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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Jottings from a Far Away Place

Brendan Connell

Fantasy · Short Stories · Mainstream

November 2015

Falling in Love with Hominids

Nalo Hopkinson

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

August 11, 2015

A Confederacy of Horrors

James Robert Smith

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

January 2015

Mirrors in the Deluge

Rhys Hughes

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

March 6, 2015

Fairy Tales Retold

Lethargy - a Princess and the Pea story

Sonya Writes

Fairy Tale Retellings · Young Adult · Short Stories · Retellings · Romance

August 10, 2014

Mercy and Other Stories

Rebecca Lloyd

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

March 2014

Bone Idle in the Charnel House

Rhys Hughes

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

December 2014

Forgotten Hymns of the Death Angels

Alexander Zelenyj

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

September 2014

The Sourdough Cycle

The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings

Angela Slatter

Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Short Stories

September 2014

After the People Lights Have Gone Off

Stephen Graham Jones

Horror · Short Stories

September 17, 2014

They Do the Same Things Different There

Robert Shearman

Fantasy · Horror · New Weird · Short Stories

September 10, 2014

Ghouljaw and Other Stories

Clint Smith

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

May 2014

The Lord Came at Twilight

Daniel Mills

Horror · Gothic Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

2014

Ana Kai Tangata

Scott Nicolay

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

April 2014

Burnt Black Suns

Simon Strantzas

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

May 2014

The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies

Clark Ashton Smith

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

March 20, 2014

The Early Jack Vance #4

Minding the Stars

Jack Vance

Science Fiction · Short Stories

March 2014

Volwys & Other Stories

Douglas Thompson

Science Fiction · Short Stories

September 2014

Songs for the Lost

Alexander Zelenyj

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

September 2014

The Metanatural Adventures of Dr. Black

Brendan Connell

Fantasy · Short Stories · Mainstream

August 2014

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories from 'The Sun'

Edward Page Mitchell

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Social Science Fiction · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

February 28, 2013

The Country of the Worm: Excursions Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Gary Myers

Horror · Short Stories

May 2013

The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies

John Langan

Horror · Short Stories

April 2013

The Bread We Eat in Dreams

Catherynne M. Valente

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

December 2013

PS Showcase #11

Stardust

Nina Allan

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

May 2013

Defeated Dogs

Quentin S. Crisp

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

April 2013

Lest Our Passage Be Forgotten & Other Stories

Bradley P. Beaulieu

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Short Stories

May 2013

Before and Afterlives

Christopher Barzak

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

March 18, 2013

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

August 13, 2013

Tallest Stories

Rhys Hughes

Fantasy · Short Stories

February 2013

Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural

Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson

E. F. Benson, David Stuart Davies

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

May 6, 2012

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