Celestial Inventory: Short Story

Steve Rasnic Tem

May 2014 · ChiZine Publications

About this ebook

A hermit lives his life by means of an endless inventory. From Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasmic Tem (winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards), this story is one of a set of evocative, transformative, boundary-crossing works of the fantastic.

ChiZine Publications (CZP) curates the best of the bizarre, bringing you the most excitingly weird, subtle, dark, and disturbing literary fiction. Look for more titles in the ChiZine short stories collection to build your digital library.

About the author

STEVE RASNIC TEM was born in Lee County, Virginia in the heart of Appalachia. He currently lives in Centennial, Colorado with his wife, the writer Melanie Tem. His novels include Excavation, The Book of Days, the recent Deadfall Hotel and, co-written with wife Melanie Tem, Daughters and The Man On the Ceiling. He is the author of over 350 published short stories, and is a past winner of the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. He was also a finalist for the Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, and Theodore Sturgeon awards. His other story collections include City Fishing, The Far Side of the Lake, In Concert (collaborations with Melanie Tem), Ugly Behavior, and Onion Songs.