Most Popular Short Stories Books of the 1970s

Discover popular Short Stories books from the 1970s, with reader ratings and new favorites to explore.

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Beyond the Fields We Know

Lord Dunsany

Fantasy · Short Stories

1972

The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror

H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth

Horror · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1971

Moderan

David R. Bunch

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1971

Elric Saga #3

The Weird of the White Wolf

Michael Moorcock

Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

1977

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1971

Elric Saga #5

The Bane of the Black Sword

Michael Moorcock

Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

1977

The Lurking Fear and Other Stories

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

1971

The Tomb and Other Tales

H. P. Lovecraft

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

1970

My Name Is Legion

Roger Zelazny

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1976

The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth

Roger Zelazny

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1971

Elric

The Singing Citadel

Michael Moorcock

Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

1970

Songs of Stars and Shadows

George R. R. Martin

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1977

Conan

The Devil in Iron

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

1976

Cormac Mac Art

Tigers of the Sea

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy · Short Stories

1974

Tales of Pirx the Pilot

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction · Short Stories · Translation

1973

The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories #15

The Fifteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Storie

R. Chetwynd-Hayes

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

November 1979

Pan Book of Horror Stories #20

The 20th Pan Book of Horror Stories

Herbert van Thal

Horror · Gothic Horror · Psychological Horror · Splatterpunk · Weird Fiction

September 28, 1979

Tales of the Unexpected

Roald Dahl

Fantasy · Short Stories · Mainstream

1979

Riverworld and Other Stories

Philip José Farmer

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1979

Green Magic

Jack Vance

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1979

Infinite Dreams

Joe Haldeman

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1978

Tales of Love and Death

Robert Aickman

Horror · Short Stories

1977

Lankhmar #6

Swords and Ice Magic

Fritz Leiber

Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

1977

In the Problem Pit

Frederik Pohl

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1976

Autumn Angels #2

The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists

Arthur Byron Cover

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1976

Bolo

Bolo

Keith Laumer

Science Fiction · Military Science Fiction · Short Stories

1976

Long After Midnight

Ray Bradbury

Fantasy · Short Stories · Mainstream

1976

The Best of Clifford D. Simak

Clifford D. Simak

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1975

Kings of Horror

Robert W. Chambers, Arthur Machen

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

1975

Conan

The Tower of the Elephant

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

1975

The Best of C. L. Moore

C. L. Moore

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

1975

Known Space

Tales of Known Space

Larry Niven

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1975

Case and the Dreamer

Theodore Sturgeon

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1974

Lost Worlds: Volume 2

Clark Ashton Smith

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

1974

Over the Hills and Far Away

Lord Dunsany

Fantasy · Short Stories

1974

Inconstant Moon

Larry Niven

Science Fiction · Short Stories

1973