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Issue 61 Coming Fairly Soon... A blog about ghost stories, weird fiction, quiet horror, and related matters.

Supernatural Tales 61 is out, including my new short story "The Miniaturist." suptales.blogspot.com/2026/02/issu...

04.03.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Queneau's Alphabet Amazon.com: Queneau's Alphabet: 9781637892619: Tem, Steve Rasnic: Books

You can order Queneau’s Alphabet here:
www.amazon.com/Queneaus-Alp...

01.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
R is for Remains - The Dark Magazine The naked man stood in the doorway, eyes unblinking. A portion of the left side of his skull was gone, but there was no blood, no gore. Gene tried to outstare him, afraid to look away, and was about t...

β€œR is for Remains,” from my story cycle QUENEAU’S ALPHABET, is reprinted in the March issue of The Dark. Queneau’s neighborhood, where the pre-WWII bungalows hide a history of sinister events. There’s a story for each house, and each letter of the alphabet. www.thedarkmagazine.com/r-is-for-rem...

01.03.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rough Justice: Tales of Crime and Deception Rough Justice: Tales of Crime and Deception [Tem, Steve Rasnic] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Rough Justice: Tales of Crime and Deception

β€œβ€¦a writer who embraces the power of a reader’s imagination, and has the skill and the nerve to leave so much unwritten” – Crime Fiction Lover online
Rough Justice: 43 tales of crime and deception running the gamut from high-altitude capers to back-alley brouhahas. www.amazon.com/Rough-Justic...

26.02.2026 19:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Her collection Singularity collects the best of her short stories.

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It's Women in Horror month. Remembering Melanie today. Here's a link to all her titles in print. www.amazon.com/stores/Melan...

26.02.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Absent Company Absent Company - Kindle edition by Tem, Steve Rasnic. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Absent Company.

"Ice House Pond" can also be found in my collection ABSENT COMPANY. www.amazon.com/Absent-Compa...

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Greystone Bay, How I Mist You: Into the Fog (ed. Charles L. Grant) All good things come to an...

Gordon Bourjaily reviews Charlie Grant's anthology In The Fog, including my long story "Ice House Pond." cgbourjaily.blogspot.com/2026/02/grey...

23.02.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth A World Fantasy Award-winning editor brings together the works of today’s most talented Lovecraftian writers in this horror anthology inspired by The Shadow Over Innsmouth For decades, H. P. Lovecraft's masterpiece of terror has inspired writers with its gripping account of a village whose inhabitants have surrendered to an ancient and hideous evil. In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones has assembled eleven of today's most prominent and well-respected horror authorsβ€”the finest of the Lovecraftian acolytes. Included is Lovecraft's own unpublished draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. "Introduction: Weird Shadows..." by Stephen Jones "Discarded Draft of 'The Shadows Over Innsmouth'" by H. P. Lovecraft "The Quest for Y'ha-nthlei" by John Glasby "Brackish Waters" by Richard A. Lupoff "Voices in the Water" by Basil Copper "Another Fish Story" by Kim Newman "Take Me to the River" by Paul McAuley "The Coming" by Hugh B. Cave "Eggs" by Steve Rasnic Tem "From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6" by CaitlΓ­n R. Kiernan "Raised by the Moon" by Ramsey Campbell "Fair Exchange" by Michael Marshall Smith "The Taint" by Brian Lumley

Coming in July including my short story "Eggs." bluecypressbooks.com/book/9781835...

21.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably my least known collection. The contents are also suitable for young adults. β€œSome sheer literary classics in this book.” – Des Lewis Reviews. www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZRQSWL9

21.02.2026 06:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Night Doctor and Other Tales The Night Doctor and Other Tales [Tem, Steve Rasnic] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Night Doctor and Other Tales

John Boden, Ginger Nuts of Horror: β€œEvery story ... is marvelous. All of them emotionally heavy and steeped in themes of loss, regret, grief ... and despair. All painted in lush realistically thick strokes and colors. All of them masterpieces.” Ebook or paperback. www.amazon.com/Night-Doctor...

20.02.2026 18:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Coming in the March/April issue of Analog, my new sf story "The Shiny New Folk." analogsf.com/current-issu...

19.02.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Figures Unseen: Selected Stories Figures Unseen: Selected Stories [Tem, Steve Rasnic, Strantzas, Simon] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Figures Unseen: Selected Stories

Figures Unseen: Paperback, ebook, & audiobook formats.
β€œThe stories of Figures Unseen shimmer with beauty, with felt reality, and with the mysteries forever at the heart of all our lives.” – James Sallis, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
www.amazon.com/Figures-Unse...

17.02.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Absent Company Absent Company - Kindle edition by Tem, Steve Rasnic. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Absent Company.

You will find "Aquarium" reprinted in my collection Absent Company. www.amazon.com/Absent-Compa...

11.02.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hotel Doom Service: The SeaHarp Hotel (ed. Charles L. Grant) Back for another visit to Gr...

Gordon Bourjaily reviews Charlie Grant's Seaharp Hotel anthology, including my story "Aquarium." cgbourjaily.blogspot.com/2026/02/hote...

11.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Man on the Ceiling Amazon.com: The Man on the Ceiling eBook : Tem, Melanie, Tem, Steve Rasnic: Books

Still available as an ebook. Expanded from the World Fantasy Award-winning novella. Loosely autobiographical, TMOC has the feel of a family portrait painted by Salvador Dali, where story and reality blend to find the one thing that neither can offer alone: truth.
www.amazon.com/Man-Ceiling-...

10.02.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Welcome to the Locus Awards Poll. Deadline for voting is April 1. You can return and edit or add to your ballot up until the deadline.

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My short story β€œPrime Purpose,” from Analog 1-2/25, is on the Locus Recommended List. Analog has posted the story, free to read for your enjoyment, or if you want to vote in the poll.
analogsf.com/wp-content/u...

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Someone posted this online, the Corner News Stand in Pennington Gap, Virginia--my favorite place growing up. I talked my mother into taking me there once a month to buy comics, sf mags, and genre paperbacks from the spin racks. There was a busy pool table on one side I wasn't allowed to go near.

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Dream Machine: Selected Poems Dream Machine: Selected Poems [Tem, Steve Rasnic] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dream Machine: Selected Poems

Available in pb & ebook (audio forthcoming). DREAM MACHINE collects 115 of my poems spanning the genres of sf, fantasy, and horror, from venues like Weirdbook, Portland Review, Asimov’s, Star*Line, Dreams & Nightmares, Amazing, and The Bennington Review. www.amazon.com/Dream-Machin...

03.02.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Queneau's Alphabet Amazon.com: Queneau's Alphabet: 9781637892619: Tem, Steve Rasnic: Books

Still available in paperback and ebook formats.
www.amazon.com/Queneaus-Alp...

17.01.2026 05:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Out in the wild, DREAM MACHINE: Selected Poems. 115 poems dating back to the beginnings of my career, including several previously unpublished works. From a variety of sources including Asimov's, Amazing, Star*Line, Bennington Review, Portland Review, etc. www.amazon.com/Dream-Machin...

15.01.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bookstore & Library Orders – Crossroad Press

For bookstore and library orders: crossroadpress.com/bookstore-li...

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Dream Machine: Selected Poems Dream Machine: Selected Poems [Tem, Steve Rasnic] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dream Machine: Selected Poems

DREAM MACHINE: Selected Poems collects 115 of Steve Rasnic Tem’s poems covering the same themes he explores in his fiction. These poems originally appeared in a variety of small mags and genre outlets incl Asimov's, Amazing, The Portland Review, Bennington Review, etc. www.amazon.com/dp/1637893973?

12.01.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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25th Century Five and Dime #17: 23 of the Best underrated Science Fiction/ Speculative/ Weird of the first quarter of the 21st Century - Amazing Stories With my last column written in 2025, I wanted to highlight some works of excellent speculative fiction that might normally get overlooked. If I were going

David Agranoff includes Ubo in his column on underrated SF:
amazingstories.com/2026/01/25th...
β€˜When you mix the β€œI want to shoot myself” grim tone of McCarthy’s The Road, with the political concepts and sheer β€œwhat the fuck is real?” of Philip K Dick, you earn the word masterpiece.’

08.01.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Absent Company Absent Company - Kindle edition by Tem, Steve Rasnic. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Absent Company.

"Fogwell" is available in my collection Absent Company: www.amazon.com/Absent-Compa...

05.01.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here Waits Thy Doom: Doom City (ed. Charles L. Grant.) Happy New Year! Let's start things off...

Gordon Bourjaily reviews the Charlie Grant anthology Doom City, including my story "Fogwell." cgbourjaily.blogspot.com/2026/01/here...

05.01.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Runalong The Short Shelves - Remains Issue 3 β€” Runalong The Shelves Publisher - https://remains.uk Price - Β£8:99 This issue of Remains has been hit by a publishing problem but just in time for my Christmas break it kindly arrived and feels a suitable time to resume...

Runalong the Shelves reviews Remains #3, including my story "Gehenna." www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/1/...

04.01.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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All of Melanie's books are now available as ebooks from the usual online retailers. www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-...

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