Tonight I rented the Spanish film Sirat. It was easily one of the most surprising and powerful films I've seen in years. It also broke my heart to watch.

Gordon Bourjaily reviews the Robert Bloch anthology Monsters in our Midst, including my story "The Child Killer." cgbourjaily.blogspot.com/2026/03/bloc...

Fantastic Fiction has a mini-review of Supernatural Tales 61, including my story "The Miniaturist." www.fantasticfiction.com/l/david-long...

ABSENT COMPANY combines two expensive, long out-of-print limited edition volumes, my 2nd collection The Far Side of the Lake and the novelette Among the Living. A paperback of 34 supernatural tales, almost 500 pages. www.amazon.com/dp/1637894317/

Coming this November, No Laughing Matter, edited by Peter Coleborn & Mike Chinn, including my story "The Cartoonist." www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Lau...

SFRevue reviews the March/April issue of Analog, including my story "The Shiny New Folk." www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-i...

Chthonic Matter Quarterly #13 is out, including my new short story "Incursions." chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/chthonicmatt...

A reminder that this is still in print. “a modern fairytale, haunted house story, vampire novel, cult novel, werewolf novel, zombie story, and just plain old "weird tale"—in the hands of a lesser writer would have collapsed.” – FEARnet www.amazon.com/Deadfall-Hot...

Analog Magazine conducts a Q&A with me regarding my story "The Shiny New Folk" in the March/April issue. theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2026/03/12/q...

43 stories, almost 500 pages of Kafkaesque crime fiction, available in paperback and ebook. www.amazon.com/Rough-Justic...

I’m pleased to announce a new affordable print edition of my long out of print first collection CITY FISHING. 38 stories, winner of the International Horror Guild Award. "the best ... stand comparison with the best of any writer working in the field." -- Steve Duffy www.amazon.com/dp/1637894201/

Supernatural Tales 61 is out, including my new short story "The Miniaturist." suptales.blogspot.com/2026/02/issu...

“R is for Remains,” from my story cycle QUENEAU’S ALPHABET, is reprinted in the March issue of The Dark. Queneau’s neighborhood, where the pre-WWII bungalows hide a history of sinister events. There’s a story for each house, and each letter of the alphabet. www.thedarkmagazine.com/r-is-for-rem...

“…a writer who embraces the power of a reader’s imagination, and has the skill and the nerve to leave so much unwritten” – Crime Fiction Lover online Rough Justice: 43 tales of crime and deception running the gamut from high-altitude capers to back-alley brouhahas. www.amazon.com/Rough-Justic...

It's Women in Horror month. Remembering Melanie today. Here's a link to all her titles in print. www.amazon.com/stores/Melan...

Gordon Bourjaily reviews Charlie Grant's anthology In The Fog, including my long story "Ice House Pond." cgbourjaily.blogspot.com/2026/02/grey...

Coming in July including my short story "Eggs." bluecypressbooks.com/book/9781835...

Probably my least known collection. The contents are also suitable for young adults. “Some sheer literary classics in this book.” – Des Lewis Reviews. www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZRQSWL9

John Boden, Ginger Nuts of Horror: “Every story ... is marvelous. All of them emotionally heavy and steeped in themes of loss, regret, grief ... and despair. All painted in lush realistically thick strokes and colors. All of them masterpieces.” Ebook or paperback. www.amazon.com/Night-Doctor...

Coming in the March/April issue of Analog, my new sf story "The Shiny New Folk." analogsf.com/current-issu...

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 www.amazon.com/Figures-Unse...

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

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. www.amazon.com/Man-Ceiling-...

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. analogsf.com/wp-content/u...

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.

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...

Still available in paperback and ebook formats. www.amazon.com/Queneaus-Alp...

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...

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?

Coming Soon ...

David Agranoff includes Ubo in his column on underrated SF: amazingstories.com/2026/01/25th... ‘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.’

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

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...

“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 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. www.amazon.com/dp/1637891717/

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/

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 ​https://www.valancourtbooks.com/steve-rasnic-tem.html

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

Gordon Bourjaily gives a thoughtful review of the Olson & Silva anthology Dead End" City Limits, including my story "At the End of the Day." cgbourjaily.blogspot.com/2025/11/city...

Gordon Bourjaily takes a look at Charlie Grant’s first Greystone Bay anthology, including my story “In a Guest House” (included in my collections The Far Side of the Lake & Absent Company). cgbourjaily.blogspot.com/2025/11/take...

The fire is out. youtube.com/shorts/ErPig...

We need a new moonshot. youtube.com/shorts/RTrXw...

Earth has a fever. youtube.com/shorts/Illpd...