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December 2021 Addendum
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- 2016 - 2021 (Creation)
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27 files
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Steve Rasnic Tem is an award-winning writer of horror, as well as fantasy, science fiction, crime, and other genres, and also (as his website notes) "a less-classifiable imaginative prose more than one critic has called "Temism"". Born in Jonesville, Virginia on September 14, 1950 as Steve Rasnic, Tem attended both Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) and Virginia Commonwealth University, the former from which he graduated with a B.A. in English Education. Rasnic moved to Colorado in 1974, and he attained a M.A. in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. While attending a writer's workshop, Rasnic met fellow writer Melanie Kubachko; the two married in 1980 and took the joint surname "Tem". They were loving partners and collaborators for over three decades, until Melanie Tem's death in 2015. He still resides in Colorado.
Tem's writing career has spanned over four decades. His first published stories were "Hideout" and "The Painters Are Coming Today", both included in the fantasy anthology Other Worlds 1 in 1979. He has gone on to create a large and well-received, multi-faceted body of work that includes novels, chapbooks, novellas, short stories (over 450), and poetry. Some of Tem's more notable works include the 2000 novella The Man on the Ceiling (written in collaboration with Melanie Tem, inspired by the death of their son Anthony), which won the 2001 World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards; the 1983 British Fantasy Award-winning story "Leaks"; the 2001 Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction winner "In These Final Days of Sales"; the 2002 multimedia collection Imagination Box (w/Melanie Tem), which won the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Alternative Forms; the 2014 Southern Gothic novel Blood Kin, which won the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel; and the 2000 IHG winner for Best Collection City Fishing.
Tem's short stories have been assembled into 17 collections, starting with 1991's Absences: Charlie Goode's Ghosts. He has written or co-written 8 novels (the first, Excavation, appearing in 1987), 8 chapbooks, and edited two anthologies: The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (1982, nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award) and High Fantastic: Colorado's Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction (1995, nominated for the World Fantasy Award). He co-wrote with his wife a handbook on writing, Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Fiction, published in 2017.
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1-5/1: Clarkesworld Magazine Podcast: "A Space of One's Own" (Steve Rasnic Tem), June 2021, MP4 file
Filename: Clarkesworld Magazine Podcast A Space of One’s Own by Steve Rasnic Tem
1-5/2: "Eating the Fantastic" podcast: Episode 80 - "Steve Rasnic Tem", file dated May 2021, MP3 file
Filename: Eating the Fantastic Episode_80__Steve_Rasnic_Tem
1-5/3: "Field of Shoes" (Steve Rasnic Tem), read by Tem, file dated June 2021, MP4 file
Filename: field of shoes
1-5/4: "Halloween Horrors" anthology reading: "Trickster" (Steve Rasnic Tem), MP4 file, file dated June 2021
Filename: Halloween Horrors Audiobook Recording by The Gruesome Ghoul 03 - Trickster
1-5/5: "Halloween Scary Stories 2020" performance, including reading of "Voices in the Dark" (Steve Rasnic Tem), MP4 file, 2020
Filename: Halloween Scary Stories 2020 at The Stagecrafters
1-5/6: MileHicon 52: "An Hour with Guest of Honor Steve Rasnic Tem", October 2020, MP4 file
Filename: Hour with GOH Steve Rasnic Tem - MHC 52
1-5/7: 60 Great Ghost Stories reading: "Housewarming" (Steve Rasnic Tem), MP4 file, file dated June 2021
Filename: Housewarming by Steve Rasnic Tem
1-5/8: "Josh's Worst Nightmare" podcast Episode 2, w/Steve Rasnic Tem as guest, MP3 file, file dated May 2021
Filename: Josh's Worst Nightmare podcast episode 2 Steve Rasnic Tem
1-5/9: Lovecraft eZine Podcast, w/Steve Rasnic Tem as guest, June 10, 2018, MP3 file
Filename: Lovecraft_eZinePodcast-_Steve_RasnicTem-_June10-_2018
1-5/10: Nocturnal Transmissions podcast Episode 49: "Between the Pilings" (Steve Rasnic Tem), May 7, 2019, MP3 file
Filename: NOCTRANS_EP49-_Steve Tem_Between_The_Pilings
1-5/11: PseudoPod podcast Episode 601: "Flash on the Borderlands XLIII: The Grinding of Gears", w/ "At the Bureau" (Steve Rasnic Tem), June 29, 2018, MP3 file
Filename: Pseudo601_FlashOnTheBorderlandsXLIII_steve rasnic tem
1-5/12: PseudoPod podcast Episode 733: "Late Sleepers" (Steve Rasnic Tem), November 27, 2020, MP3 file
Filename: Pseudo733_LateSleepers_Steve Tem
1-5/13: Reading: "Spider Talk, Part 1" (Steve Rasnic Tem), MP4 file, file dated June 2021
Filename: Spider Talk by Steve Rasnic Tem Part 1
1-5/14: Reading: "Spider Talk, Part 2" (Steve Rasnic Tem), MP4 file, file dated June 2021
Filename: Spider Talk by Steve Rasnic Tem Part 2
1-5/15: Setting as Character: Reading by Tem from Deadfall Hotel, MP4 file, file dated May 2021
Filename: Steve Rasnic Tem - Setting as Character - Reading
1-5/16: Nights of Horror podcast: Reading by Tem of "The Late Lost", w/interview of Tem, October 7, 2020, MP4 file
Filename:Steve Rasnic Tem Reading and Interview For Nights of Horror [10.7.20]
1-5/17: Reading by Tem of "The Way Station", MP4 file, file dated May 2021
Filename: steve rasnic tem reading the way station final
1-5/18: Stokercon 2021: Interview with Guest of Honor Steve Rasnic Tem, WMV file, May 2021
Filename: steve tem Stokercon 2021 interview
1-5/19: Reading by Tem of "The Night Doctor", MP4 file, file dated May 2021
Filename: The Night Doctor
1-5/20: Reading of "The Painters Are Coming Today" (Steve Rasnic Tem), MP4 file, file dated June 2021
Filename: The Painters are Coming Today by Steve Rasnic Tem as told by Edward E.French
1-5/21: This Is Horror Podcast, Episode 260, w/interview with Steve Rasnic Tem (Part 1), MP3 file, February 15, 2019
Filename: TIH260_steve rasnic tem part 1
1-5/22: This Is Horror Podcast, Episode 261, w/interview with Steve Rasnic Tem (Part 2), MP3 file, February 19, 2019
Filename: TIH260_steve rasnic tem part 2
1-5/23: ReaderCon 2016: Panel on "Using Real Historical People in Fiction", w/Steve Rasnic Tem, Part 1, MP4 file, July 8, 2016
Filename: Using Real Historical People in Fiction Readercon 27 July 8th, 2016 Part 1
1-5/24: ReaderCon 2016: Panel on "Using Real Historical People in Fiction", w/Steve Rasnic Tem, Part 2, MP4 file, July 8, 2016
Filename: Using Real Historical People in Fiction Readercon 27 July 8th, 2016 Part 2
1-5/25: Visited By Voices' Horror Writer's Roundtable, w/Steve Rasnic Tem, MP4 file, file dated June 2021
Filename: VBV's Horror Writer's Roundtable 002
1-5/26: Visited By Voices Live Podcast, w/interview with Steve Rasnic Tem, MP4 file, file dated May 2021
Filename: VisitedbyvoicesLive Special Guest Steve Rasnic Tem
1-5/27: Where Darkness Dwells Podcast, Episode 110, w/interview with Steve Rasnic Tem ,January 27, 2019, MP3 file
Filename: Where Darkness Dwells Podcast episode 110