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Figures Unseen: Selected Stories Figures Unseen: Selected Stories [Tem, Steve Rasnic, Strantzas, Simon] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Figures Unseen: Selected Stories

Figures Unseen: Paperback, ebook, & audiobook formats.
“The stories of Figures Unseen shimmer with beauty, with felt reality, and with the mysteries forever at the heart of all our lives.” – James Sallis, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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Absent Company Absent Company - Kindle edition by Tem, Steve Rasnic. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Absent Company.

You will find "Aquarium" reprinted in my collection Absent Company. www.amazon.com/Absent-Compa...

Hotel Doom Service: The SeaHarp Hotel (ed. Charles L. Grant) Back for another visit to Gr...

Gordon Bourjaily reviews Charlie Grant's Seaharp Hotel anthology, including my story "Aquarium." cgbourjaily.blogspot.com/2026/02/hote...

The Man on the Ceiling Amazon.com: The Man on the Ceiling eBook : Tem, Melanie, Tem, Steve Rasnic: Books

Still available as an ebook. Expanded from the World Fantasy Award-winning novella. Loosely autobiographical, TMOC has the feel of a family portrait painted by Salvador Dali, where story and reality blend to find the one thing that neither can offer alone: truth.
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Welcome to the Locus Awards Poll. Deadline for voting is April 1. You can return and edit or add to your ballot up until the deadline.

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My short story “Prime Purpose,” from Analog 1-2/25, is on the Locus Recommended List. Analog has posted the story, free to read for your enjoyment, or if you want to vote in the poll.
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Someone posted this online, the Corner News Stand in Pennington Gap, Virginia--my favorite place growing up. I talked my mother into taking me there once a month to buy comics, sf mags, and genre paperbacks from the spin racks. There was a busy pool table on one side I wasn't allowed to go near.

Dream Machine: Selected Poems Dream Machine: Selected Poems [Tem, Steve Rasnic] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dream Machine: Selected Poems

Available in pb & ebook (audio forthcoming). DREAM MACHINE collects 115 of my poems spanning the genres of sf, fantasy, and horror, from venues like Weirdbook, Portland Review, Asimov’s, Star*Line, Dreams & Nightmares, Amazing, and The Bennington Review. www.amazon.com/Dream-Machin...

Queneau's Alphabet Amazon.com: Queneau's Alphabet: 9781637892619: Tem, Steve Rasnic: Books

Still available in paperback and ebook formats.
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Out in the wild, DREAM MACHINE: Selected Poems. 115 poems dating back to the beginnings of my career, including several previously unpublished works. From a variety of sources including Asimov's, Amazing, Star*Line, Bennington Review, Portland Review, etc. www.amazon.com/Dream-Machin...

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Dream Machine: Selected Poems Dream Machine: Selected Poems [Tem, Steve Rasnic] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dream Machine: Selected Poems

DREAM MACHINE: Selected Poems collects 115 of Steve Rasnic Tem’s poems covering the same themes he explores in his fiction. These poems originally appeared in a variety of small mags and genre outlets incl Asimov's, Amazing, The Portland Review, Bennington Review, etc. www.amazon.com/dp/1637893973?

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25th Century Five and Dime #17: 23 of the Best underrated Science Fiction/ Speculative/ Weird of the first quarter of the 21st Century - Amazing Stories With my last column written in 2025, I wanted to highlight some works of excellent speculative fiction that might normally get overlooked. If I were going

David Agranoff includes Ubo in his column on underrated SF:
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‘When you mix the “I want to shoot myself” grim tone of McCarthy’s The Road, with the political concepts and sheer “what the fuck is real?” of Philip K Dick, you earn the word masterpiece.’

Absent Company Absent Company - Kindle edition by Tem, Steve Rasnic. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Absent Company.

"Fogwell" is available in my collection Absent Company: www.amazon.com/Absent-Compa...

Here Waits Thy Doom: Doom City (ed. Charles L. Grant.) Happy New Year! Let's start things off...

Gordon Bourjaily reviews the Charlie Grant anthology Doom City, including my story "Fogwell." cgbourjaily.blogspot.com/2026/01/here...

Runalong The Short Shelves - Remains Issue 3 — Runalong The Shelves Publisher - https://remains.uk Price - £8:99 This issue of Remains has been hit by a publishing problem but just in time for my Christmas break it kindly arrived and feels a suitable time to resume...

Runalong the Shelves reviews Remains #3, including my story "Gehenna." www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/1/...

All of Melanie's books are now available as ebooks from the usual online retailers. www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-...

It's a brand new year and I have a brand new story, "Rehearsals for the End," online in the January issue of The Dark. I encourage you to subscribe to support this fine magazine. www.thedarkmagazine.com/rehearsals-f...

Remains and Uncanny: Review by Paula Guran Remains 3 Uncanny 9-10/25 With its third issue, Remains continues to publish top-rate fiction. This time out the stories tend toward the depressive but, considering our times, that is most appropri…

“The Shadow on the Nest” by Alaya Dawn Johnson from @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, “Gehenna” by @stevetem.bsky.social from @remainsmagazine.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @paulaguran here -

Scarecrows: Appalachian Tales Scarecrows: Appalachian Tales [Tem, Steve Rasnic] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Scarecrows: Appalachian Tales

Scarecrows: Appalachian Tales collects the best of Tem’s writings about his native Appalachia: fantasy, horror, crime, humor, and realistic local color fiction of the region. Available in both paperback and ebook formats.

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Xmas--a perfect time to read ghost stories. Here with the Shadows contains some of my best. Hardcover, pb, & ebook formats. “A volume of supernatural impressions and quiet vacancies, and in each story Tem reminds us that sometimes only a whisper separates us from the eternal.” tinyurl.com/bdvn7phx

From 2017, some of the materials used to promote my novel Ubo, a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. Still available in paperback and ebook. rebellionpublishing.com/tag/ubo/

Rough Justice: Tales of Crime and Deception Rough Justice: Tales of Crime and Deception - Kindle edition by Tem, Steve Rasnic. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Rough Justice: Tales of Crime and Deception.

Still available, ROUGH JUSTICE: Tales of Crime & Deception
Collecting the bulk of my crime stories and the one act play “Hideous Idea.” 43 stories. 444 pages. Available in both ebook and paperback forms from Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJGCBJMQ/

This beauty, New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural Vol 3, edited by Stephen Jones, just arrived from PS Publishing in England, containing my new short story "Falling."

For a dark vision of Santa Claus, read "I Saw Santa" on my website (along with links to other free online fiction). stevetem.com/free-fiction/

In Joseph Freeman's Winter Tales, December 2022, I read my Xmas tale "Whatever You Want," along with readings by Lionel Fanthorpe, Joseph Freeman, Stephen Laws, & Lynda E. Rucker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvYV...

My two collections for Valancourt--Figures Unseen Selected Stories and Thanatrauma--are still available in paperback and ebook formats. "“Steve Rasnic Tem is a school of writing unto himself.” – Joe R. Lansdale
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PseudoPod 733: Late Sleepers | PseudoPod Ted woke up in the dark with a dull headache, deciding to sneak out before the rest of the family got up. Going home for Thanksgiving was a terrible idea. He’d have to find some excuse to stay on…

My "Late Sleepers." Some dark Thanksgiving listening or reading. pseudopod.org/2020/11/27/p...

Absent Company Absent Company - Kindle edition by Tem, Steve Rasnic. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Absent Company.

You will find "At the End of the Day" in the collection of my earlier work ABSENT COMPANY. www.amazon.com/Absent-Compa...