"Late Bloomer", story. Teeth, ed. Ellen Datlow, Harper Collins, April, 2011. A young man working at his uncle's antiques mall meets two lady vampires from out of town ...
"Lowland Sea", story. Poe, ed. Ellen Datlow, Solaris, 2009. One of 19 tales inspired by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe on the 200th anniversary of his birth. "Lowland Sea" is horror not of the past but of the all-to-near future.
“Heavy Lifting”, story. SCIFI..com, 2005, ed. Ellen Datlow. A preppy kid whose family has been broken by trauma finds his true calling in the care of souls.
"Peregrines", story. SCIFI.COM, January 2004. Novelette about a boy shaman journeying with his power animal through the mysterious and dangerous realms of Greenwich Village, in a near future of extended Homeland Insecurity.
Stagestruck Vampires and Other Phantasms, collection, Tachyon Pubications, 2004. 9 Stories, two new essays.
My Father's Ghost: The Return of My Old Man and Other Second Chances. Memoir. Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2002. Non-fiction. A wry and uncompromising tribute from an exasperated, bemused, admiring daughter.
Strange Seas, non-fiction. Hidden Knowledge, 2001. A personal account of a strange and spiritual journey into the realm of the human/cetacean interface. Online.
Music of the Night, story collection. Electricstory 2001. Four mythic monster tales: vampire, werewolf, witch, and an account of the marriage of the soprano Christine and her disfigured lover, the Phantom of the Opera. Online.
The Conqueror’s Child, novel. Tor Books, 1999. The tumultuous epic of Alldera the runner concludes amid struggles over parenthood and childhood, the nature of full humanity, and the making of myth and history.
The Slave and the Free, novels. Tor Books, 1999. A two-books-in-one-volume reprint of Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines in the trade paperback Orb line of science fiction classics.
The Ruby Tear, novel. Tor Books, 1997. An actress’ role in a play about Central Europe crosses her path with that of a vampire from that part of the world, with an age-old grudge. Light romantic horror, by-line the nom de plume “Rebecca Brand.”
Nosferatu, musical by Bernard J. Taylor, 1997; revisions and additional lyrics. Unpublished.
“Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast,” novella. Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1996; a dark and erotic tale playing out the tempestuous married life of the monster of the Paris Opera and his beloved soprano, Christine. Reprinted in St. Martins Press, 1997, Modern Classics of Fantasy, ed. Gardner Dozois, and anthology Music of the Night, Electricstory 2001.
The Furies, novel. Tor Books 1994. Follows Motherlines; out-and-out war between the sexes. We win, but victory brings its own complications and questions.
The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, novel. Harcourt Brace 1993. Young Adult urban fantasy. Kevin, in real-world New York a bully and a thief, is a prince in his own fantasy world; but events have gotten away from him there and he can only prevail with the help of Amy, whose lunch-money he used to steal.
Moonstone and Tiger-Eye, Pulphouse, 1992, contains author’s preface and two stories, “Evil Thoughts” and “Scorched Supper on New NIger.”
“Oak and Ash”, story. Pulphouse Magazine, August 1992. Merlin is reawakened by an angry woman sculptor in a bitter future — ours, if we don’t shape up. Reprinted in Sextopia, Circlet Press, 2001.
“Advocates”, story. With Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, for Under the Fang, ed. Robert R. McCammon, Borderlands Press and Pocket books, both 1991 (first Horror Writers of America theme anthology). A clash of bloodsucker styles in a vampire-dominated world. Reprinted in The Complete Vampire Stories of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Transylvania Press 1994.
“Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep”, story. A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow, William Morrow 1991. A nice Jewish grandma struggles with the consequences of her own suicide, one of which is — vampirism.
“Evil Thoughts”, story, Seaharp Hotel, ed. Charles Grant, Tor Books 1990. Woman vs. fungus, quiet horror in a modern suburb. Reprinted in E-book collection MUSIC OF THE NIGHT, Electricstory, 2001.
Vampire Dreams, a full-length stage play based on “Unicorn Tapestry,” staged at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, March, 1990; at Bindlestiff Studio, November, 1997. In print from Broadway Play Publishing, 2001.
“Boobs”, story, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July 1989. Much anthologized Hugo-winner: girl into vengeful werewolf, and gladly. Reprinted in Women Who Run with the Werewolves, ed. Pam Keesey, Cleis Press, 1996, trade paper; also in Children of the Night, ed. Martin Greenberg, book and tape from Cumberland House Publishing, 2000.
The Golden Thread, novel. Bantam Books, 1989. Urban fantasy, third in a series. Valentine and her friends face an alien witch-girl who is in search of her own lost people. Wildside Press, 2001.
The Silver Glove, novel. Bantam Books, 1988. Urban fantasy, sequel to The Bronze King. Valentine’s school psychologist is actually an evil necromancer with designs on Val’s mother. Wildside Press, 2000.
“Listening to Brahms”, story, Omni Magazine, Sept., 1988. It’s the end of humanity on Earth, but not on planet Kondra. Reprinted in the anthology Endangered Species, ed. Ellen Datlow, 2000, Tor.
“A Musical Interlude”, story, A Very Large Array, New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Melinda Snodgrass, University of New Mexico Press, 1988. Weyland attends the Santa Fe Opera, and what a performance ensues!
Dorothea Dreams, novel. Arbor House 1986; reprinted, Aqueduct Press Heirloom edition, 2010. Love, land, art and reincarnation in modern New Mexico — a mainstream book with a ghost.
The Bronze King, novel. Houghton Mifflin 1985. A Young Adult urban fantasy: fourteen year old Valentine Marsh and a fiddle-playing Finnish wizard fight a monster in Manhattan’s Central Park. Reprinted by Wildside Press, 2000.
The Vampire Tapestry, novel. Simon & Schuster 1981; Living Batch Press, 1990; Tor Books, Orb classics, 2008. The whole story of Weyland, a natural, existential vampire. No stakes, no garlic, no rock bands, nightclubs, or fancy feudal vampire sub-culture; just one lone creature quietly hunting his dinner in a predatory world.
“Unicorn Tapestry”, story, New Dimensions 11, ed. Marta Randall, Pocket Books 1980, etc. A novella, and a much-anthologized Nebula-Award winner. Weyland the vampire in therapy, and in love (if you can call it that).
“The Ancient Mind at Work”, story, Omni Magazine, Feb. 1980. Edward Weyland, a vampire and professor teaching anthropology in a small New England college, chooses the wrong victim, an Afrikaaner woman who is herself an accomplished hunter.
“Scorched Supper on New Niger”, story. New Voices III, ed. George R.R. Martin, Berkley Books 1980. My first piece of short fiction, reprinted in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years, ed. Pamela Sargent, Harcourt Brace tp 1995. Fast, funny little space-opera set on a world run by African market women.
Motherlines, novel. Putnam 1978. Reprinted in The Slave and the Free, Tor, 1999. Sequel and antithesis to Walk: Amazons nomads living without men, and the escaped female slaves who shelter with them.
Walk to the End of the World, novel. Ballantine, 1974. My first book, reprinted by Berkley Books, but more recently in the two-book volume The Slave and the Free, Tor, 1999. Sexism pushed to its farthest extreme is the background for an adventurous future quest. Walk was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for best first novel in SF in its year of publication.
Miscellaneous reviews, essays, and interviews over the years.
Bibliography of titles in electronic form:
http://www.suzymckeecharnas.com/OnLineProse.html
This is the text-only, printer-friendly bibliography of the work of Suzy McKee Charnas, September, 2002. For an updated bibliography, please visit her website, http://www.suzymckeecharnas.com/