Tanith Lee Books in Order

An anthology honoring fantasy legend David Gemmell, featuring stories by various authors. Joe Abercrombie contributes a tale that pays tribute to the heroic fantasy tradition while maintaining his own gritty, distinct voice.

A plague survivor, political prisoners, a thawed ancestor, and travelers aboard a sun-worshiping ship populate these speculative stories. Across distant settings, Lee explores threatening visitors, manipulated memories, and discoveries that challenge assumptions about humanity.

These ghost stories move through historical, contemporary, and otherworldly settings, from lost love in New Zealand to a psychic on an alien planet. The collection explores the dead through horror, tenderness, sadness, and strange encounters.

Ghosts from different eras linger in a ruined mansion, reflecting on their lives and deaths. Outside, civilization collapses into an apocalypse, forcing the restless inhabitants to confront a world where even death offers uncertain peace.

Nineteen tales move through magical encounters and strange transformations, including four previously uncollected stories. Across imagined worlds, a jade eye, a mysterious book cover and other uncanny objects draw people into situations where familiar assumptions no longer hold.

Carver's lucrative but unpredictable driving work supports a costly home and his partner Donna. As pressures from his employment and relationship mount, another woman's threatening presence forces him to confront how little security his carefully maintained life provides.

Three dark fantasy stories unfold in Marcheval, an imaginary city shaped by secrets, cruelty, grief, and watchful gods. Human lives and uncanny objects become part of its shadows as private desires invite dangerous consequences.

Twenty vampire tales explore blood, desire and predation across places and eras. Ancient Rome, a cursed duke's household, Paris and the future provide settings where human relationships become entangled with creatures whose appetites make intimacy dangerous.

These stories explore love, death and the unstable boundaries between physical and mythical worlds. Strange visitors, an annual commemoration, a god's attachment and an artist's afterlife turn ordinary desires into encounters with forces beyond human understanding.

Eleven sea stories bring people into contact with mermaids, mysterious ships and creatures dwelling between land and water. Fishing villages and remote shores become places where an ocean encounter can expose desires or dangers hidden beneath everyday life.

Nineteen stories reimagine familiar fairy tales, including Beauty and the Beast, the Frog Prince and Snow White. Their recognizable figures enter altered worlds where enchantment, desire and danger unsettle the expectations attached to the original tales.

Twelve stories chosen by people close to Tanith Lee range through ghosts, vampires, gods and enchanted worlds. The selection brings together tales of dangerous desires and strange encounters, each accompanied by a personal explanation of its choice.

Twenty-eight stories originally published in Weird Tales span fantasy, horror and science fiction. Arthurian kingdoms, distant Mars, uncanny gloves and sinister machines become settings for encounters where human desires collide with magic, technology and other unsettling forces.

Fifteen stories originally published in Realms of Fantasy explore swordsmen, vampires, werewolves, dragons and haunted dolls. Among them are three previously uncollected Flat Earth tales, placing dangerous bargains and strange desires in worlds shaped by enchantment.

Thirteen tales explore hidden threats, misfortune, madness, and transformations, including encounters with wolves and other unsettling presences. Gathered largely from magazines and rare anthologies, the stories range from whimsical fantasy to disturbing horror.

Rare stories explore love, longing and the passions that bind or threaten people. Moving between fantasy and modern settings, the collection uses dragons and other strange encounters to reveal the dangerous possibilities within human desire.

Twenty rare or previously uncollected tales enter ancient Rome, frozen landscapes and a doomed city. Fairy tales, horror and Flat Earth stories bring people into contact with uncanny forces, including one story appearing in print for the first time.

Haunted by betrayal and revenge, warrior Clirando accompanies priestess Parna and seven companions to a mysterious island. Its rare moon festival promises encounters with the dead, forcing Clirando toward visions and magic bound to her troubled past.

Later Flat Earth stories join other tales of enchantment, strange bargains and dangerous desires. Gods, ghosts, stolen moons and transformed fairy tales move through worlds where the promises of magic can draw people into unexpected consequences.

Twenty stories bring together wolves, vampires, tigers, unicorns, dwarves, demons and enchanters. Moving through fantastic worlds, the collection explores encounters in which creatures and people follow desires that lead beyond the limits of ordinary experience.

Mythical creatures and human beings meet in these tales of dragons, unicorns, vampires and other unsettling figures. Familiar legends become encounters where attraction, fear and the nature of monstrosity complicate the boundary between the human and the strange.