Most Popular Short Stories Books of the 1940s

The Travelling Grave and Other Stories

L. P. Hartley

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1948

Not Long for This World

August Derleth

Horror · Short Stories

1948

Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

Arthur Machen

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1948

Without Sorcery

Theodore Sturgeon

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1948

...And Some Were Human

Lester del Rey

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1948

Who Goes There?

John W. Campbell

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1948

Divide and Rule

L. Sprague de Camp

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1948

The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction

L. Sprague de Camp

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1948

Revelations in Black

Carl Jacobi

Horror · Science Fiction · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

1947

Unholy Relics

M. P. Dare

Horror · Short Stories

1947

Not Exactly Ghosts

Andrew Caldecott

Horror · Short Stories

1947

This Mortal Coil

Cynthia Asquith

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1947

Venus Equilateral

Venus Equilateral

George O. Smith

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1947

Jorkens #4

The Fourth Book of Jorkens

Lord Dunsany

Fantasy · Short Stories

1947

Neither Man Nor Dog: Short Stories

Gerald Kersh

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1946

The Horror of Abbot's Grange

Frederick Cowles

Horror · Short Stories

1946

The Invisible Companion and Other Stories

J. Jefferson Farjeon

Fantasy · Short Stories

1946

Holy Terrors

Arthur Machen

Horror · Short Stories

1946

The Hounds of Tindalos

Frank Belknap Long

Horror · Short Stories

1946

Murder in the Clinic

Edmond Hamilton

Short Stories

1946

The Man Who Limped and Other Stories

Otis Adelbert Kline

Fantasy · Short Stories

1946

The Doll and One Other

Algernon Blackwood

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1946

Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories

Sheridan Le Fanu

Horror · Short Stories

1945

Something Near

August Derleth

Horror · Short Stories

1945

They Can Only Hang You Once

Dashiell Hammett

Short Stories

January 1, 1944

The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories

Gerald Kersh

Horror · Short Stories

1944

The Eye and the Finger

Donald Wandrei

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1944

Lost Worlds

Clark Ashton Smith

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1944

Nine Ghosts

R. H. Malden

Horror · Short Stories

1943

A Touch of Nutmeg and More Unlikely Stories

John Collier

Fantasy · Short Stories

1943

Selected Tales of Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood

Fantasy · Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1943

Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural

Couching at the Door

Dorothy Kathleen Broster

Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology

1942

Presenting Moonshine

John Collier

Fantasy · Short Stories

1941

Someone in the Dark

August Derleth

Horror · Short Stories

1941

Beyond the Farthest Star

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1941

Kai Lung #5

Kai Lung Beneath the Mulberry Tree

Ernest Bramah

Fantasy · Short Stories

1940