Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee

Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction of Tanith Lee is a collection of fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

, horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

and science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

stories by author Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee is a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She is the author of over 70 novels and 250 short stories, a children's picture book and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7...

. It was released in 1986

1986 in literature

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and was the author's first book published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

. It was published in an edition of 3,957 copies.

Dreams of Dark and Light contains the following tales:

"Foreword", by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Rosemary Hawley Jarman is an English novelist and writer of short stories. She was born in Worcester April 27, 1935. She was educated first at Saint Mary's Convent and then at The Alice Ottley School, leaving at eighteen to study singing in London for the next three years, having developed a fine...
"Because Our Skins Are Finer"
"Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Fur"
"Black as Ink"
"Bright Burning Tiger"
"Cyrion in Wax"
"A Day in the Skin (Or, The Century We Were Out of Them)"
"The Dry Season"
"Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)"
"Foreign Skins"
"The Gorgon"
"La Reine Blanche"
"A Lynx With Lions"
"Magritte's Secret Agent"
"Medra"
"Nunc Dimittis"
"Odds Against the Gods"
"A Room With a Vie"
"Sirriamnis"
"Southern Lights"
"Tamastara"
"When the Clock Strikes"
"Wolfland"
"Written in Water"

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