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A Few Words About Tanith Lee
Other Tanith Lee Resources
- Tanith Lee Resources on the Web
- Tanith Lee Resources in Print
Notable Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books by Tanith Lee

Standard Disclaimer:

This is a brief discussion of Tanith Lee and, of course, of some speculative-fiction books by Lee.

This discussion and list does not necessarily include every book by Lee: it includes only those books that I both know and like. Just as with the author list itself, omission of a particular item may mean I didn’t think highly enough of the omitted item, or it may simply mean that I have not yet sufficient familiarity with it. (In a very few cases, I have listed some books merely on the strength of my opinion of the author: all such books are clearly marked below, as throughout these lists, with a hash mark (#) before the title so you know what’s what.)

I don’t pretend that this discussion is a deep analysis. My intent is no more than to give you a rough idea of what kinds of tales Lee tells, how those tales are usually told, and what makes them and Lee worthy; in sum, to help you rank Tanith Lee (and the works by Lee listed here) on your personal literary “to do” list.

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 ****

(For more possible titles by this author, see the “Unrated Books by Rated Authors” page.)

Days of Grass
Dark Castle, White Horse (two related YA novels)
Kill the Dead
Cyrion
The Flat-Earth Cycle:
(There also exist in this setting a novelette, “The Man Who Stole The Moon”, and several short stories: “I Bring You Forever”, “The Origin Of Snow”, “The Snake”, “The Pain of Glass”, and “Our Lady of Scarlet”; a few have been published in anthologies, but none collected in a Lee-only edition.)
- 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:
- 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
(There also exists in this setting a novelette, Doll Skulls, not published in book form.)
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):
Tempting the Gods *
Sounds and Furies *

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