Tanith Lee was a highly respected British author, best known for her contributions to the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres. She has an impressive body of work, including 77 novels, 14 collections, and nearly 300 short stories. Her writing career took off in 1975, following the publication of her adult fantasy epic "The Birthgrave" by Daw Books USA. Over the years, Lee's exceptional storytelling skills have been recognized and celebrated with numerous awards and accolades.
Tanith Lee was born on September 19, 1947, in London, England, to ballroom dancers Bernard and Hylda Lee. Contrary to popular belief, she was not the daughter of the actor Bernard Lee who played "M" in the James Bond series of films. Lee's writing journey began in 1968 with the publication of her first short story, "Eustace," and her first novel, "The Dragon Hoard," was published in 1971. In addition to her novels and short stories, Lee also wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series "Blake's 7" and a children's picture book called "Animal Castle."
Tanith Lee's exceptional work has been recognized and honored with several awards. She won the World Fantasy Award twice, in 1983 for best short fiction for “The Gorgon” and in 1984 for best short fiction for “Elle Est Trois (La Mort).” She has been a Guest of Honour at numerous science fiction and fantasy conventions, including the Boskone XVIII in Boston, USA in 1981, the 1984 World Fantasy Convention in Ottawa, Canada, and Orbital 2008 the British National Science Fiction convention (Eastercon) held in London, England in March 2008. In 2009, she was awarded the prestigious title of Grand Master of Horror. Lee passed away on May 24, 2015, leaving behind a vast and enduring legacy in the genre literature.
Birthgrave Books
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1
The Birthgrave
1975
2
Shadowfire / Vazkor, Son of Vazko
1978
3
Hunting the White Witch / Quest for the White Witch
1978
Novels of Vis Books
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Year
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1
The Storm Lord
1976
2
Anackire
1983
3
The White Serpent
1988
Four-BEE Books
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Title
Year
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1
Don't Bite the Sun
1976
2
Biting the Sun
1977
3
Drinking Sapphire Wine
1977
Tales from the Flat Earth Books
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Title
Year
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1
Night's Master
1978
2
Death's Master
1979
3
Delusion's Master
1981
4
Delirium's Mistress
1985
5
Night's Sorceries
1987
6
The Earth is Flat
2023
Castle of Dark Books
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Title
Year
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1
The Castle of Dark
1978
2
Prince on a White Horse
1982
3
Dark Castle, White Horse
1986
Blood Stone Books
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Title
Year
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1
Sabella, or, The Bloodstone
1980
2
Sabella
1980
3
Kill the Dead
1980
Silver Metal Lover Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
The Silver Metal Lover
1981
2
Metallic Love
2005
Secret Books of Paradys Books
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Title
Year
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1
The Book of the Damned
1988
2
The Book of the Beast
1988
3
The Book of the Dead aka Paradys
1991
4
The Book of the Mad
1993
Unicorn Books
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Title
Year
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1
Black Unicorn
1991
2
Gold Unicorn
1994
3
Red Unicorn
1997
Blood Opera Books
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Title
Year
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1
Dark Dance
1992
2
Personal Darkness
1993
3
Darkness, I
1994
The Secret Books of Venus Books
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Title
Year
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1
Faces Under Water
1998
2
Saint Fire
1999
3
A Bed of Earth
2002
4
Venus Preserved
2003
Claidi Journals Books
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Title
Year
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1
Law of the Wolf Tower aka Wolf Tower
1998
2
Wolf Star aka Wolf Star Rise
2000
3
Queen of the Wolves aka Wolf Queen
2001
4
Queen of the Wolves
2001
5
Wolf Wing
2002
6
The Claidi Journals
2003
Piratica Books
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Title
Year
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1
Piratica
2004
2
Return to Parrot Island
2006
3
The Family Sea
2007
Lionwolf Trilogy Books
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Year
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1
Cast a Bright Shadow
2004
2
Here in Cold Hell
2005
3
No Flame But Mine
2007
Ghosteria Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Ghosteria Volume 1
2014
2
Ghosteria Volume 2
2014
Imaginings Books
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Year
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1
Colder Greyer Stones
2012
2
Last and First Contacts
2012
3
Last and First Contacts ( By: Stephen Baxter)
2012
4
Stories from the Northern Road
2012
5
Stories from the Northern Road (By: Tony Ballantyne)
2012
6
Objects in Dreams (By: Lisa Tuttle)
2012
7
Microcosmos
2013
8
Microcosmos (By: Nina Allan)
2013
9
Feast and Famine
2013
10
Twember
2013
11
Feast and Famine ( By: Adrian Tchaikovsky)
2013
12
Twember ( By: Steve Rasnic Tem)
2013
13
Strange Visitors
2014
14
Strange Visitors (By: Eric Brown)
2014
15
Saint Rebor
2015
16
Saint Rebor (By: Adam Roberts)
2015
17
Sleeps With Angels
2015
18
Sleeps With Angels (By: Dave Hutchinson)
2015
19
The Light Warden
2015
20
The Light Warden ( By: Liz Williams)
2015
21
Mementoes
2016
22
Mementoes (By: Keith Brooke)
2016
Selected Stories of Tanith Lee Books
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Year
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1
Tempting the Gods
2009
2
Hunting the Shadows
2009
Voyage of the Basset Books
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Year
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1
Islands in the Sky
1999
2
The Raven Queen
1999
3
The Raven Queen ( By: Terri Windling)
1999
4
Journey to Otherwhere ( By: Sherwood Smith)
2000
5
Journey to Otherwhere
2000
6
Thor's Hammer
2000
7
Thor's Hammer ( By: Will Shetterly)
2000
8
Fire Bird
2001
9
Fire Bird (By: Mary Frances Zambreno)
2001
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
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1
Volkhavaar
1977
2
The Dragon Hoard
1971
3
Shon the Taken
1979
4
East of Midnight
1977
5
Electric Forest
1979
6
Day by Night
1980
7
Lycanthia
1981
8
Sung in Shadow
1983
9
Days of Grass
1985
10
Madame Two Swords
1988
11
A Heroine of the World
1989
12
The Blood of Roses
1990
13
Into Gold
1991
14
Heart-Beast
1992
15
Elephantasm
1993
16
Eva Fairdeath
1994
17
When the Lights Go Out
1994
18
Louisa the Poisoner
1995
19
Reigning Cats and Dogs
1995
20
Vivia
1995
21
The Gods Are Thirsty
1996
22
White as Snow
2000
23
Mortal Suns
2003
24
Thirtyfour
2004
25
34
2004
26
Fatal Women
2004
27
Death of the Day
2004
28
L'Amber
2006
29
Greyglass
2011
30
To Indigo
2011
31
Killing Violets
2012
32
Ivoria
2012
33
Cruel Pink
2013
34
A Different City
2015
35
A Wolf at the Door
2019
Short Stories/Novellas
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Year
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1
The Betrothed
1968
2
Animal Castle
1972
3
The Winter Players
1976
4
Red As Blood
1979
5
The Gorgon
1982
6
Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)
1983
7
White As Sin, Now
1989
8
Nunc Dimittis
1996
9
Jedella Ghost
1998
10
Scarlet and Gold
1999
11
Where Does the Town Go at Night?
1999
12
UOUS
2005
13
Indigara
2007
14
The Heart of the Moon
2019
Tanith Lee Colouring Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Turquoiselle
2014
Collections
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Princess Hynchatti and Some Other Surprises
1972
2
Companions on the Road
1975
3
Companions on the Road and The Winter Players
1977
4
Cyrion
1982
5
The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales
1982
6
Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
1983
7
Tamastara, or The Indian Nights
1984
8
Dreams of Dark and Light
1986
9
Women as Demons
1989
10
Forests of the Night
1989
11
Nightshades
1993
12
Sounds and Furies
2010
13
Disturbed by Her Song
2010
14
Animate Objects
2013
15
Space Is Just a Starry Night
2013
16
Phantasya
2014
17
Blood 20
2015
18
Legenda Maris
2015
19
Dancing Through the Fire
2015
20
Redder Than Blood
2017
21
Tanith By Choice
2017
22
The Weird Tales of Tanith Lee
2017
23
Venus Burning
2018
24
Strindberg's Ghost Sonata and Other Uncollected Tales
2019
25
Love in a Time of Dragons and Other Rare Tales
2019
Clockwork Phoenix Books
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Title
Year
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1
Clockwork Phoenix (With: John C. Wright, Deborah Biancotti, Laird Barron, Mike Allen, Vandana Singh, Catherynne M. Valente, Cat Rambo, Cat Sparks, John Grant, Ekaterina Sedia, Leah Bobet, Erin Hoffman, Michael J. DeLuca, Jennifer Crow, C.S. MacCath, David Sandner, Marie Brennan, Joanna Galbraith)
2008
2
Clockwork Phoenix 2 (With: Mary Robinette Kowal, Steve Rasnic Tem, Saladin Ahmed, Forrest Aguirre, Mike Allen, Catherynne M. Valente, Claude Lalumière, Kelly Barnhill, Gemma Files, Ian McHugh, Leah Bobet, Barbara Krasnoff, Marie Brennan, Ann Leckie, Joanna Galbraith, Stephen J. Barringer)
2009
3
Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness (With: John C. Wright, Gregory Frost, Michael M. Jones, Mike Allen, Cat Rambo, John Grant, Kenneth Schneyer, Shweta Narayan, C.S.E. Cooney, Gemma Files, Georgina Bruce, Marie Brennan, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Tori Truslow, S.J. Hirons)
2010
4
Clockwork Phoenix 4 (With: Richard Parks, A.C. Wise, Mike Allen, Yves Meynard, Cat Rambo, Kenneth Schneyer, Gemma Files, Alisa Alering, Ian McHugh, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Shira Lipkin, Barbara Krasnoff, Patricia Russo, Camille Alexa, Marie Brennan, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Yukimi Ogawa, Corinne Duyvis)
2013
5
Clockwork Phoenix 5 (By: Alex Dally MacFarlane, A.C. Wise, Mike Allen, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, Rich Larson, Cassandra Khaw, C.S.E. Cooney, Carlos Hernandez, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Sonya Taaffe, Beth Cato, Barbara Krasnoff, Patricia Russo, Gray Rinehart, Marie Brennan, Sam Fleming, Shveta Thakrar, Holly Heisey, Jason Kimble, Rachael L. Jones, Rob Cameron, Sunil Patel)
2016
Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
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Title
Year
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1
Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction
1980
2
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far
1981
3
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own
1983
4
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!
1985
5
Isaac Asimov's Aliens
1991
6
Isaac Asimov's Robots
1991
7
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite
1993
8
Isaac Asimov's War
1993
9
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams
1994
10
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep
1995
11
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts
1995
12
Isaac Asimov's Christmas
1997
13
Isaac Asimov's Camelot
1998
14
Isaac Asimov's Detectives
1998
15
Isaac Asimov's Werewolves
1999
16
Isaac Asimov's Solar System
1999
17
Isaac Asimov's Utopias
2000
18
Isaac Asimov's Father Day
2001
19
Isaac Asimov's Halloween
2001
Solaris Rising Anthology Books
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Title
Year
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1
Solaris Rising (By: Pat Cadigan, Mike Resnick, Stephen Baxter, Lavie Tidhar, Ken MacLeod, Peter F. Hamilton, Ian Watson, Eric Brown, Adam Roberts, Paul Di Filippo, Alastair Reynolds, Tricia Sullivan, Ian Whates, Richard Salter)
2011
2
Solaris Rising 1.5 (With: Paul Cornell, Mike Resnick, Aliette de Bodard, Adam Roberts, Paul Di Filippo, Ian Whates, Gareth L. Powell, Sarah Lotz, Philip Vine)
2012
3
Solaris Rising 2 (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Paul Cornell, Liz Williams, James Lovegrove, Robert Reed, Eugie Foster, Nancy Kress, Nick Harkaway, Norman Spinrad, Vandana Singh, Kim Lakin-Smith, Ian Whates, Paul Cornell, Jr., Kay Kenyon, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Martin Sketchley, Allan Steele)
2013
MagicQuest Books
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Title
Year
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1
The Sherwood Ring (By: Elizabeth Marie Pope)
1958
2
The Seventh Swan (By: Nicholas Stuart Gray)
1962
3
The Dragon Hoard (With: Graham Oakley)
1971
4
The Throme of the Erril of Sherill (By: Patricia A. McKillip)
1973
5
The Perilous Gard (By: Elizabeth Marie Pope)
1974
6
The Magic Three of Solatia (By: Jane Yolen)
1974
7
Power of Three (By: Diana Wynne Jones)
1976
8
Time Piper (By: Delia Huddy)
1976
9
The Dark Lord of Pengersick (By: Richard Carlyon)
1976
10
East of Midnight
1977
11
The Devil on the Road (By: Robert Westall)
1978
12
The Ash Staff (By: Paul R. Fisher)
1979
13
Tulku (By: Peter Dickinson)
1979
14
The Magicians of Caprona (By: Diana Wynne Jones)
1980
15
The Princess and the Thorn (By: Paul R. Fisher)
1980
16
Mont Cant Gold (By: Paul R. Fisher)
1981
17
The Hawks of Fellheath (By: Paul R. Fisher)
1984
18
Talking to Dragons (By: Patricia C. Wrede)
1985
19
The Last Days of the Edge of the World (By: Brian M. Stableford)
1985
Night Visions Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Night Visions: In the Blood
1984
2
Night Visions
1985
3
Night Visions 2
1985
4
Night Visions 3
1986
5
Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart
1986
6
Night Visions 6
1988
7
Night Visions 8
1990
8
Night Visions 9
1991
9
Night Visions 10
2001
10
Night Visions 11
2004
11
Night Visions 12
2006
Weird Tales Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Weird Tales 1 ( By: Lin Carter)
1981
2
Weird Tales 2 (With: Robert Bloch, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard)
1981
3
Weird Tales 3 (With: Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Evangeline Walton)
1981
4
Weird Tales 4 (By: Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard)
1983
The Dark Descent Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
Volume I: The Color of Evil (By: Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, David G. Hartwell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, E. Nesbit, Charles L. Grant, H.P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, M.R. James, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman, Russell Kirk, John Collier, Robert Aickman, Lucy Clifford, Michael Shea)
1987
2
Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield (With: Stephen King, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Theodore Sturgeon, David G. Hartwell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft, Joanna Russ, Richard Matheson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D.H. Lawrence, Dennis Etchison, Thomas M. Disch, Clive Barker, Robert Aickman, Robert Hichens, Edgar Allen Poe)
1990
3
Volume III: A Fabulous, Formless Darkness (By: Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, David G. Hartwell, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton, Thomas M. Disch, Robert Aickman)
1991
Tanith Lee Anthologies
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Title
Year
Goodreads
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1
The Ninth Pan Book of Horror Stories
1968
2
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V
1977
3
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI
1978
4
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1979
1979
5
Heroic Fantasy
1979
6
Other Worlds Volume 2
1980
7
Chrysalis 8
1980
8
Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction
1980
9
Chrysalis 9
1982
10
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far
1981
11
Perpetual Light
1982
12
Chrysalis 10
1983
13
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own
1983
14
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 10
1984
15
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII
1984
16
Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton
1985
17
Volume I: The Color of Evil
1987
18
Tales From the Forbidden Planet
1987
19
Dragons and Warrior Daughters
1989
20
Arrows Of Eros
1989
21
Hidden Turnings
1989
22
Second Annual Collection
1989
23
Third Annual Collection
1989
24
Dark Fantasies
1989
25
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 14
1989
26
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!
1989
27
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams
1990
28
Isaac Asimov's Aliens
1991
29
Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield
1990
30
Volume III: A Fabulous, Formless Darkness
1991
31
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1991
1991
32
Isaac Asimov's Robots
1991
33
Spells of Enchantment
1991
34
The Mammoth Book of Vampires
1992
35
Snow White, Blood Red
1993
36
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite
1993
37
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
1993
38
The Ultimate Witch
1993
39
Isaac Asimov's War
1993
40
Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1995
1995
41
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women
1995
42
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams
1994
43
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
1995
44
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep
1995
45
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
1996
46
Modern Classics of Fantasy
1997
47
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts
1995
48
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
1998
49
Interzone 135
1998
50
Killing Me Softly
1995
51
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment
1998
52
Interzone 147
1999
53
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10
1999
54
Tenth Annual Collection
1996
55
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
1999
56
Isaac Asimov's Christmas
1997
57
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology
1999
58
Dark Terrors 5
2000
59
Black Heart, Ivory Bones
2000
60
Isaac Asimov's Camelot
1998
61
Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower
2000
62
Graven Images
2000
63
Isaac Asimov's Detectives
1998
64
Tails of Wonder and Imagination
2001
65
Fourteenth Annual Collection
2001
66
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
2001
67
DAW 30th Anniversary Fantasy
2002
68
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection
1999
69
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13
2002
70
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
2002
71
Isaac Asimov's Werewolves
1999
72
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies
2002
73
Isaac Asimov's Solar System
1999
74
Dark Terrors 6
2002
75
The Dark: New Ghost Stories
2003
76
Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian
2003
77
The Mammoth Book of New Terror
2004
78
Isaac Asimov's Utopias
2000
79
The Many Faces of Van Helsing
2004
80
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
2004
81
Isaac Asimov's Father Day
2001
82
Firebirds Rising
2005
83
Isaac Asimov's Halloween
2001
84
Winter Moon
2005
85
Best New Horror 16
2005
86
Night Visions 12
2006
87
Sages & Swords
2006
88
The Mammoth Book of Monsters
2007
89
A Book of Wizards
2008
90
Immortal: Love Stories With Bite
2008
91
The Ghost Quartet
2008
92
Dark & Dangerous of Paranormal Treats
2008
93
Twenty-First Annual Collection
2008
94
Best New Horror 20
2009
95
Lace and Blade 2
2009
96
Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy
2005
97
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance
2009
98
Last Drink Bird Head
2009
99
From Twilight Till Dawn
2009
100
The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People
2009
101
Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology
2010
102
The Bitten Word
2010
103
Songs of Love and Death
2010
104
Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
2008
105
Human for a Day
2011
106
Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead
2011
107
Teeth: Vampire Tales
2011
108
The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons
2011
109
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three
2011
110
Vampires
2011
111
Clockwork Phoenix 2
2009
112
Evolve 2
2011
113
Best Gay Stories 2011
2011
114
Lightspeed: Year One
2011
115
Danse Macabre
2012
116
The Feathered Edge
2012
117
Hauntings
2012
118
Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
2010
119
The Wildside Book of Fantasy
2012
120
Songs of Love Lost and Found
2012
121
Queen Victoria's Book of Spell
2013
122
Solaris Rising 2
2013
123
Fearie Tales
2013
124
Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales
2013
125
Legends: Stories in Honour of David Gemmell
2013
126
The Time Traveler's Almanac
2013
127
Best New Horror 25
2014
128
Handsome Devil: Stories of Sin and Seduction
2014
129
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
2014
130
The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2
2014
131
The Mammoth Book of Warriors and Wizardry
2014
132
Clockwork Phoenix 4
2013
133
The World and the Stars
2015
134
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep
2015
135
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy