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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2015 13:38:34 GMT
Sad news has come in that Tanith Lee has passed away.
I first read Tanith Lee in the 9th Pan Book of Horror Stories - her 90 word vignette, 'Eustace', didn't set my world on fire - but was streets ahead of most of the stuff that DID appear in the Pan Horrors.
In 2010 I was responsible for bringing together the biggest group of Pan Horror authors and artists. Tanith Lee, who I was meeting for the first time, was lovely to me - signed my Pan #9 and told me some stories about Herbert van Thal.
Last year I was able to work with Tanith, using her story 'Doll Re Mi' for the first BEST BRITISH HORROR volume and she was thrilled with its inclusion.
Once I heard that she was ill I emailed her and her reply was an open ended one with regards to her future. That her time has come so suddenly is shocking and upsetting.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on May 26, 2015 14:24:23 GMT
Very sad to hear this. She was a true original and was still writing good stories. I just read one of her recent short stories ("Empire of Glass") and two of her YA novellas from the 1970s (Companions on the Road and The Winter Players). She also sounded like a fascinating and charming person. A great loss.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 26, 2015 15:47:02 GMT
I bought THE BIRTHGRAVE, her debut novel, when it was first published in 1975. Last year I finally read it. What a brillliant book! But flawed. But I like the flaws.
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Post by ripper on May 26, 2015 17:48:13 GMT
What very sad news. RIP.
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Post by andydecker on May 26, 2015 18:06:12 GMT
This is very sad news.
I discovered her work in the early 80s when a lot of her fantasy was translated. For me she was for a time one of the faces of DAW Books - I maybe have half a dozen in my collection with those wonderful covers-, and she did her own twisted version of fairy tales long, long before this became the new black. And unfortunatly the new voices doing this seemed to have left her in the dust. I adored her Night's Master series.
But in later years I didn't enjoy her stuff as much as I used to, there was a lot I couldn't get into or which just didn't interest me any longer. Still it was always nice to see that she kept writing and was published. Just recently I bought a fine edition of her Paradys trilogy which I always wanted to read.
A loss indeed.
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Post by dem bones on May 26, 2015 19:46:23 GMT
It was the sad, sinister vampire tale, Bite-Me-Not, turned me onto her (short) fiction. Agree with you about the "twisted adult fairy tales", Andy. Along with Angela Carter, Tanith Lee pretty much dreamt up an entire sub-genre.
R. I. P. Mistress Of Delirium
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Post by bobby on May 27, 2015 0:00:33 GMT
It was the sad, sinister vampire tale, Bite-Me-Not, turned me onto her (short) fiction. I think that was the first story of hers that I read, in a vampire anthology from the late 1980's edited by Alan Ryan. (The hardcover and the paperback had different titles.) |
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Post by dem bones on May 27, 2015 5:28:40 GMT
It was the sad, sinister vampire tale, Bite-Me-Not, turned me onto her (short) fiction. I think that was the first story of hers that I read, in a vampire anthology from the late 1980's edited by Alan Ryan. (The hardcover and the paperback had different titles.) It was The Penguin Book Of Vampire Stories in England, the paperback edition featuring a gorgeous Edward Gorey cover illustration. Pretty sure it was simply Vampires in the US? |
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