Anthologies (multiple authors)

The Best of the Best, Volume 2

by Gardner Dozois

For more than twenty years The Year's Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan....

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois

The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now.  Included here are the works...

Thieves' World: First Blood

by Robert Lynn Asprin & Lynn Abbey

Contains all of the stories of the first two Thieves’ World anthologies (Thieves’ World and Tales of the Vulgar Unicorn), with additional material.

Return to the Olden Days of Sanctuary!

Sanctuary, a seedy,...

Haunted Legends

by Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas

Winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology!

Darkly thrilling, these twenty new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an...

My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

by P. N. Elrod, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris & L. A. Banks et al.

Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis---and weddings

An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors...

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection

by Gardner Dozois

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction (Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with...

Ghosts and Grisly Things

by Ramsey Campbell

A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and an eight-time winner of the British Fantasy Award, Campbell may be the genres most decorated writer. Publishers Weekly hails him as a master of the horror genre,...

Love at First Bite

by Sherrilyn Kenyon, L. A. Banks, Susan Squires & Ronda Thompson

Until Death Do Us Part" by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Over five hundred years ago, Esperetta's soul was bound to her husband's by dark magic, and when Velkan became a Dark-Hunter, to her horror, she became immortal as...

The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

by Marvin Kaye

This long-awaited volume finally brings to light several cases of the world's most famous consulting detective that were originally suppressed to avoid scandal and embarrassment to the Crown, public figures,...

Underground Rivers: A Collection of Short Stories

by Mike French

The Luton Writers' Group was born out of a question: Are there still writers out there or has Luton become a literary desert? Before the group started, a workshop was run last year at Luton library about getting...

Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600

by Haruo Shirane

Stretching from ancient times to the late medieval period, Traditional Japanese Literature spans both high and popular styles and contains key examples of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. Its depth...

Pieces

by Stephen Chbosky

MTV has discovered the authors of tomorrow. Read them today in Pieces.

This unique short-story collection is more than a good read -- it's an exciting glimpse into the future of fiction. The winners of MTV's...

The Best American Mystery Stories 2012

by Otto Penzler & Robert Crais

A collection of the best mystery writing published in 2011 culled from a variety of sources.

The Best American Short Stories 2012

by Tom Perrotta & Heidi Pitlor

The Best American Short Stories is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. The 2012 edition is guest edited by Tom Perrotta.

Treasury of Joy & Inspiration: Our Most Moving Stories Ever

by Editors of Reader's Digest

To celebrate 90 years of publishing “reads of lasting interest,” Reader’s Digest offers this editors’ selection of our best stories since our founding in 1922. Chock-full of essays and true tales by...

Lost and Found

by Helen S. Weiss, M. Jerry Weiss, Joyce Hansen & David Lubar et al.

From the silent horror of an image-obsessed teenager starving herself to perfection to the hilarious humilations of a freshman forced to endure fencing class, each of these stories is a very personal and creative...

Vanishing Acts

by Ellen Datlow

Stories by Suzy McKee Charnas, Ted Chiang, Avram Davidson, Karen Joy Fowler, Paul McAuley, Brian Stableford, and others.

The theme of this anthology is "endangered species", loosely interpreted to include in...

Starlight 3

by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Since its debut in 1996, Starlight has been recognized as the preeminent original anthology of science fiction and fantasy. Its stories have won the Nebula Award, the Sturgeon Award, and the Tiptree Award. Starlight...

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5

by Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg

Editors Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg have scoured the world to present the biggest and most consistently entertaining collection of crime and suspense stories from across the globe. Their first-rate picks...

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 2

by Ed Gorman

It’s not easy to collect, in a single volume, the finest mystery and suspense fiction the world has to offer, but The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection rises to that challenge,...