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Caitlín R. Kiernan

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Caitlín R. Kiernan is an Irish-born American author and vertebrate paleontologist. Their work spans weird fiction, dark fantasy, horror, science fiction, gothic fiction, erotica, memoir, short fiction, poetry, and comics. They are best known for novels including Silk, Threshold, The Red Tree, The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, and The Tindalos Asset, as well as the Dancy Flammarion and Siobhan Quinn sequences, the Alabaster comics, and numerous acclaimed short-fiction collections.

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Silk

A foundational standalone novel and accessible entry to Kiernan’s literary horror and dark fantasy.

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Threshold

The starting point for the Dancy Flammarion sequence.

The Drowning Girl: A Memoir

An award-winning, self-contained novel that showcases Kiernan’s unreliable narration and psychological depth.

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Agents of Dreamland

A concise entry into Kiernan’s later cosmic and weird fiction.

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Tales of Pain and Wonder

A representative early collection introducing the range of Kiernan’s short fiction.

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Books by series

shared-universe · ongoing

Threshold/Dancy Flammarion

A sequence of novels, stories, and collections featuring or connected to Dancy Flammarion.

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  1. 1 Cover of Threshold
    Threshold

    Book 1 · novel · 2001

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  2. 2 Cover of In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers
    In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers

    Book 2 · chapbook · 2002 Optional

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  3. 3 Cover of Low Red Moon
    Low Red Moon

    Book 3 · novel · 2003

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    Alabaster

    Book 4 · short-fiction-collection · 2003 Optional

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  5. 5 Cover of Daughter of Hounds
    Daughter of Hounds

    Book 5 · novel · 2007

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    The Drowning Girl: A Memoir

    Book 6 · novel · 2012

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  7. 7 Cover of Comes a Pale Rider
    Comes a Pale Rider

    Book 7 · short-fiction-collection · 2020 Optional

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subseries · ongoing

Alabaster

The Dancy Flammarion prose and graphic-fiction subseries.

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  1. 1
    Alabaster

    Book 1 · short-fiction-collection · 2003

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  2. 2 Cover of Alabaster: Wolves
    Alabaster: Wolves

    Book 2 · graphic-novel · 2013

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  3. 3 Cover of Alabaster: Grimmer Tales
    Alabaster: Grimmer Tales

    Book 3 · graphic-novel · 2014

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  4. 4 Cover of Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird
    Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird

    Book 4 · graphic-novel · 2016

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sequence · ongoing

Alphabet

A sequence of alphabet-themed chapbooks and collections.

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  1. 1
    The Black Alphabet: A Primer

    Book 1 · chapbook · 2007

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  2. 2
    The Crimson Alphabet: Another Primer

    Book 2 · chapbook · 2011

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  3. 3
    The Yellow Alphabet

    Book 3 · chapbook · 2012

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  4. 4
    The Aubergine Alphabet: A Fourth Primer

    Book 4 · chapbook · 2017

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  5. 5
    The Chartreuse Alphabet: A Fifth Primer

    Book 5 · chapbook · 2018

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  6. 6
    The Eldritch Alphabētos

    Book 6 · chapbook · 2018

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  7. 7
    The Cerulean Alphabet

    Book 7 · chapbook · 2020

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novel-series · complete

Siobhan Quinn

A trilogy of novels about Siobhan Quinn.

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  1. 1
    Blood Oranges

    Book 1 · novel · 2013

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  2. 2
    Red Delicious

    Book 2 · novel · 2014

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  3. 3
    Cherry Bomb

    Book 3 · novel · 2015

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Outside the series

Bibliography by category

Novels (14)
  1. Cover of The Five of Cups
    The Five of Cups

    novel · 1997

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  2. Silk

    novel · 1998

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  3. The Girl Who Would Be Death

    graphic-novel · 1998

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  4. Bast: Eternity Game

    graphic-novel · 2002

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  5. Cover of Murder of Angels
    Murder of Angels

    novel · 2004

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  6. Cover of The Dry Salvages
    The Dry Salvages

    novella · 2004

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  7. Beowulf

    novelization · 2007

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  8. New Amsterdam

    novella · 2007

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  9. Cover of The Red Tree
    The Red Tree

    novel · 2009

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  10. Cover of Black Helicopters
    Black Helicopters

    novella · 2013

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  11. Cover of Agents of Dreamland
    Agents of Dreamland

    novella · 2017

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  12. La Belle Fleur Sauvage: Plague of the Womb

    novella · 2019

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  13. Cover of The Tindalos Asset
    The Tindalos Asset

    novella · 2020

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  14. Zoetrope Bizarre

    novel · 2025

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Short fiction (19)
  1. Cover of Candles for Elizabeth
    Candles for Elizabeth

    short-fiction-collection · 1998

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  2. Cover of Tales of Pain and Wonder
    Tales of Pain and Wonder

    short-fiction-collection · 2000

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  3. Cover of From Weird and Distant Shores
    From Weird and Distant Shores

    short-fiction-collection · 2002

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  4. Andromeda Among the Stones

    novelette · 2002

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  5. Cover of To Charles Fort, With Love
    To Charles Fort, With Love

    short-fiction-collection · 2005

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  6. Frog Toes and Tentacles

    short-fiction-collection · 2005

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  7. Cover of Tales from the Woeful Platypus
    Tales from the Woeful Platypus

    short-fiction-collection · 2007

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  8. A Is for Alien

    short-fiction-collection · 2009

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  9. Cover of The Ammonite Violin and Others
    The Ammonite Violin and Others

    short-fiction-collection · 2010

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  10. Cover of Houses Under the Sea
    Houses Under the Sea

    short-fiction-collection · 2011

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  11. Cover of Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart
    Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart

    short-fiction-collection · 2012

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  12. Dear Sweet Filthy World

    short-fiction-collection · 2017

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  13. Cover of The Dinosaur Tourist
    The Dinosaur Tourist

    short-fiction-collection · 2018

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  14. The Little Yellow Book of Fever Dreams

    short-fiction-collection · 2019

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  15. Cover of Vile Affections
    Vile Affections

    short-fiction-collection · 2021

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  16. Cambrian Tales: Juvenilia

    short-fiction-collection · 2021

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  17. Bradbury Weather

    short-fiction-collection · 2023

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  18. Bright Dead Star

    short-fiction-collection · 2025

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Essays and speeches (1)
  1. Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold

    essay-collection · 2003

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Collaborations (2)
  1. Cover of Wrong Things
    Wrong Things

    coauthored-short-fiction-collection · 2001

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  2. Embrace the Mutation

    coauthored-chapbook · 2003

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Other (17)
  1. A Study for “Estate”

    chapbook · 2000

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  2. On the Road to Jefferson

    chapbook · 2002

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  3. Waycross

    chapbook · 2002

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  4. Mercury

    chapbook · 2004

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  5. The Worm in My Mind’s Eye

    chapbook · 2004

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  6. A Little Damned Book of Days

    chapbook · 2005

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  7. False/Starts

    chapbook · 2005

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  8. The Merewife: A Prologue

    chapbook · 2005

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  9. Highway 97

    chapbook · 2006

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  10. Almost True

    chapbook · 2007

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  11. Tails of Tales of Pain and Wonder

    chapbook · 2008

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  12. B Is for Beginnings

    chapbook · 2009

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  13. Sanderlings

    chapbook · 2010

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  14. The Yellow Book

    chapbook · 2012

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  15. False/Starts II

    chapbook · 2015

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  16. Refugees

    chapbook · 2020

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  17. Living a Boy’s Adventure Tale

    chapbook · 2023

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