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