#Tanith Lee

[ibrithir-was-here]

How the heck is there not more talk about Tanith Lee??

Like my gosh, the woman wrote, according to her wiki, 90 books, over 300 short stories, two World Fantasy Awards, and was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award/Augus Derleth Award and wrote for tv shows.

Like, it's not like she just wrote a heck ton but wasn't very good! She was clearly very good she won awards, and i've read a swath of her stuff across different genres and really enjoyed most of it. I mean that even if not each one has been my cup of tea I can at least appreciate the skill and quite a lot I have truly enjoyed. She's got great prose and style and imagination. Not everything obviously was a banger, but they've all been at least well written, which is harder to come by in writing than you might think.

But nobody ever seems to talk about her?? And I feel like the fantasy crowd on here would really enjoy her stuff. The woman has done stuff in pretty much every genre from what I can see, but I never see her listed on fantasy authors like Clive Barker or Diana Wynne Jones or Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett or Diane Duane even though she was writing at the same time and has a similar sort of '80s Doing Cool Stuff with Fantasy vibe' I feel like people who like those authors would enjoy though she's very much her own style of author.

Anyway this was really just me putting out a rant that such a prolific and talented author seems to have fallen by the wayside and I think it's really a shame

Heck she even did a witch-queen fighting againt vampire Snow White a whole decade before Neil Gaiman did his phenomenal Snow Glass Apples and it's also excellent, give a look here:

[thefugitivesaint]

Stephen Hickman (1949-2021), ''The Dragon Horde'' by Tanith Lee, 1985

[weirdlookindog]

Wayne Douglas Barlowe - Original cover art for Tanith Lee's 'The Book of the Dead', 1991

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[winterofherdiscontent]

to those who recognise the novel by this page alone, you're a real one

[colleendoran]

My pencil preliminary test drawings for The Silver Metal Lover, and final digital painting for a variant edition of the graphic novel.

[aliteraryprincess]

Snow White // White as Snow by Tanith Lee

Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony. And whilst she was sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. And the red looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to herself, "Would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window-frame."

[bookmaven]

Some stunning book covers by award-winning artist Kinuko Y. Craft.

[retroscifiart]

Ken Kelly - Dark Castle, White Horse (Tanith Lee, 1985)

[literallybyronic]

>be me >finish DAI and need a break >remember i wanted to refresh/analyze my fav author's dialogue style since i had been having trouble formatting my own >pick a random novella i remember liking but haven't read for many years and almost entirely forget the story of >it's the most solavellan coded literature i've ever read in my fucking life right down to the antagonist/deuteragonist/love interest being a guy who wears a wolf cloak and turns into a wolf who made a terrible mistake in his past and the heroine losing part of her hand

thanks brain. thanks a lot.

it's available to borrow on internet archive if you would like to torture yourself enjoy a good little read from an amazing author. (it's the 2nd story, starts on p. 125)

[forthegothicheroine]

Haunting the halls of used bookstores wailing "Do you have any Tanith Lee?" like a ghost asking for her children.

[hasmoneanbulbasaur]

A photograph of the late, great Tanith Lee, taken by her husband John Kaiine back in the 20th century.

[rusted-pipe-of-wisdom]

guess who started reading tanith lee's 'kill the dead' and is absurdly into it

[howifeltabouthim]

'Can't you see that she's completely malevolent, that she enjoys destroying things?'

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

[aaronsrpgs]

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[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

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[enzymedevice]

Forgot to post this when I actually took the picture but my Friday was a good day for bishie enjoyers (me). My first Yoshitaka Amano-illustrated Elric bunkobon! And I’m very happy to finally have Metallic Love because I’ve had the 2007 edition of The Silver Metal Lover for years and just couldn’t find its sequel to complete the set.