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Novels[]

  • 1987 – Excavation
  • 2001 – Daughters with Melanie Tem
  • 2003 – The Book of Days
  • 2008 – The Man on the Ceiling with Melanie Tem
  • 2012 – Deadfall Hotel
  • 2014 – Blood Kin
  • 2017 – Ubo
  • 2018 – The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack

Novellas[]

  • 1991 – Charlie Goode's Ghosts
  • 2015 – In the Lovecraft Museum
  • 2018 – Tom

Anthologies[]

  • 1982 – The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry
  • 1995 – High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction

Collections[]

  • 1991 – Absences: Charlie Goode's Ghosts
  • 1992 – Decoded Mirrors: 3 Tales After Lovecraft
  • 2000 – City Fishing
  • 2001 – Imagination Box with Melanie Tem
  • 2001 – The Far Side of the Lake
  • 2003 – The Hydrocephalic Ward
  • 2010 – In Concert with Melanie Tem
  • 2013 – Onion Songs
  • 2013 – Celestial Inventories
  • 2013 – Twember
  • 2014 – Here with the Shadows
  • 2016 – Out of the Dark
  • 2017 – A Primer to Steve Rasnic Tem
  • 2018 – Figures Unseen: Selected Stories
  • 2018 – The Harvest Child and Other Fantasies
  • 2019 – Everything Is Fine Now
  • 2019 – The Night Doctor and Other Tales
  • 2021 – Thanatrauma

Novelette[]

  • 1979 – Hideout
  • 1986 – Bloodwolf
  • 1991 – Celestial Inventory
  • 1995 – Shades with Roma Felible
  • 1997 – Sharp Edges
  • 2000 – The Man on the Ceiling with Melanie Tem
  • 2002 – Lexical Infestation
  • 2002 – Manhattan Beach with Melanie Tem
  • 2008 – In Concert with Melanie Tem
  • 2010 – Bees from the Hive with Melanie Tem
  • 2011 – Ephemera

Short Stories[]

  • 1978 – A Letter Written to Gabriel After His Death
  • 1979 – The Painters Are Coming Today
  • 1980 – At the Bureau
  • 1980 – Boy Blue
  • 1980 – City Fishing
  • 1980 – Filmmaker
  • 1980 – Forward
  • 1981 – Again, the Hit-and-Miss
  • 1981 – Early Warning
  • 1981 – The Giveaway
  • 1981 – In All Things Moderation
  • 1981 – Interlude in a Laboratory
  • 1981 – Kiss
  • 1981 – The Messenger
  • 1981 – Morning Talk
  • 1981 – Night Cry
  • 1981 – The Owl with Human Eyes
  • 1981 – The Sound of Hawkwings Dissolving
  • 1981 – White Rose
  • 1982 – Alan's Mother
  • 1982 – A Fairytale
  • 1982 – Firestorm
  • 1982 – The Hijacker
  • 1982 – Housewarming
  • 1982 – On a Path of Marigolds
  • 1982 – The Poor
  • 1982 – Preparations for the Game
  • 1982 – The Reincarnation
  • 1982 – Sleep
  • 1982 – Stone Head
  • 1982 – War on the Downside
  • 1983 – Crutches
  • 1983 – Derelicts
  • 1983 – The Enormous Lover
  • 1983 – The Farmer
  • 1983 – First Rights
  • 1983 – A Mask in My Sack
  • 1983 – Mechanic
  • 1983 – The Moths
  • 1983 – The Orchard
  • 1983 – Save the Children!
  • 1983 – Shadows on the Grass
  • 1983 – The Sky Came Down to Earth
  • 1983 – Ten Things I Know About the Wizard
  • 1983 – Werewolf, Manhattan
  • 1983 – When Coyote Takes Back the World
  • 1984 – The Bad People
  • 1984 – Dark Shapes in the Road
  • 1984 – The Day It Rained Vaginas
  • 1984 – The End of the Yam
  • 1984 – Harvest Child
  • 1984 – The Men and Women of Rivendale
  • 1984 – The Overcoat
  • 1984 – Punishment
  • 1984 – Rider
  • 1984 – Spidertalk
  • 1984 – There's No Such Thing As Monsters
  • 1984 – Worms
  • 1985 – August Freeze
  • 1985 – The Battering
  • 1985 – Father's Day
  • 1985 – In a Guest House
  • 1985 – Little Dead Girl
  • 1985 – Piano Moon
  • 1985 – Pulled Down to Sleep
  • 1986 – Bite
  • 1986 – Buzz
  • 1986 – Daddy
  • 1986 – Embrace of Clay, Embrace of Straw
  • 1986 – In Control
  • 1986 – Katherine's Shadow
  • 1986 – Little Cruelties
  • 1986 – Night, the Endless Snowfall
  • 1986 – Presents of Mind with Edward Bryant, Dan Simmons, and Connie Willis
  • 1986 – Prosthesis with Melanie Tem
  • 1986 – Self-Possessed
  • 1986 – The Three Billy Goats Gruff
  • 1986 – Trickster
  • 1987 – Dinosaur
  • 1987 – Fogwell
  • 1987 – Hidey Hole
  • 1987 – L Is for Love
  • 1987 – Last Dragon
  • 1987 – Leaks
  • 1987 – Mother Hag
  • 1987 – The Sing with Melanie Tem
  • 1987 – Wake
  • 1987 – The Woman on the Corner
  • 1988 – Among the Old
  • 1988 – Be Mine
  • 1988 – Boxer
  • 1988 – The Double
  • 1988 – Grim Monkeys
  • 1988 – Her New Parents
  • 1988 – The Lie
  • 1988 – Umbrellas
  • 1989 – Black
  • 1989 – Bodies and Heads
  • 1989 – Carnal House
  • 1989 – Cornwoman
  • 1989 – The Deep Blue Sea
  • 1989 – Does It Scare You?
  • 1989 – Hooks
  • 1989 – Markers
  • 1989 – Merry-Go Round
  • 1989 – Motherson
  • 1989 – Resetting with Melanie Tem
  • 1989 – Riverbanks
  • 1989 – Safe House
  • 1989 – The Strangers
  • 1989 – The Unmasking
  • 1990 – The Adoptions
  • 1990 – Ancient Grass
  • 1990 – Aquarium
  • 1990 – Black Windows
  • 1990 – The Dancers in the Leaves
  • 1990 – Escape on a Train
  • 1990 – Fairytales
  • 1990 – In the Trees
  • 1990 – Kite with Melanie Tem
  • 1990 – My Wife with the Yellow Hair
  • 1990 – Playing Dead
  • 1990 – Strands
  • 1990 – The Visible Man
  • 1991 – Absences
  • 1991 – Adleparmeun
  • 1991 – At the End of the Day
  • 1991 – Bouquet
  • 1991 – Brutes
  • 1991 – Celestial Inventory
  • 1991 – Cutlery
  • 1991 – Daddy's an Actor
  • 1991 – Goode Farm
  • 1991 – Hearts
  • 1991 – Jesse
  • 1991 – Mask of the Hero with Melanie Tem
  • 1991 – Plainclothes
  • 1991 – The Regulars
  • 1991 – Robin in the Mists
  • 1991 – The Secret Flesh
  • 1991 – Taking Down the Tree
  • 1991 – Teddy Bear Winter
  • 1991 – The Tenth Scholar with Melanie Tem
  • 1991 – This Icy Region My Heart Encircles
  • 1991 – Wanderlust
  • 1991 – Writing in the Dark
  • 1992 – Beautiful Strangers with Melanie Tem
  • 1992 – Blue Alice
  • 1992 – Breaking the Rules
  • 1992 – Decodings
  • 1992 – The Dying
  • 1992 – Going North
  • 1992 – Guardian Angels
  • 1992 – Hungry
  • 1992 – Mirror Man
  • 1992 – The Process
  • 1992 – Rat Catcher
  • 1992 – Re: Vision
  • 1992 – Sirens
  • 1992 – The Snow People
  • 1992 – Thrumm
  • 1992 – Underground
  • 1992 – Vintage Domestic
  • 1993 – Brooms Welcome the Dust
  • 1993 – The Child Killer
  • 1993 – Devourings
  • 1993 – Doodles
  • 1993 – The Doors of Hypertext
  • 1993 – The Final Apprentice
  • 1993 – The Hunt
  • 1993 – Ice House Pond
  • 1993 – Little Poucet
  • 1993 – Passing Through
  • 1993 – Pathetic Fallacy
  • 1993 – Safe at Home with Melanie Tem
  • 1993 – The Woodcarver's Son
  • 1994 – Angel Combs
  • 1994 – The Garden, in Autumn
  • 1994 – Lost Cherokee
  • 1994 – The Marriage with Melanie Tem
  • 1994 – More Than Should Be Asked with Melanie Tem
  • 1994 – Release of Flesh
  • 1994 – Time and the Exile
  • 1995 – After the Night
  • 1995 – Archetype
  • 1995 – Blood Knot
  • 1995 – A Hundred Wicked Little Witches
  • 1995 – Janael
  • 1995 – Mama with Melanie Tem
  • 1995 – Mouths
  • 1995 – Nvumbi with Melanie Tem
  • 1995 – Presage
  • 1995 – Sampled
  • 1995 – Tall Skies
  • 1996 – The Burdens
  • 1996 – A Cascade of Lies
  • 1996 – Close to You
  • 1996 – Elena
  • 1996 – Ghost in the Machine
  • 1996 – The Hideaway Man
  • 1996 – Jungle J.D.
  • 1996 – The Perfect Diamond with Melanie Tem
  • 1996 – The Rains
  • 1997 – Andrew
  • 1997 – The Man Under the Bridge
  • 1998 – After Work
  • 1998 – The Cough
  • 1998 – Daytimer
  • 1998 – December
  • 1998 – The Doll Thief
  • 1998 – Each Day
  • 1998 – Houses Creaking in the Wind
  • 1998 – Lost with Melanie Tem
  • 1998 – Voices in the Dark
  • 1998 – What Slips Away
  • 1999 – Halloween Street
  • 1999 – Heat
  • 1999 – The Mouse's Bedtime Story
  • 1999 – Tricks & Treats: One Night on Halloween Street
  • 2000 – Bad Dogs Come Out of the Rain
  • 2000 – Creeps
  • 2000 – Cubs
  • 2000 – Derangement
  • 2000 – Eggs
  • 2000 – Jake's Body
  • 2000 – The Man on the Ceiling with Melanie Tem
  • 2000 – Pareidolia
  • 2000 – The Sadness of Angels
  • 2000 – The Slow Fall of Dust in a Quiet Place
  • 2001 – Cats, Dogs, and Other Creatures
  • 2001 – The Far Side of the Lake
  • 2001 – In These Final Days of Sales
  • 2001 – North with Melanie Tem
  • 2002 – How to Survive a Fire at the Greenmark also published under the author name "Astrid Halsey"
  • 2002 – Origami Bird
  • 2002 – Outside
  • 2002 – This Thing Called Love
  • 2003 – The Bereavement Photographer
  • 2003 – Denegare Spasticus
  • 2003 – A Dream of the Dead
  • 2003 – The Dreaming Machine Dreams of Its Creators
  • 2003 – Espectare Necrosis
  • 2003 – Out Late in the Park
  • 2003 – Snapping Turtles
  • 2004 – Empty Morning with Melanie Tem
  • 2004 – An Ending
  • 2004 – Inside William James
  • 2004 – The World Recalled
  • 2004 – Yesterday
  • 2005 – The Carving
  • 2005 – The Company You Keep
  • 2005 – Invisible
  • 2005 – Spririted
  • 2005 – Mysteries of the Colon
  • 2006 – The Disease Artist
  • 2006 – The High Chair
  • 2006 – The Masque of Edgar Allan Poe
  • 2006 – Pit's Edge with Melanie Tem
  • 2006 – Sometimes I Get Lost
  • 2007 – Head Explosions
  • 2007 – The House by the Bulvarnoye Koltso
  • 2007 – Strangeness
  • 2007 – Unknown
  • 2008 – 2:00 pm: The Real Estate Agent Arrives
  • 2008 – Burning Snow
  • 2008 – Creation Story
  • 2008 – Welcome to Rodeomart
  • 2008 – Noppero-Bo
  • 2008 – Off the Map
  • 2009 – The Artist and His Mother
  • 2009 – The Cabinet Child
  • 2009 – Charles
  • 2009 – The Day Before the Day Before
  • 2009 – From "Deadfall Hotel"
  • 2009 – Last Drink Bird Head
  • 2009 – The Multiples of Sorrow
  • 2009 – Red Light
  • 2009 – Shadow
  • 2009 – Show Night
  • 2009 – Slapstick
  • 2009 – Smoke in a Bottle
  • 2009 – The Stench
  • 2009 – When We Moved On
  • 2010 – Chain Reaction
  • 2010 – Dying on the Elephant Road
  • 2010 – The Figure in Motion
  • 2010 – Giant Killers
  • 2010 – The Glare and the Glow
  • 2010 – Grandfather Wolf
  • 2010 – The Green Dog
  • 2010 – A Letter from the Emperor
  • 2010 – Living Arrangement
  • 2010 – Old Men on Porches
  • 2010 – The Passing
  • 2010 – S. D. Watkins, Painter of Portraits
  • 2010 – Shaggy Dog Story
  • 2010 – Telling
  • 2011 – At Play in the Fields
  • 2011 – Back Among the Shy Trees
  • 2011 – Cattiwampus
  • 2011 – Eddie the Great
  • 2011 – El Lagarto
  • 2011 – The Ex
  • 2011 – Miri
  • 2011 – Pillows
  • 2011 – Visitors
  • 2012 – Congregate
  • 2012 – Domestic Magic with Melanie Tem
  • 2012 – Forty-three Thousand Sunsets
  • 2012 – Jack and Jill
  • 2012 – The Long Afternoon of the Human Race
  • 2012 – Miranda Jo's Girl
  • 2012 – The Old Man Beset by Demons
  • 2012 – Scree
  • 2012 – Skullbees
  • 2012 – These Days When All Is Silver and Bright
  • 2012 – To Denver (With Hiram Battling Zombies)
  • 2012 – Twember
  • 2012 – Waiting at the Crossroads Motel
  • 2013 – Bedtime Story
  • 2013 – Est Enim Magnum Chaos
  • 2013 – Home Invasion
  • 2013 – The Last Moments Before Bed
  • 2013 – Lesser Fires with Melanie Tem
  • 2013 – Little One
  • 2013 – Lookie-Loo
  • 2013 – Lost in the Garden of Earthly Delights
  • 2013 – The Monster in the Field
  • 2013 – The Monster Makers
  • 2013 – The Secret Laws of the Universe
  • 2013 – The Sleeping Ute
  • 2013 – Wheatfield with Crows
  • 2014 – The Carl Paradox
  • 2014 – Crawldaddies
  • 2014 – G Is for Ghost
  • 2014 – The Hanged Man
  • 2014 – Here with the Shadows
  • 2014 – A House by the Ocean
  • 2014 – The Night Doctor
  • 2014 – Seeing the Woods
  • 2014 – Stick Men
  • 2014 – The Still, Cold Air
  • 2014 – Tyger
  • 2014 – The Weight Lost
  • 2015 – Between the Pilings
  • 2015 – The Brollachan
  • 2015 – Deep Fracture
  • 2015 – The Fishing Hut
  • 2015 – The Grave House
  • 2015 – Night Market with Melanie Tem
  • 2015 – Paula Breaks
  • 2016 – Apartment B
  • 2016 – Benjamin
  • 2016 – Blattidae Wine
  • 2016 – The Boyfriend
  • 2016 – Breathing
  • 2016 – Cannondale at the Beach
  • 2016 – The Drowned Man
  • 2016 – The Enemy Within
  • 2016 – Half-Light
  • 2016 – The Man in the Rose Bushes
  • 2016 – Pastel
  • 2016 – Photograph
  • 2016 – Red Rabbit
  • 2016 – Too Many Ghosts
  • 2016 – Your Daughter is Here
  • 2017 – The Common Sea
  • 2017 – The Erased
  • 2017 – I Saw Santa
  • 2017 – The Long Fade Into Evening
  • 2017 – Mister Ainsley
  • 2017 – The Wake
  • 2017 – Whatever You Want
  • 2018 – By the Sea
  • 2018 – Field of Shoes
  • 2018 – For All His Eyes Can See
  • 2018 – Love Letters
  • 2018 – The Parts Man
  • 2018 – Reflections in Black
  • 2018 – Saudade
  • 2018 – A Space of One's Own
  • 2018 – Thanatrauma
  • 2019 – Bigger Than Life
  • 2019 – Captain Zack & the Data Raiders
  • 2019 – Eidetic
  • 2019 – Miguel Prays While His Mother Cries
  • 2019 – Night Vision
  • 2019 – Snowmen
  • 2019 – A Sudden Event
  • 2019 – The Way Station
  • 2019 – When You're Not Looking
  • 2019 – The Woman in the Attic
  • 2020 – Conversations with the Departed
  • 2020 – Forwarded
  • 2020 – Late Sleepers
  • 2020 – Sleepwalking with Angels
  • 2020 – Z is for Zombie
  • 2021 – Gavin's Field
  • 2021 – The Last Sound You Hear
  • 2022 – Black Wings
  • 2022 – Do You Remember?
  • 2022 – Eye of the Storm
  • 2022 – The Winter Closet
  • 2022 – The Year of the Robot Suicides

Poetry[]

  • 1978 – My Daughter
  • 1978 – The Other State
  • 1979 – The Hydrocephalic Ward
  • 1980 – Lighting the Colony
  • 1980 – Seeding the Last Freedom
  • 1980 – The New Weather
  • 1980 – Alternate Worlds Ghazal
  • 1980 – Dragon Lore
  • 1980 – The Landed Gentry
  • 1981 – Changes
  • 1981 – Directions for Killing the Automated House
  • 1981 – On Defining & Not Defining Speculative Poetry
  • 1982 – The Swimmer
  • 1982 – Dinosaurs
  • 1982 – ESP
  • 1982 – Three Cinquains
  • 1982 – Time Paradox Cinquain
  • 1982 – Dirt Under His Nails
  • 1982 – Syrup
  • 1983 – After the Collapse
  • 1983 – First Contact
  • 1983 – The Lovers
  • 1983 – Faery
  • 1983 – Doubles
  • 1984 – The Dreaming Machine's First Dream
  • 1984 – The Dreaming Machine Acquires Arms
  • 1984 – The Dreaming Machine Dreams Other Machines
  • 1984 – The Dreaming Machine Dreams it Becomes Human
  • 1984 – The Dreaming Machine Eats an Apple
  • 1984 – The Dreaming Machine Has a Nightmare
  • 1985 – The Dreaming Machine Dreams of the Future
  • 1985 – The Dreamer Acquires Legs
  • 1986 – The Dreaming Machine Dreams of a Life After Death
  • 1987 – Ghost Signs
  • 1988 – Ancient Astronomies
  • 1988 – No Man Is
  • 1989 – Looking Back at Apollo
  • 1989 – Nocturne
  • 1991 – Nightcrawlers
  • 1991 – Time Machines
  • 1992 – Brain of Shadows
  • 1992 – Skin
  • 1992 – The Adolescence of NGC 4535
  • 1992 – Head
  • 1993 – Cells
  • 1993 – Belly
  • 1995 – Dark at the Door
  • 1995 – Poe's Grave
  • 1995 – Shreve House
  • 1995 – The Dead Who Do Not Sleep Under Green Street
  • 1995 – Ulcer
  • 1997 – Digits
  • 1997 – Genital
  • 1997 – Hearts
  • 1997 – Limbs
  • 1997 – Lung
  • 1997 – Muscle
  • 1997 – The Little Match Girl
  • 2002 – Creatures Without Names
  • 2003 – Bone
  • 2003 – When You Think of Them
  • 2004 – Hair
  • 2004 – All Used Up
  • 2004 – The Colors of the Dark
  • 2004 – The Window
  • 2004 – This Is the Last Time I'm Telling the Truth
  • 2004 – What Happens at Night
  • 2004 – What Must Not Happen
  • 2006 – The Troll on 23rd Ave
  • 2007 – The Great Man's Apology
  • 2009 – The Sadness
  • 2010 – How to Play Dead
  • 2010 – Pumpkin Eater
  • 2011 – 39
  • 2013 – After We're Gone
  • 2016 – In Quietude
  • 2017 – Wraith
  • 2019 – The Night Arrives
  • 2020 – Leaving Home

Non-Fiction[]

  • 2017 – Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art and Practice of Writing with Melanie Tem
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