Melanie Tem, R. I. P.

Locus Online News: Author Melanie Tem, 65, died February 9, 2015 of cancer. Tem’s debut novel Prodigal (1991) was the winner of a Bram Stoker Award, and in 1992 she won the Icarus award for most promising newcomer, presented by the British Fantasy Society. Novella “The Man on the Ceiling” (2000), co-written with her husband Steve Rasnic Tem, won a World Fantasy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and an International Horror Guild Award. They expanded it into a novel in 2008, and in that form it was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. They also collaborated on novel Daughters (2001), numerous works of short fiction, and multimedia collection Imagination Box(2001), a Bram Stoker Award winner and International Horror Guild Award finalist.