Book of the Mad]]'' ([[1993]])


* Dark Castle, White Horse
;The Secret Books of Venus
* ''[[Faces Under Water]]'' ([[1998]])
* ''[[Saint Fire]]'' ([[1999]])
* ''[[A Bed of Earth]]'' ([[2002]])
* ''[[Venus Preserved]]'' ([[2003]])


* Days of Grass
;Blood Opera sequence
* Don't Bite the Sun Duology:
* ''[[Dark Dance]]'' ([[1992]])
** Don't Bite the Sun
* ''[[Personal Darkness]]'' ([[1993]])
** Drinking Sapphire Wine
* ''[[Darkness, I]]'' ([[1994]])
* The Dragon Hoard. Farrer, Straus & Giroux (1971) 1st US edition (Lee's first published work)
* East of Midnight. St. Martin's (1977)


* The Flat Earth Series
;The Wolf Tower Sequence, also called the Claidi Journals
** Death's Master
* ''[[Law of the Wolf Tower]]'', US title: ''Wolf Tower'' ([[1998]])
** Night's Master
* ''[[Wolf Star Rise]]'', US title ''Wolf Star'' ([[2000]])
** Delusion's Master
* ''[[Queen of the Wolves]]'', US title ''Wolf Queen'' ([[2001]])
** Delirium's Mistress
** collected in ''The Claidi Journals Collection'' ([[2003]])
** Tales from the Flat Earth (short stories)
* ''[[Wolf Wing]]'' ([[2002]])


* Karrakaz Trilogy:
;The Piratica Series
** The Birthgrave (1975) (Lee's first book)
* ''[[Piratica|Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas]]'' ([[2004]])
** Vazkor, Son of Vaxkor
* ''[[Piratica II: Return to Parrot Island]]'' ([[2006]])
** Quest for the White Witch
* ''[[Piratica III: The Family Sea]]'' ([[2007]])


* Paradys Cycle
;The Lionwolf Trilogy
** Book of the Dead
* ''[[Cast a Bright Shadow]]'' (2004)
** Book of the Mad
* ''[[Here in Cold Hell]]'' (2005)
** Book of the Beast
* ''[[No Flame But Mine]]'' (2007)
** Book of the Damned


* The Silver Metal Lover (sf, rev. of Beauty & the Beast)
=== Short story collections ===
* The Storm Lord Duology:
* ''[[Princess Hynchatti and Some Other Surprises]]'' (1972) revised fairy tales for children
** The Storm Lord
* ''[[Unsilent Night]]'' ([[1981]]) The Nesfa Press, limited ed. of 1000
** Anackire
* ''[[Cyrion]]'' ([[1982]]) related short stories
* Sung in Shadow (Romeo & Juliet)
* ''[[Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer]]'' (1983) reinterpretive fairy tales
* Unicorn trilogy:
* ''[[Tamastara, or The Indian Nights]]'' ([[1984]])
** Black Unicorn (YA female quest)
* ''[[Night Visions]]'' ([[1984]])
** Gold Unicorn (YA female quest)
* ''[[The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales]]'' ([[1985]])
** The Red Unicorn (to be published by Tor in 1997)
* ''[[Dreams of Dark and Light]]'' ([[1986]])
* Vivia (published in the U.K.)
* ''[[Forests of the Night]]'' ([[1989]])
* ''[[Women as Demons (collection)|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]])


* The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye
===Television scripts===
* When the Lights Go Out April 96. Headline Press.
*''[[Blake's 7]]'' episodes:
** "[[Sarcophagus (Blake's 7 episode)|Sarcophagus]]"
** "[[Sand (Blake's 7 episode)|Sand]]"


===Short Stories:===
===Short Stories===
* "Age" in The Ultimate Dragon edited by Byron Preiss, John Betancourt, & Keith R.A. DeCandido (Dell, 1995).
* "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).
* "The Beautiful Biting Machine" in Arrows of Eros edited by Alex Stewart (Hodder and Stoughton: New English Library, 1989).
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* "The World Well Lost" in Warrior Enchantresses edited by Massie-Ferch & Greenberg (1996)
* "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).
* "Wolfland" (1983) in Don't Bet on the Prince edited by Jack Zipes (1987).
===Collections:===
* Companions On the Road [Two novellas: Companions on the Road, and The Winter Players] Bantam (1977)
* Dreams of Darkness and Light. Arkham Books. 80 short stories from Weird Tales paperback book series, Twilight Zone Magazine, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and others
* Forests of the Night
* The Gorgon & Other Stories Daw (1985)
* Nightshades
* Princess Hynchatti and Some Other Surprises (revised fairy tales for children)
* Red as Blood (revisions of fairy tales)
* Tales from the Flat Earth
* Tamastara Daw (1984)
* Unsilent Night The Nesfa Press (1981 limited ed. of 1000)
* Women as Demons (theme is male perception of women as Eve / Lilith) Women's Press in UK


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

Names

  • Tanith Lee
  • Esther Garber


Selected Bibliography

Novels

Series

The Birthgrave Trilogy
The Four-BEE Series
The Novels of Vis
Tales from the Flat Earth
The S.I.L.V.E.R. Series
Unicorn trilogy
The Secret Books Of Paradys
The Secret Books of Venus
Blood Opera sequence
The Wolf Tower Sequence, also called the Claidi Journals
The Piratica Series
The Lionwolf Trilogy

Short story collections

Television scripts

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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