Steve Rasnic Tem

Steve Rasnic Tem’s writing career spans over 45 years, including more than 500 published short stories, 17 collections, 8 novels, misc. poetry and plays. His collaborative novella with his late wife Melanie, The Man on the Ceiling, won the World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards in 2001. He has also won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, and British Fantasy awards for his solo work, including Blood Kin, The Night Doctor, and Queneau’s Alphabet (Macabre). In 2024 he received the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Visit his website at: https://stevetem.com/

Steve Rasnic Tem contributed the story “Dermis” to Extremely Weird Splatter.

Tem’s answers to the “Extremely Weird Splatter Written in Authors’ Guts” interview questions are in group one.

“When your experience is pushed to the extreme, when especially the horror of the body and what can happen to it is invoked, I think you naturally enter the realm of the weird.”

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