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A Few Words About Tanith Lee

Regrettably, I have not yet had an opportunity to write an essay on this author, but the “Other Resources” section below will lead you to some information about the ”Notable Books” listed farther down this page.

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Other Tanith Lee Resources

Tanith Lee Resources on the Web

The place to start is Daughter of the Night, which has—among many other things—an extraordinarily rich annotated bibliography, the very model of how such a thing should be done.

Other pages (by no means an exhaustive list) of note concerning Lee include:

• Tanith Lee [at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction site]
  
  
• Tanith Lee obituary [at The Guardian]
  
  
• Tanith Lee, Fantasy and Horror Novelist, Dies at 67 [at The New York Times]
  
  
• “Where to begin with Tanith Lee?” [at the Best of British Fantasy site]
  

  “Gee, I wish I’d said that: everyone’s repeating it around the Club!”  — Groucho Marx in Monkey Business

• “Where to Begin With Tanith Lee”: Follow Up To ‘Her Own Dark Mythos’ Panel [at Craig Laurance Gidney’s site]
  
  
• Birthday Review: Stories of Tanith Lee [a portal page to several of Rich Horton’ss reviews of Lee works at his “Strange at Ecbatan” site.]
  
  
• Tales From the Flat Earth: A Review by Gene Hargrove
  
  

A few useful appreciations also exist: at Morbid Outlook there is Delirium’s Mistress: The Weird & Beautiful Fiction Of Tanith Lee; Gene Hargrove has Tales From the Flat Earth: A Review; and “Allie” has a brief and adulative but readable note at Tanith Lee: For the Love of Language.

There are some interviews on line too: 1994, with Tablua Rasa; 1998, with Locus; and an undated session with Darrell Schweitzer.

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Tanith Lee Resources in Print

There is a book entitled The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene by Mavis Haut; I know little of it, but there it is.

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Notable Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books by Tanith Lee ****

• Days of Grass
• Dark Castle, White Horse [two related YA novels]
  • The Castle of Dark
  • Prince on a White Horse
• Sometimes, After Sunset [2 novellas]
  • # Sabella or The Blood Stone
  • Kill the Dead
• Cyrion
• The Flat-Earth Cycle:
  (There also exist in this setting a novella and 5 short stories; the novella and 3 of the stories appear in the collection Venus Burning: Realms and the other 2 stories in the collection Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata.)
  • Tales From the Flat Earth
    (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus volume containing the novels listed below.)
    • Night’s Master
    • Death’s Master
    • Delusion’s Master
  • The Lords Of Darkness
    (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus volume containing the novels listed below.)
    • Night’s Daughter
    • Delirium’s Mistress
    • Night’s Sorceries
• The Paradys Quartet:
  (There also exists in this setting a novelette, “Doll Skulls”, which appears in the collection Hunting the Shadows.)
  • The Secret Books of Paradys, I and II
    (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus edition containing the novels listed below.)
    • The Book of the Damned
    • The Book of the Beast
  • The Secret Books of Paradys, III and IV
    (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus edition containing the novels listed below.)
    • The Book of the Dead
    • The Book of the Mad
• The Venus Quartet:
  • The Secret Books of Venus, I and II
    (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus edition containing the novels listed below.)
    • Faces Under Water
    • Saint Fire
  • The Secret Books of Venus, III and IV
    (The link is to copies of the preferred-edition omnibus edition containing the novels listed below.)
    • A Bed of Earth
    • Venus Preserved
• The Unicorn Trio [YA]:
  • Black Unicorn
  • Gold Unicorn
  • Red Unicorn
• Tempting the Gods: The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee Volume One *
• Sounds and Furies *

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