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

• The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy byAvram Davidson
• And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire byR. A. Lafferty et al.
• Apocalypses (two novellas) byR. A. Lafferty
• The Avram Davidson Treasury byAvram Davidson

• The Back Door of History byR. A. Lafferty
• The Barnum Museum bySteven Millhauser
• Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Lefanu bySheridan Le Fanu
• The Best of Avram Davidson byAvram Davidson
• The Best Tales of Hoffmann byE. T. A. Hoffmann
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep byH.P. Lovecraft
• The Bible Repairman byTim Powers
• The Bloody Chamber byAngela Carter
• The Book of Fritz Leiber byFritz Leiber
• The Book of Wonder byLord Dunsany

• Carnacki the Ghost-Finder byWilliam Hope Hodgson
• The Castle of Crossed Destinies (two novellas) byItalo Calvino
• Changing Planes byUrsula K. Le Guin
• Collected Fantasies byAvram Davidson
• Collected Fictions byJorge Luis Borges
  • an omnibus of all eight volumes of Borges' fiction (which is entirely short stories)
• The Compass Rose byUrsula K. Le Guin
• The Compleat Traveller in Blacka.k.a.The Compleat Traveller in Black byJohn Brunner
• The Complete Chronicles of Conan byRobert E. Howard
• Complete Fairy Tales byGeorge MacDonald
• Complete Fairy Tales byOscar Wilde
• The Complete Fiction ofH.P. Lovecraft
• The Traveller in Black a.k.a.The Compleat Traveller in Black byJohn Brunner
• Cinderella

• Dark Carnival a.k.a.The Small Assassin byRay Bradbury
• The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack byDarrell Schweitzer
• The Day It Rained Forever a.k.a.A Medicine for Melancholy byRay Bradbury
• The Devils in the Details byJames Blaylock andTim Powers
• Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? byR. A. Lafferty
• A Dreamer's Tales byLord Dunsany
• Dreams of Distant Shores byPatricia A. McKillip
• Driving Blind byRay Bradbury
• The Dying Earth a.k.a.Mazirian the Magician byJack Vance

• The Early Lafferty byR. A. Lafferty
• The Early Lafferty II byR. A. Lafferty
• Echoes of the Goddess byDarrell Schweitzer
• Eight Fantasms and Magics byJack Vance
• Elementals byA. S. Byatt
• The Emperor of the Ancient Word and Other Fantastic Stories byDarrell Schweitzer
• The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy byAvram Davidson
• Escape on Venus byEdgar Rice Burroughs

• Fancies and Goodnights byJohn Collier
• Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner byE. T. A. Hoffmann
• Fifty-One Tales a.k.a.The Food of Death byLord Dunsany
• Fireworks byAngela Carter
• The Food of Death a.k.a.Fifty-One Tales byLord Dunsany
• The Fortunes of Brak byJohn Jakes
• Four Stories byR. A. Lafferty
• Fragile Things byNeil Gaiman
• From the Realm of Morpheus bySteven Millhauser

• Ghost Trouble byRichard Parks
• The Ghosts of Manacle byCharles G. Finney
• The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms byLord Dunsany
• The Gods of Pegana byLord Dunsany
• The Golden Apples of the Sun byRay Bradbury
• Golden Gate and Other Stories byR. A. Lafferty
• The Golden Pot and Other Tales byE. T. A. Hoffmann
• Golden Wings and Other Stories byWilliam Morris
• The Great World and the Small: More Tales of the Ominous and Magical byDarrell Schweitzer
• Green Magic byJack Vance

• The Harold Shea Tales byL. Sprague de Camp andFletcher Pratt
  • collected inThe Incomplete Enchanter,Wall of Serpents,The Compleat Enchanter,The Complete Compleat Enchanter,The Enchanter Reborn,The Exotic Enchanter, andThe Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
• Harrowing the Dragon byPatricia A. McKillip
• Heart of Stone, Dear and Other Stories byR. A. Lafferty
• Heroes and Horrors byFritz Leiber
• Heroes in the Wind byRobert E. Howard

• I Sing the Body Electric byRay Bradbury
• The Illustrated Man byRay Bradbury
• In a Glass Darkly bySheridan Le Fanu
• In for a Penny byJames Blaylock
• In the Penny Arcade bySteven Millhauser
• Invisible Cities byItalo Calvino
• Irish Fairy Tales byJames Stephens
• Iron Tears byR. A. Lafferty

• John Carter of Mars byEdgar Rice Burroughs
• John the Balladeer byManly Wade Wellman
• The Jorkens Tales byLord Dunsany (many but not all are fantasies)
  • collected inThe Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens,Jorkens Remembers Africa,Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey,The Fourth Book of Jorkens,Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey, andThe Last Book of Jorkens

• Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree byErnest Bramah
• Kai Lung: Six byErnest Bramah
• The King in the Tree (three novellas) bySteven Millhauser
• The Knight and Knave of Swords byFritz Leiber
• The Knife Thrower and Other Stories bySteven Millhauser

• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories bySusanna Clarke
• Lafferty in Orbit byR. A. Lafferty
• The Last Book of Wonder a.k.a.Tales of Wonder byLord Dunsany
• ¡Limekiller! byAvram Davidson
• Lin Carter's Simrana Cycle byLin Carter
• The Line Between byPeter S. Beagle
• Little Black Book of Stories byA. S. Byatt
• Little Kingdoms (three novellas) bySteven Millhauser
• Little Wizard Stories of Oz byL. Frank Baum
• Living With the Dead (The Tale of Old Corpsenberg) byDarrell Schweitzer
• Long After Midnight byRay Bradbury

• The Machineries of Joy byRay Bradbury
• Madame Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery bySheridan Le Fanu
• The Magician of Karakosk a.k.a.Giant Bones byPeter S. Beagle
• The Man Who Ate the Phoenix byLord Dunsany
• The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories byR. A. Lafferty
• The Martian Chronicles byRay Bradbury
• Mazirian the Magician a.k.a.The Dying Earth byJack Vance
• The Meaning of Life and Other Awesome Cosmic Revelations byDarrell Schweitzer
• A Medicine for Melancholy a.k.a.The Day It Rained Forever byRay Bradbury
• Mischief Malicious (And Murder Most Strange) byR. A. Lafferty
• Murder By Magic edited byRosemary Edghill

• Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories byDarrell Schweitzer andJason Van Hollander
• Night Moves and Other Stories byTim Powers
• Nightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical byDarrell Schweitzer
• Nine Hundred Grandmothers byR. A. Lafferty
• Novelties & Souvenirs byJohn Crowley
• Numbers in the Dark byItalo Calvino

• The October Country byRay Bradbury
• The Ogre's Wife byRichard Parks
• On the Banks of the River of Heaven byRichard Parks
• One More for the Road byRay Bradbury
• Or All the Seas with Oysters byAvram Davidson
• The Other Nineteenth Century byAvram Davidson
• The Outsider and Others byH.P. Lovecraft

• The Panic Hand byJonathan Carroll
• Poems and Stories byJ. R. R. Tolkien
• Poems in Prose byOscar Wilde
• Promontory Goats byR. A. Lafferty
• The Purple Pterodactyls byL. Sprague de Camp

• Quicker Than the Eye byRay Bradbury
• Qfwfq short-story series byItalo Calvino
  • collected inCosmicomics andt zero (butNumbers in the Dark also contains some Qfwfq stories)

• R is for Rocket byRay Bradbury
• The Redward Edward Papers byAvram Davidson
• Refugees from an Imaginary Country byDarrell Schweitzer
• The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales byL. Sprague de Camp
• The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche byPeter S. Beagle
• Ringing Changes byR. A. Lafferty

• The Serpent Bride byK.V. Johansen
• S is for Space byRay Bradbury
• The Second Book of Fritz Leiber byFritz Leiber
• Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer byDarrell Schweitzer
• Shadows & Light: Tales of Lost Kingdoms Edited byAlva J. Roberts
• Skull-Face and Others byRobert E. Howard
• Slightly Off Center byNeal Barrett
• Slippery and Other Stories byR. A. Lafferty
• The Small Assassin a.k.a.Dark Carnival byRay Bradbury
• Smoke and Mirrors byNeil Gaiman
• Snake in His Bosom and Other Stories byR. A. Lafferty
• Stories of Your Life and Others byTed Chiang
• Strange Doings byR. A. Lafferty
• Strange Itineraries byTim Powers
• Strange Seas and Shores byAvram Davidson
• Sugar and Other Stories byA. S. Byatt
• The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories byLord Dunsany
• Swords Against Death byFritz Leiber
• Swords Against Wizardry byFritz Leiber
• Swords and Deviltry byFritz Leiber
• Swords and Ice Magic byFritz Leiber
• Swords in the Mist byFritz Leiber

• Tales from Earthsea byUrsula K. Le Guin
• Tales from Gavagan's Bar byL. Sprague de Camp andFletcher Pratt
• Tales from the Perilous Realm byJ. R. R. Tolkien
• Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann byE. T. A. Hoffmann
• Tales of God and Men cycle byLord Dunsany
  • comprisesThe 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, andTales of Three Hemispheres
• Tales of Hoffmann byE. T. A. Hoffmann
• The Tales of the Genii byJames Ridley
• Tales of Three Hemispheres byLord Dunsany
• Tales of Three Planets byEdgar Rice Burroughs
• Tales of Wonder a.k.a.The Last Book of Wonder byLord Dunsany
• Thirteen Phantasms byJames Blaylock
• Through Elegant Eyes: Stories of Austro and the Men Who Know Everything byR. A. Lafferty
• Time and the Gods byLord Dunsany
• Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out and Other Strange Excursions byDarrell Schweitzer
• The Toynbee Convector byRay Bradbury
• Transients and Other Disquieting Stories byDarrell Schweitzer
• The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales byL. Sprague de Camp

• Unfinished Tales byJ. R. R. Tolkien

• Viriconium Nights byM. John Harrison

• The Wallet of Kai Lung byErnest Bramah
• The Watcher and Other Stories byItalo Calvino
• We Are All Legends byDarrell Schweitzer
• What Strange Stars and Skies byAvram Davidson
• Whimsical Tales of Douglas Jerrold byDouglas Jerrold
• Wonders of the Invisible World byPatricia A. McKillip
• Worshipping Small Gods byRichard Parks

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• Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter byRichard Parks
• Yamada Monogatari: Troubled Spirits byRichard Parks
• Young Thongor byLin Carter

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