Caitlín R. Kiernan

## About the Author

* **Other Names**: Kathleen Tierney
* **Genres**: Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Horror
* **Writing Style**:
* **Books:** Caitlín R. Kiernan Books

### Biography

Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is the author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including ten novels; many comic books; and more than two hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. She is also the author of scientific papers in the field of paleontology.
Education: Leeds High School, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Kiernan has garnered a reputation as one of the foremost authors of contemporary weird fiction. In his review of her novel 2009 The Red Tree, H. P. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi writes: "Kiernan already ranks with the most distinctive stylists in our field – Edgar Allan Poe, Lord Dunsany, Thomas Ligotti. With Ligotti's regrettable retreat into fictional silence, hers is now the voice of weird fiction."

## Series

### Siobhan Quinn series

* Genre: Urban Fantasy
* Theme: Werepire hybrid, Demon-monster hunter, Vampire, Werewolves, lupe, demons, djinn, ghouls, Ghosts, trolls, necromancers, magic totem, talking bird

### Silk duology

* Genre: Horror
	1. Silk (A Silk Novel Book 1) (1998)
	2. Murder of Angels (A Silk Novel Book 2) (2004)

### Tinfoil Dossier

* Genre: Horror
	1. Agents of Dreamland (Tinfoil Dossier Book 1) (2017) (128 pages)
	2. Black Helicopters (Tinfoil Dossier Book 2) (2018) (206 pages)
	3. The Tindalos Asset (Tinfoil Dossier Book 3) (2020) (174 pages)

### Dancy Flammarion

* Genre: Horror, Monster Slayer
* Theme: An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched back roads of a south Georgia
* Series list:
	1. Threshold (A Chance Matthews Novel) (2001)
	2. Low Red Moon (A Chance Matthews Novel) (2007)
		+ Alabaster: Pale Horse (Dancy Flammarion Collection 1) (2006) aka Alabaster.
		+ Comes a Pale Rider (Dancy Flammarion Collection 2) (2020)

## Other Works

### Novels

* The Drowning Girl (2012)
* The Red Tree
* Daughter of Hounds
* Beowulf
* The Dry Salvages
* In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers
* The Five of Cups

### Graphic Novels

Based on Dancy Flammarion Short Stories

* Alabaster: Wolves (2013) (with Steve Lieber and Rachelle Rosenberg)
* Alabaster : Grimmer Tales (2014)
* Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird (2016)

## Short Story Collections

* Tales of Pain and Wonder
* The Ape's Wife and Other Stories
* Two Worlds and in Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan, Volume One
* Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Volume 2
* To Charles Fort, With Love
* The Ammonite Violin & Others
* The Very Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan
* A is for Alien
* Candles for Elizabeth
* Dear Sweet Filthy World
* Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart

## Anthologies

* "*The Collier’s Venus (1893)*" in Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
* "*The Belated Burial*" in Vampires: The Recent Undead
* “*Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still*” in Halloween: Magic, Mystery & the Macabre
* "*Ode to Evdard Munch*" in Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance
* "*Flotsam*" in Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2: Love Bites
* Dark Destiny (1995)
* Darkside (1996)
* Children of Dracula (1996)
* Dark Terrors 2 (1996)
* Pawn of Chaos (1996)
* Lethal Kisses (1996)
* Dark of the Night (1997)
* Dark Terrors 3 (1997)
* The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nine (1997)
* Love in Vein II (1997)
* The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eleventh Annual Collection (1998)
* The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams (1998)
* In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (1998)
* Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999)
* The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
* Dark Terrors 5 (2000)

*(to see her complete Bibliography, visit Kiernan Bibliography)*

## Awards

Won:

* International Horror Guild Award, Best First Novel 1998 (Silk)
* Barnes and Noble Maiden Voyage Award, Best First Novel 1998 (Silk)
* International Horror Guild Award, Best Novel 2001 (Threshold)
* International Horror Guild Award, Best Short Story 2001 ("Onion")
* International Horror Guild Award, Best Mid-Length Fiction 2005 ("La Peau Verte")
* James Tiptree, Jr. Award Honoree, 2010 ("Galápagos")
* James Tiptree, Jr. Award Winner, 2012 (The Drowning Girl: A Memoir)
* Bram Stoker Award, Best Novel 2012 (The Drowning Girl: A Memoir)
* Bram Stoker Award, Best Graphic Novel 2013 (Alabaster: Wolves)[12]
* Locus Award, Best Short Story 2014, ("The Road of Needles")
* World Fantasy Award, Best Short Story 2014, ("The Prayer of Ninety Cats")
* World Fantasy Award, Best Collection 2014, (The Ape's Wife and Other Stories)

*(to see her complete list of awards won and more information on her life, visit Wikipedia)*

## References

1. ↑ Caitlín R. Kiernan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia