Most Popular Short Stories Books

Explore the most popular Short Stories books across decades, with reader ratings and discoveries from Risingshadow.

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Obscure Academy #5

Pumpkin Carving For Superstitious Witches

Laura Greenwood

Fantasy · New Adult · Paranormal Fantasy · Paranormal Romance · Urban Fantasy

December 9, 2022

These Long Teeth of the Night: The Best Short Stories 1999-2019

Alexander Zelenyj

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

2022

Night Huntress #1

The Other Half of the Grave

Jeaniene Frost

Fantasy · Paranormal Romance · Urban Fantasy · Vampires · Short Stories

April 26, 2022

The Expanse

Memory's Legion

James S. A. Corey

Science Fiction · Space Opera · Collection · Short Stories

March 15, 2022

Eibonvale Chapbook Line #19

Affairs of a Cardiovascular Nature

Terry Grimwood

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

March 2021

The Shadow Series (Ender) #6

The Last Shadow

Orson Scott Card

Science Fiction · Short Stories

November 16, 2021

The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #3

The Teleporting Tomb and Other Tales

Vaughn Entwistle

Fantasy · Short Stories · Mystery

October 2020

Ruby

Nina Allan

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

October 6, 2020

Once Upon a Short Story #3

The Bruised Princess

A. G. Marshall

Fantasy · Fairy Tale Retellings · HEA Ending · No Spice Romance · Young Adult

April 7, 2019

Taaqtumi #1

Taaqtumi

Neil Christopher

Fantasy · Horror · Ghosts · Post-Apocalyptic · Psychological Horror

September 10, 2019

Keyhole

Matthew G. Rees

Horror · Short Stories

2019

Arms Against a Sea (and Other Troubles)

Rhys Hughes

Fantasy · Short Stories

October 2019

British Library Tales of the Weird #8

The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson

William Hope Hodgson, Xavier Aldana Reyes

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

April 2019

Black Shuck Shadows #15

Flowers of War

Mark Howard Jones

Horror · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction · Collection · Short Stories

August 29, 2019

Eibonvale Chapbook Line #12

Animals of the Exodus

Alexander Zelenyj

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

August 2019

British Library Tales of the Weird #3

Glimpses of the Unknown

Mike Ashley

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

September 20, 2018

Of Echoes Born

'Nathan Burgoine

Fantasy · Short Stories · Mainstream

June 2018

A Test Tube Family

Alexander Zelenyj

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

December 2018

At the Cemetery Gates #2

At the Cemetery Gates: Volume Two

John Brhel, J. Sullivan

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Short Stories

October 26, 2018

A Deep Horror That Was Very Nearly Awe

J. R. Hamantaschen

Horror · Dark Fantasy · Short Stories

September 24, 2018

Blacker Against the Deep Dark

Alexander Zelenyj

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

December 2018

Resonance and Revolt

Rosanne Rabinowitz

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

March 2018

How Many Times?

Rhys Hughes

Fantasy · Short Stories · Mainstream

March 2018

There is a Way to Live Forever

Terry Grimwood

Horror · Short Stories

February 2018

Nothing Is Everything

Simon Strantzas

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

October 2018

Her Mourning Portrait and Other Paranormal Oddities

John Brhel, J. Sullivan

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Short Stories

January 2018

Daughters of Apostasy

Damian Murphy

Fantasy · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

September 2017

Eibonvale Chapbook Line #2

The Big-Headed People and Other Stories

D. F. Lewis

Horror · Short Stories

December 2017

Eibonvale Chapbook Line #1

The Drone Outside

Kristine Ong Muslim

Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

December 2017

World Muses

Rhys Hughes

Fantasy · Short Stories

September 2017

The Frail Soul and Other Stories

Camille Mauclair

Fantasy · Short Stories · Translation · Mainstream

December 2017

The Winter Ghosts Are Calling: Tales of Speculative Fiction

Vaughn Entwistle

Horror · Short Stories

August 2017

The Conduit and Other Visionary Tales of Morphing Whimsy

Richard Gessner

Fantasy · Magical Realism · Short Stories

September 1, 2017

Salty Kiss Island: Fantastika Romantique

Rhys Hughes

Fantasy · Short Stories · Romance

June 2017

Masks in the Tapestry

Jean Lorrain

Fantasy · Short Stories

July 2017

Pleasant Tales

Brendan Connell

Fantasy · Short Stories · Mainstream

November 2017