My Father's Ghost: The Return of My Old Man and Other Second Chances. A wry and uncompromising tribute from an exasperated, bemused, admiring daughter. (Jeremy P. Tarcher, September 2002; ISBN: 1585421855)
Walk to the End of the World, Ballantine, 1974; reprinted in The Slave and the Free, Tor, 1999. Sexism pushed to its farthest extreme is the background for an adventurous future quest.
Motherlines, 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.
“Scorched Supper on New Niger,” New Voices III, ed. George R.R. Martin, Berkley Books 1980. 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.
“The Ancient Mind at Work,” 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 a hunter herself.
“Unicorn Tapestry,” New Dimensions 11, ed. Marta Randall, Pocket Books 1980, etc. Much-anthologized Nebula-Award winning novella; Weyland the vampire in therapy, and in love if you can call it that.
“A Musical Interlude,” 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!
The Vampire Tapestry, Simon & Schuster 1980; Living Batch Press, trade paper, distributed by University of New Mexico Press. 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 prey in a predatory world.
The Bronze King, Houghton Mifflin 1985. Urban fantasy for young adult readers. Fourteen year old Valentine Marsh and a fiddle-playing Finnish wizard fight a monster in Manhattan’s Central Park. Reprinted by Wildside Press, 2000.
Dorothea Dreams, Arbor House 1986; Backinprint program of the Authors Guild. Love, land, art and reincarnation in modern New Mexico -- a mainstream book with a ghost.
“Listening to Brahms,” Omni Magazine, Sept., 1988; a tale of the end of humanity on Earth, but not on planet Kondra. Reprinted in the anthology Endangered Species, ed. Ellen Datlow, 2000, Tor.
The Silver Glove, Bantam Books, 1988. Sequel to The Bronze King. Valentine’s school psychologist is actually an evil necromancer with designs on Val’s mother. Wildside Press, 2000.
The Golden Thread, Bantam Books, 1989. Third in this YA series. Valentine and her friends face an alien witch-girl who is in search of her own lost people. Wildside Press, 2001.
“Evil Thoughts,” Seaharp Hotel, ed. Charles Grant, Tor Books 1990. Woman vs. fungus, quiet horror in a modern suburb. Reprinted in collection MUSIC OF THE NIGHT, Electricstory, 2001.
“Boobs,” Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July 1989, much anthologized since. A Hugo-winning story -- girl into 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.
“Advocates,” 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,” in anthology 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.
“Oak and Ash,” 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.
Moonstone and Tiger-Eye, Pulphouse, 1992, contains author’s preface and two stories, “Evil Thoughts” and “Scorched Supper on New NIger.”
The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, Harcourt Brace 1993. A Y-A 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.
The Furies, Tor Books 1994. Follows Motherlines; out-and-out war between the sexes. We win, but victory brings its own complications and questions.
“Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast,” Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1996; a dark and erotic novella 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 Ruby Tear, Tor Books. 1997. An actress’ role in a play about Central Europe crosses her path with that of a vampire with an age-old grudge. Light romantic horror, by-line the nom de plume “Rebecca Brand.”
The Conqueror’s Child, 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, 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.
Miscellaneous reviews, essays, and interviews
Strange Seas, Hidden Knowledge, 2001. Non-fiction account of a strange and spiritual journey into the realm of the human/cetacean interface.
Music of the Night, 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.
Bibliography of titles in electronic form: http://www.suzymckeecharnas.com/OnLineProse.html
“Vampire Dreams,” a two-act 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.
“Nosferatu,” musical by Bernard J. Taylor, 1997; revisions and additional lyrics. Unpublished.
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/