Caitlín R. Kiernan bibliography
Appearance
Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of many science fiction and dark fantasy works, including six novels, many comic books, more than one hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. She has also written numerous scientific papers.
Novels
- Silk (1998; Penguin-Putnam)
- Threshold (2001; Penguin-Putnam)
- The Five of Cups (2003; Subterranean Press)
- Low Red Moon (2003; Penguin-Putnam)
- Murder of Angels (2004; Penguin-Putnam)
- Daughter of Hounds (2007; Penguin-Putnam)
- Beowulf (2007; HarperCollins; novelization of 2007 film)
- The Red Tree (2009; Penguin-Putnam)
- The Wolf Who Cried Girl (2011; forthcoming; Penguin-Putnam)[1]
Short fiction collections
- Tales of Pain and Wonder (2000, Gauntlet Press; 2002, Meisha Merlin; 2008, Subterranean Press)
- Wrong Things (with Poppy Z. Brite; 2001; Subterranean Press)
- From Weird and Distant Shores (2002; Subterranean Press)
- To Charles Fort, With Love (2005; Subterranean Press)
- Alabaster (2006; Subterranean Press; illustrated by Ted Naifeh)
- A is for Alien (2009; Subterranean Press; illustrated by Vince Locke)
- The Ammonite Violin & Others (2010; forthcoming; Subterranean Press)
Chapbooks
- Candles for Elizabeth (1998; Meisha Merlin Publishing)
- A Study for "Estate" (2000; Gauntlet Press)
- On the Road to Jefferson (2002; Subterranean Press)
- Waycross (2002; Subterranean Press)
- Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold (2003; Subterranean Press)
- Embrace the Mutation (with J. K. Potter; 2003; Subterranean Press)
- Alabaster (2003; Camelot Books)
- Mercury (2004; Subterranean Press)
- The Worm in My Mind's Eye (2004; Subterranean Press)
- False Starts (2005; Subterranean Press)
- A Little Damned Book of Days (2005; Subterranean Press)
- The Merewife: A Prologue (2005; Subterranean Press)
- Highway 97 (2006; Subterranean Press)
- The Black Alphabet: A Primer (2007; Subterranean Press)
- Tails of Tales of Pain and Wonder (2008; Subterranean Press)
- B is for Beginnings (2009; Subterranean Press)
- Sanderlings (2010; Subterranean Press, forthcoming)
Short hardbacks
- In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers (2002; Subterranean Press)
- The Dry Salvages (novella) (2004; Subterranean Press)
- Frog Toes and Tentacles (2005; Subterranean Press; illustrated by Vince Locke)
- "Pages Found Among the Effects of Miss Edith Teller"
- "Untitled 4"
- "Untitled 7"
- "Flicker"
- "Pump Excursion"
- "Untitled 11"
- "Untitled 12" (reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, Running Press, 2008)
- "'Ode' to Katan Amano"
- Afterword
- "Los Angeles, 2162 (December)"
- Tales from the Woeful Platypus (2007; Subterranean Press; illustrated by Vince Locke)
- "Untitled 17"
- "Pony"
- "Forests of the Night"
- "Daughter of Man, Mother of Wyrm"
- "Untitled 20"
- "Still Life"
- "pas-en-arríere"
- "The Garden of Living Flowers"
- "Excerpt from Memoirs of a Martian Demirep"
Uncollected short fiction (excluding chapbooks)
- "The Drowned Geologist (1898)" (Shadows Over Baker Street, 2003; Del Rey)
- "From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6" (Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, 2005; Fedogan and Bremer)
- "Houses Under the Sea" (Thrillers 2, 2007; Cemetery Dance Publications; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume Eighteen, 2007; Carroll & Graf and Lovecraft Unbound, 2009; Dark Horse Comics)
- "The Daughter of the Four of Pentacles" (Thrillers 2, 2007; Cemetery Dance Publications)
- "The Ape's Wife" [2] (Clarkesworld Magazine #12, September 2007; Wyrm Publishing; reprinted in Realms, 2008; Wyrm Publishing and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume Nineteen, 2008; Robinson )
- "Little Conversations" (Clarkesworld Magazine #12, September 2007; Wyrm Publishing)
- "Galápagos" (Eclipse Three, 2009; Night Shade Books)
- "Last Drink Bird Head" (Last Drink Bird Head, 2009; Ministry of Whimsy)
- "The Sea Troll's Daughter" (Swords & Dark Magic, 2010; Subterranean Press; forthcoming)
- "The Colliers' Venus (1893)" (Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy, 2011; forthcoming)
- "As Red as Red" (Haunted Legends; forthcoming)
- "The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics" (Subterranean Press; forthcoming)
Sirenia Digest
- "Madonna Littoralis" (Sirenia Digest #1, December 2005; reprinted in Fantasy Magazine #2, 2006; Wildside Press)
- "Untitled 13" (Sirenia Digest #1, December 2005)
- "Orpheus at Mount Pangeum" (Sirenia Digest #2, January 2006)
- "Pony" (Sirenia Digest #2, January 2006)
- "Bridle" (Sirenia Digest #3, February 2006)
- "Eisoptrophobia - A Sketch" (Sirenia Digest #3, February 2006)
- "Untitled 17" (Sirenia Digest #3, February 2006)
- "Untitled 20" (Sirenia Digest #4, March 2006)
- "pas-en-arriere" (Sirenia Digest #5, April 2006)
- "For One Who Has Lost Herself" (Sirenia Digest #5, April 2006)
- "Ode to Edvard Munch" (Sirenia Digest #6, May 2006; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, 2008; Running Press and By Blood We Live, 2009; Night Shade Books)
- "The Black Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #6, May 2006)
- "The Black Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #7, June 2006)
- "The Cryomancer's Daughter (Murder Ballad No. 3)"[3] (Sirenia Digest #8, July 2006)
- "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ghoul" (Sirenia Digest #9, August 2006)
- "Untitled 23" (Sirenia Digest #10, September 2006)
- "In the Praying Windows" (with Sonya Taaffe, Sirenia Digest #10, September 2006)
- "The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad No. 4)" (Sirenia Digest #11, October 2006; reprinted in Dark Delicacies II, 2007; Carroll & Graf)
- "The Lovesong of Lady Ratteanrufer" (Sirenia Digest #12, November 2006)
- "Metamorphosis A" (Sirenia Digest #12, November 2006)
- "The Voyeur in the House of Glass" (Sirenia Digest #13, December 2006)
- "Metamorphosis B" (Sirenia Digest #13, December 2006)
- "The Sphinx's Kiss" (Sirenia Digest #14, January 2007)
- "A Season of Broken Dolls"[4] (Sirenia Digest #15, February 2007)
- "Skin Game" (Sirenia Digest #15, February 2007)
- "In View of Nothing" (Sirenia Digest #16, March 2007)
- "Untitled 26" (Sirenia Digest #16, March 2007)
- "Night Games in the Crimson Court" (Sirenia Digest #17, April 2007)
- "Outside the Gates of Eden" (Sirenia Digest #18, May 2007)
- "The Steam Dancer (1896)" (Sirenia Digest #19, June 2007; reprinted in Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy, 2008; Subterranean Press and Steampunk Reloaded, 2010; Tachyon Publications; forthcoming)
- "In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection" [5] (Sirenia Digest #20, July 2007)
- "Anamnesis, or the Sleepless Nights of Léon Spilliaert" (Sirenia Digest #20, July 2007)
- "Scene in the Museum (1896)" (Sirenia Digest #21, August 2007)
- "Untitled Grotesque" (Sirenia Digest #22, September 2007)
- "The Madam of the Narrow Houses" (Sirenia Digest #23, October 2007; reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women; forthcoming. )
- "The Bed of Appetite" (Sirenia Digest #23, October 2007)
- "The Wolf Who Cried Girl" (Sirenia Digest #24, November 2007)
- "Untitled 31" (Sirenia Digest #25, December 2007)
- "The Crimson Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #25, December 2007)
- "The Crimson Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #26, January 2008)
- "The Collector of Bones" (Sirenia Digest #26, January 2008)
- "Beatification" (Sirenia Digest #27, February 2008)
- "Pickman's Other Model" (Sirenia Digest #28, March 2008; reprinted in Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, 2010; PS Publishing; forthcoming)
- "Flotsam" (Sirenia Digest #29, April 2008; reprinted in Not One of Us #40)
- "Regarding Attrition and Severance" (Sirenia Digest #29, April 2008)
- "Rappaccini's Dragon (Murder Ballad No. 5)" (Sirenia Digest #30, May 2008)
- "Unter den Augen des Mondes" (Sirenia Digest #31, June 2008)
- "The Melusine (1898)" (Sirenia Digest #31, June 2008)
- "Derma Sutra (1891)" (Sirenia Digest #32, July 2008)
- "The Z Word" (Sirenia Digest #33, August 2008)
- "Untitled 33" (Sirenia Digest #34, September 2008)
- "I Am the Abyss and I Am the Light" (Sirenia Digest #35, October 2008)
- "Dancing With the Eight of Swords" (Sirenia Digest #36, November 2008)
- "Murder Ballad No. 6" (Sirenia Digest #37, December 2008)
- "Lullaby of Partition and Reunion" (Sirenia Digest #37, December 2008)
- "The Thousand-and-Third Tale of Scheherazade" (Sirenia Digest #38, January 2009)
- "The Belated Burial"[6] (Sirenia Digest #38, January 2009)
- "The Bone's Prayer" (Sirenia Digest #39, February 2009; reprinted in The Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2010; Prime Books; forthcoming)
- "A Canvas for Incoherent Arts" (Sirenia Digest #40, March 2009)
- "The Peril of Liberated Objects, or the Voyeur's Seduction" (Sirenia Digest #41, April 2009)
- "At the Gate of Deeper Slumber" (Sirenia Digest #41, April 2009)
- "Fish Bride" (Sirenia Digest #42, May 2009)
- "The Mermaid of the Concrete Ocean" (Sirenia Digest #43, June 2009)
- "The Alchemist's Daughter (a fragment)" (Sirenia Digest #43, June 2009)
- "Vicaria Draconis" (Sirenia Digest #44, July 2009)
- "January 28, 1926" (Sirenia Digest #44, July 2009)
- "Werewolf Smile" (Sirenia Digest #45, August 2009)
- "Paleozoic Annunciation" (Sirenia Digest #45, August 2009)
- "Charcloth, Firesteel, and Flint" (Sirenia Digest #46, September 2009)
- "Shipwrecks Above" (Sirenia Digest #46, September 2009)
- "The Dissevered Heart" (Sirenia Digest #47, October 2009)
- "Exuvium" (Sirenia Digest #48, November 2009)
- "Untitled 34" (Sirenia Digest #49, December 2009)
- "Hydrarguros" (Sirenia Digest #50, January 2010)
- "The Eighth Veil" (Sirenia Digest #51, February 2010)
- "Persephone Redux (A Fragment)" (Sirenia Digest #51, February 2010)
- "Apsinthion" (Sirenia Digest #51, February 2010)
- "Houndwife" (Sirenia Digest #52, March 2010)
Comics/graphic novels
- The Dreaming (August 1997- May 2001)
- The Dreaming #17—19, "Souvenirs" (October '97—December '97)
- The Dreaming #22—24, "An Unkindness of One" (March '98-May '98)
- The Dreaming #26, "Restitution" (July '98)
- The Dreaming #27, "Stormy Weather" (July '98)
- The Dreaming #28, "Dreams the Burning Dream" (August '98)
- The Dreaming #30, "Temporary Overflow" (September '98)
- The Dreaming #31, "November Eve" (coauthored with Peter Hogan; December '98)
- The Dreaming #33, "Dream Below" (February '99)
- The Dreaming #34, "Ruin" (March '99)
- The Dreaming #35, "Kaleidoscope" (April '99)
- The Dreaming #36, "Slow Dying" (May '99)
- The Dreaming #37, "Pariah" (June '99)
- The Dreaming #38, "Apostate" (July '99)
- The Dreaming #39, "The Lost Language of Flowers (August '99)
- The Dreaming #40, "New Orleans for Free" (September '99)
- The Dreaming #41, "The Bittersweet Scent of Opium" (October '99)
- The Dreaming #42, "Detonation Boulevard" (November '99)
- The Dreaming #43, "The Two Trees" (December '99)
- The Dreaming #44, "Homesick" (January '00)
- The Dreaming #45, "Masques & Hedgehogs" (February '00)
- The Dreaming #46, "Mirror, Mirror" (March '00)
- The Dreaming #47, "Trinket" (April '00)
- The Dreaming #48, "Scary Monsters" (May '00)
- The Dreaming #49, "Shatter" (June '00)
- The Dreaming #50, "Restoration" (July '00)
- The Dreaming #51, "Second Sight" (August '00)
- The Dreaming #52, "Exiles, Part 1" (September '00)
- The Dreaming #53, "Exiles, Part 2" (October '00)
- The Dreaming #54, "Exiles, Part 3" (November '00)
- The Dreaming #56, "The First Adventure of Miss Catterina Poe" (January '01)
- The Dreaming #57, "Rise, Part 1" (February '01)
- The Dreaming #58, "Rise, Part 2" (March '01)
- The Dreaming #59, "Rise, Part 3" (April '01)
- The Dreaming #60, "Rise, Part 4" (May '01; series finale)
- Vertigo: Winter's Edge #1, "The Dreaming: Deck the Halls" ('98; coauthored with Peter Hogan)
- Vertigo: Winter's Edge #2, "The Dreaming: Marble Halls" ('99)
- Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3, "The Dreaming: Borealis" ('00)
- The Girl Who Would Be Death (four-issue miniseries; 1998-1999)
- Bast: Eternity Game (three-issue miniseries; 2002)
Nonfiction (partial list)
- "Approximately 2,000 Words About Poppy Z. Brite" (1997 World Horror Convention Program Book).
- "...And in Closing (For Now)" (afterword for Are You Loathsome Tonight by Poppy Z. Brite; Gauntlet Publications, 1998).
- "Introduction" (Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files; Prime Books, 2003)
- "Skin by Kathe Koja" (Horror: Another 100 Best Books; Carroll & Graf, 2005)
- "Notes From A Damned Life" (Weird Tales #444; April/May 2007)
- "Awful Things" (Locus #556; May 2007)
- "The Most Beautiful Music I've Ever Read" (introduction for PS Publishing reprint of Ray Bradbury's The Day It Rained Forever; September, 2008)
Scientific publications (partial list)
- Kiernan, C. R., and Schwimmer, D. R. 2004. First record of a velociraptorine theropod (Tetanurae, Dromaeosauridae) from the Eastern Gulf Coastal United States. The Mosasaur 7:89-93.
- Kiernan, C. R. 2002. Stratigraphic distribution and habitat segregation of mosasaurs in the Upper Cretaceous of western and central Alabama, with an historical review of Alabama mosasaur discoveries. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):91-103. abstract online
- Schwimmer, D. R. and Kiernan, C.R. 2001. Eastern Late Cretaceous theropods in North America and the crossing of the Interior Seaway. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):99A.
- Kiernan, C. R. 1992. Clidastes Cope, 1868 (Reptilia, Sauria): proposed designation of Clidastes propython Cope, 1869 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49:137–139.