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 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

The Mirror of Legends

Bernard Lazare

Fantasy · Short Stories · Translation

August 21, 2017

Nailbiters

Paul Kane

Horror · Crime Fiction · Psychological Horror · Short Stories · Thriller

February 2017

Don't Look Back

John Gribbin

Science Fiction · Short Stories

May 5, 2017

Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories

Catherine Lundoff

Fantasy · Short Stories

January 2017

Vessel and Solsvart

Berit Ellingsen

Fantasy · Short Stories

March 6, 2017

Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories

Kim Newman

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

January 22, 2017

Another World and Other Ghost Stories

Rosemary Timperley, Richard Dalby

Horror · Ghosts · Gothic Horror · Weird Fiction · Collection

April 1, 2016

At the Cemetery Gates #1

At the Cemetery Gates: Year One

John Brhel, J. Sullivan

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Short Stories

October 2016

The Unknown Collaborator and Other Legendary Tales

Victor Joly

Fantasy · Short Stories · Translation

October 2016

The Outcast Spirit and Other Stories

Lady Dilke

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories · Mainstream

November 2016

Marvelry's Curiosity Shop

John Brhel, J. Sullivan

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Short Stories

July 26, 2016

The Tarantulas' Parlor and Other Unkind Tales

Léon Bloy

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories · Translation · Mainstream

October 17, 2016

Mendicant City

Yarrow Paisley

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

August 8, 2016

Death After Death

Edmund Glasby

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Short Stories

May 2016

Butterfly Dream

Kristine Ong Muslim

Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

May 2016

The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

October 18, 2016

The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies

Jean Lorrain

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

July 18, 2016

Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales

Cody Goodfellow

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

March 2016

Greener Pastures

Michael Wehunt

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

April 1, 2016

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine

Hap and Leonard

Joe R. Lansdale

Short Stories · Thriller

March 11, 2016

Not So Much, Said the Cat

Michael Swanwick

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

August 8, 2016

Newsflesh

Rise: A Newsflesh Collection

Mira Grant

Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

June 2016

The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear #3

The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear, Volume 3: Beyond the Farthest Suns

Greg Bear

Science Fiction · Short Stories

April 2016

The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear #1

The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear, Volume 1: Just Over the Horizon

Greg Bear

Science Fiction · Short Stories

April 2016

Swift to Chase

Laird Barron

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

October 4, 2016

Dreams of Distant Shores

Patricia A. McKillip

Fantasy · Short Stories

June 2016

Dreamglass Days

Mark Howard Jones

Horror · Short Stories

July 2016

Human Maps

Andrew Hook

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Short Stories

November 2016

Gothic Fantasy

Science Fiction Short Stories

Andy Sawyer

Science Fiction · Anthology · Collection · Short Stories

September 30, 2015

The Selection Series

Happily Ever After: Companion to the Selection Series

Kiera Cass

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Young Adult · Short Stories · Romance

October 2015

Horthólary: Tales from Montagascony

Michael Reynier

Fantasy · Short Stories

October 2015