Tanith Lee

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

Names

• Tanith Lee
• Esther Garber

Selected Bibliography

Books (novels and collections)

• The Dragon Hoard (1971)
• Animal Castle (1972)
• Princess Hynchatti and Some Other Surprises (1972)
• The Birthgrave (1975)
• Companions on the Road (1975)
• Don't Bite the Sun (1976)
• The Storm Lord (1976)
• The Winter Players (1976)
• Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)
• Volkhavaar (1977)
• East of Midnight (1977)
• Shadowfire (US title: Vazkor, Son of Vazkor) (1978)
• Quest for the White Witch (1978)
• The Castle of Dark (1978)
• Night's Master (1978)
• Death's Master (1979)
• 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)
• 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)
• Anackire (1983)
• Tamastara, or The Indian Nights (1984 collection)
• Night Visions (1984 collection)
• The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales (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)
• 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)
• The Blood of Roses (1990)
• Black Unicorn (1991)
• The Book of the Dead (1991)
• Dark Dance (1992)
• Heart-Beast (1992)
• Personal Darkness (1993 sequel to Dark Dance)
• Elephantasm (1993)
• The Book of the Mad (1993)
• Nightshades: Thirteen Journeys into Shadow (1993 collection)
• Darkness, I (sequel to Personal Darkness)
• Eva Fairdeath (1994)
• Gold Unicorn (1994)
• Vivia (1995)
• Reigning Cats and Dogs (1995)
• When the Lights Go Out (1996)
• Louisa the Poisoner (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)
• Saint Fire (1999)
• 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)
• Venus Preserved (2003)
• Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas (2004)
• 34 (as Esther Garber)
• Fatal Women (as Esther Garber)
• Cast a Bright Shadow (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)
• No Flame But Mine (2007)

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

Collections

• Women as Demons (1985)

Television scripts

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

unsorted works

• Animal Castle. Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1972)
• The Blood of Roses
• Blood Opera Sequence:
  • Dark Dance
  • Personal Darkness
  • Darkness, I (book three; published in the U.K.)
• Cyrion
• Dark Castle, White Horse
• Day By Night
• Days of Grass
• Don't Bite the Sun Duology:
  • Don't Bite the Sun
  • Drinking Sapphire Wine
• The Dragon Hoard. Farrer, Straus & Giroux (1971) 1st US edition (Lee's first published work)
• East of Midnight. St. Martin's (1977)
• Elephantasm
• Electric Forest
• Eva Fairdeath (post-apocalypse quest)
• The Flat Earth Series
  • Death's Master
  • Night's Master
  • Delusion's Master
  • Delirium's Mistress
  • Tales from the Flat Earth (short stories)
• Heart-Beast (werewolves)
• A Heroine of the World
• Karrakaz Trilogy:
  • The Birthgrave (1975) (Lee's first book)
  • Vazkor, Son of Vaxkor
  • Quest for the White Witch
• Kill the Dead (vampires)
• Lycanthia (werewolves)
• Madame Two Swords. Grant (1988 limited ed. of 600)
• Paradys Cycle
  • Book of the Dead
  • Book of the Mad
  • Book of the Beast
  • Book of the Damned
• Reigning Cats and Dogs April 1996. Headline Press.
• Sabella (vampires)
• The Silver Metal Lover (sf, rev. of Beauty & the Beast)
• The Storm Lord Duology:
  • The Storm Lord
  • Anackire
• Sung in Shadow (Romeo & Juliet)
• Unicorn trilogy:
  • Black Unicorn (YA female quest)
  • Gold Unicorn (YA female quest)
  • The Red Unicorn (to be published by Tor in 1997)
• Vivia (published in the U.K.)
• Volkhavaar. Daw (1977)
• The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye
• When the Lights Go Out April 96. Headline Press.

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).

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

• 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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