I realized recently that even though Tanith Lee is one of my favorite authors, the amount of her work I’m familiar with only makes up a small portion of her oeuvre. I love her early classics like The Birthgrave, Don’t Bite the Sun, Night’s Master, Volkhavaar, basically everything she wrote that DAW Books put out in the second half of the ‘70s. But I never bothered to go much further into her catalogue, even though she continued to write up until her untimely death in 2015.

Fortunately for Lee’s fans, Immanion Press is doing an excellent job keeping her memory alive and her work available. In recent years they’ve released a number of collections of Lee’s stories, including many that were previously uncollected, having only appeared once in magazines. They even unearthed a few previously unpublished tales, so even the most devoted of Tanith Lee’s fans will find something they never read before.

A partial list of Tanith Lee collections published by Immanion Press:

Animate Objects (2013)
The Weird Tales of Tanith Lee (2017)
Venus Burning: Realms (2018)
Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata and Other Uncollected Tales (2019)
Love in a Time of Dragons & Other Rare Tales (2019)
A Wolf at the Door (2019)

I decided to start filling some gaps in my Lee collection and purchased Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata and The Weird Tales of Tanith Lee. Currently I’m working my way through Ghost Sonata and so far, for the most part, I’ve enjoyed it greatly. It definitely makes for a nice change of pace from all the 80+ year old pulp I’m usually immersed in! The stories included span her whole career, from the ‘70s up until 2013.

If you’re unfamiliar with Tanith’s style, I’ll defer to Deuce Richardson, who put it better than I could. He described Tanith’s writing as “varying portions of Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith and C.L. Moore. That's just shorthand for describing it to a prospective reader… Nobody ever wrote like Tanith before or since. Her prose is lush and lavish and vivid, painting scenes with fire and shadow.”

More information on Immanion Press’ books by Tanith Lee can be found on their official website. Also, be sure to check out Daughter of the Night, an incredibly detailed Tanith Lee bibliography. It can be found online here.

D.M. Ritzlin is the author of the collection Necromancy in Nilztiria. Nilztiria is a world of adventure and strangeness, peopled by lusty heroes and callous villains. The thirteen sword-and-sorcery stories presented in Necromancy in Nilztiria place the emphasis on sorcery and mix in a touch of gallows humor. Click the cover for more information.