Steve Rasnic Tem Books in Order

These early supernatural stories unsettle ordinary lives through strange encounters, distorted realities, and unexpected terror. Across thirty-eight tales, familiar settings become places where private fears and the uncanny reveal disturbing possibilities beneath everyday experience.

Thirty-three supernatural tales explore the persistent influence of the past on apparently ordinary lives. Ghosts, unsettling memories, and uncertain perceptions disturb a world where familiar surroundings can conceal horrors that remain just beyond clear sight.

A troubled father tells himself a story each day in an effort to recover his sanity. Moving among ghost tales, adventure, and other forms, these inventions reveal the fears and emotional struggles behind his withdrawal from family life.

Drawing on their family life, Steve and Melanie Tem intertwine memoir and dark fantasy to explore love, grief, and parenthood. The boundaries between imagined terrors and lived experience blur as they examine how families endure incomprehensible losses.

Steve and Melanie Tem bring together their collaborative speculative stories, including the original version of The Man on the Ceiling. These tales explore unsettling experiences and the emotional pressures of family life through fantastic and disturbing possibilities.

This novelette explores the uncertain boundary between waking experience and dreams, where reality and delusion become difficult to separate. Its supernatural unease turns on the possibility that a person’s understanding of consciousness may be profoundly mistaken.

Widower Richard Carter takes his daughter to a remote hotel where he becomes manager. Its guests include creatures from humanity’s nightmares, turning their attempt to rebuild a life after loss into an uneasy struggle for survival.

Nineteen crime stories examine cruelty, obsession and the harm people inflict on themselves and others. A disturbing desert painting, a violent singer and characters driven toward murder bring noir fiction into contact with psychological horror and dark humor.

Forty-two stories explore aging, identity, death, and relationships through surreal disruptions of ordinary life. Office workers, strange creatures, and impossible transformations inhabit worlds where absurdity and nightmare make familiar emotional struggles newly unsettling.

Michael Gibson returns to Appalachia to care for his grandmother Sadie, whose memories conceal a dangerous family history. Her account of poverty, unusual powers, and a snake-handling uncle may explain the threat waiting in a nearby hidden crate.

Ghosts emerge from grief, loneliness, and absence in these supernatural stories. Empty houses, troubled families, and unfamiliar presences in quiet landscapes reveal how easily private sorrow can become an encounter with something beyond the living world.

Years after his son disappears during a holiday in England, Jamie accepts an invitation to a museum devoted to Lovecraft. An increasingly unfamiliar country and glimpses of a young man revive his hope of finding the missing child.

This horror collection gathers strange and frightening tales in thematic sections ranging from traditional monsters to Lovecraftian beings and altered consciousness. Its storybook structure moves through supernatural encounters, psychological disturbances, and the darker possibilities of human obsession.

Every few years, a woman calls a man to ask whether she can shower at his home. Their intimate reunions never bring the explanations he seeks, and her repeated disappearances leave him trying to understand the connection they briefly renew.

Imprisoned by insectlike captors in the mysterious place called Ubo, Daniel is forced into simulations of history’s violent figures. As the experiments continue, his identity and sanity erode while the prisoners struggle to understand their confinement.

Steve and Melanie Tem discuss the practical and imaginative work of writing fiction. Their conversations cover finding stories, developing characters and settings, shaping plot and viewpoint, and making room for creative work within everyday life.

Thirty-five selected stories blend horror, fantasy, and surreal transformations of daily life. Grieving spouses, endangered children, and isolated people encounter inexplicable threats as familiar surroundings expose the unsettling forces hidden within memory, loss, and human connection.

Thirty-nine fantasy stories range across sword-and-sorcery adventures, fairy lore, magical creatures, and comic invention. Alongside witches, wizards, and Robin Hood tales, darker fantasies explore the strangeness of imagined worlds while emphasizing wonder over horror.

Teenager Laura hopes for a grown-up Halloween but must first accompany her little brother trick-or-treating. Their search for costumes leads to an unusual shop, where Trevor’s choice of mask brings consequences far more dangerous than a disguise.

Ghosts, transformations, and family secrets intrude into ordinary childhood and adult lives in this supernatural collection. Familiar fears become strange encounters involving pursuing figures, dangerous magic, unsettling relatives, and machines whose workings demand a disturbing price.

Twenty-one stories explore fears surrounding death, aging, grief, and loss. Characters search for vanished loves, make desperate bargains, and face the aftermath of catastrophe, discovering that familiar hopes and anxieties can lead toward deeply unsettling realities.

These twenty-five horror stories follow people whose ordinary routines admit mysterious visitors, bodily changes, and disturbing presences. From uneasy family relationships to an elderly man awaiting a doctor, private fears become encounters with the inexplicable.

Arnie and his friends explore a neighborhood whose houses bear letters instead of numbers, with a strange library at its edge. Each address opens another story of ghosts, sinister events, and horrors concealed behind apparently quaint homes.

This selection gathers 115 poems from across Tem’s career, combining science fiction, fantasy, horror, and early nature writing. Familiar concerns from his fiction reappear through verse, including pieces previously scattered through magazines and several unpublished works.

Archaeologist Reed Taylor faces a threat connected to a secret buried in his own past. As something long concealed begins to return, his work with the dead takes on a frightening and intensely personal significance.