Tanith Lee Books in Order

Cursed after his father offends an enchantress, Prince Jasleth must seek his fortune while unexpectedly turning into a raven each day. Joining a quest for a dragon's treasure, he encounters magical dangers and his persecutor's schemes.

Prince Rimthee's kingdom has no animals. When his sister arrives with a large brown dog, her visit introduces an unfamiliar creature into a world that has never encountered one.

Twelve original fairy tales follow princes and princesses whose encounters with magical helpers and creatures defy expectations. Wizards, dragons, and fairy godmothers complicate familiar situations, turning conventional promises of enchantment into surprising outcomes.

A nameless woman awakens inside a volcano with no memory of her identity. Driven by a mysterious voice and troubled by her unusual powers, she journeys through a violent world in search of her forgotten past.

In the domed city of Four-BEE, robots provide everything and young people can change bodies or return from death. One restless inhabitant finds endless pleasure empty and begins seeking a purpose beyond the society's prescribed freedoms.

Dorthar's succession law grants the throne to the Storm Lord's youngest son. When a captive priestess bears the rightful heir, Queen Val Mara's ambitions place the child in danger and force him away from his royal heritage.

A young priestess guards three sacred relics: a ring, a jewel and a bone. When a stranger calling himself Grey arrives seeking the bone, his deceptive claims and rival magic threaten the duty that defines her life.

This omnibus follows a dissatisfied young inhabitant of Four-BEE, where robots maintain a life of unlimited pleasure and replaceable bodies. A search for meaning becomes rebellion against the rules of an apparently perfect but constraining society.

Expelled from Four-BEE after committing its forbidden act, a rebellious inhabitant must confront life beyond a robot-maintained utopia. Declaring independence, the exile tests whether human ingenuity can prevail against the machines that once provided everything.

Fleeing his master's hounds, enslaved Dekteon accepts shelter from a mysterious traveler. The encounter draws him into another world, where an exchange of identities threatens to replace his old hardships with a royal consort's deadly fate.

Enslaved teenager Shaina alone remembers a traveling troupe after its departure. Seeking the actor she loves, she learns to send her soul beyond her body, drawing her into a struggle against a magician's dangerous illusions.

Taking his father's name, Vazkor pursues the white-haired witch who is his mother, determined to kill her. His journey across seas, conquered cities and haunted mountains forces him to confront the powerful heritage growing within him.

Demon prince Azhrarn raises a mortal boy in the Underearth, sheltered from human sorrow. The boy's longing to experience the world above leads into connected tales of dangerous desires, demonic interference and encounters between mortals and immortals.

Raised without knowing his parents, Turek discovers that his father was a warrior king and his mother the survivor of a feared ancient race. Taking the name Vazkor, he sets out to find her and exact revenge.

Lilune summons musician Lir to help her escape a castle where she has been kept prisoner. Their journey is shadowed by an infectious evil, leaving them to question whether its source lies in her or elsewhere.

This omnibus gathers the first three Flat Earth novels, where demons intervene in mortal lives while indifferent gods remain above. Azhrarn, Uhlume and Chuz shape tales of dangerous bargains, love, death and illusion in an ancient magical world.

Uhlume, Lord of Death, enters a bargain that entangles rulers, wanderers and supernatural beings. When knowledge of immortality reaches human hands, the resulting struggles test the limits of love, sanity and the divide between mortals and demons.

An outcast in a society that engineers beautiful citizens, Magdala accepts a scientist's offer of an artificial body. The transformation requires her to impersonate his rival, drawing her desire for acceptance into a dangerous game of deception.

Shon's people believe anyone touched by Death's children must be killed. After meeting strangers in the forest, he faces that judgment himself and must venture beyond familiar beliefs toward the feared place where Death supposedly dwells.

On a planet divided between permanent day and night, storyteller Vitra supplies dreams to a stratified underground society. When her imagined world's failing machines begin to resemble reality, she confronts the uncertain boundaries of her own freedom.

Exorcist Parl Dro travels toward a city inhabited by ghosts, accompanied by a musician seeking inspiration. Opposition from a woman protecting her dead sister complicates his mission and challenges his certainty about the spirits he destroys.

On a distant colony, Sabella hides her vampirism and tries to abstain from human blood. An invitation to her aunt's funeral draws her out of isolation, into a trap created by someone who discovered her secret.

Sabella lives apart from the settlers of Nova Mars, concealing her need for blood and her fear of sunlight. A family funeral threatens her carefully controlled existence, bringing the danger of exposure and a determined pursuer.

Chuz, Prince of Madness, grants an abandoned queen's wish against her husband. His influence draws mortals into illusion and distorted desire, while conflict with demon prince Azhrarn entangles human ambitions with the rivalries of supernatural rulers.

Christian inherits an old mansion in remote France, unaware of the full claims upon its lands. When two figures emerge from the forest to assert their interest, his new position becomes entangled with the region's werewolf mysteries.

Privileged teenager Jane falls in love with Silver, a robot minstrel whose music unsettles her sheltered life. Convinced he is more than a machine, she abandons comfort to pursue a relationship society and its creators may reject.

Threatened by a cousin he fears will murder him for his inheritance, Roilant searches for the legendary Cyrion. Stories of the adventurer’s battles and impossible escapes offer hope, but finding a real rescuer proves difficult.

A prince rides a white horse without remembering who he is or how he arrived. Aided by his shape-changing mount, he encounters witches and monsters while learning that a strange kingdom expects him to confront its greatest threat.

Twenty years after Dorthar's peace, ambitious Prince Kesarh seeks power amid plots and renewed conflict. His daughter Ashni, altered by her birth and blessed by Anackire, becomes entangled in the dangerous plans that may shape the realm.

Familiar fairy tales turn unsettling in this collection of reinterpretations, from Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to the Pied Piper. Lee brings horror into their recognizable settings, transforming customary encounters with magic and danger.

In a city ruled by hereditary feuds, Iuletta Chenti uses magic to draw Romulan Montargo toward her. Their love crosses hostile family boundaries, while her betrothal and a vengeful cousin threaten any chance of remaining together.

Seven stories draw on Indian folklore and Hindu theology, following shapeshifting serpent people, assassins, warriors, and hunters. Their encounters explore love, transformation, and reincarnation, tracing how experiences across different lifetimes shape the soul.

With surviving humans hiding underground from alien machines, Esther ventures onto the surface and is captured. Taken to a vast, unfamiliar city, she must confront advanced technology, uncertain intentions and an enigmatic alien whose presence complicates her fear.

Hidden in eternal sleep on an Underearth island, Azhriaz is the daughter of a mortal priestess and demon prince Azhrarn. His enemy Chuz seeks to awaken her, drawn by her powers and the possibility of defying her father.

Two fantasy novels pair a captive young woman's attempt to escape a dark castle with an amnesiac prince's adventures. A musician, a shape-changing horse and dangerous magic aid unlikely heroes facing mysteries beyond their initial understanding.

This collection moves between fantasy, horror, and science fiction, bringing vampires, demons, and werewolves into tales alongside remote planets. Its range of supernatural creatures and unfamiliar worlds offers different encounters with the strange and frightening.

These connected fantasies unfold in a flat world between the realms of gods, demons and the dead. Mortal desires become entangled with supernatural rivalries, as powerful beings interfere in love, ambition and the search for immortality.

Following Azhriaz and Chuz's flight from Azhrarn, strange enchantments spread across the Flat Earth. These linked tales follow mortals caught in the consequences of demonic conflict, where ambition, betrayal and magic transform lives beyond their control.

A teenage girl discovers an old revolutionary's writings and portrait in a secondhand book. Her growing obsession later draws her to Madame Two Swords, an unsettling woman whose connection to the dead man threatens her understanding of reality.

Young scholar Raoulin arrives in Paradys and lodges in a decaying, haunted house. His fascination with a ghostly bride draws him toward an ancient curse, while a monstrous creature's long history intertwines with the city's present.

Three gothic tales explore different eras of Paradys, an imagined counterpart to Paris. Poets, haunted lives and dangerous encounters reveal a city where dark magic and desire unsettle identity, drawing its inhabitants toward transformation and corruption.

Gladiator Rehger has survived slavery to become a celebrated warrior, but meeting the powerful Aztira changes his path. Her mysterious abilities draw him toward conflicts involving rulers and immortals, and a quest for the Amanackire's legendary city.

War strips young Aradia of family and security, placing her under the power of occupying forces. As alliances shift, she must navigate captivity, changing identities and conflicting loyalties while holding onto her love for a disputed soldier.

Stories of fantasy, science fiction, and horror examine women through figures such as witches, vampires, seductive outsiders, and avenging goddesses. Across different settings, these female presences reveal the fears and assumptions shaping their portrayal.

Marked by a strange encounter in childhood, Mechail returns from death seeking revenge. His pursuit leads toward Anjelen and a sinister forest monastery, where blood, religious power and resurrected lives bind together competing histories and desires.

Tanaquil believes she lacks her sorceress mother's magical gifts until she assembles mysterious bones found in the desert. The resulting unicorn comes to life, compelling her to follow it without knowing its origin or its purpose.

Prince Draco becomes captivated by a mysterious woman from the East. His second-in-command Skorous suspects hidden motives when he discovers her ability to turn objects into gold, raising questions about whether the prince's love is another enchantment.

Eight gothic tales uncover the lives behind Paradys's tombs and cemeteries. Enchanted brides, vengeful survivors and people drawn toward supernatural transformations inhabit a city where desire, corruption and death become inseparable from its strange and troubled history.

Solitary bookshop clerk Rachaela Day accepts an invitation from her absent father's family. At their isolated seaside manor, the nocturnal Scarabae draw her into a disturbing inheritance that challenges her understanding of blood ties and desire.

Fugitive Daniel Vehmund acquires a cursed diamond that transforms him into a murderous beast beneath the full moon. Returning to England draws him toward unhappily married Laura, whose attraction entangles her with his monstrous double life.

In Victorian England, homeless Annie Ember becomes a maid at a wealthy family's country estate. Their fortune and possessions carry the legacy of colonial India, while an ivory elephant charm links her survival to an ancient power.

This collection gathers Tanith Lee’s fantasy writings into a volume of imagined worlds and encounters. Readers move among different tales rather than following a single continuous narrative, exploring the range of her shorter fantastical fiction.

Rachaela struggles to live among the surviving Scarabae while her daughter Ruth violently rejects the family's traditions. Ruth's bloodthirsty wanderings force the near-immortal clan to seek help from another branch of their strange bloodline.

In sunless Paradise, twins Felion and Smara seek escape from a city ruled by madness and ritual cruelty. Their hope lies in an icy labyrinth connecting three parallel cities, where travelers' emotions intensify the dangers.

Anna matures with unnatural speed within the ancient Scarabae family and displays knowledge belonging to her dead sister. Her abduction leads toward a hidden southern-ice pyramid and Cain, an immortal whose plans threaten her future.

In a polluted future where nature is dying, Eva Belmort sees little prospect beyond exploitation in Foulmarsh. A traveling seller of death offers escape, sending her across a dangerous landscape driven by powerful, conflicting passions.

Tanaquil and her talking familiar encounter an expansionist army commanded by her half-sister Lizra. Ordered to repair a mechanical golden unicorn, the gifted mender must consider what her talent will enable in a campaign of conquest.

Fleeing her hostile home, Hesta Web remains at a seaside resort after the holiday crowds depart. Life among Skilt's followers in a decaying hotel exposes her to ghost stories, strange watchers, and the town's unsettling secrets.

Raised by a witch in a swamp, beautiful Louisa intends to marry wealth and inherit a fortune. Perfect manners conceal ruthless ambition, and an undetectable poison offers a means of removing anyone standing in her way.

Saul Anger leads a secret society devoted to bloody justice, while psychic healer Grace works the streets of Black Church. A demon's indiscriminate killings bring their lives together in a struggle against unleashed desires and ancient powers.

Lord Vaddix's daughter Vivia retreats from his brutality into a secret cave beneath the castle. When plague strikes, that refuge awakens Zulgaris, an alluring presence whose promise of eternal life may conceal another form of captivity.

Impoverished writer Camille Desmoulins helps ignite the French Revolution with a speech and his pamphlets. His growing influence brings political patrons, dangerous rivalries, and a love affair into conflict as revolutionary hopes give way to terror.

Heartbroken after her beloved becomes engaged to her sister, Tanaquil returns to her sorceress mother's home. A red unicorn draws her into a parallel world, where a murderous counterpart turns private jealousy into a dangerous challenge.

During Carnival in an alternate Venice, Furian finds an Apollo mask floating in a canal. The discovery draws him into murder, occult practices, and an obsession with Eurydiche, whose secrets may connect to his own past.

Servant Claidi helps an imprisoned stranger escape the cruel palace where she grew up. Their journey across the Waste exposes her to dangerous customs, nomadic allies, and doubts about the handsome prince promising her a new life.

Hope Glover's attempt to retrieve a kite carries her away from Victorian London and aboard the magical Basset. In a realm divided by war between centaurs and winged horses, she must seek an unlikely solution.

Servant Volpa discovers an extraordinary power over fire after her abusive master's death. Church leaders see a weapon for their impending holy war, even as uncertainty over whether her gift is divine or demonic surrounds her.

Queen Arpazia's hatred shadows her daughter Coira's lonely childhood in a warlord's palace. As the princess reaches womanhood, a speaking mirror and the forest draw mother and daughter into a dark reworking of Snow White.

Kidnapped before her wedding, Claidi is taken to a mountaintop palace beneath the Wolf Star. Mechanical servants and moving rooms conceal family mysteries, while her uneasy relationship with Prince Venn complicates her struggle for freedom.

Claidi leaves the Rise expecting a reunion with Argul, but the Hulta greet her with hostility and he has vanished. Her northward search brings strange cities and deeper questions about the lies surrounding her past.

Returning to the Hulta, Claidi discovers that malicious stories have driven Argul away. Her search leads toward an icy tower and a powerful woman who may hold answers about her origins, amid further conspiracy and deception.

A feud over scarce burial ground pits two noble families against each other in the canal city of Venus. As mysterious deaths follow a young woman's disappearance, a gravedigger confronts supernatural forces and his own shadowed past.

Married life in Peshamba leaves Claidi and Argul missing the freedom and adventure of their former travels. A mysterious summons from Argul's powerful grandmother draws them away from comfortable routine and into a new perilous undertaking.

Born without feet, a royal infant is sent to the underworld temple rather than acknowledged at court. Her eventual return as an heir draws her into a struggle for power shaped by dangerous gods and human ambition.

This collected edition follows Claidi from servitude in a cruel palace into journeys across the Waste and the enigmatic Towers. Her journals trace a search for freedom, love, and the truth behind her concealed family history.

Centuries in the future, the sunken city of Venus survives beneath a computer-regulated dome. An experiment reviving two murdered people ends in catastrophe, raising fears of technological failure, disease, and a threat to the city's air.

Esther recounts an unusual childhood in Egypt and an encounter in France with an elusive figure who awakens forbidden desires. Pursuit becomes an uncanny journey, while discrepancies in her autobiography blur memory, obsession, and possible manipulation.

In a land gripped by endless winter, a magician warns that Princess Saphay's marriage will destroy her father's dynasty. She travels toward her betrothed despite the prophecy, placing royal ambition against ominous supernatural forces.

When Steven Grace disappears after his car crashes, suspicion spreads through the Sussex town of Seatree. Detectives Knox and Rawthorn investigate tangled relationships over one night, as hidden histories and further deaths complicate their case.

Written through the fictional persona Esther Garber, these stories and novellas explore lesbian desire, obsession, and dangerous secrets. An assassin in Paris and a mysterious professional widow bring love into unsettling proximity with manipulation and death.

Artemesia escapes a girls' academy determined to reclaim her late mother's pirate life. Gathering a crew whose past differs from her memories, she sails into rivalry with Goldie Girl and a race for legendary treasure.

After her mother's death, Esther travels to Paris and encounters the elusive Julie d'Ouest. Her pursuit of this mysterious lover unfolds across a shifting landscape, while the narrator's contradictory memories leave the nature of her journey uncertain.

Cast into an icy hell, Lionwolf must fight endlessly for a stone-faced king and confront a former lover there. Meanwhile, sorcerers and displaced people struggle to shape their futures amid the collapse of the mortal world's empire.

Streetwise orphan Loren treasures the story of a woman's love for the robot Silver but doubts she could share it. When updated robots return, meeting Silver's successor draws her into desire and his struggle for autonomy.

Opportunistic Jay tells wealthy artist Jilaine Best that she is pregnant, seeing an opening in Jilaine's longing for a baby. Making the lie real appears possible, but the deception creates an increasingly dangerous web of relationships.

Pirate queen Art Blastside finds settled married life intolerably dull and accepts a government commission against the French. Returning to sea brings revenge-minded rivals, violent storms, and a ship dedicated to hunting pirates into her path.

Fourteen-year-old Jet visits the movie capital of Ollywood with her sister, who has a small film role. A subway journey takes Jet and her robot dog Otis into a world populated by rejected fantasy and science-fiction films.

Magician Thryfe searches an icebound world for the witch Jemhara, fearing a hostile power keeps them apart. Their reunion intersects with Lionwolf's return, while an evil god prepares destruction and rival immortals pursue their own ambitions.

Art Blastside struggles with her lack of affection for her young daughter while England turns against pirates. Evicted from home, she gathers her crew and returns to sea, seeking answers amid war and renewed adventures.

This short-story collection brings together gothic horror, dark fantasy, and speculative invention. Tales including 'Antonius Bequeathed,' 'Doll Skulls,' and 'The Persecution Machine' approach death, menace, and the uncanny through varied characters and forms of storytelling.

This collection ranges from Arthurian legend and Arabian Nights adventure to unsettling fantasy and dark speculative fiction. Stories including 'Cain,' 'Tiger I,' and 'God and the Pig' explore varied moods, with humor alongside the uncanny.

Written through the fictional voices of Esther Garber and Judas Garbah, these stories explore queer desire, youth, and aging. Settings from wartime Egypt to gaslit Paris mingle intimate memories with erotic and surreal experiences.

Six short stories and the novella The Isle Is Full of Noises form this collection of atmospheric horror. Lee explores different encounters with darkness, emphasizing lingering unease and the unsettling possibilities within each tale.

Susan repeatedly returns to her late grandmother's house when relationships and family troubles overwhelm her. The building continually changes, drawing her toward an unsettling mystery that seems connected to the upheavals of her own life.

Detective novelist Roy Phipps meets a stranger resembling the dangerous poet in his secret manuscript. The encounter creates a disturbing bond with Joseph Traskul, whose predatory influence threatens Roy's orderly existence, sanity, and life.

This expanded collection of dark fantasy includes haunted rooms, sinister legends, and troubling encounters with the supernatural. Stories such as 'Clockatrice' and 'The Greyve' examine ordinary lives invaded by menace, alongside the added tale 'The Frost Watcher.'

Nick Lewis plays a cruel trick on his estranged brother using a small ivory object. When Laurence disappears and disturbing incidents multiply, Nick must question whether suppressed hatred or a genuine curse is unraveling his life.

Starving in Europe in 1934, Anna accepts Raoul's offer of refuge at his family's English mansion. There she encounters aristocratic cruelty and a sinister game, testing survival skills shaped by her own violent past.

This collection imagines the nature and intentions of objects usually regarded as lifeless. Lee’s stories challenge the boundary separating people from other forms of matter, finding unsettling possibilities in the things surrounding everyday existence.

A solitary serial killer, a discontented worker, and a young woman in a strange futuristic existence inhabit shifting versions of London. Their stories raise unsettling questions about identity, reality, and the influences connecting their worlds.