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Princess Hynchatti & Some Other Surprises

Young adult short story collection.
Contents: Princess Hynchatti; Prince Brendran; Princess Sansu; Prince Chirrad; Princess Cleofern; Prince Friedal; Princess Dahli; Prince Amilec; Princess Gesnyl; Prince Chesorith; Princess Nathit; Prince Ulan.

Here are twelve tales of princes and princesses (six of each) setting off to seek their fortunes in the finest tradition of fairy tale. Their quests take them through lands that are the stuff of legend, but somehow in spite of wizards and enchantresses, fairy-godmothers and wicked aunts, talking birds and dragons strewn along the way, things do not turn out quite right. To be sure each prince finds a princess and vice versa, virtue is rewarded and ill-doers receive their just deserts, but nothing is quite what it seems. These heroes and heroines muddle their way through situations where it is common sense and a cheerful heart that are indispensable. Magic merely supplies the Surprises. (dustwrapper copy)
  1. [London]: Macmillan, [1972]. Paper covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. ISBN 0 333 12759 5. Price: £1.75. Copyright page: First published 1972 by | MACMILLAN LONDON LIMITED. Pagination: [i-vii] 1-150 [151-152]. Illustrations by Helen Craig.
  2. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1973]. ISBN 0-374-36120-7, $5.50, hardcover. Note: published as Princess Hynchatti And Some Other Surprises.

    Dutch Translations:

  1. Antwerp: B.V. Uitgeversbedrijf Het Goede Boek, 1979. ISBN 90-240-0483-7, illustrated laminated boards. Pagination: [1-6] 7-126 [127-128]. As "Princes Hynchatti En Nog Wat Verrassingen", translated by J.A. van der Leeuw-Loosjes. Cover illustration and internal illustrations by Henk Asmussen.
Queen Of the Wolves

Young adult novel. 55,000 words.
The third volume in the Wolf Tower sequence.
Collected in The Claidi Journals.

Leaving the Rise, Claidi anticipates a joyful reunion with her beloved Argul.
Instead, her return to the Hulta people meets only mistrust, fury and betrayal. Determined to unravel the lies and deceit which haunt her past and threaten her future, she journeys northward. But in the strange cities - and even stranger people - she finds, Claidi sees only more mystery and deeper secrets. (back cover copy)
  1. [London]: Hodder Children's Books, [2001]. Trade paperback. ISBN 0-340-74659-9. Price: £4.99. Copyright page: Copyright 2001 Tanith Lee. First published in Great Britain by Hodder Children's Books as part of Hodder Silver Series | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Pagination: [i-x] 1-178 [179-182]. Cover illustration by Haydn Cornner.
  2. New York: Dutton Children's Books, [2002]. Paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. First hardcover edition. ISBN 0-525-46895-1. Price: $16.99. Copyright page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Jacket illustration by Victor Lee. Note: published as Wolf Queen. "The Claidi Journals - Book III" at head of title.
  3. New York: Firebird, 2003. ISBN 0-1425-0187-5, trade paperback, $6.99. Copyright page: originally published in Great Britain by Hodder Childrens' Books, London 2001. First published in the United States of America by Dutton Childrens' Books, a division of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2002. Published by Firebird, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2003. | 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Copyright Tanith Lee, 2001. Paginaton: [i-viii] [1-2] 3-216 217-218. Note: published as Wolf Queen: The Claidi Journals. Cover illustration by Victor Lee.
  4. [London]: Hodder Children's Books, [2007]. ISBN 0-340-91814-4, £4.99, trade paperback. Copyright page: Copyright 1998 Tanith Lee. First published in Great Britain in 1998 [i.e. 2001] by Hodder Children's Books. This edition published in 2007. Pagination: [i-x] 1-178 [179-182]. Cover illustration by Haydn Cornner.

    Japanese Translations:

  1. Tokyo: Sangyou Henshaa Sentaa, May 2005. ISBN: 4-916199-71-5, ¥1200, paperback. Pagination: [1-4] 5-331 [332-336]. As "Ni Nin No Kuraidisu", translated by Hiromi Nakamura. Cover illustration by Sakurase Ryu.

    Electronic Publications:

  1. [England]: Orion Publishing Group/Gollancz, September 30, 2014.
    Available via SF Gateway. Note: this is only available for readers in the UK and Europe.
    Available via Amazon UK for the Kindle.
Quest For The White Witch

Novel. 135,000 words.
The third volume in The Birthgrave Trilogy.
Nominated for the 1979 August Derleth Award (the British Fantasy Award for best novel).

He called himself by the name of the father he had never known, Vazkor, king of a forgotten land. In his veins were mingled the blood of that regal warrior and that of his witch mother, the silver-masked, snowy-haired survivor of the hated Old Race. He had sworn that she would die at his hands.
Across that age-haunted planet his quest went on. As he searched, so grew his own powers, his fearful heritage. Across wide seas, in conquered cities, and among haunted mountains, the hunt took him. As he drew closer to his objective, the clearer became the way she must be slain, the more certain his ability to rid the world once and for all of his creator-the white witch from the volcano.
Here is the windup of Tanith Lee's BIRTHGRAVE, the shattering conclusion of a panoramic vision of a faraway world. (back cover copy)
  1. New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1978]. Mass-market paperback. Publisher's number: 276 (UJ1357). ISBN 0 87997 357 9. Price: $1.95. Copyright page: Copyright, 1978, by Tanith Lee. First Printing, February 1978 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Pagination: [1-6] 7-317 [318-320]. Cover illustration by Gino D'Achille. Frontispiece illustration by Jack Gaughan.
  2. New York: DAW Books, Inc. Published by The New American Library of Canada Limited, [1978]. Publisher's number: 276 (UJ1357). ISBN 0 87997 357 9, $1.95 (Canadian), mass-market paperback. Copyright page: Copyright, 1978, by Tanith Lee. First Printing, February 1978 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. [Note: this is, actually, the 2nd printing as published by DAW Canada in 1978]. Pagination: [1-6] 7-317 [318-320]. Cover illustration by Gino D'Achille. Frontispiece illustration by Jack Gaughan.
  3. London: Futura Publications Limited, [1979]. ISBN 0 7088 8057 6, £1.25, mass-market paperback. Copyright page: An Orbit Book. First published in Great Britain by Futura Publications Limited in 1979. Copyright 1978 by Tanith Lee. Pagination: [1-6] 7-317 [318-320]. "Shadowfire 2" at head of title. Cover illustration by Peter A. Jones.
  4. New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1983]. ISBN 0 87997 826 0, $2.95, mass-market paperback.
  5. New York: DAW Books, Inc. Published by The New American Library of Canada Limited, [1984]. ISBN 0 87997 996 8, $2.95 (US), $3.50 (Canadian), mass-market paperback. Copyright page: Copyright, 1978, by Tanith Lee. First printing, February 1978 | 7 8 9 [Note: this is, actually, the 7th printing published by DAW Canada in 1984]. Pagination: [1-6] 7-381 [382-384]. Cover illustration by Gino D'Achille. Frontispiece illustration by Jack Gaughan.
  6. [London]: Futura, [1985]. ISBN 0 7088 8057 6, £2.50, mass-market paperback. Copyright page: An Orbit Book. First published in Great Britain by Futura Publications Limited in 1979. Reprinted 1985. Copyright 1978 by Tanith Lee. Pagination: [1-6] 7-317 [318-320]. "Shadowfire 2" at head of title. Cover illustration by Peter A. Jones.
  7. New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1986]. ISBN 0 88677 167 6, $3.50, mass-market paperback.
  8. New York: DAW Books, Inc., 2016. ISBN0-7564-1113-8, $7.99, mass-market paperback. Copyright page: Copyright 1978. Originally pubished as Quest for the White Witch. Cover art by Bastien Lecouffe Deharme. Cover design by G-Force Design. DAW Book collection no. 276. First printing, February 1978. First new edition printing, February 2016. | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Pagination: [1-4] [1]-300. Cover art by Bastien Lecouffe Deharme. Cover design by G-Force Design. Please note: Published under title: Hunting the White Witch.

    French Translations:

  1. Paris: Éditions J'ai Lu, July 1986. ISBN 2-277-22042-6, mass-market paperback. Pagination: [1-4] 5-377 [378-384]. As "La Quête De La Sorcière Blanche", translated by Jean-Pierre Pugi. Cover illustration by Boris Vallejo.
  2. Paris: Éditions J'ai Lu, June 2004. ISBN: 2-290-55826-3. Mass-market paperback. Pagination: [667]-1042. As "La Quête De La Sorcière Blanche", translated by Jean-Pierre Pugi. Cover illustration by Vincent Garigneux.

    German Translations:

  1. Munich: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1980. ISBN 3-453-30607-4, mass-market paperback, DM 6.80. Pagination: [1-8] 9-383 [384]. As "Die Weisse Hexe", translated by Thomas Schlück. Cover illustration by Segrelles/Norma. Interior map by Judith Müller. Interior illustrations by Hubert Schweizer.

    Italian Translations:

  1. Bologna: Libra Editrice, November 1978. Paper covered boards with pictorial dustjacket, Lit 8.500. Pagination: 277-648 649-674 [675-682]. As "La Strega Bianca", translated by Roberta Rambelli. Cover illustration by Allison. Note: this edition also contains Vazkor, Son Of Vazkor, translated by Roberta Rambelli as "Vazkor, Figli Di Vazkor". Pages 649-674 contain an appendix, a short biography of the author, and a bibliography.
  2. Milan: Editrice Nord, May 1996. ISBN: 88-429-0901-7, stiff pictorial wrappers over trade paperback, Lit 24.000. Pagination: 211-513 [514-517]. As "La Strega Bianca", translated by Viviana Viviani. Cover illustration by Les Edwards. Note: this edition also contains Vazkor, Son Of Vazkor, translated by Viviana Viviani as "Vazkor, Fligio Di Vazkor".

    Electronic Publications:

  1. [England]: Orion Publishing Group/Gollancz, April 30, 2015.
    Available via SF Gateway. Note: this is only available for readers in the UK and Europe.
    Available via Amazon UK for the Kindle.
  2. New York, NY: DAW Books, Inc., February 2, 2016. Published under the title "Hunting the White Witch."
    Available via Penguin Random House. Note: this is only available for readers in the US.
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Red As Blood, Or, Tales From The Sisters Grimmer

Short story collection.
Nominated for the 1984 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection/Anthology.
Nominated as no. 2 in the Best Collection/Anthology category in the 1984 Locus Poll.

Contents: Paid Piper; Red As Blood; Thorns; When The Clock Strikes; The Golden Rope; The Princess And Her Future; Wolfland; Black As Ink; Beauty.

How would it be if Snow White were the real villain and the "wicked queen" just a sadly maligned innocent? What if awakening the Sleeping Beauty should be the mistake of a lifetime - of several lifetimes? What if the famous folk tales were retold with an eye to more horrific possibilities?
Only Tanith Lee could do justice to it, and in RED AS BLOOD, she displays her soaring imagination at its most fantastically mischievous. Not for nothing was the title story named as a Nebula nominee. Not for nothing was the author of THE BIRTHGRAVE and THE STORM LORD called by New York's Village Voice, "Goddess-Empress of the Hot Read."
Here are the world-famous tales of such as the Brothers Grimm as they might have been retold by the Sisters Grimmer! Fairy tales for children? Not on your life! (back cover copy)
  1. [New York]: DAW Books, Inc., [1983]. Mass-market paperback. Publisher's number: 513 (UE1790). ISBN 0 87997 790 6. Price: $2.50. Copyright page: First Printing, January 1983 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Pagination: [1-6] 7-208. Cover illustration by Michael Whelan. Interior illustrations by Tanith Lee.
  2. [New York]: DAW Books, Inc., [1983]. Paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. First hardcover edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Price: [$4.98]. No statement of printing on copyright page. Date code N01 on page 185. Dustjacket illustration by Victoria Poyser.

    German Translations:

  1. Bergisch Gladbach [Germany]: Bastei Lübbe, [1985]. ISBN: 3-404-13014-6, mass-market paperback, 6.80 DM. Pagination: [1-4] 5-251 [252-256]. As "Rot Wie Blut: Die Märchen Der Schwestern Grimmig", translated by Eva Eppers. Cover illustration by Achim Bock.

    Japanese Translations:

  1. Tokyo: Hayakawa Bunko, May 1997. ISBN: 4-15-020232-X, ¥700, paperback. Pagination: [1-8] 9-365 [366-368]. As "Gensou Douwashuu Chi Nogotoku Akaku", translated by Yuriko Kimura and Nobuko Murozumi. Cover illustration and internal illustrations by Toshiaki Kato.

    Electronic Publications in German:

  1. Munich, Germany: Apex-Verlag/BookRix, October 18, 2017. As "Rot wie Blut: Die Märchen der Schwestern Grimmig," translated by Eva Bauche-Eppers. Note: As "Rot wie Blut: Die Märchen der Geschwister Grimmig" on the copyright page.
    Available via BookRix.
    Available via Amazon Germany for the Kindle.
    Available via Amazon UK for the Kindle.
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Red As Blood, Or, Tales From The Sisters Grimmer (Expanded Edition)

Short story collection.
Nominated for the 1984 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection/Anthology.
Nominated as no. 2 in the Best Collection/Anthology category in the 1984 Locus Poll.

Contents: Paid Piper; Red As Blood; Thorns; When The Clock Strikes; The Golden Rope; The Princess And Her Future; Wolfland; Black As Ink; Beauty; The Waters of Sorrow

Here are ten devilishly twisted fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm never dares to tell them. With her brilliantly macabre pen, Tanith Lee retells some familiar tales, and concocts some new and unusual ones, as she asks us to consider the possibility that things may not work as our fairy tales have them.... In the title story, Lee shows us a perfectly good stepmother, whose princess stepdaughter reeks of evil. Then there is Ashella, the Cinderella-like girl who "When the Clock Strikes" intends to give her Prince Charming a deadly surprise. In "Wolfland" Lisel takes a trip through the woods to visit her grandmother--who bears little resemblance to the loving old woman we expect. And in "Thorns" you'll find the haunting answer to the question, "What if awakening the Sleeping Beauty turns out to be the mistake of a lifetime--of several lifetimes, in fact?"
Populated with demons and devils, vengeful gods and no-so-innocent young girls, the ten tales of Red as Blood weave a tapestry of chilling visions, spun by the incomparably fiendish imagination of Tanith Lee! (back cover copy)
  1. [Rockville, MD.]: Wildside Books, 2014. Trade paperback. ISBN 4344-4246-8. Price: $12.99. Copyright page: Copyright 1983 by Tanith Lee. Expanded edition copyright 2014 by Tanith Lee. Pagination: [1-6] 7-2224. Cover illustration uncredited. Frontispiece by Tanith Lee. Note: "Expanded edition" only appears on the copyright page but not on the title page or cover.

    Electronic Publications:

  1. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, September 22, 2014.
    Available via Amazon UK for the Kindle.
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Red Unicorn

Young adult novel. 40,000 words.
The third volume in the Unicorn series.

The young wanderer Tanaquil can mend anything that is broken - except her own heart. With the engagement of her beloved Honj to her sister, Empress Lizra, she returns home to her sorcerous mother - and her mother's new lover, the magician Worabex.
Caught up in their combined magic, Tanaquil and her mischievous familiar - a literal pet peeve - find themselves in a parallel world where she meets Tanakil, a mirror-image princess with murder on her mind.
With Red Unicorn, award-winning author Tanith Lee returns once again to her epic fantasy of magic, of alternate worlds both perfect and flawed, and of the enchanting unicorns that travel between them. (dustwrapper copy)
  1. New York: Tor, [1997]. Paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. ISBN 0-312-86265-2. Price: $20.95. Copyright page: First Edition: July 1997 | 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Pagination: [1-6] 7-191 [192]. Dustjacket illustration by Mark Zug. Jacket design by Mike Mendelsohn.
  2. New York: Tor, [1997]. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. [$8.98]. Hardcover. ISBN 0-312-86265-2. Pagination: [1-6] 7-191 [192]. Dustjacket illustration by Mark Zug. Dustjacket design by Mike Mendelsohn.
  3. New York: Tor, [1998]. ISBN 0-812-53938-9, $4.99, mass-market paperback. Copyright page: Copyright 1997 by Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Text copyright 1997 by Tanith Lee. A Tor book. First edition: 1997. First mass market edition: November 1998. Pagination: [1-7] 8-191 [192]. Cover illustration uncredited.
  4. New York: Starscape, [2003]. ISBN 0-765-34568-4, $5.99, trade paperback. Copyright page: Copyright page: Copyright 1997 by Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. Text copyright 1997 by Tanith Lee. A Starscape book. First starscape edition: April 2003. Pagination: [1-7] 8-191 [192]. Cover illustration by Daniel Dos Santos.

    German Translations:

  1. Munich: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 2002. ISBN: 3-453-21423-4, trade paperback, €12.00. Pagination: [383-544]. As "Das Rote Einhorn" in Die Macht Des Einhorns (The Unicorn Series Omnibus), translated by Irene Bonhorst. Cover illustration by Donato.
  2. Munich: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 2004. ISBN: 3-453-53019-5, mass-market paperback, €7.95. Pagination: [379]-538. As As "Das Rote Einhorn" in Die Macht Des Einhorns (The Unicorn Series Omnibus), translated by Irene Bonhorst. Cover illustration by Bryn Barnard.

    Electronic Publications:

  1. [England]: Orion Publishing Group/Gollancz, April 28, 2016.
    Available via SF Gateway. Note: this is only available for readers in the UK and Europe.
    Available via Amazon UK for the Kindle.
  2. New York, NY: iBooks, Inc., July 14, 2010.
    Available via Amazon UK for the Kindle.
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    Available via Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
Redder Than Blood

Short story collection.
Contents: Redder Than Blood, Snow Drop, Magpied, She Sleeps In A Tower, Awake, Love In Waiting, The Reason For Not Going To The Ball (A Letter To Cinderella From Her Stepmother) (note that this title is listed only as "The Reason For Not Going To The Ball" in the table of contents), Midnight, Empires Of Glass (note that this title is incorrectly listed as "Empire Of Glass"), Rapunzel, Open Your Window, Golden Hair, Kiss, Kiss, Into Gold, Bloodmantle, Wolfed, My Life As A Swan, The Beast, The Beast And The Beauty (note that this title is incorrectly listed as never before published), and Below The Sun Beneath

A vampiric Snow White whose pious stepmother is her only salvation...
A supernatural Cinderella who strikes at midnight, leaving behind a proce mad with desire...
A sSleeping Beauty never meant to be woken...
In her World Fantasy Award-nominated short story collection, Red As Blood, Tanith Lee demonstratedfamiliar fairy tales, ewcapturing their original darkness and horror in haunting new interpretations. Behind gilded words and poised princesses, she exposed a sinister world of violence, madness, and dangerous enchantments.
With Redder Than Blood, Lee resumes the tradition of twisting tales. Among its nineteen tales, this volume explores unnerving variations of Beauty and the Beast, the Frog Prince, Snow White, and other classics, including three [sic, actually two] never before printed stories. (back cover copy)
  1. New York: DAW Books, Inc., 2017. ISBN: 0-7564-1251-7, trade paperback, $16.00. Copyright page: Copyright 2017 by Tanith Lee. Cover art by Bastien Lecouffe Deharme. Cover design by G-Force Design. First printing, April 2017 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Pagination: [1-6] [1]-309 [310-314]. Cover illustration by Bastien Lecouffe Deharme. Cover design by G-Force design. Please note: "Empires Of Glass" has been incorrectly listed in the table and story heading as "Empire Of Glass" and "Goldenhair" has been incorrectly listed in the table and story heading as "Open Your Window, Goldenhair".

    Electronic Publications:

  1. New York, NY: DAW Books, Inc., April 4, 2017.
    Available via Penguin Random House. Note: this is only available for readers in the US.
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Reigning Cats And Dogs

Novel. 70,000 words.

About midday the white cat emerged from Grace's open window and walked along the sills of the Rookery, jumping from disastrous ledge to ledge, and down and up the vertiginous heights.
It surveyed the slums, the winding streets that were in parts so narrow, only cats could walk two abreast. Also, from the roof, later, the distant avenues of infamous Black Church where, in antique times, dark priests had had a monastery and worshipped the Devil.
Then, in the night, as the moon rose, the white cat sang. It sang in a high and sacred voice ...
Grace is green-eyed, beautiful, a psychic healer - and also a whore. She walks the streets of Black Church to make a living.
After years of horror and poverty as a brothel slave, Saul Anger was adopted into a life of ease, and he has now taken on the mantle of his dead uncle's house, as well as the leadership of a secret society whose figurehead is Anubis, the jackal god of Egypt. Dedicated to justice and retribution, this society will destroy those it deems evil. There must always be blood.
One midnight, in the great clock-tower of the city a man hangs himself - and secret desires are let loose. A demon now stalks the streets and alleys, slaying the wicked and the innocent alike. But can Saul locate the source of destruction and tame it?
Or will beautiful Grace - who has fallen in love with him - be able to stem this tide of madness and primeval terror? For, aided by the goddess Pasht and by all the cats of the city, perhaps she alone can turn back the clock. (dustwrapper copy)
  1. [London]: Headline, [1995]. Paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. ISBN 0-7472-1431-X. Price: £16.99. Copyright page: Copyright 1995 Tanith Lee. First published in 1995 by Headline Book Publishing. A Headline Feature Hardback | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Pagination: [i-viii] 1-214 [215-216]. Dustjacket illustration by Mark Salwowski.
  2. [London]: Headline Feature, [1996]. ISBN 0-7472-5008-1, £5.99, mass-market paperback. Copyright page: Copyright 1995 Tanith Lee. First published in 1995 by Headline Book Publishing. First published in paperback in 1996 by Headline Book Publishing. A Headline Feature Paperback | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3. Pagination: [1-12] 1-304. Cover illustration by Mark Salwowski.

    Electronic Publications:

  1. [England]: Orion Publishing Group/Gollancz, November 26, 2015.
    Available via SF Gateway. Note: this is only available for readers in the UK and Europe.
    Available via Amazon UK for the Kindle.
Sabella, Or, The Blood Stone

Novel. 60,000 words.
Collected in Sometimes, After Sunset.
Nominated as no. 14 in the Best Fantasy Novel category in the 1981 Locus Poll.

DRACULA?
A mere figment of superstition, a thing that could not exist.
SABELLA?
A very real person, an enticing girl of flesh and warmth - who detested the sunlight, who required the blood of young men to feed upon, who was all that Dracula was said to be except never one of the "undead." Sabella was alive, sensual and dangerous.
She lived on Nova Mars, a colony of Earth and very much like the world we know. She knew what she was and her very existence was a peril to the all-too-human population of that world.
Never since C. L. Moore's Shambleau has there been another like Sabella. (back cover copy)
  1. New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1980]. Mass-market paperback. Publisher's number: 380 (UE1529). ISBN 0 87997 529 6. Price: $1.75. Copyright page: First Printing, April 1980 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Pagination: [1-8] 9-157 [158-160]. Cover illustration by George Smith.
  2. London Sydney: Unwin Paperbacks [1987]. ISBN 0 04 823353 6, £2.50, mass-market paperback. Copyright page: First published in Great Britain by Unwin Paperbacks 1987. Copyright Tanith Lee 1980, 1987. This edition published by arrangement with DAW Books Inc. New York. Pagtination: [1-8] 9-157 [158-160]. Note: published as Sabella. Cover illustration by Gwyneth Jones.
  3. Blacksburg, VA.: Fantastic Books, [2010]. ISBN: 1-60459-922-0, $12.99, trade paperback. Copyright page: Copyright 1980 by Tanith Lee. Introduction copyright 2009 by Tanith Lee. First Fantastic Books edition. Pagination: [1-7] 8-140 [141-144]. Introduction written by Tanith Lee. Cover illustration by John Kaiine.
  4. New Yorlk: DAW Books Inc., July 2020. ISBN: 0-7564-1100-8. $7.99, mass-market paperback. Copyright page: Copyright 1980 by Tanith Lee. Cover illustration by Galen Dara. Cover design by Katie Anderson. First paperback printing, April 1980. First new edition printing, July 2020 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Pagination: [i-vi] [1-3] 4-165 [166-170]. Cover illustration by Galen Dara. Cover design by Katie Anderson.

    French Translations:

  1. Paris: OPTA, 1981. Cloth covered boards with pictorial dust jacket. ISBN: 2-7201-0135-4. Pagination: [1-12] 13-205 [206]. As "Sabella Ou La Pierre De Sang", translated by E.C.L. Meistermann. Dustjacket illustration, pictorial endpapers and interior illustrations by Claude Fritsch. NOTE: This appeared with Night's Master, translated as "Le Maître Des Ténèbres" also by E.C.L. Meistermann. This is a limited edition of 3,000 numbered copies reserved for members of the Club Du Livre D'Anticipation. Pages 5-6 contain an introduction entitled "Tanith Lee Ou La Pérénité Des Mythes" by Daniel Walther.

    German Translations:

  1. Bergisch Gladbach [Germany]: Bastei Lübbe., 1982. ISBN: 3-404-20045-4, mass-market paperback, DM 5.80. Pagination: [1-4] 5-188 [189-192]. As "Sabella", translated by Rosemarie Heinemann. Cover illustration by Oliviero Berni. Note: Title on cover given as "Sabella: Der Letzte Vampir".

    Italian Translations:

  1. Milan: Editrice Scorpio, May 1986. Trade paperback, Lit 3.500. As "La Pietra Di Sangue", translated by G. Giambalvo. Pagination: [1-2] 3-158 [159-160]. Cover illustration by Chaffee. Note: Pages 147-150 contain a piece entitled "Nel Grattacielo" by Silvano Barbesti. Pages 151-155 contain "I Viaggi Nel Tempo" by Giorgio Toschi.
  2. Milan: Edizioni New Scorpio, March 1987. Mass-market paperback, Lit. 3.500. As "La Pietra Di Sangue", translated by G. Giambalvo. Pagination: 158. Cover illustration by Lonati. Pages 147-150 contain a piece entitled "Nel Grattacielo" by Silvano Barbesti. Pages 151-155 contain a piece entitled "I Viaggi Nel Tempo" by Giorgio Toschi.
  3. Rome: Compagnia Del Fantastica, September 1994. ISBN: 88-7983-781-8, Lit 1.000, trade paperback. As "La Vampira Di Marte", translated by Vera Simonetti. Pagination: [1-2] 5-97 [98]. Cover illustration by Marco Sani.

    Portuguese Translations:

  1. São Paolo [Brazil]: Editora Brasiliense S.A., [1985]. Trade paperback. Pagination: [1-9] 10-164 [165-168]. As "Sabella, Um Vampiro Nas Galáxias", translated by Álvaro Luiz Hattner. Cover design by Carlos Matuck. Cover illustrations by Will Eisner and Alex Raymond.

    Electronic Publications:

  1. [England]: Orion Publishing Group/Gollancz, July 31, 2014.
    Available via SF Gateway. Note: this is only available for readers in the UK and Europe.
    Available via Amazon UK for the Kindle.
  2. New York, NY: DAW Books, Inc., July 28, 2020.
    Available via Penguin Random House. Note: this is only available for readers in the US.
    Available via Amazon US for the Kindle.
    Available via Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
Saint Fire

Novel. 100,000 words.
Book II of The Secret Books Of Venus.
Collected in The Secret Books Of Venus 1 & 2.
Nominated as no. 17 in the Best Fantasy Novel category in the 2000 Locus Poll.

Starting with the premise of four novels based on the phases of alchemy and the four elements, Tanith Lee has created an evocative alternate Italy in her new series, The Secret Books of Venus. The first volume, Faces Under Water, was set against a backdrop drenched with atmosphere and water in a parallel Venice.
In Saint Fire, the gripping second volume in the series, Volpa is a strangely beautiful servant girl who glows with an inhuman inner fire. When her master, an abusive woodseller, is mysteriously incinerated, Volpa begins to discover her power of fire. Her gift is noticed by the church leaders, who see her as a mighty weapon in their holy wars. Not sure if her powers are heavenly or demonic, the priests are nonetheless determined to have Volpa on their side. This gripping fantasy of a mysteriously gifted Joan of Arc figure is stunning from beginning to end. (dustwrapper copy)
  1. Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, [1999]. Paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. ISBN 0-87951-735-2. Price: $25.95. Copyright page: First Edition | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Pagination: [1-8] 9-335 [336]. Dustjacket design by Yellowstone Ltd. Dustjacket illustration by J.K. Potter.
  2. Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, [2003]. ISBN 1-58567-425-7, $14.95, trade paperback. Copyright page: First publshed in paperback in the United States in 2003 by The Overlook Press, peter Mayer Publishers Inc. First edition | 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. Pagination: [1-8] 9-335 [336]. Cover design by Yellowstone Ltd. Cover illustration by J.K. Potter.

    Japanese Translations:

  1. Tokyo: Sangyo Henshu Publishing, April 2007. ISBN: 4-916199-98-0, trade paperback, ¥1,300. Pagination: [1-4] 5-469 [470-472]. Translated as "Honoono Kiyoshishoujo", by Eiko Kakinuma. Cover illustration by Tanno Shinobu.

    Electronic Publications:

  1. New York, NY: The Overlook Press, May 15, 2019.
    Available via Amazon UK for the Kindle.
    Available via Amazon US for the Kindle.
    Available via Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
The Secret Books Of Paradys 1 & 2

Omnibus.
Contents: The Book Of The Damned; The Book Of The Beast.

The strange and the tormented dwell in Paradys - prowling its dark streets and twisted alleyways, passing the endless hours in the city's elegant mansions and smoke-tarnished inns, wandering in moldering graveyards and the stark surrounding countryside. For the land here is bound by a timeless, soul-chilling magic, and that power has cast its spell over all who have ever lived in this foreboding and dangerous place.
So come to Paradys, and witness that city's life and history through the eyes of its provocative and perverse citizens - a darkly fascinating odyssey as only World Fantasy Award winner Tanith Lee could imagine it.
Journey back to an era of opulent salons and hopeless duels without honor - a time when it is fashionable among the idle rich to dabble in the occult. But in the case of one troubled man, such dabblings awaken an obsessive love for a mistress of seductive terror - a being who may well prove capable of draining his talent, his lifeblood, his very essence away ...
Venture into a medieval Paradys held siege by the plague - a city wherein a young woman, betrayed by her own family, is forced to face perils far more horrifying than the dread disease. For after all, the plague only claims its victims' lives ...
Enter the city of today and meet a writer who is lured to a fateful assignation with a man pursued by Death's dark shadow - only to find herself trapped by a sorcery as ancient and mutable as Egypt's ever-shifting sands;
Then travel back to the earliest days of Paradys and the Roman occupation, when the gift of a mysterious Assyrian amulet - the origins of which had been long lost even then - marks a family for doom. For the curse of the amulet follows them down through the generations, destroying not only those in the direct line, but all who are brave enough, or foolish enough, to love them ...
Includes The Book of the Damned (three novellas) and The Book the Beast (a novel). (dustwrapper copy)
  1. N.p.: Guild America Books, N.d. [i.e. 1991]. Paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. First combined edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Price: [$9.98]. No statement of printing on copyright page. No date code. Pagination: [i-vi, 1-5] 6-401 [402]. Dustjacket art by Dawn Wilson.
The Secret Books Of Paradys 3 & 4

Omnibus.
Contents: The Book Of The Dead; The Book Of The Mad.

Paradys - the City - was a place of decadence and decay, of luxury and lasciviousness, and, after the revolution, a graveyard peopled by the insane and the dead ... and by those who preyed on both.
All who came to Paradys were forever touched by its dread magic - from the bride bespelled into the body of a weasel ... to the poet whose lust for vengeance drove him to a distant isle where voodoo held sway ... to the conjurer with a spell that enabled him to master almost everything ... to the woman whose mere presence seemed to herald death's approach.
Yet Paradys held far more treacherous secrets than these. The City was not one place but three, bound together by a labyrinth of ice yet separated, perhaps by time, perhaps by some long-forgotten enchantment, into Paradise, Paradis and Paradys -- each cursed in an entirely different way ...
The twins Felion and Smara dwelt in Paradise - brother and sister who prowled the ice labyrinth in an unceasing search for wealth, however ill-gotten.
The painter Leocadia was a citizen of Paradis. When her lover was found dead in her studio, she was committed to a mental hospital called the Residence - a welcome descent into madness.
In Paradys, 11-year-old Hilde's unrequited love for an actor left her so distraught that her family placed her in an asylum, never expecting a full recovery.
Then Felion and Smara met Leocadia and Hilde ...
This exclusive SFBC omnibus volume includes The Book of the Dead (eight short stories) and The Book of the Mad (a novel). (dustwrapper copy)
  1. N.p.: Guild America Books, N.d. [i.e. 1993]. Paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. First combined edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Price: [$10.98]. No statement of printing on copyright page. No date code. Pagination: [i-vi, 1-7] 8-373 [374376]. Dustjacket art by Dawn Wilson.
The Secret Books Of Paradys: The Complete Paradys Cycle

Omnibus.
Contents: The Book Of The Damned; The Book Of The Beast; The Book Of The Dead; The Book Of The Mad.

Paradys -- the City -- was a place of decadence and decay, of luxury and lasciviousness, and, after the revolution, a graveyard peopled by the insane and the dead ... and by those who preyed on both.The strange and the tormented dwell in Paradys -- prowling its dark streets and twisted alleyways, passing the endless hours in the city's elegant mansions and smoke-tarnished inns, wandering in mouldering graveyards and the stark surrounding countryside. For the land here is bound by a timeless, soul-chilling magic, and that power has cast its spell over all who have ever lived in this foreboding and dangerous place.
All who came to Paradys were forever touched by its dread magic. The city was not one place but three, bound together by a labyrinth of ice yet separated, perhaps by time, perhaps by some long-forgotten enchantment, into Paradys, Paradis and Paradys -- each cursed in an entirely different way.
Witness the city of Paradys' life and history through the eyes of its provocative and perverse citizens -- a darkly fascinating odyssey as only World Fantasy Award winner Tanith Lee could imagine it.(inside dustwrapper and back cover copy)
  1. New York, Woodstock, London: OverlookDuckworth, [2007]. Two bindings. Simultaneously issued:
    1. Hardcover. ISBN 1-58587-984-3, $35.00, paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. Copyright page: This edition first printed in the United States by OverlookDuckworth [sic], Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc. New York, Woodstock & London. The Book of the Damned copyright 1990 [i.e. 1988] Tanith Lee. The Book of the Beast copyright 1989 Tanith Lee. The Book of the Dead copyright 1991 Tanith Lee. The Book of the Mad copyright 1993 Tanith Lee | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Pagination: [i-vi, 1-2] 3-698. Dustjacket design by Plainclothes Ltd.
    2. Trade paperback. ISBN 1-58587-984-4, $24.95. Copyright page: This edition first printed in the United States by OverlookDuckworth [sic], Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc. New York, Woodstock & London. The Book of the Damned copyright 1990 [i.e. 1988] Tanith Lee. The Book of the Beast copyright 1989 Tanith Lee. The Book of the Dead copyright 1991 Tanith Lee. The Book of the Mad copyright 1993 Tanith Lee | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Pagination: [i-vi, 1-2] 3-698. Cover design by Plainclothes Ltd.
  2. New York, Woodstock, London: OverlookDuckworth, [2008]. ISBN 1-58587-984-3, £21.99, paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. Copyright page: This edition first printed in the United States by OverlookDuckworth [sic], Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc. New York, Woodstock & London. The Book of the Damned copyright 1990 [i.e. 1988] Tanith Lee. The Book of the Beast copyright 1989 Tanith Lee. The Book of the Dead copyright 1991 Tanith Lee. The Book of the Mad copyright 1993 Tanith Lee | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Pagination: [i-vi, 1-2] 3-698. Dustjacket design by Plainclothes Ltd. Note: this is the UK edtion, which has the same publication information as the Overlook Press edtion issued in 2007. .
  3. New York, Woodstock, London: OverlookDuckworth, [2008]. ISBN 1-58587-984-3, $19.99, paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. Copyright page: This edition first printed in the United States by OverlookDuckworth [sic], Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc. New York, Woodstock & London. The Book of the Damned copyright 1990 [i.e. 1988] Tanith Lee. The Book of the Beast copyright 1989 Tanith Lee. The Book of the Dead copyright 1991 Tanith Lee. The Book of the Mad copyright 1993 Tanith Lee. Pagination: [i-vi, 1-3] 4-698. Dustjacket design by Plainclothes Ltd. Note: This is issued by the Science Fiction Book Club, which has the same publication information as the Overlook Press edtion issued in 2007. .
  4. New York, Woodstock, London: OverlookDuckworth, [2008]. ISBN 071563755X, £16.99, trade paperback. Copyright page: This edition first printed in the United States by OverlookDuckworth [sic], Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc. New York, Woodstock & London. The Book of the Damned copyright 1990 [i.e. 1988] Tanith Lee. The Book of the Beast copyright 1989 Tanith Lee. The Book of the Dead copyright 1991 Tanith Lee. The Book of the Mad copyright 1993 Tanith Lee. Pagination: [i-vi, 1-3] 4-698. Cover design by Plainclothes Ltd. Note: this is the UK edtion, which has the same publication informationas the Overlook Press edtion issued in 2007. .

    Electronic Publications:

  1. New York, NY: The Overlook Press, December 11, 2018.
    Available via Amazon UK for the Kindle.
    Available via Amazon US for the Kindle.
    Available via Barnes and Noble for the Nook.
The Secret Books Of Venus 1 & 2

Omnibus.
Contents: Faces Under Water; Saint Fire.

World Fantasy Award Winner Tanith Lee leads us through a sinister version of Venice, where, amid the canals and palazzi, terrible powers play out deadly games.
Faces Under Water ...
During Camival -- six weeks of gay abandon when it's illegal to walk abroad unmasked -- it's not unusual for some poor wretch to wind up drowned or murdered after a night of drunken revelry. Furian Furiano makes his living hunting the canals for these corpses, bringing them to an alchemist friend for his questionable cures and experiments. But one night, Furian happens upon a finely crafted mask floating in the murky waters ... and is plunged into a bizarre tangle of love, obsession and evil.
The mask -- an eerie thing a-drip with malice -- belonged to the composer Del Nero, who vanished after writing a wondrous song to a stone-faced beauty. Furian determines to meet her and falls headlong in love. But elusive Eurydiche will lead him further into a labyrinth of secrets. For her composer's mask hides a sinister art of black magic and ancient alchemy.
Saint Fire ...
As a child, she had been named by her slavemaster: Volpa, vixen, for the yellow eyes and fiery hair that made her seem the devil's own familiar. Yet through her misery and hardship, the girl dreamed only of angels. Orphaned at fourteen, she would have been brutally raped save for her holy gift: incited by emotion, Volpa could call down fire.
Accused of witchery before the dread Eyes and Ears of God, she is saved by the warrior-priest Cristiano. Enchanted against his will by her innocence and mildness, Cristiano brings her to the attention of his benefactor, Magister Major Fra Danielus, who removes her to a convent where Volpa, now Beatifica, learns the love of worship. Danielus believes he has been given a miracle - Beatifica will be a saint, and the corrupt priesthood will fall. But there is one who is eager to see her dead, her body burnt by a fire not her own - and only Danielus can save her ... (dustwrapper copy)
  1. N.p.: SFBC Fantasy, 1999. Paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. First combined edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Price: [$14.98]. Copyright page: First SFBC Fantasy printing: November 1999. Pagination: [i-vi, 1-11] 12-426. Jacket art by Todd Lockwood.
The Secret Books Of Venus 3 & 4

Omnibus.
Contents: A Bed Of Earth; Venus Preserved.

Gorgeously written, The Secret Books of Venus I & II took readers into the rarefied atmosphere of a parallel 16th-century Italy, a place redolent of elegant decay, of the supernatural and the sublime ... where passion slips the bonds of sanity and intrigue is the coin of the realm. Now World Fantasy Award winner Tanith Lee enraptures us again with the third and fourth books in this bewitching seris.
A Bed of Earth ...
In Venus, an ancient city built on water, a nobleman is laid to rest on the Isle of the Dead. This scene on the disputed land of a burial ground sets the stage for the haunting tale of A Bed Of Earth--the bitter rivalry between two families, the della Scorpios and the Barbarons. Beginning with the story of 14-year old Meralda, whose passion for a young artist is betrayed with deadly consequences, the drama unfolds over years, as an unhuman force rises from beneath the city's placid canals and rotting foundations and exacts his violent retribution ...
Venus Preserved ...
Centuries into the future, the sunken city of Venus has been rebuilt under a dome and computer- controlled to mimic surface-world reality. It is here, in Venus Preserved, that a macabre experiment to resurrent two lost souls--Jula, a beautiful first-century gladiatrix, and Cloudio Del Nero, the 18th-century composer, both murdered in their times--is taking place. A descendant of Cloudio's comes to meet his own prophesied fate amid beauty, Picaro is plunged into a city-wide catastrophe from which he narrowly escapes. Is it an accident? Or is a more sinister danger afoot? The answer to these questions lies buried in Picaro's own past ... (dustwrapper copy)
  1. N.p.: SFBC Fantasy, 2003. Paper-covered boards, issued with pictorial dustwrapper. First combined edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Price: [$13.99]. Copyright page: First SFBC Fantasy printing: December 2003. Pagination: [1-19] 20-476, [2]. Jacket art by Gary Lippincott.

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