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Short stories & anthologies

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)


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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z





A

Sherman Alexie
• Ten Little Indians

Kevin J. Anderson, editor
• Star Wars: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina

Michael A. Arnzen
• 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories

Isaac Asimov
• Robot Dreams
• Robot Visions



B

Kage Baker
• Black Projects, White Knights

Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris
• Magical Mechanications

Charles Baxter
• Gryphon: New & Selected Stories

Steve Berman
• Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories

Kate Bernheimer
•  Horse, Flower, Bird

Anne Bishop
• Dreams Made Flesh

James P. Blaylock
• In for a Penny
• Thirteen Phantasms

Robert Bloch
• The Lost Bloch: Vol. 3, edited by David J. Schow

Francesca Lia Block
• Blood Roses
• Nymph
• The Rose & the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

Judy Blume, editor
• Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

Richard Bowes
• From the Files of the Time Rangers

Ray Bradbury
• The Illustrated Man

Marion Zimmer Bradley, editor
• Sword & Sorceress XX

Poppy Z. Brite
• Antediluvian Tales
• The Devil You Know

Carrie Brown
• The House on Belle Isle

Eric Brown
• Threshold Shift

Cara Bruce, editor
• Viscera

Kealan Patrick Burke
• The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

Jim Butcher
• My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
• Side Jobs

A.S. Byatt
• The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

Bobby Byrd & Johnny Byrd, editors
• Lone Star Noir



C

Orson Scott Card
• Hamlet's Father
• Posing as People, with Scott Brick, Aaron Johnston & Emily Janice Card

Angela Carter
• The Bloody Chamber

Peter Carver, editor
• The Horrors: Terrifying Tales, Book I

Rosanne Cash, editor
• Songs Without Rhyme

Michael Chabon, editor
• McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

Suzy McKee Charnas
• Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms

C.J. Cherryh
• The Collected Short Fiction

Frank Chigas
• The Damp Chamber & Other Bad Places

Richard Chizmar, editor
• Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas

Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, editors
• October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween

Christopher Conlon, editor
• Poe's Lighthouse

Bruce Coville
• Oddly Enough

F. Brett Cox & Andy Duncan, editors
• Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic

Peter Crowther
• Mars Probes (editor)
• Songs of Leaving
• The Spaces Between the Lines
• Taps & Sighs (editor)

Julie E. Czerneda, editor
• Space Inc.



D

Jack Dann, et al
• The Fiction Factory

Jack Dann & Gardner Dozios, editors
• Beyond Flesh
• Future Crimes
• Future Sports

Ellen Datlow, editor
• Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex
• Vanishing Acts
• A Whisper of Blood

Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors
• Black Heart, Ivory Bones
• Black Swan, White Raven
• Black Thorn, White Rose
• Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
• Salon Fantastique
• Silver Birch, Blood Moon
• Sirens & Other Daemon Lovers
• Snow White, Blood Red
• A Wolf at the Door: & Other Retold Fairy Tales
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 11th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 12th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 14th edition

Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, editors
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 18th annual edition

Julie Ann Dawson, editor
• Legendary Horrors: A Collection of Modern & Classic Horror

Frank de Caro, editor
• The Folktale Cat

Charles de Lint
• Dreams Underfoot
• A Handful of Coppers
• The Hour Before Dawn
• ICE Out
• The Ivory & the Horn
• Moonlight & Vines
• The Newford Stories (omnibus edition of Dreams Underfoot, The Ivory & the Horn and Moonlight & Vines)
• Quicksilver & Shadow
• Tapping the Dream Tree
• Triskell Tales: 22 Years of Chapbooks
• Triskell Tales 2
• Waifs & Strays
• What the Mouse Found & Other Stories

Paul Di Filippo
• The Emperor of Gondwanaland & Other Stories
• Shuteye for the Timebroker

Stephen Dobyns
• Eating Naked

Cory Doctorow
• Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present

Gardner Dozois, editor
• Beyond Flesh, with Jack Dann
• Future Crimes, with Jack Dann
• Future Sports, with Jack Dann
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: 19th Annual Collection
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection

David Drake & Bill Fawcett, editors
• The Fleet
• The Fleet No. 2: Counter Attack



E

David Eagleman
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

George Alec Effinger
• Live! From Planet Earth

Greg Egan
• Dark Integers & Other Stories

Robert C. Evans, editor
• Frank O'Connor's "Ghosts"



F

Jeffrey Ford
• The Empire of Ice Cream

Adam Fortunate Eagle
• Scalping Columbus & Other Damn Indian Stories

Karen Joy Fowler, et al, editors
• The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2

Amy Friedman, Jillian Gilliland & Laura Hall
• Tell Me a Story

Esther Friesner, editor
• Chicks in Chainmail
• Chicks 'n Chained Males
• Did You Say Chicks?!
• The Chick is in the Mail

Gregory Frost
• Attack of the Jazz Giants & Other Stories



G

Neil Gaiman
• M is for Magic

Neil Gaiman & Ed Kramer, editors
• The Sandman: Book of Dreams

Tess Gallagher
• At the Owl Woman Saloon

Michael Gallant, Raymond M. Coulombe & Timothy O. Goyette
• Quantum Musings

Elizabeth George
• I, Richard

David Gerrold
• Alternate Gerrolds

Walter Gourlay, Chris Kemp & Frances Rossi, editors
• Monterey Shorts

Martin H. Greenberg, editor
• Apprentice Fantastic, with Russell Davis
• Future Wars, with Larry Segriff
• Haunted Holidays, with Russell Davis
• Horrible Beginnings, with Steven H. Silver
• Knight Fantastic, with John Helfers
• Once Upon a Galaxy, with John Helfers & Wil McCarthy
• Pharaoh Fantastic, with Brittiany A. Koren
• The Repentant, with Brian M. Thomsen
• Sol's Children, with Jean Rabe
• Space Stations, with John Helfers
• Wondrous Beginnings, with Steven H. Silver



H

Peter Haining, editor
• Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear

Winifred Halsey, editor
• Heaven & Hell

Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner, editors
• Many Bloody Returns

David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, editors
• Year's Best SF 7
• Year's Best SF 9

Robert A. Heinlein
• The Green Hills of Earth
• The Man Who Sold the Moon
• The Past Through Tomorrow
• Revolt in 2100

John Helfers, editor
• Knight Fantastic, with Martin H. Greenberg
• Once Upon a Galaxy, with Martin H. Greenberg & Wil McCarthy
• Space Stations, with Martin H. Greenberg
• The Valdemar Companion, with Denise Little

John L. Herman Jr.
• The Innkeeper Tales: Modern-Day Canterbury Tales to Entertain, Enlighten & Empower

Glen Hirshberg
• The Two Sams

Nalo Hopkinson
• Skin Folk

Nalo Hopkinson & Geoff Ryman, editors
• Tesseracts Nine

Tanya Huff
• Stealing Magic



I

Janis Ian & Mike Resnick, editors
• Stars

Alex Irvine
• Unintended Consequences

Washington Irving
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories



K

Marvin Kaye, editor
• The Dragon Quintet
• The Vampire Sextette
• Witches & Warlocks: Tales of Black Magic Old & New

Susan Kearney
• Midnight Magic, with Rebecca York & Jeanie London

Faye Kellerman
• The Garden of Eden & Other Criminal Delights (audiobook)

James Patrick Kelly
• Strange But Not a Stranger

Ronald Kelly
• Midnight Grinding & Other Twilight Tales

Chris Kemp, Byron Merritt & Ken Jones, editors
• Monterey Shorts 2: More on the Line

Lorna Joy Knox
• Two Tales of Mystery

Ed Kramer & Neil Gaiman, editors
• The Sandman: Book of Dreams

Nancy Kress, editor
• Nebula Awards Showcase: The Year's Best SF & Fantasy 2003

Katherine Kurtz, editor
• Deryni Tales

Ellen Kushner, editor
• The Horns of Elfland



L

Mercedes Lackey
• Sun in Glory & Other Tales of Valdemar, editor

Louis L'Amour
• War Party

Geoffrey A. Landis
• Impact Parameter & Other Quantum Realities

Batton Lash
• Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre: Case Files, Vol. II

Nelson Lauver
• The American Story-Teller (audiobook)

Tim Lebbon
• Fears Unnamed

Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, editors
• Low Port

Marc Joel Levitt
• Tales of an October Moon

Denise Little, editor
• Familiars
• The Magic Shop
• Rotten Relations
• The Sorcerer's Academy
• Twice Upon a Time
• Vengeance Fantastic

Brian Lumley
• The Taint & Other Novellas: Best Mythos Tales, Vol. I
• Haggopian & Other Stories: Best Mythos Tales, Vol. II



M

Alistair MacLeod
• Island
• The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

Naguib Mahfouz
• The Dreams

George R.R. Martin, editor
• Wild Card #18: Inside Straight

Lee Martindale, editor
• Such a Pretty Face

Wil McCarthy, Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, editors
• Once Upon a Galaxy

Michael McCrann
• Midnight Tableau

Patrick McGrath
• Blood & Water & Other Tales

Maureen F. McHugh
• Mothers & Other Monsters

Vonda McIntyre, editor
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2004: The Year's Best SF & Fantasy

Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson
• Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits

Elizabeth Merrick, editor
• This is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers

Elizabeth E. & Thomas F. Monteleone, editors
• From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror & Madness

Craig Moodie
• A Sailor's Valentine

Michael Moorcock
• The Lives & Times of Jerry Cornelius: Stories of the Comic Apocalypse

David Morrell
• NightScape

James Morrow
• Bible Stories For Adults

A.S. Mott
• Gothic Ghost Stories: Tales of Intrigue & Fantasy from Beyond the Grave
• Haunting Fireside Stories

C.E. Murphy
• Baba Yaga's Daughter & Other Tales of the Old Races



N

Garth Nix
• Sir Hereward & Mister Fitz: Three Adventures

Sherry Norfolk
• Haunted Hearts: Tales of Love & Tragedy (audiobook)

Jody Lynn Nye, editor
• Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear



P

Jason Parent
• Wrathbone & Other Stories

Katherine Paterson
• Angels & Other Strangers: Family Christmas Stories

Meredith Ann Pierce
• Waters Luminous & Deep

John Pelan, editor
• Dark Arts
• The Darker Side: Generations of Horror
• A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror

Edgar Allan Poe
• Poe's Lighthouse, edited by Christopher Conlon

Barbara Ann Porte
• Beauty & the Serpent: Thirteen Tales of Unnatural Animals

Georgia Post
• Arsenic Soup for Lovers: When Chicken Soup Doesn't Work

Cetywa Powell, editor
• Underground Voices

Cherie Priest
• Dreadful Skin

Howard Pyle
• The Book of Pirates



R

Jean Rabe & Martin H. Greenberg, editors
• Sol's Children

Robert Reed
• The Cuckoo's Boys

Mike Resnick, editor
• Men Writing Science Fiction as Women
• New Voices in Science Fiction
• The Other Teddy Roosevelts
• Stars, with Janis Ian
• Women Writing Science Fiction as Men

Susan Rich, editor
• Half-Minute Horrors

James E.F. Riley Sr.
• Daydreams_n_Nightmares

Craig Rondinone
• Ten Tales to Make Your Head Explode

Alan Peter Ryan
• The Back of Beyond

Cynthia Rylant
• Children of Christmas: Stories for the Season, illustrated by S.D. Schindler



S

Lynn Veach Sadler
• Not Dreamt of in Your Philosophy

Don Sakers
• The Leaves of October

Pamela Sargent, editor
• Conqueror Fantastic

Al Sarrantonio
• Hornets & Others
• Redshift

David J. Schow
• Havoc Swims Jaded
• Zombie Jam

David Sedaris, editor
• Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss, editors
• Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing

Delia Sherman & Terri Windling, editors
• The Essential Bordertown

Josepha Sherman
• Merlin's Kin

Steven H. Silver & Martin H. Greenberg, editors
• Horrible Beginnings
• Wondrous Beginnings

Robert Silverberg
• The Collected Stories, Vol. 2: To the Dark Star, 1962-69

Gary E. Smith
• A Collection of Short Stories & Poems

W. Gordon Smith, editor
• Fallen Angels, paintings by Jack Vettriano

William Browning Spencer
• The Ocean & All Its Devices

Vila SpiderHawk
• Hidden Passages: Tales to Honor the Crones

Eddie Stack
• The West, with Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill

Bruce Sterling
• Visionary in Residence

Bart Stewart
• Tales of Real & Dream Worlds

Jonathan Strahan, editor
• Best Short Novels 2004

Mitzi Szereto
• Darker Edge of Desire
• Erotic Fairy Tales: A Romp Through the Classics
• Red Velvet & Absinthe



T

Cecilia Tan, editor
• Sex in the System

Laini Taylor
• Lips Touch: Three Times

Diana Secker Tesdell, editor
• Bedtime Stories

Jeffrey Thomas
• Punktown

Scott Thomas
• Midnight in New England

Brian M. Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg, editors
• The Repentant



V

Chris Van Allsburg
• The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

Jeff VanderMeer
• City of Saints & Madmen

Vivian Vande Velde
• All Hallows' Eve
• Curses Inc. & Other Stories
• Once Upon a Test: Three Light Tales of Love

Gordon Van Gelder, editor
• Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords & Sorcery
• One Lamp

John Varley
• The John Varley Reader: 30 Years of Short Fiction



W

Robert Weinberg
• The Occult Detective

Mark West
• Strange Tales

Tamara Wilhite
• Humanity's Edge

Chet Williamson
• Figures in Rain

Connie Willis
• Fire Watch
• Miracle & Other Christmas Stories
• Winds of Marble Arch & Other Stories

Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow, editors
• Black Heart, Ivory Bones
• Black Swan, White Raven
• Black Thorn, White Rose
• Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
• Salon Fantastique
• Silver Birch, Blood Moon
• Sirens & Other Daemon Lovers
• Snow White, Blood Red
• A Wolf at the Door: & Other Retold Fairy Tales
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 11th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 12th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th edition

Terri Windling & Delia Sherman, editors, The Essential Bordertown

P.G. Wodehouse
• A Man of Means
• My Man Jeeves



Y

Richard Yee
• Deliveries: A Collection

Jane Yolen, editor
• Sherwood

Rebecca York, Susan Kearney & Jeanie London
• Midnight Magic



Z

George Zebrowski
• Black Pockets & Other Dark Thoughts