In Companions on the Road (1975) the companions are the villains, a trio of hellish revenants who kill through their control of Dreams as they search for the holders of a magic chalice.

Princess Hynchatti & Some Other Surprises (collection of linked stories in 1972) puts its cast through various travails. Of these, The Dragon Hoard (1971), her first novel, is a comic fantasy, in which an affronted enchantress compels the quest-ridden protagonist to shapeshift humiliatingly into a raven at unpredictable moments. She began publishing with The Betrothed (1968), a short story privately printed by a friend, but started serious writing with several children's fantasies. Realising that was not what she wanted to do, she dropped out of her course and held a number of occupations, including file clerk, waitress, shop assistant, and assistant librarian. After secondary school, Lee attended Croydon Art College for a year. Education īecause Lee's parents had to move for jobs, Lee attended numerous primary schools, then Prendergast Grammar School for Girls. She was at first 'incapable' of reading due to a mild form of dyslexia, which was diagnosed later in life, but when she was aged 8, her father taught her to read in about a month, and she began to write at the age of 9. Lee attended many different schools in childhood. Although her family was poor, they maintained a large paperback collection, and Lee read weird fiction, including 'Silken Swift' by Theodore Sturgeon and 'Gabriel Ernest' by Saki, and discussed such literature as Hamlet and Dracula with her parents. According to Lee, although her childhood was happy, she was the 'traditional kid that got bullied,' and had to move around frequently due to her parents' work. Despite a persistent rumour, she was not the daughter of Bernard Lee (the actor who played 'M' in the James Bond series films between 19). Tanith Lee was born on 19 September 1947 in London, to professional dancers Bernard and Hylda Lee. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980). She wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She also wrote a children's picture book ( Animal Castle), and many poems. She wrote more than 90 novels and 300 short stories, and was the winner of multiple World Fantasy Society Derleth Awards, the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – ) was a British science fiction and fantasy writer. British science fiction and fantasy writer (1947 – 2015)

Kill the Dead by Tanith Lee