Most Popular Short Stories Books of the 2010s

Discover popular Short Stories books from the 2010s, with reader ratings and new favorites to explore.

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The Strange Dark One

W. H. Pugmire

Horror · Short Stories

November 2012

The Knife and the Wound It Deals

B. E. Scully

Horror · Short Stories

2012

The Grimm Diaries Prequels #4

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut

Cameron Jace

Fantasy · Young Adult · Short Stories · Romance

July 21, 2012

Monsoon and Other Stories

Arinn Dembo

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

2012

Where Furnaces Burn

Joel Lane

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories · World Fantasy Award · Thriller

October 2012

On the Hill of Roses

Stefan Grabinski

Horror · Short Stories

May 2012

Leave Your Sleep

R. B. Russell

Horror · Short Stories

October 2012

Requiems & Nightmares: Selected Short Fiction of Guido Gozzano

Guido Gozzano

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories · Translation · Mainstream

May 2012

At Fear's Altar

Richard Gavin

Horror · Short Stories

October 29, 2012

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories #2

The Unreal and the Real: Outer Space, Inner Lands

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

November 2012

Dark Carpathians

Dark Nights

Christine Feehan

Fantasy · Paranormal Romance · Short Stories · Romance

October 25, 2012

Night & Demons

David Drake

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

September 29, 2012

Where Are We Going?

Allen Ashley

Science Fiction · Anthology · Short Stories

March 2012

A Glimpse of the Numinous

Jeff Gardiner

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

March 2012

Sangria in the Sangraal

Rhys Hughes

Fantasy · Short Stories

2011

You Shall Never Know Security

J. R. Hamantaschen

Horror · Dark Fantasy · Short Stories

2011

Complete Short Story Omnibus

H. G. Wells

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Magical Realism · Short Stories

May 2011

The Inhabitant of the Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants

Ramsey Campbell

Horror · Short Stories

2011

Merkabah Rider #3

Have Glyphs Will Travel

Edward M. Erdelac

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

2011

The Assassin's Tear

Karen Azinger

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Short Stories

December 2011

Gathered Dust and Others

W. H. Pugmire

Horror · Short Stories

November 2011

The Silver Wind

Nina Allan

Science Fiction · Short Stories

September 2011

Uneasy Reading: 4 Horror Shorts

Jason M. Tucker

Horror · Short Stories

May 2011

Blood, Magic & a Concubine: 3 Dark Urban Fantasy Tales

Jason M. Tucker

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

March 2011

The Machine Stops

E. M. Forster

Science Fiction · Short Stories

February 2011

Feather

David Rix

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

September 2011

The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan #1

Two Worlds and in Between

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

October 2011

Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors

Livia Llewellyn

Fantasy · Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

March 12, 2011

Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural

The Casefiles of Mr. J.G. Reeder

Edgar Wallace, David Stuart Davies

19th century · Cozy Mystery · Crime Fiction · Weird Fiction · Collection

June 15, 2010

Merkabah Rider #2

The Mensch With No Name

Edward M. Erdelac

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

2010

An Emporium of Automata

D. P. Watt

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

September 2010

Holiday

M. Rickert

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

November 2010

Unpleasant Tales

Brendan Connell

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

April 2010

Darkness, Mist & Shadow #2

Darkness, Mist & Shadow - The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper: Volume 2

Stephen Jones, Basil Copper

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

April 2010

Darkness, Mist & Shadow #1

Darkness, Mist & Shadow

Stephen Jones, Basil Copper

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

April 2010

In Other Worlds

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

July 4, 2010