Steve Rasnic Tem's writing career spans over forty-five years, including more than 500 published short stories, seventeen collections, eight novels, and miscellaneous poetry and plays. His collaborative novella with his late wife Melanie, The Man On The Ceiling, won the World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild awards in 2001. He has also won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, and British Fantasy Awards for his solo work, including Blood Kin, winner of 2014's Bram Stoker for novel. In 2024 he received the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.