Caitlín R. Kiernan bibliography

Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of many science fiction and dark fantasy works, including eleven novels, many comic books, more than two hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. She has also written numerous scientific papers.

Novels

• Silk (1998, Penguin-Putnam; 1999, Gauntlet Press)
• Threshold (2001; Penguin-Putnam)
• The Five of Cups (2003; Subterranean Press)
• Low Red Moon (2003, Penguin-Putnam; 2004, Subterranean Press)
• 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; Centipede Press limited forthcoming)
• The Drowning Girl: A Memoir (2012; Penguin-Putnam; Centipede Press limited 2014)
• Blood Oranges (writing as Kathleen Tierney; 2013, Penguin-Putnam)
• Red Delicious (writing as Kathleen Tierney; 2014, Penguin-Putnam)
• Cherry Bomb (writing as Kathleen Tierney; 2015, Penguin-Putnam)
• Agents of Dreamland (forthcoming 2017, Tor)

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; expanded edition reissued as Alabaster: Pale Horse 2014, Dark Horse Comics)
• A is for Alien (2009; Subterranean Press)
• The Ammonite Violin & Others (2010; Subterranean Press)
• Two Worlds and in Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One) (2011; Subterranean Press)
• Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart (2012; Subterranean Press)
• The Ape's Wife and Other Tales (2013; Subterranean Press)
• Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume Two) (2015; Subterranean Press)
• Mythos Tales (forthcoming 2017, Centipede Press)
• Dear Sweet Filthy World (forthcoming 2017, Subterranean Press)

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)
• Tales from the Woeful Platypus (2007; Subterranean Press)
• The Yellow Book (2012; Subterranean Press)
• Black Helicopters (2013; 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)
• The Crimson Alphabet: Another Primer (2011; Subterranean Press)
• False/Starts II (2015, Subterranean Press)

Uncollected short fiction (excluding chapbooks)

• "The Drowned Geologist (1898)" (Shadows Over Baker Street, 2003; Del Rey)
• "Last Drink Bird Head" (Last Drink Bird Head, 2009; Ministry of Whimsy)
• "A Key to the Castleblakeney Key" (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, 2011; Harper Voyager)
• "Fake Plastic Trees" (After, 2012; Hyperion Books)
• "Goggles (c. 1910)" (Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution, 2012; Tachyon Publications)
• "The Road of Needles" (Once Upon A Time: New Fairy Tales, 2013; Prime Books)
• "Ballad of an Echo Whisperer" (Fearful Symmetries, 2014; ChiZine Publications)
• "The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics" (The Book of Silverberg: Stories in Honor of Robert Silverberg, 2014; Subterranean Press;)
• "Bus Fare" (Subterranean Magazine, Spring, 2014; Subterranean Press )

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)" (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" (Sirenia Digest #15, February 2007; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Spring, 2007; Subterranean Press )
• "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)
• "In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection" (Sirenia Digest #20, July 2007; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Fall, 2007; Subterranean Press )
• "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, 2013; Running Press)
• "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 and New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird, 2011; Prime Books)
• "Flotsam" (Sirenia Digest #29, April 2008; reprinted in Not One of Us #40 and The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2, 2009; Perseus Books)
• "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. 5 (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" (Sirenia Digest #38, January 2009; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Fall, 2009; Subterranean Press )
• "The Bone's Prayer" (Sirenia Digest #39, February 2009; reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010, 2010; Prime Books)
• "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; reprinted in The Weird Fiction Review #2, 2011)
• "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; reprinted in A Book of Horrors, 2011; PS Publishing)
• "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; reprinted in Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2, 2011; Subterranean Press)
• "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; reprinted in Black Wings II, 2012; PS Publishing)
• "Three Months, Three Scenes, With Snow" (Sirenia Digest #53, April 2010)
• "Workprint" (Sirenia Digest #53, April 2010)
• "Tempest Witch" (Sirenia Digest #54, May 2010)
• "Tidal Forces" (Sirenia Digest #55, June 2010; reprinted in Eclipse Four, 2011; Night Shade Books)
• "The Yellow Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #56, July 2010)
• "The Yellow Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #57, August 2010)
• "Fairy Tale of the Maritime" (Sirenia Digest #57, August 2010)
• "John Four" (Sirenia Digest #58, September 2010; reprinted in A Mountain Walked, 2014; Centipede Press)
• "And the Cloud That Took the Form" (Sirenia Digest #59, October 2010)
• "On the Reef" (Sirenia Digest #59, October 2010; reprinted in Halloween, 2011; Prime Books)
• "The Prayer of Ninety Cats" (Sirenia Digest #60, November 2010; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Spring, 2013; Subterranean Press )
• "—30—" (Sirenia Digest #61, December 2010)
• "Random Thoughts Before a Fatal Crash" (Sirenia Digest #64, March 2011; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Spring, 2012; Subterranean Press )
• "The Carnival is Dead and Gone" (Sirenia Digest #65, April 2011)
• "Untitled 35" (Sirenia Digest #66, May 2011)
• "Figurehead" (Sirenia Digest #66, May 2011)
• "Down to Gehenna" (Sirenia Digest #67, June 2011)
• "The Granting Cabinet" (Sirenia Digest #68, July 2011)
• "Slouching Towards the House of Glass Coffins" (Sirenia Digest #69, August 2011)
• "Evensong" (Sirenia Digest #70, September 2011)
• "Dear Daughter Desmodus" (Sirenia Digest #70, September 2011)
• "Latitude 41°21'45.89"N, Longitude 71°29'0.62"W" (Sirenia Digest #71, October 2011)
• "Another Tale of Two Cities" (Sirenia Digest #72, November 2011)
• "Blast the Human Flower" (Sirenia Digest #73, December 2011)
• "The Lost Language of Littoral Mollusca and Crustacea; Part the First" (Sirenia Digest #73, December 2011)
• "Cammufare" (Sirenia Digest #74, January 2012)
• "The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings" (Sirenia Digest #74, January 2012)
• "Here Is No Why" (Sirenia Digest #75, February 2012)
• "Cages I" (with David T. Kirkpatrick; Sirenia Digest #76, March 2012)
• "Hauplatte/Gegenplatte" (Sirenia Digest #77, April 2012)
• "Love is Forbidden, We Croak and Howl" (Sirenia Digest #78, May 2012; reprinted in Lovecraft's Monsters, 2014; Tachyon)
• "Quiet Houses" (Sirenia Digest #79, June 2012)
• "One Tree Hill (The World As Cataclysm)" (Sirenia Digest #80, July 2012)
• "Tall Bodies" (Sirenia Digest #80, July 2012)
• "Our Lady of Tharsis Tholus" (Sirenia Digest #81, August 2012)
• "A Mountain Walked" (Sirenia Digest #82, September 2012; reprinted in The Madness of Cthulhu: Volume 1, 2014; Titan Book)
• "Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still" (Sirenia Digest #83, October 2012)
• "Blind Fish" (Sirenia Digest #85, December 2012)
• "What Dread Hand? What Dread Grasp?" (Sirenia Digest #86, February 2013)
• "Sea-Drift" (Sirenia Digest #87, March 2013)
• "Turning the Little Key" (Sirenia Digest #88, April 2013)
• "Elegy for a Suicide" (Sirenia Digest #90, July 2013)
• "Pushing the Sky Away (Death of a Blasphemer)" (Sirenia Digest #91, August 2013; reprinted in Subterranean Magazine, Summer, 2014; Subterranean Press )
• "Study for The Witch House" (Sirenia Digest #92, September 2013)
• "Pickman's Madonna" (Sirenia Digest #93, October 2013)
• "Mote[L] 2032" (Sirenia Digest #94, November 2013)
• "The Peddler's Tale, Or Isobel's Revenge" (Sirenia Digest #95, December 2013)
• "Idyll for a Purgatory Dancer" (Sirenia Digest #96, January 2014)
• "Chewing on Shadows" (Sirenia Digest #97, February 2014)
• "The Beginning of the Year Without a Summer" (Sirenia Digest #99, April 2014)
• "Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)" (Sirenia Digest #100, May 2014)
• "Far From Any Shore" (Sirenia Digest #101, June 2014)
• "The Cats of River Street (1925)" (Sirenia Digest #102, July 2014)
• "Black Glass, Green Glass" (Sirenia Digest #103, August 2014)
• "A Birth in the Wood of Self-Murderers" (Sirenia Digest #104, September 2014)
• "The Green Abyss" (Sirenia Digest #106, November 2014)
• "The Cripple and the Starfish" (Sirenia Digest #108, January 2015)
• "The Aubergine Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #109, February 2015)
• "The Aubergine Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #110, March 2015)
• "Dancy Vs. the Pterosaur" (Sirenia Digest #111, April 2015)
• "Le Meneur des loups" (Sirenia Digest #112, May 2015)
• "Dead Letter Office" (Sirenia Digest #113, June 2015)
• "Dry Bones" (Sirenia Digest #114, July 2015)
• Agents of Dreamland (excerpts) (Sirenia Digest #115, August 2015)
• "Eurydice Eduction" (Sirenia Digest #119, December 2015)
• "Study for an Electronaut's Ovid (AD 2052)" (Sirenia Digest #120, January 2016)
• "Pillbug" (Sirenia Digest #122, March 2016)
• "Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9)" (Sirenia Digest #125, June 2016)
• "The Chartreuse Alphabet (Part One)" (Sirenia Digest #128, September 2016)
• "Animals Pull the Night Around Their Shoulders" (Sirenia Digest #128, September 2016)
• "The Chartreuse Alphabet (Part Two)" (Sirenia Digest #129, October 2016)
• "Antediluvian Homesick Blues" (Sirenia Digest #129, October 2016)
• "The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10)" (Sirenia Digest #130, November 2016)

Comics/graphic novels

• The Dreaming (DC Comics; October 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—54, "Exiles" (September '00—November '00)
  • The Dreaming #56, "The First Adventure of Miss Catterina Poe" (January '01)
  • The Dreaming #57—60, "Rise" (February '01—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)
• Alabaster: Wolves (Dark Horse Comics; five-issue miniseries, 2012; hardback collection, 2013)
• Alabaster: Boxcar Tales ( Dark Horse Presents; November 2012 - December 2013; hardback released as Alabaster: Grimmer Tales, April 2014)
• Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird (five-issue miniseries, to be published in Dark Horse Comics, forthcoming 2015)

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).
• "Foreword" (Gloomcookie, Vol. 1 written by Serena Valentino and illustrated by Ted Naifeh; SLG Publishing, 2001)
• "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)
• "Lovecraft and I" (Lovecraft Annual #5; August 2011)

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.