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ⓘ About Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee is a British author. She is a writer that has written extensively in many mediums and is known for her writing in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. In her time as a published author, she contributed to fourteen collections, wrote seventy seven novels, and composed nearly three hundred short stories. Lee was born on September 19, 1947. She passed away on May 24, 2015. During her long career, she did more than just write stories. Lee wrote four radio plays that were aired on the BBC broadcast. She also contributed to the UK television series Blake’s 7, a cult science fiction television show. Tanith Lee didn’t always write full time; before that, she worked as a waitress, shop assistant, file clerk, and an assistant librarian.
All Book Series by Tanith Lee
Hunting the White Witch / Quest for the White Witch
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 1978
Law of the Wolf Tower aka Wolf Tower
Series opener · book 1 of 6 · published 1998
Cold Grey Stones / Colder Greyer Stones
Series opener · book 1 of 12 · published 2012
Last and First Contacts
Book 2 of 12 · published 2012 Anthology · Stephen Baxter
Stories from the Northern Road
Book 3 of 12 · published 2012 Anthology · Tony Ballantyne
Mementoes
Latest in the series · book 12 of 12 · published 2016 Anthology · Keith Brooke
Fire Bird
Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2001 Anthology · Mary Frances Zambreno
Princess Hynchatti and Some Other Surprises
Series opener · book 1 of 25 · published 1972
Strindberg's Ghost Sonata and Other Uncollected Tales
Book 24 of 25 · published 2019
Love in a Time of Dragons and Other Rare Tales
Latest in the series · book 25 of 25 · published 2019
Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
Book 3 of 5 · published 2010
Clockwork Phoenix 5
Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2016 Anthology · Alex Dally MacFarlane,A.C. Wise,Mike Allen,Keffy R.M. Kehrli,Rich Larson,Cassandra Khaw,C.S.E. Cooney,Carlos Hernandez,Benjanun Sriduangkaew,Sonya Taaffe,Beth Cato,Barbara Krasnoff,Patricia Russo,Gray Rinehart,Marie Brennan,Sam Fleming,Shveta Thakrar,Holly Heisey,Jason Kimble,Rachael L. Jones,Rob Cameron,Sunil Patel
Solaris Rising
Series opener · book 1 of 3 · published 2011 Anthology · Pat Cadigan,Mike Resnick,Stephen Baxter,Lavie Tidhar,Ken MacLeod,Peter F. Hamilton,Ian Watson,Eric Brown,Adam Roberts,Paul Di Filippo,Alastair Reynolds,Tricia Sullivan,Ian Whates,Richard Salter
Solaris Rising 2
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2013 Anthology · Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Paul Cornell,Liz Williams,James Lovegrove,Robert Reed,Eugie Foster,Nancy Kress,Nick Harkaway,Norman Spinrad,Vandana Singh,Kim Lakin-Smith,Ian Whates,Paul Cornell, Jr.,Kay Kenyon,Adrian Tchaikovsky,Martin Sketchley,Allan Steele
Legends: Stories in Honour of David Gemmell
Single-title series · published 2013 Co-authored · Juliet E. McKenna,Storm Constantine,Stan Nicholls,Ian Whates,Adrian Tchaikovsky,Joe Abercrombie,Anne Nicholls,Gaie Sebold,Jonathan Green,Jan Siegel,James Barclay,Sandra Unerman
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition
Series opener · book 1 of 15 · published 2010
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
Book 2 of 15 · published 2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
Book 3 of 15 · published 2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
Book 4 of 15 · published 2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
Book 5 of 15 · published 2014
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition
Book 6 of 15 · published 2015
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition
Book 7 of 15 · published 2016
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition
Book 8 of 15 · published 2017
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition
Book 9 of 15 · published 2018
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition
Book 10 of 15 · published 2020
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3
Book 13 of 15 · published 2022
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5
Latest in the series · book 15 of 15 · published 2024
The Sherwood Ring
Series opener · book 1 of 19 · published 1958 Anthology · Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Throme of the Erril of Sherill
Book 4 of 19 · published 1973 Anthology · Patricia A. McKillip
The Perilous Gard
Book 5 of 19 · published 1974 Anthology · Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Dark Lord of Pengersick
Book 9 of 19 · published 1976 Anthology · Richard Carlyon
The Devil on the Road
Book 11 of 19 · published 1978 Anthology · Robert Westall
The Magicians of Caprona
Book 14 of 19 · published 1980 Anthology · Diana Wynne Jones
The Princess and the Thorn
Book 15 of 19 · published 1980 Anthology · Paul R. Fisher
The Hawks of Fellheath
Book 17 of 19 · published 1984 Anthology · Paul R. Fisher
Talking to Dragons
Book 18 of 19 · published 1985 Anthology · Patricia C. Wrede
The Last Days of the Edge of the World
Latest in the series · book 19 of 19 · published 1985 Anthology · Brian M. Stableford
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One
Series opener · book 1 of 19 · published 2009
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction
Book 11 of 19 · published 2018
Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eighteen
Latest in the series · book 19 of 19 · published 2026
Weird Tales 1
Series opener · book 1 of 4 · published 1981 Anthology · Lin Carter
Weird Tales 2
Book 2 of 4 · published 1981 Co-authored · Robert Bloch,H.P. Lovecraft,Robert E. Howard
Weird Tales 3
Book 3 of 4 · published 1981 Co-authored · Robert Bloch,Robert E. Howard,Evangeline Walton
Weird Tales 4
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 1983 Anthology · Ray Bradbury,Robert E. Howard
Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 1991
Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction
Series opener · book 1 of 19 · published 1980 Co-authored · Isaac Asimov,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far
Book 2 of 19 · published 1981 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Frederik Pohl,Carter Scholz,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,Darrell Schweitzer,John Brunner,Juleen Brantingham,Martin Gardner,Richard Wilson,Milton A. Rothman,Elizabeth Anne Hull,Sharon Webb,Somtow Sucharitkul,Lee Weinstein,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre,William Tuning,Francis E. Izzo,Paul David Novitski,Lee Russell,Seth S. Horowitz,Tol E. Rant,S. Dale,Julie Flores,Tony Sarowitz
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own
Book 3 of 19 · published 1983 Co-authored · Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Pamela Sargent,Lee Killough,Mary Gentle,Mildred Downey Broxon,Shawna McCarthy,Sharon Webb,Leigh Kennedy,Stephanie A. Smith,Cherie Wilkerson,Julie Stevens,Sydney J. Van Scyoc,Cyn Mason,P.A. Kagan,P.J. MacQuarrie,Janet O. Jeppson,Beverly Grant,Hope Athearn
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy!
Book 4 of 19 · published 1989 Co-authored · Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Lucius Shepard,Scott Baker,Lillian Carl,Juleen Brantingham,Lee Killough,Ian McDowell,Daphne Castell,Sharon N. Farber,Richard Kearns,Shawna McCarthy,Leigh Kennedy,Gregg Keizer,Kristi Olesen
Isaac Asimov's Aliens
Book 5 of 19 · published 1991 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois
Isaac Asimov's Robots
Book 6 of 19 · published 1991 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite
Book 7 of 19 · published 1993 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford
Isaac Asimov's War
Book 8 of 19 · published 1993 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams
Book 9 of 19 · published 1994 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep
Book 10 of 19 · published 1995 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts
Book 11 of 19 · published 1995 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson
Isaac Asimov's Christmas
Book 12 of 19 · published 1997 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois
Isaac Asimov's Camelot
Book 13 of 19 · published 1998 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason
Isaac Asimov's Detectives
Book 14 of 19 · published 1998 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois
Isaac Asimov's Werewolves
Book 15 of 19 · published 1999 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois
Isaac Asimov's Solar System
Book 16 of 19 · published 1999 Anthology · Gardner Dozois
Isaac Asimov's Utopias
Book 17 of 19 · published 2000 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois
Isaac Asimov's Father Day
Book 18 of 19 · published 2001 Anthology · Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois
Isaac Asimov's Halloween
Latest in the series · book 19 of 19 · published 2001 Anthology · Isaac Asimov
The Ninth Pan Book of Horror Stories
Series opener · book 1 of 120 · published 1968
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1979
Book 4 of 120 · published 1979
Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton
Book 15 of 120 · published 1985
The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection
Book 20 of 120 · published 1989
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection
Book 21 of 120 · published 1989
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
Book 34 of 120 · published 1996
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology
Book 42 of 120 · published 1999
DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthologies
Book 53 of 120 · published 2002
Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian
Book 56 of 120 · published 2003
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection
Book 60 of 120 · published 2005
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance
Book 73 of 120 · published 2009
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
Book 89 of 120 · published 2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition
Book 94 of 120 · published 2012
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
Book 105 of 120 · published 2014
Nightmare Magazine 25: October 2014. Women Destroy Horror! Special Issue
Book 108 of 120 · published 2014
Third Annual Collection
Latest in the series · book 120 of 120 · published 1989
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Tanith Lee?
Tanith Lee is a British author. She is a writer that has written extensively in many mediums and is known for her writing in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. In her time as a published author, she contributed to fourteen collections, wrote seventy seven novels, and composed nearly three hundred short stories.
Which Tanith Lee series should I start with?
The best place to start is the MagicQuest series, the earliest of Tanith Lee's multi-book series: it opens with The Sherwood Ring (1958) and runs to 19 books across 1958–1985, ending with The Last Days of the Edge of the World (1985). Tanith Lee's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Tanith Lee written?
Tanith Lee has 362 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1958 and 2026. 170 of them belong to 29 named series — the largest being the MagicQuest series with 19 books — and 192 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Tanith Lee's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Tanith Lee's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are MagicQuest (1958–1985, 19 books), Birthgrave (1975–1978, 3 books) and Novels of Vis (1976–1988, 3 books), plus 17 more.
How are Tanith Lee's books organised into series?
This guide splits Tanith Lee's 362 books into 29 named series and 192 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: MagicQuest (19 books, 1958–1985); Tales from the Flat Earth (6 books, 1978–2023); Claidi Journals (6 books, 1998–2003); Voyage of the Basset (5 books, 1999–2001); Secret Books of Paradys (4 books, 1988–1993), plus 24 further series.