List of fantasy story collections

Some notable fantasy short story collections, in alphabetical order by title(some of these collections may also include some science-fiction stories):

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A

*"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 LeFanu
*"The Best of Avram Davidson" by Avram Davidson
*"The Best Tales of Hoffmann" by E. T. A. Hoffmann
*"The Bible Repairman" by Tim Powers
*"The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter
*"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 Le Ursula K. Guin
*"The Collected Fantasies of Avram Davidson" 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 Le Ursula K. Guin
*"The Compleat Traveller in Black" aka "The Complete Traveller in Black" by John Brunner
*"Complete Fairy Tales" by George MacDonald
*"Complete Fairy Tales" by Oscar Wilde
*"The Complete Traveller in Black" aka "The Compleat Traveller in Black" by John Brunner

D

*"Dark Carnival" aka "The Small Assassin" by Ray Bradbury
*"The Day It Rained Forever" aka "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
*"Driving Blind" by Ray Bradbury
*"The Dying Earth" aka "Mazirian the Magician" by Jack Vance

E

*"The Early Lafferty" by R. A. Lafferty
*"The Early Lafferty II" by R. A. Lafferty
*"Eight Fantasms and Magics" by Jack Vance
*"Elementals" by A. S. Byatt

F

*"Fancies and Goodnights" by John Collier
*"Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner" by E. T. A. Hoffmann
*"Fifty-One Tales" aka "The Food of Death" by Lord Dunsany
*"Fireworks" by Angela Carter
*"The Food of Death" aka "Fifty-One Tales" by Lord Dunsany
*"Four Stories" by R. A. Lafferty
*"Fragile Things" by Neil Gaiman
*"From the Realm of Morpheus" by Steven Millhauser

G

*"The Ghosts of Manacle" by Charles G. Finney
*"The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms" by Lord Dunsany
*"Giant Bones" aka "The Magician of Karakosk" by Peter S. Beagle
*"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
*"Green Magic" by Jack Vance

H

*"The Halloween Tree" by Ray Bradbury
*"Heart of Stone, Dear and Other Stories" by R. A. Lafferty

I

*"I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury
*"The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury
*"In a Glass Darkly" by Sheridan LeFanu
*"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 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
*"" by Ernest Bramah
*"The King in the Tree (three novellas)" by Steven Millhauser
*"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" aka "Tales of Wonder" by Lord Dunsany
*"Limekiller" by Avram Davidson
*"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
*"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 LeFanu
*"The Magician of Karakosk" aka "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
*"The Mazirian the Magician" aka "The Dying Earth" by Jack Vance
*"A Medicine for Melancholy" aka "The Day It Rained Forever" by Ray Bradbury
*"Mischief Malicious (And Murder Most Strange)" by R. A. Lafferty

N

*"Night Moves and Other Stories" by Tim Powers
*"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
*"One More for the Road" by Ray Bradbury
*"Or All the Seas with Oysters" by Avram Davidson
*"The Other Nineteenth Century" by Avram Davidson

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

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
*"The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche" by Peter S. Beagle
*"Ringing Changes" by R. A. Lafferty

*"S is for Space" by Ray Bradbury
*"Slightly Off Center" by Neal Barrett
*"Slippery and Other Stories" by R. A. Lafferty
*"The Small Assassin" aka "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

T

*"Tales from Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
*"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" (aka "The Food of Death"), "The Last Book of Wonder", and "Tales of Three Hemispheres"
*"Tales of Hoffmann" by E. T. A. Hoffmann
*"Tales of Three Hemispheres" by Lord Dunsany
*"The Tales of Wonder" aka "Last Book of Wonder" by Lord Dunsany
*"Thirteen Phantasms" by James Blaylock
*"" by R. A. Lafferty
*"Time and the Gods" by Lord Dunsany
*"The Toynbee Convector" by Ray Bradbury

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
*"What Strange Stars and Skies" by Avram Davidson
*"Whimsical Tales of Douglas Jerrold" by Douglas Jerrold

X

Y

Z

"Please note that novels and science-fiction short-story collections should not be included here: they have their own lists."