Most Popular Short Stories Books of the 2000s

Ambergris Cycle #1

City of Saints and Madmen

Jeff VanderMeer

Fantasy · New Weird · Short Stories

2001

The Black Phone and Other Stories

Joe Hill

Horror · Ghosts · Psychological Horror · Vampires · Adult

2005

The Witcher #1

The Last Wish

Andrzej Sapkowski

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Short Stories · Translation

June 2007

Fragile Things

Neil Gaiman

Fantasy · British Fantasy Award · Locus Award · Short Stories

September 2006

Earthsea #5

Tales from Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Locus Award · Short Stories

2001

Revelation Space #1

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

Alastair Reynolds

Science Fiction · Space Opera · Short Stories

2002

Little Black Book of Stories

A. S. Byatt

Fantasy · Short Stories

2003

Harry Potter Companion Books

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

J. K. Rowling

Fantasy · Young Adult · Harry Potter · Short Stories

December 4, 2008

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

Stephen King

Horror · Short Stories

2002

The Jungle Books

Rudyard Kipling

Fantasy · Short Stories

2000

Just After Sunset

Stephen King

Fantasy · Horror · Bram Stoker Award · Short Stories

October 31, 2008

Artemis Fowl

The Artemis Fowl Files

Eoin Colfer

Fantasy · Young Adult · Short Stories

2004

Stranger Things Happen

Kelly Link

Fantasy · Short Stories

2001

Women of the Otherworld

Men of the Otherworld

Kelley Armstrong

Fantasy · Urban Fantasy · Short Stories

January 20, 2009

The Collected Fantasies #1

The End of the Story

Clark Ashton Smith

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

2007

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

2007

Salt of the Air

Vera Nazarian

Fantasy · Short Stories

2006

The Shadow at the Bottom of the World

Thomas Ligotti

Horror · Short Stories

2005

The Collected Stories

Arthur C. Clarke

Science Fiction · Short Stories

2000

Fairy Tail #5

Fairy Tail: Volume 5

Hiro Mashima

Fantasy · Short Stories · Adventure · Comics

2009

Martyrs & Monsters

Robert Dunbar

Horror · Short Stories

2009

Experiments at 3 Billion A.M.

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

March 2009

Once and Future Cities

Allen Ashley

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

2009

Northwest Passages

Barbara Roden

Horror · Short Stories

2009

The Darkly Splendid Realm

Richard Gavin

Horror · Short Stories

2009

Merkabah Rider #1

Tales of a High Planes Drifter

Edward M. Erdelac

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

December 2009

The Loved Dead and Other Tales

C. M. Eddy, Jr.

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

2009

The Very Best of Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Locus Award · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

July 16, 2009

The Collected Fantasies #4

The Maze of the Enchanter

Clark Ashton Smith

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

June 23, 2009

The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction

Gene Wolfe

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award

March 13, 2009

Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural

Night Shivers: The Ghost Stories of Mrs J.H. Ridell

David Stuart Davies, J.H. Riddell

Horror · 19th century · Banshee · Ghosts · Gothic Horror

2008

Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural

Tales of Unease

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fantasy · Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction

2008

Fairy Tail #4

Fairy Tail: Volume 4

Hiro Mashima

Fantasy · Short Stories · Adventure · Comics

2008

Fairy Tail #3

Fairy Tail: Volume 3

Hiro Mashima

Fantasy · Short Stories · Adventure · Comics

2008

Hunting Zoe and Other Stories

Steve Gerlach

Horror · Short Stories · Thriller

2008

What the Giants Were Saying

David Rix

Horror · Short Stories

2008