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Steve Rasnic Tem

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Born

in Jonesville, Virginia, The United States

Website

http://www.m-s-tem.com/

Genre

Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Crime

Influences

Franz Kafka, Ramsey Campbell, Dino Buzzati, Italo Calvino ...more

Member Since

August 2010

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Steve Rasnic Tem was born in Lee County Virginia in the heart of Appalachia. He is the author of over 350 published short stories and is a past winner of the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. His story collections include City Fishing, The Far Side of the Lake, In Concert (with wife Melanie Tem), Ugly Behavior, Celestial Inventories, and Onion Songs. An audio collection, Invisible, is also available. His novels include Excavation, The Book of Days, Daughters, The Man In The Ceiling (with Melanie Tem), and the recent Deadfall Hotel.

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Average rating: 3.78 · 41,215 ratings · 4,474 reviews · 462 distinct works • Similar authors

	Deadfall Hotel 3.19 avg rating — 746 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Kin 3.39 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author) (Co-Author), Melanie Tem 3.43 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weird Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Stories from Weird Tales by Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author), Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt 3.84 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ubo 3.34 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Figures Unseen: Selected Stories by Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author), Simon Strantzas (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.91 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thanatrauma: Stories 3.78 avg rating — 46 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Excavation 2.82 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing by Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author), Melanie Tem 4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City Fishing 3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.”
― Steve Rasnic Tem

tags: loss, love

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“For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.”
― Steve Rasnic Tem

tags: dread, foreshadowing, listening, worry

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“I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.”
― Steve Rasnic Tem, The Man on the Ceiling

tags: books, carpentry, childhood, dancing, dreams, fantasy, feet, hands, music, plumbing, sports

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Would book would you recommend that King read?

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

56 votes, 28.9%

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

25 votes, 12.9%

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

18 votes, 9.3%

The Terror by Dan Simmons

12 votes, 6.2%

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker

11 votes, 5.7%

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

10 votes, 5.2%

Summer of Night by Dan Simmons

9 votes, 4.6%

Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

9 votes, 4.6%

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

8 votes, 4.1%

Deadfall Hotel by Steve Rasnic Tem

6 votes, 3.1%

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4 votes, 2.1%

Taipei by Tao Lin

4 votes, 2.1%

The Parent Killer by Ashley Blake

3 votes, 1.5%

The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

2 votes, 1.0%

Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson

2 votes, 1.0%

The Rosary Girls by Richard Montanari

2 votes, 1.0%

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

1 vote, 0.5%

Stepping Stone / Love Machine: Crosstown to Oblivion

1 vote, 0.5%

194 total votes

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message 3: by Steve

Aug 12, 2014 09:22AM

Diane wrote: "Steve,
Judging by your literary awards, I wonder if you are familiar with Les Daniels' Don Sebastian Series (The Black Castle, et al.) If not, you might enjoy them. My own writing is very differ..."

Hi Diane, Yes--I know Les's work, quite enjoyable. I used to know him, years ago--we'd see each other at conventions. Best, Steve

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message 2: by Diane

Aug 12, 2014 09:12AM

Steve,
Judging by your literary awards, I wonder if you are familiar with Les Daniels' Don Sebastian Series (The Black Castle, et al.) If not, you might enjoy them. My own writing is very different, but I am reaching out to people who might know or enjoy Les' work. A lot of his friends have been good to me.

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message 1: by A.R.

Jul 10, 2013 02:12PM