Some notable fantasy short story collections, in alphabetical order by title (some of these collections may also include some science-fiction stories):
A The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire by R. A. Lafferty et al. Apocalypses (two novellas) by R. A. Lafferty The Avram Davidson Treasury by Avram Davidson
B The Back Door of History by R. A. Lafferty The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Lefanu by Sheridan Le Fanu The Best of Avram Davidson by Avram Davidson The Best Tales of Hoffmann by E. T. A. Hoffmann Beyond the Wall of Sleep by H.P. Lovecraft The Bible Repairman by Tim Powers The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter The Book of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany
C Carnacki the Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson The Castle of Crossed Destinies (two novellas) by Italo Calvino Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin Collected Fantasies by Avram Davidson Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges an omnibus of all eight volumes of Borges' fiction (which is entirely short stories) The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin The Compleat Traveller in Black The Compleat Traveller in Black by John Brunner The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. Howard Complete Fairy Tales by George MacDonald Complete Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft The Traveller in Black a.k.a. The Compleat Traveller in Black by John Brunner Cinderella
D Dark Carnival a.k.a. The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack by Darrell Schweitzer The Day It Rained Forever a.k.a. A Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury The Devils in the Details by James Blaylock and Tim Powers Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? by R. A. Lafferty A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany Dreams of Distant Shores by Patricia A. McKillip Driving Blind by Ray Bradbury The Dying Earth a.k.a. Mazirian the Magician by Jack Vance
E The Early Lafferty by R. A. Lafferty The Early Lafferty II by R. A. Lafferty Echoes of the Goddess by Darrell Schweitzer Eight Fantasms and Magics by Jack Vance Elementals by A. S. Byatt The Emperor of the Ancient Word and Other Fantastic Stories by Darrell Schweitzer The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson Escape on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs
F Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner by E. T. A. Hoffmann Fifty-One Tales a.k.a. The Food of Death by Lord Dunsany Fireworks by Angela Carter The Food of Death a.k.a. Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany The Fortunes of Brak by John Jakes Four Stories by R. A. Lafferty Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman From the Realm of Morpheus by Steven Millhauser
G Ghost Trouble by Richard Parks The Ghosts of Manacle by Charles G. Finney The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms by Lord Dunsany The Gods of Pegana by Lord Dunsany The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury Golden Gate and Other Stories by R. A. Lafferty The Golden Pot and Other Tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann Golden Wings and Other Stories by William Morris The Great World and the Small: More Tales of the Ominous and Magical by Darrell Schweitzer Green Magic by Jack Vance
H The Harold Shea Tales by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt collected in The Incomplete Enchanter, Wall of Serpents, The Compleat Enchanter, The Complete Compleat Enchanter, The Enchanter Reborn, The Exotic Enchanter, and The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia A. McKillip Heart of Stone, Dear and Other Stories by R. A. Lafferty Heroes and Horrors by Fritz Leiber Heroes in the Wind by Robert E. Howard
I I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu In for a Penny by James Blaylock In the Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens Iron Tears by R. A. Lafferty
J John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs John the Balladeer by Manly Wade Wellman The Jorkens Tales by Lord Dunsany (many but not all are fantasies) collected in The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens, Jorkens Remembers Africa, Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey, The Fourth Book of Jorkens, Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey, and The Last Book of Jorkens
K Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree by Ernest Bramah Kai Lung: Six by Ernest Bramah The King in the Tree (three novellas) by Steven Millhauser The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser
L The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke Lafferty in Orbit by R. A. Lafferty The Last Book of Wonder a.k.a. Tales of Wonder by Lord Dunsany ¡Limekiller! by Avram Davidson Lin Carter's Simrana Cycle by Lin Carter The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle Little Black Book of Stories by A. S. Byatt Little Kingdoms (three novellas) by Steven Millhauser Little Wizard Stories of Oz by L. Frank Baum Living With the Dead (The Tale of Old Corpsenberg) by Darrell Schweitzer Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury
M The Machineries of Joy by Ray Bradbury Madame Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery by Sheridan Le Fanu The Magician of Karakosk a.k.a. Giant Bones by Peter S. Beagle The Man Who Ate the Phoenix by Lord Dunsany The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories by R. A. Lafferty The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Mazirian the Magician a.k.a. The Dying Earth by Jack Vance The Meaning of Life and Other Awesome Cosmic Revelations by Darrell Schweitzer A Medicine for Melancholy a.k.a. The Day It Rained Forever by Ray Bradbury Mischief Malicious (And Murder Most Strange) by R. A. Lafferty Murder By Magic edited by Rosemary Edghill
N Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories by Darrell Schweitzer and Jason Van Hollander Night Moves and Other Stories by Tim Powers Nightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical by Darrell Schweitzer Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R. A. Lafferty Novelties & Souvenirs by John Crowley Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino
O The October Country by Ray Bradbury The Ogre's Wife by Richard Parks On the Banks of the River of Heaven by Richard Parks One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury Or All the Seas with Oysters by Avram Davidson The Other Nineteenth Century by Avram Davidson The Outsider and Others by H.P. Lovecraft
P The Panic Hand by Jonathan Carroll Poems and Stories by J. R. R. Tolkien Poems in Prose by Oscar Wilde Promontory Goats by R. A. Lafferty The Purple Pterodactyls by L. Sprague de Camp
Q Quicker Than the Eye by Ray Bradbury Qfwfq short-story series by Italo Calvino collected in Cosmicomics and t zero (but Numbers in the Dark also contains some Qfwfq stories)
R R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury The Redward Edward Papers by Avram Davidson Refugees from an Imaginary Country by Darrell Schweitzer The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales by L. Sprague de Camp The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche by Peter S. Beagle Ringing Changes by R. A. Lafferty
S The Serpent Bride by K.V. Johansen S is for Space by Ray Bradbury The Second Book of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer Shadows & Light: Tales of Lost Kingdoms Edited by Alva J. Roberts Skull-Face and Others by Robert E. Howard Slightly Off Center by Neal Barrett Slippery and Other Stories by R. A. Lafferty The Small Assassin a.k.a. Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories by R. A. Lafferty Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Strange Doings by R. A. Lafferty Strange Itineraries by Tim Powers Strange Seas and Shores by Avram Davidson Sugar and Other Stories by A. S. Byatt The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber Swords and Ice Magic by Fritz Leiber Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber
T Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin Tales from Gavagan's Bar by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt Tales from the Perilous Realm by J. R. R. Tolkien Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann by E. T. A. Hoffmann Tales of God and Men cycle by Lord Dunsany comprises The Gods of Pegana, Time and the Gods, The Sword of Welleran, A Dreamer's Tales, The Book of Wonder, Fifty-One Tales (a.k.a. The Food of Death), The Last Book of Wonder, and Tales of Three Hemispheres Tales of Hoffmann by E. T. A. Hoffmann The Tales of the Genii by James Ridley Tales of Three Hemispheres by Lord Dunsany Tales of Three Planets by Edgar Rice Burroughs Tales of Wonder a.k.a. The Last Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany Thirteen Phantasms by James Blaylock Through Elegant Eyes: Stories of Austro and the Men Who Know Everything by R. A. Lafferty Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out and Other Strange Excursions by Darrell Schweitzer The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury Transients and Other Disquieting Stories by Darrell Schweitzer The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales by L. Sprague de Camp
U Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien
V Viriconium Nights by M. John Harrison
W The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah The Watcher and Other Stories by Italo Calvino We Are All Legends by Darrell Schweitzer What Strange Stars and Skies by Avram Davidson Whimsical Tales of Douglas Jerrold by Douglas Jerrold Wonders of the Invisible World by Patricia A. McKillip Worshipping Small Gods by Richard Parks
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Y Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter by Richard Parks Yamada Monogatari: Troubled Spirits by Richard Parks Young Thongor by Lin Carter
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Novels and science-fiction short-story collections should not be included here: they have their own lists.
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