Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of 77 novels, 14 collections, and almost 300 short stories. She also wrote four radio plays broadcast by the BBC and two scripts for the UK, science fiction, cult television series "Blake's 7." Before becoming a full time writer, Lee worked as a file clerk, an assistant librarian, a shop assistant, and a waitress. Her first short story, "Eustace," was published in 1968, and her first novel (for children) The Dragon Hoard was published in 1971. Her career took off in 1975 with the acceptance by Daw Books USA of her adult fantasy epic The Birthgrave for publication as a mass-market paperback, and Lee has since maintained a prolific output in popular genre writing. Lee twice won the World Fantasy Award: once in 1983 for best short fiction for “The Gorgon” and again in 1984 for best short fiction for “Elle Est Trois (La Mort).” She has been a Guest of Honour at numerous science fiction and fantasy conventions including the Boskone XVIII in Boston, USA in 1981, the 1984 World Fantasy Convention in Ottawa, Canada, and Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) held in London, England in March 2008. In 2009 she was awarded the prestigious title of Grand Master of Horror. Lee was the daughter of two ballroom dancers, Bernard and Hylda Lee. Despite a persistent rumour, she was not the daughter of the actor Bernard Lee who played "M" in the James Bond series of films of the 1960s. Tanith Lee married author and artist John Kaiine in 1992.
Series
Books
Day by Night
1980
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
2000
Here in Cold Hell
2005
Personal Darkness
1993
Die Macht des Einhorns
2002
Princess Hynchatti and some other surprises
1972
Eva Fairdeath
1994
The Family Sea
2007
The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales
1982
The Gods Are Thirsty
A Novel of the French Revolution
1996
The Book of the Dead
1991
Obsidian
A Decade of Horror Stories by Women
2016
The Blood of Roses
1990
Wolf Star
2000
Quest for the White Witch
1978
Tempting the Gods
The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee, Volume One
2009
Forests of the Night
1989
No Flame But Mine
2007
The Blood of Roses Volume I
Mechail, Anillia
2018
Gold Unicorn
1994
Colder Greyer Stones
2013
Night's Sorceries
1987
Greyglass
2011
Piratica
2004
Wolf Tower
1998
Cold Grey Stones
2012
The Heart of the Moon
2019
Red Unicorn
1997
Night's Daughter
1986
The Dark of the Woods
Fairy Tales for Modern Times
2006
A Bed of Earth
2002
Sung in Shadow
1983
A Heroine of the World
1989
Shon bezeten
1979
Spells of Enchantment
The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
1991
Dark Castle, White Horse
1986
Xanadu
1993
Reigning Cats and Dogs
1995
Lycanthia
or The Children of Wolves
1981
Imortal
Histórias de Amor Eterno
2008
Death Of The Day
2004
Night's Master
1978
COMPANIONS ON THE ROAD
1975
The Birthgrave
1975
Gli imperi azzurri
1988
Drinking Sapphire Wine
1977
Women As Demons
The Male Perception of Women Through Space and Time
1989
The Book of the Mad
1993
Nightshades
Thirteen Journeys into Shadow
1993
Strindberg's Ghost Sonata and Other Uncollected Tales
2019
To Indigo
2011
Space Is Just a Starry Night
2013
When the Lights Go Out
1994
Wolf Queen
2001
Sovrani delle Tenebre
1978
Death's Master
1979
Piratica II
Return to Parrot Island
2006
Ghosteria Volume 1
The Stories
2014
Prince on a White Horse
1982
Dark Dance
1992
Hunting the Shadows
The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee Volume 2
2009
Cyrion
1982
Redder Than Blood
2017
Animate Objects
2013
Heart-Beast
1992
The Castle of Dark
1978
Venus Preserved
2003
Cruel Pink
2013
White as Snow
2000
Blood Is Not Enough
17 Stories of Vampirism
1989
Metallic Love
2005
Sometimes, After Sunset
1980
Fearie Tales
Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome
2013
Don't Bite the Sun
1976
L'Amber
2006
The White Serpent
1988
The Book of the Beast
1988
Anackire
1983
Wings of Fire
2010
East of Midnight
1977
Kill the Dead
1980
Islands in the Sky
1999
Volkhavaar
1977
The Beautiful Biting Machine
1984
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor
1978
The Storm Lord
1976
Unsilent Night
1981
Thirtyfour
2004
Into Gold
1991
Dreams of Dark and Light
1986
Darkness, I
1994
Madame Two Swords
1988
Sounds and Furies
Seven Faces of Darkness
2010
Faces Under Water
1998
Black Unicorn
1991
Once Upon a Time
New Fairy Tales
2013
Women of the Night
1994
Biting the Sun
1977
Companions on the Road and The Winter Players
2023
A Different City
2015
Louisa The Poisoner
1995
Tanith By Choice
The Best of Tanith Lee
2017
A Wolf at the Door
And Other Rare Tales
2019
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
1987
Elephantasm
1993
The Silver Metal Lover
1981
Saint Fire
1999
Tanith Lee A-Z
2018
The Dragon Hoard
1971
Indigara
Firebird Novella
2007
The Blood of Roses Volume 2
Jun, Eujasia, Mechailus
1990
Days of Grass
1985
Fatal Women
2004
All the Birds of Hell
1998
Empress of Dreams
2021
The Sky-Green Blues
1999
Delusion's Master
1981
The Fair Folk
2008
Electric Forest
1979
Dancing Through the Fire
2015
The Winter Players
1976
Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
1983
Mortal Suns
2003
Sabella, or The Blood Stone
1980
Delirium's Mistress
1985
Blood 20
Tales of Vampire Horror
2015
Ghosteria Volume 2
The Novel: Zircons May be Mistaken
2014
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
2020
Wolf Wing
2002
Venus Burning
Realms
2018
Vivia
1995
