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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Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

Horror · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

May 2010

Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle

Peter S. Beagle

Fantasy · Short Stories

February 2010

Stories of the Raksura #2

Stories of the Raksura: Volume Two: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below

Martha Wells

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Short Stories

May 28, 2015

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

August 2013

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

March 2011

The Collected Fantasies #5

The Last Hieroglyph

Clark Ashton Smith

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

November 20, 2010

Bel Dame Apocrypha

Apocalypse Nyx

Kameron Hurley

Science Fiction · Short Stories

July 17, 2018

The Whistler

Witness to a Trial

John Grisham

Crime Fiction · Legal Thriller · Suspense Thriller · Short Stories · Mystery

September 27, 2016

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Ken Liu

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

March 4, 2016

Stories of the Raksura #1

Stories of the Raksura: Volume One: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud

Martha Wells

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Short Stories

September 2, 2014

Crawling Chaos #2

Crawling Chaos, Volume Two: Selected Weird Fiction 1928-1935

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

January 2013

North American Lake Monsters

Nathan Ballingrud

Fantasy · Horror · Short Stories

July 16, 2013

Crawling Chaos #1

Crawling Chaos, Volume One: Selected Weird Fiction: 1917-1927

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

May 2012

Skullcrusher #1

Skullcrusher: Selected Weird Fiction, Volume One

Robert E. Howard

Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery · Short Stories

September 2012

At the Mouth of the River of Bees

Kij Johnson

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

September 25, 2012

H. P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

2011

The Ones That Got Away

Stephen Graham Jones

Horror · Short Stories

December 2010

PS Showcase #8

The Library of Forgotten Books

Rjurik Davidson

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

July 2010

Women of the Otherworld

Tales of the Otherworld

Kelley Armstrong

Fantasy · Urban Fantasy · Short Stories

April 11, 2010

Once Upon a Short Story #2

A Gown of Spider Silk

A. G. Marshall

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

March 3, 2019

Once Upon a Short Story #6

Swan Song

A. G. Marshall

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

July 3, 2019

Shadows on the Wall: Weird Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Supernatural

Steven Paulsen

Horror · Short Stories

January 15, 2018

Judge Dredd: The Early Years #2

Judge Dredd: Year Two Omnibus

Michael Carroll, Cavan Scott, Matt Smith

Science Fiction · Dystopia · Collection · Short Stories

October 5, 2017

Occult Detective Magazine #1

Occult Detective Quarterly #1

John Linwood Grant, Sam Gafford

Horror · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery

2016

Joe Pickett #14

Shots Fired

C. J. Box

Crime Fiction · Suspense Thriller · Short Stories · Mystery · Thriller

July 15, 2014

Skulduggery Pleasant #8

Armageddon Outta Here

Derek Landy

Fantasy · Dark Fantasy · Young Adult · Short Stories

July 2014

Spirits Abroad

Zen Cho

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

June 2014

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

2012

The Back of Beyond: New Stories

Alan Ryan

Horror · Short Stories

2012

Ghosts in the Attic

Mark Allan Gunnells

Horror · Short Stories

2011

Literary Remains

R. B. Russell

Horror · Short Stories

April 2010

Cosmere

Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

Brandon Sanderson

Fantasy · Epic Fantasy · High Fantasy · Short Stories

November 22, 2016

The Best of H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction · Cthulhu · Weird Fiction

May 13, 2010

The Inheritance

Robin Hobb, Megan Lindholm

Fantasy · Science Fiction · Short Stories

March 19, 2011

Dresden Files #12

Side Jobs

Jim Butcher

Fantasy · Urban Fantasy · Short Stories

October 21, 2010

Warriors Novella

Warriors: Shadows of the Clans

Erin Hunter

Fantasy · Animal Fantasy · Young Adult · Cats · Short Stories

January 2016