Tanith Lee bibliography

Bibliography of British science fiction and fantasy writer Tanith Lee:

Series

Birthgrave series

• The Birthgrave (1975)
• Shadowfire (1978) (US title: Vazkor, Son of Vazkor)
• Quest for the White Witch (1978) (2016 ed. titled: Hunting the White Witch)

Blood Opera sequence

• Dark Dance (1992)
• Personal Darkness (1993)
• Darkness, I (1994)

Claidi Journals

• Law of the Wolf Tower (1998) (US title: Wolf Tower)
• Wolf Star Rise (2000) (US title: Wolf Star)
• Queen of the Wolves (2001) (US title: Wolf Queen)
• Wolf Wing (2002)
• The Claidi Journals (2002) (omnibus of the first three novels)

Colouring Book

• L'Amber (2006)
• Greyglass (2011)
• To Indigo (2011)
• Killing Violets (2012)
• Ivoria (2012)
• Cruel Pink (2013)
• Turquoiselle (2014)

Four-BEE (Don't Bite the Sun)

• Don't Bite the Sun (1976)
• Drinking Sapphire Wine (1977)
• Biting the Sun (1999) (omnibus of both novels)

Ghosteria

• Ghosteria Volume One: The Stories (2014)
• Ghosteria Volume Two: Zircons May Be Mistaken (2014)

The Lionwolf Series

• Cast a Bright Shadow (2004)
• Here In Cold Hell (2005)
• No Flame but Mine (2007)

Marcheval

• A Different City (2015)
• Idoll (2015)
• Not Stopping at Heaven (2015)
• The Portrait in Gray (2015)

The Piratica Series

• Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventures Upon the High Seas (2004)
• Piratica II: Return to Parrot Island (2006)
• Piratica III: The Family Sea (2007)

Sabella

• Sabella, or the Blood Stone (1980)
• Kill the Dead (1980)
• Sometimes, After Sunset (1980) (omnibus of both novels)

Secret Books of Paradys

• The Book of the Damned (1988)
• The Book of the Beast (1988)
• The Book of the Dead (1991) (short story collection)
• The Book of the Mad (1993)
• The Book of the Damned & The Book of the Beast (1988) (omnibus, a.k.a. The Secret Books of Paradys 1 & 2, 1991)
• "The Nightmare's Tale" (1990)
• The Secret Books of Paradys 3 & 4 (1993) (omnibus)
• The Secret Books of Paradys (2006) (omnibus of all four books)

Secret Books of Venus

• Faces Under Water (1998)
• Saint Fire (1999)
• A Bed of Earth (2002)
• Venus Preserved (2003)
• The Secret Books of Venus I & II (1999) (omnibus)
• The Secret Books of Venus III & IV (2003) (omnibus)

S.I.L.V.E.R. series

• The Silver Metal Lover (1981)
• Metallic Love (2005)
• The Tin Man (TBD)

Tales from the Flat Earth

Main article: Tales from the Flat Earth

• Night's Master (1978) (interior illustrations by George Barr, and Alicia Austin in 1985)
• Death's Master (1979)
• Delusion's Master (1981)
• Delirium's Mistress (1986)
• Night's Sorceries (1986) (a collection of novellas)
• Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness (1987) (omnibus of first three novels)
• Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter (1987) (omnibus of fourth and fifth books)
• "I Bring You Forever" (1998) (short fiction)
• "The Man Who Stole the Moon" (2001) (short fiction)
• "Our Lady of Scarlet" (2009) (short fiction)
• The Earth is Flat: Tales from the Flat Earth and Elsewhere (2023)

The Unicorn Series

• Black Unicorn (1991)
• Gold Unicorn (1994)
• Red Unicorn (1997)

Voyage of the Basset

A tie-in to Voyage of the Basset

• Islands in the Sky (1999)

Wars of Vis

• The Storm Lord (1976)
• Anackire (1983)
• The White Serpent (1988)

Other novels

• The Dragon Hoard (1971)
• East of Midnight (1977)
• Volkhavaar (1977)
• The Castle of Dark (1978)
• Shon the Taken (1979)
• Electric Forest (1979)
• Day by Night (1980)
• Lycanthia, or The Children of Wolves (1981)
• Prince on a White Horse (1982)
• Sung in Shadow (1983) (a fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet)
• Days of Grass (1985)
• A Heroine of the World (1989) (cover artwork by Anne Yvonne Gilbert)
• The Blood of Roses (1990)
• Heart-Beast (1992)
• Elephantasm (1993)
• Eva Fairdeath (1994)
• Vivia (1995)
• Reigning Cats and Dogs (1995)
• When the Lights Go Out (1996)
• The Gods Are Thirsty (1996) (a historical novel set during the French Revolution)
• White As Snow (2000) (a retelling ofSnow White)
• Mortal Suns (2003)
• Death of the Day (2004)
• 34 (2004) (as Esther Garber)
• Indigara (2007)

Collections

• Princess Hynchatti & Some Other Surprises (1972) (collection of original fairy tales)
• Unsilent Night (1981)
• Cyrion (1982) (collection of short stories framed by a novella, all centred on the title character)
• Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer (1983) (collection of fantasy retellings of fairy tales)
• Tamastara, or The Indian Nights (1984) (collection of stories and novellas themed around India)
• The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales (1985) (collection of various short stories)
• Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee (1986) (collection of various short stories)
• Dark Castle, White Horse (1986) (omnibus of the two unrelated novels The Castle of Dark and Prince on a White Horse)
• Forests of The Night (1989) (collection)
• Women as Demons: The Male Perception of Women through Space and Time (1989) (collection of various short stories)
• Nightshades: Thirteen Journeys Into Shadow (1993) (collection of short stories and a novella)
• Fatal Women (2004) (as Esther Garber)
• Tempting The Gods: The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee, Volume One (2009)
• Hunting The Shadows: The Selected Stories of Tanith Lee, Volume Two (2009)
• Sounds and Furies: Seven Faces of Darkness (2010)
• Disturbed By Her Song (2010)
• Cold Grey Stones (2012)
• Animate Objects (2013)
• Space is Just a Starry Night (2013) short story collection, Aqueduct Press, Seattle
• Colder Greyer Stones (2013)
• Phantasya (2014)
• Dancing Through The Fire (2015)
• Blood 20: Tales of Vampire Horror (2015)
• Legenda Maris (2015)
• Redder Than Blood (2017)
• The Weird Tales of Tanith Lee (2017)
• Tanith by Choice: The Best of Tanith Lee (2017)
• Venus Burning: Realms (2018)
• Tanith Lee A-Z (2018)
• Strindberg's Ghost Sonata and Other Uncollected Tales (2019)
• Love in a Time of Dragons & Other Rare Tales (2019)
• A Wolf at the Door and Other Rare Tales (2019)
• The Heart of the Moon (2019)
• The Empress of Dreams (2021)
• The Earth is Flat: Tales from the Flat Earth and Elsewhere (forthcoming, 2023)

Chapbooks

• The Betrothed (1968)
• Animal Castle (1972)
• Companions on the Road (1975)
• The Winter Players (1976)
• Companions on the Road and The Winter Players: Two Novellas (1977) (omnibus)
• The Beautiful Biting Machine (1984)
• Madame Two Swords (1988)
• Into Gold (1991)
• Louisa the Poisoner (1996)

Short fiction

• The Thaw (1979)
• "All the birds of hell". F&SF. October 1998.
• "The eye in the heart". F&SF. 98 (3): 37–40. March 2000.
• "Persian Eyes" (2002) (appeared in both the DAW 30th Anniversary: Fantasy and Year's Best Fantasy 3 anthologies)