Tanith Lee

Background & credentials:

Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – 24 May 2015) was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. She wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Awards, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. She also wrote a children’s picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake’s 7 (“Sand” and “Sarcophagus”).

She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death’s Master (1980).

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Phantasya: An anthology of dark fantasy.

This is a collection of nineteen splendid Tanith Lee tales that have been hand-picked by the author.

These extraordinary journeys into Lee’s hugely popular fantasy worlds span 31 years of her extraordinary writing career and including four never-before-published stories: ‘Clouden’, ‘Book Cover’, ‘Jade-Eye’ and ‘Questorday’.

The tales in this anthology, saturated with magical color and light, have been compared to the writings of William Morris or Lord Dunsany.

Sometimes disturbing, always beguiling, they will spirit readers into imaginary realms like no others.