Read Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea Online
Authors: Caitlin R. Kiernan
“Fake Plastic Trees”
2012
After
, ed. Ellen and Terri Windling, Hyperion
“Goggles (c. 1910)”
2012
Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution
, ed. Ann VanderMeer, Tachyon Publishing
“Here Is No Why”
2012
Sirenia Digest
(Feb. #75), Goat Girl Press
“Hauplatte/Gegenplatte”
2012
Sirenia Digest
(Apr. #77), Goat Girl Press
“Our Lady of Tharsis Tholus”
2012
Sirenia Digest
(Aug. #81), Goat Girl Press
“Love is Forbidden, We Croak and Howl”
2012
Sirenia Digest
(May #78), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2014
Lovecraft’s Monsters
, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tachyon Publications
“A Mountain Walked”
2012
Sirenia Digest
(Sept. #82), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2014
The Madness of Cthulhu: Volume 1
, edited S. T. Joshi, Titan Books
“One Tree Hill (The World As Cataclysm)”
2012
Sirenia Digest
(Jul. #80), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2014
Black Wings III: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
, ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing
“Quiet Houses
” 2012
Sirenia Digest
(June #79), Goat Girl Press
“Tall Bodies”
2012
Sirenia Digest
(Jul. #80), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2013
The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories
, Subterranean Press
“The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings”
2012
Sirenia Digest
(Jan. #74), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2015,
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth
,
ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer
“Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still”
2012
Sirenia Digest
(Oct. #83), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2013
Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre
, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books
“Elegy for a Suicide”
2013
Sirenia Digest
(Jul. #90), Goat Girl Press
“Mote[L] 2032”
2013
Sirenia Digest
(Nov. #94), Goat Girl Press
“The Peddler’s Tale, Or Isobel’s Revenge”
2013
Sirenia Digest
(Dec. #95), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2015
The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu
, ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books
“Pickman’s Madonna”
2013
Sirenia Digest
(Oct. #93), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2015 (revised and in part)
Cherry Bomb: A Siobhan Quinn Novel
(as Kathleen Tierney), Roc/NAL
“Pushing the Sky Away (Death of a Blasphemer)”
2013
Sirenia Digest
(Aug. #91), Goat Girl Press
“Sea-Drift”
2013
Sirenia Digest
(Mar. #87), Goat Girl Press
“Study for
The Witch House
”
2013
Sirenia Digest
(Sept. #92), Goat Girl Press
“Turning the Little Key”
2013
Sirenia Digest
(Apr. #88), Goat Girl Press
“What Dread Hand? What Dread Grasp?”
2013
Sirenia Digest
(Feb. #86), Goat Girl Press
“Ballad of an Echo Whisperer”
2014
Fearful Symmetries
, ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications
“The Beginning of the Year Without a Summer”
2014
Sirenia Digest
(Apr. #99), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2015,
The Monstrous,
ed. Ellen Datlow, Tachyon Publications
“A Birth in the Wood of Self-Murderers”
2014
Sirenia Digest
(Sept. #104), Goat Girl Press
“Black Glass, Green Glass”
2014
Sirenia Digest
(Aug. #103), Goat Girl Press
“The Cats of River Street (1925)”
2014
Sirenia Digest
(Jul. #102), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2015
Innsmouth Nightmares
, ed. Lois Gresh, PS Publishing
“Chewing on Shadows”
2014
Sirenia Digest
(Feb. #97), Goat Girl Press
“Far From Any Shore”
2014
Sirenia Digest
(June #101), Goat Girl Press
“The Green Abyss”
2014
Sirenia Digest
(Nov. #106), Goat Girl Press
“Idyll for a Purgatory Dancer”
2014
Sirenia Digest
(Jan. #96), Goat Girl Press
“Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)”
2014
Sirenia Diges
t (May #100), Goat Girl Press; reprinted 2015,
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (Volume Nine),
Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, Ltd.
“The Jetsam of Disremembered Mechanics”
2014,
The Book of Silverberg: Stories in Honor of Robert Silverberg
, ed. Gardner Dozois and William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press
“Black Ships Seen South of Heaven”
2015
Black Wings IV
, ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing
“Bus Fare”
2015
The Year’s Best Weird Fiction (Volume 2)
, ed. Kathe Koja and Michael Kelly, Undertow Publications
“The Cripple and the Starfish”
2015
Sirenia Digest
(Jan, #108), Goat Girl Press
“The Aubergine Alphabet (Parts 1 & 2)”
2015
Sirenia Digest
(Feb.–Mar. #109–110), Goat Girl Press
“Dancy vs. the Pterosaur”
2015
Sirenia Digest
(Apr. #111), Goat Girl Press
“Le Meneur des loups”
2015
Sirenia Digest
(May #112), Goat Girl Press
“Dead Letter Office”
2015
Sirenia Digest
(June. #113), Goat Girl Press
“Dry Bones”
2015
Sirenia Digest
(Jul. #114), Goat Girl Press
Novellas (by year of first publication)
The Dry Salvages
2004, Subterranean Press
Black Helicopters
2012, Subterranean Press
Collections
Tales of Pain and Wonder
2000, Gauntlet Press; 2002, Meisha Merlin (2nd edition); 2008, Subterranean Press (3rd edition, definitive text)
“Anamorphosis”
“To This Water (Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1889”
“Bela’s Plot”
“Tears Seven Times Salt”
“Superheroes”
“Glass Coffin”
“Breakfast in the House of the Rising Sun (Murder Ballad No. 1)”
“Estate”
“The Last Child of Lir”
“A Story for Edward Gorey”
“Salammbô”
“Pædomorphosis”
“Postcards from the King of Tides”
“Rats Live on No Evil Star”
“Salmagundi”
“In the Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888)
“The Long Hall on the Top Floor”
“San Andreas”
“Angels You Can See Through”*
“Lafayette (Murder Ballad No. 2)”
“Between the Gargoyle Trees”
“Zelda Fitzgerald in Ballet Attire”
* Not included in 3rd edition; “Mercury” and “Salammbô Redux
(2007)” added to 3rd edition.
Wrong Things
(with Poppy Z. Brite), 2001, Subterranean Press
“Onion”
“The Rest of the Wrong Thing” (with Poppy Z. Brite)
From Weird and Distant Shores
2002, Subterranean Press
“Escape Artist”
“The Comedy of St. Jehanne d’Arc”
“Stoker’s Mistress”
“Emptiness Spoke Eloquent”
“Giants in the Earth”
“Found Angels” (with Christa Faust)
“Two Worlds and In Between”
“The King of Birds”
“By Turns”
“Persephone”
“Between the Flatirons and the Deep Green Sea”
“Hoar Isis”
“Night Story (1973)” (with Poppy Z. Brite)
“Rat’s Star (A Fragment)” (lettered edition only)
To Charles Fort, With Love
2005, Subterranean Press
“Valentia”
“Spindleshanks (New Orleans, 1956)”
“So Runs the World Away”
“Standing Water”
“La Mer des Rêves”
“The Road of Pins”
“Onion”
“Apokatastasis”
“La Peau Verte”
“The Dead and the Moonstruck”
The Dandridge Cycle:
“A Redress for Andromeda”
“Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea”
“Andromeda Among the Stones”
Frog Toes and Tentacles
2005, Subterranean Press
“Pages Found Among the Effects of Miss Edith M. Teller”
“Untitled 4”
“Untitled 7”
“Flicker”
“Pump Excursion”
“Untitled 11”
“Untitled 12”
“Ode to Katan Amono”
“Los Angeles 2162 (December)” (lettered edition only)
Alabaster
2006, Subterranean Press; expanded edition reissued 2014 as
Alabaster: Pale Horse
, Dark Horse Books/Dark Horse Comics
“Les Fleurs Empoisonnées”
“The Well of Stars and Shadow”
“Waycross”
“Alabaster”
“Bainbridge”
“Highway 97” (in
Alabaster: Pale Horse
)
Tales from the Woeful Platypus
2007, Subterranean Press
“Untitled 17”
“Pony”
“Forests of the Night”
“Daughter of Man, Mother of Wyrm”
“Untitled 20”
“Still Life”
“pas-en-arriere”
“The Garden of Living Flowers”
“Excerpt from
Memoirs of a Martian Demirep
” (lettered edition only)
A is for Alien
2009, Subterranean Press
“Riding the White Bull”
“Faces in Revolving Souls”
“Zero Summer”
“The Pearl Diver”
“In View of Nothing”
“Ode to Katan Amono”
“A Season of Broken Dolls”
“Bradbury Weather”
The Ammonite Violin & Others
2010, Subterranean Press
“Madonna Littoralis”
“Orpheus at Mount Pangæum”
“Bridle”
“For One Who Has Lost Herself”
“Ode to Edvard Munch”
“The Cryomancer’s Daughter (Murder Ballad No. 3)”
“A Child’s Guide to the Hollow Hills”
“The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad No. 4)”
“The Lovesong of Lady Ratteanrufer”
“Metamorphosis A”
“The Sphinx’s Kiss”
“The Voyuer in the House of Glass”
“Metamorphosis B”
“Skin Game”
“The Hole With a Girl In Its Heart”
“Outside the Gates of Eden”
“In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection”
“Anamnesis, or the Sleepless Nights of Léon Spilliaert”
“Scene in the Museum (1896)”
“The Madam of the Narrow Houses”
Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Volume One)
2011, Subterranean Press
PART ONE (1993–1999)
“Emptiness Spoke Eloquent”
“Two Worlds, and In Between”
“To This Water (Johnstown, Pennsylvania 1889)”
“Tears Seven Times Salt”
“Breakfast in the House of the Rising Sun (Murder Ballad No. 1)”
“Estate”
“Rats Live on No Evil Star”
“Salmagundi (New York City, 1981)”
“Postcards from the King of Tides”
“Giants in the Earth”
“Zelda Fitzgerald in Ballet Attire”
PART TWO (2000–2004)
“Spindleshanks (New Orleans, 1956)”
“The Road of Pins”
“Onion”
“Les Fleurs Empoisonnées”
“Night Story 1973” (with Poppy Z. Brite)
“From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6”
“Andromeda Among the Stones”
“La Peau Verte”
“Riding the White Bull”
“Waycross”
“The Dead and the Moonstruck”
“The Daughter of the Four of Pentacles”
The Dry Salvages
“The Wyrm in My Mind’s Eye”
“Houses Under the Sea”
Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart: 25 Tales of Weird Romance
2012, Subterranean Press
“The Wolf Who Cried Girl”
“The Bed of Appetite”
“Subterraneus”
“The Collector of Bones”
“Beatification”
“Untitled Grotesque”
“Flotsam”
“Concerning Attrition and Severance”
“Rappaccini’s Dragon (Murder Ballad No. 5)”
“Unter den Augen des Mondes”
“The Melusine (1898) ”
“Fecunditatum (Murder Ballad No. 6)”
“I Am the Abyss, and I Am the Light”
“Dancing With the Eight of Swords”
“Murder Ballad No. 7”
“Lullaby of Partition and Reunion”
“Derma Sutra (1891)”
“The Thousand-and-Third Tale of Scheherazade”
“The Belated Burial”
“The Bone’s Prayer”
“A Canvas for Incoherent Arts”
“The Peril of Liberated Objects, or the Voyeur’s Seduction”
“Pickman’s Other Model (1929)”
“At the Gate of Deeper Slumber”
“Fish Bride (1970)”
The Ape’s Wife and Other Tales
2013, Subterranean Press
“The Steam Dancer (1896)”
“The Maltese Unicorn”
“One Tree Hill”
“The Collier’s Venus (1898)”
“Galápagos”
“Tall Bodies”
“As Red As Red”
“Hydraguros”
“Slouching Towards the House of Glass Coffins”
“Tidal Forces”
“The Sea Troll’s Daughter”
“Random Notes Before a Fatal Crash”
“The Ape’s Wife”
Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Volume Two)
2015, Subterranean Press
See this volume.
Chapbooks
Candles for Elizabeth
1998, Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc.
Study for “Estate”
2000, Gauntlet Press
On the Road to Jefferson
2002, Subterranean Press
Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold
2003, Subterranean Press
Waycross
2003, Subterranean Press
Alabaster
2003, Camelot Books and Gifts, Inc.; expanded 2006 for
Alabaster
, Subterranean Press
Embrace the Mutation
(with J.K. Potter) 2003, Subterranean Press
The Worm in My Mind’s Eye
2004, Subterranean Press
Mercury
2004, Subterranean Press