Peculiar, the ideas and notions of bygone days. And of now. The Earth’s ever-changing face has become a mirror? But there is nothing to fear. Not anymore. Since truth has become fiction.
And fiction – truth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tanith Lee was born in North London (UK) in 1947. Because her parents were professional dancers (ballroom, Latin American) and had to live where the work was, she attended a number of truly terrible schools, and didn’t learn to read – she is also dyslexic – until almost age 8. And then only because her father taught her. This opened the world of books to Lee, and by 9 she was writing. After much better education at a grammar school, Lee went on to work in a library. This was followed by various other jobs – shop assistant, waitress, clerk – plus a year at art college when she was 25-26. In 1974 this mosaic ended when DAW Books of America, under the leadership of Donald A Wollheim, bought and published Lee’s The Birthgrave, and thereafter 26 of her novels and collections.
Since then Lee has written around 90 books, and approaching 300 short stories. Four of her radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC; she also wrote two episodes (‘Sarcophagus’ and ‘Sand’) for the TV series Blake’s 7. Some of her stories regularly get read on Radio 7.
Lee writes in many styles in and across many genres, including Horror, SF and Fantasy, Historical, Detective, Contemporary-Psychological, Children and Young Adult. Her preoccupation, though, is always people.
In 1992 she married the writer-artist-photographer John Kaiine, her companion since 1987. They live on the Sussex Weald, near the sea, in a house full of books and plants, with two black and white overlords called cats.
COPYRIGHT DETAILS
1. ‘On Reflection’ (including ‘On Reflection: The Epilogue’) © 2015 Tanith Lee. Previously unpublished – original to this anthology.
2. ‘Bite-Me-Not’ (or ‘Fleur de Fur’) © 1984 Tanith Lee. First published in Isaac Asimov’s Magazine.
3. ‘The Vampire Lover’ ©1984 Tanith Lee. First published in Night Visions magazine.
4. ‘Winter Flowers’ © 1992 Tanith Lee. First published in Isaac Asimov’s Magazine.
5. ‘Il Bacio’ (‘Il Chiave’) © 1983 Tanith Lee. First published in Amazing magazine.
6. ‘Blood Chess’ © 2003 Tanith Lee. First published in Weird Tales # 331.
7. ‘The Isle is Full of Noises’ © 2000 Tanith Lee. First published in The Vampire Sextette by Science Fiction Book Club.
8. ‘Israbel’ © 2004 Tanith Lee. First published in Realms of Fantasy magazine.
9. ‘Remember Me’ © 2004 Tanith Lee. Previously published in The Many Faces of Van Helsing (Ace Books).
10. ‘Night Visitor’ © 2015 Tanith Lee. Previously unpublished – original to this anthology.
11. ‘The Third Horseman’ © 1979 Tanith Lee. Previously published in slightly different form in Weirdbook # 14.
12. ‘Mirror, Mirror’ © 1994 Tanith Lee. Previously published in Weird Tales # 308.
13. ‘Nunc Dimittis’ © 1983 Tanith Lee. First published in Rivals of Dracula (Barnes Nobel Books).
14. ‘La Vampiresse’ © 2001 Tanith Lee. Previously published in Interzone magazine.
15. ‘Scarabesque: The Girl Who Broke Dracula’ © 2005 Tanith Lee. Previously published in Outsiders (Roc Trade).
16. ‘Vermilia’ © 1999 Tanith Lee. Previously published in Dreams of Decadence magazine.
17. ‘Vhone’ © 2015 Tanith Lee. Previously unpublished – original to this anthology.
18. ‘Real and Vire’ © 2015 Tanith Lee. Previously unpublished – original to this anthology.
19. ‘The Beautiful Biting Machine’ © 1984 Tanith Lee. Previously published in Cheap Street (Cheap Street).
20. ‘Beyond the Sun’ © 2011 Tanith Lee. Previously published in Evolve Two (Edge).
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