Most Popular Short Stories Books of the 1980s

Discover popular Short Stories books from the 1980s, with reader ratings and new favorites to explore.

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The Winds of Change and Other Stories

Isaac Asimov

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1983

A Memory of Murder

Ray Bradbury

Short Stories · Mainstream · Thriller

1983

There Is No Darkness

Jack C. Haldeman II, Joe Haldeman

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1983

The Purple Book

Philip José Farmer

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1982

Lord Darcy

Lord Darcy Investigates

Randall Garrett

Fantasy · Short Stories

1981

Gene Wolfe's Book of Days

Gene Wolfe

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1981

John Carmody

Father to the Stars

Philip José Farmer

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1981

Tales of Sorcery and Witchcraft

Winifred Finlay

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1980

Childe Cycle #6

Lost Dorsai

Gordon R. Dickson

Science Fiction · Military Science Fiction · Collection · Short Stories

1980

Witch World Stories

Lore of the Witch World

Andre Norton

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1980

Daughter of Regals and Other Tales

Stephen R. Donaldson

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Short Stories

1984

Bolo

Rogue Bolo

Keith Laumer

Science Fiction · Military Science Fiction · Short Stories

1986

Anthonology

Piers Anthony

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1985

Sunfall

C. J. Cherryh

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1981

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick #5

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale

Philip K. Dick

Science Fiction · Collection · Short Stories

1987

The Augmented Agent and Other Stories

Jack Vance

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1986

Year's Best Horror Stories (US) #17

The Year s Best Horror Stories XVII

Karl Edward Wagner

Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Anthology · Short Stories

October 3, 1989

Pan Book of Horror Stories

The 30th Pan Book of Horror Stories

Clarence Paget

Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Splatterpunk · Weird Fiction

September 8, 1989

Dark Fantasies

Chris Morgan

Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Short Stories

1989

The Bureau of Lost Souls

Christopher Fowler

Horror · Short Stories

1989

The Day of Wrath

Sever Gansovsky

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1989

Things in Corners

Ruth Park

Horror · Young Adult · Short Stories

1989

Author's Choice Monthly #3

Daily Voices

Lisa Goldstein

Fantasy · Short Stories

1989

Author's Choice Monthly #1

The Old Funny Stuff

George Alec Effinger

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1989

The Black Reaper

Bernard Capes

Horror · Short Stories

1989

Ghostly Tales

Henry James

Horror · Short Stories

1989

Un-Paying Guests

A. M. Burrage

Horror · Short Stories

1989

A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories

Brian Aldiss

Fantasy · Short Stories

1989

Collected Stories

Richard Matheson

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Bram Stoker Award · Short Stories

1989

Tales from Planet Earth

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1989

By Bizarre Hands

Joe R. Lansdale

Horror · Short Stories

1989

Children of the Wind

Kate Wilhelm

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1989

Forests of the Night

Tanith Lee

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

1989

Women as Demons: The Male Perception of Women through Space and Time

Tanith Lee

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1989

Nantucket Slayrides: Three Short Novels

Lucius Shepard, Robert Frazier

Horror · Short Stories

1989

Strange Things in Close-Up: The Nearly Complete Howard Waldrop

Howard Waldrop

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1989