Farewell Tanith Lee

I just read and confirmed that author Tanith Lee died of cancer.

Tanith Lee was a writer I greatly enjoyed. I remember savoring reading and re-reading “The Birthgrave”, her first novel. (Actually, her first novel for DAW for the adult market: she had two YA novels published through Macmillan prior to that.) Since then, she produced many eloquent, extravagant and evocative works that I remember fondly: “Night’s Master” and “Death’s Master” and the rest of the Flat Earth stories, “Cyrion”, “Volkhavaar”, “Kill the Dead” and “Red As Blood: Tales of the Sisters Grimmer”. There are few authors in my somewhat now depleted collection where I have so many books without the majority being one lengthy series or another. She was a legend and an award winner and a true tale spinner.

Tonight, I believe I will take out two or three of her books and re-read them again.