Ghosteria Volume 2: The Novel: Zircons May Be Mistaken, Tanith Lee [classic fiction txt] 📗

sits down,the ol man, on the posh old floor, and Aragorn sits rite by him, and so do I.Its not bad then, sort of peecefull. Sort of like some other thing I dont knowot. And we watch the big moon together thru a windowe, not wet, but like awhite whyt teer.

So the darkness shall be thelight,

and the stillness the dancing.

Four Quartets

T.S. Eliot

(1888 - 1965)

 

About the Author

TanithLee was born in North London (UK) in 1947. Because her parents wereprofessional dancers (ballroom, Latin American) and had to live where the workwas, she attended a number of truly terrible schools, and didn’t learn to read– she is also dyslectic – until almost age 8. And then only because her fathertaught her. This opened the world of books to Lee, and by 9 she was writing.After much better education at a grammar school, Lee went on to work in alibrary. This was followed by various other jobs – shop assistant, waitress,clerk – plus a year at art college when she was 25-26. In 1974 this mosaicended when DAW Books of America, under the leadership of Donald A Wollheim,bought and published Lee’s The Birthgrave, and thereafter 26 of hernovels and collections.

Since then Lee has written around95 books, and over 300 short stories. 4 of her radio plays have been broadcastby the BBC; she also wrote 2 episodes (Sarcophagus and Sand) forthe TV series Blake’s 7. Some of her stories regularly get read on Radio4 Extra.

Lee writes in many styles in andacross many genres, including Horror, SF and Fantasy, Historical, Detective,Contemporary-Psychological, Children and Young Adult. Her preoccupation,though, is always people.

In 1992 she married thewriter-artist-photographer John Kaiine, her companion since 1987. They live onthe Sussex Weald, near the sea, in a house full of books and plants, with twoblack and white overlords called cats.