Major Fantasy Anthologies - A Briefer History Last Updated : September 22 2008 (Dark Descent, Medusa In the Shield, Terror In the Modern Vein) For fantasy in general, the short story has been less of a focus than science fiction, it would appear. I certainly also have less of it in my collection, or in my head. However, such a form has been around a lot longer, with more practitioners. Monster and ghost stories galore for centuries, for example, not to mention the various mythological tales from all around the world. This list is fantasy in the 'Fantasy and Horror' sense, to be clear at the start. These overlap quite a bit, as can be seen in various publications, including some of the references. You will, of course, find some fantasy (or horror) in a lot of science fiction publications. You can find the Science Fiction version of this at :- Major Science Fiction Anthologies - A Brief History So I thought I'd have a go at listing some works that I know about, and others found with some browsing and in some reference material. Of more particular interest is more modern publication, even if not more modern work, that is likely to be more available to actually acquire. I certainly wasn't around in the 20s, 30s and 40s to acquire or read the older volumes, and as such, I am much more likely not to know about books from that time. I also don't have as much interest in your garden variety ghost story, either. Part of the point of writing this is for people to point out additions or corrections, though. A Super Editor or eidetic memoried bibliographer I am not. This was also partly to find out what is out that there I didn't know about. Where I have actually read and rated them, I will put a link after the volume that goes to that for anyone who cares. The editors of the volumes are listed at the end of the article and linked to their isfdb or other entry if there is one, for those who would like to check out the contents of the volumes. You can also look them up in the various Contento indexes. One glaring omission is the lack of any list of anthologies in the paranormal romance sub-genre (barring Elrod's Supernatural Wedding book). I have not looked, but I have certainly seem some, novella collections at least. If there are any series of such, or best ofs and anyone knows, please tell me and I will list them. NINETEENTH CENTURY AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY You will find a lot of older work here, including Lovecraft and Howard : Project Gutenberg Australia SF Project ProjectGutenberg If you are after Clark Ashton Smith, there is pretty much everything at : The Eldritch Dark Some dead tree anthologies of this type that I have found while browsing : Famous Ghost Stories - J. Walker McSpadden (1918) The Haunters and the Haunted: Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural -Ernest Rhys (1921) Not at Night 1-4 - Christine Campbell Thomson (1925-1962) You'll Need a Nightlight - Christine Campbell Thomson (1927) By Daylight Only - Christine Campbell Thomson (1929) Switch on the Light - Christine Campbell Thomson (1931) At Dead of Night - Christine Campbell Thomson (1931) Grim Death - Christine Campbell Thomson (1932) Keep on the Light - Christine Campbell Thomson (1932) Terror by Night - Christine Campbell Thomson (1934) Nightmare By Daylight - Christine Campbell Thomson (1936) The Ghost Story Omnibus - Joseph Lewis French (1926) Shudders - Cynthia Asquith (1929) A Century of Creepy Stories - Cynthia Asquith (1936) A Book of Modern Ghosts - Cynthia Asquith (1953) The Third Ghost Book - Cynthia Asquith (1970) Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror - T. Everett Harre (1929) A Second Century of Creepy Stories - Hugh Walpole (1930) The Supernatural Omnibus - Montague Summers (1931) Creeps by Night [Modern Tales of Horror] - Dashiell Hammett (1931) Strange Assembly - John Gawsworth (1932) New Tales of Horror - John Gawsworth (1932) A Century Of Horror - Dennis Wheatley (1935) Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural - Herbert Wise and Phyllis M. Fraser (1944) Six Novels of the Supernatural - Edward Wagenknecht (1944) They Walk Again - Colin De La Mare (1946) Tales of the Undead - Elinor Blaisdell (1947) Boris Karloff's Favorite Horror Stories [The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology] - Boris Karloff (1965) Seven Masterpieces of Gothic Horror - Robert Donald Spector (1963) The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural - Ray Russell (1967) Five Victorian Ghost Novels - E. F Bleiler (1971) A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories - E. Fl Bleiler (1981) Gaslight Tales of Terror - R. Chetwynd Hayes (1976) The Taste of Fear - Hugh Lamb (1976) The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories - Richard Dalby (1988) The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories - Richard Dalby (1995) Tales Before Tolkien - Douglas A. Anderson (2003) THE MODERN ERA I will call this time period up until around the end of the 1980s, as it would appear that is when horror crashed and fantasy started booming. There are and wore more major (or majority) science fiction magazines than fantasy magazines, but some like Weird Tales, Unknown and the 50-50ish Fantasy and Science Fiction did of course exist, with others that do publish fantasy. The editor that has put the most work into writing about the magazines in this era here is Mike Ashley, and he has updated this work recently The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 1 1926-1935 - Mike Ashley (1974) The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 2 1936-1945 - Mike Ashley (1975) The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 3 1946-1955 - Mike Ashley (1976) The History of the Science Fiction Magazine Part 4 1956-1965 - Mike Ashley (1978) These books are history, analysis, anthologies of stories and bibliographies. The updated volumes begin with : Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 - Mike Ashley (2001) and are still continuing. Who Knocks? - August Derleth (1946) The Night Side - August Derleth (1947) The Sleeping and the Dead - August Derleth (1947) The Mandrake Root: An Anthology of Fantastic Tales - Kay Dick (1946) Science Fiction editors Conklin and Wollheim put together some early examples, before some actual anthology series took off. In the Grip Of Terror - Groff Conklin (1951) The Supernatural Reader - Groff Conklin and Lucy Conklin (1953) Terror In the Modern Vein - Donald A. Wollheim (1955) The Macabre Reader - Donald A. Wollheim(1959) More Terror in the Modern Vein - Donald A. Wollheim(1961) More Macabre - Donald A. Wollheim(1961) Pan Books of Horror Stories 1-3 - Herbert Van Thal (1960-1966) Famous Tales of the Fantastic - Herbert Van Thal (1965) Best Fantasy Stories - Brian Aldiss (1962) Best Tales of Terror 1-2 - Edmund Crispin (1962-1965) The Tandem Book of Ghost Stories - Charles Birkin (1965) The Tandem Book of Horror Stories - Charles Birkin (1965) Medley Macabre - Bryan A. Netherwood (1966) Uncanny - Bryan A. Netherwood (1974) Horror Times Ten - Alden H. Norton (1967) Masters of Horror - Alden H. Norton (1968) Horrors In Hiding - Sam Moskowitz and Alden H. Norton (1973) Hauntings, Tales of the Supernatural - Henry Mazzeo (1968) The Coming (again) of Conan thanks to L. Sprague de Camp, and other Sword and Sorcery and adult fantasy promoters, such as Lin Carter was very important for fantasy to start on its road to stardom. The Young Magicians - Lin Carter (1969) The Magic of Atlantis - Lin Carter (1970) New Worlds for Old - Lin Carter (1971) Discoveries in Fantasy - Lin Carter (1972) Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I - Lin Carter (1972) Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy II - Lin Carter (1973) Realms of Wizardry - Lin Carter (1976) Splinters - Alex Hamilton (1969) Horrors Unknown - Sam Moskowitz (1971) This includes an all-star round-robin story by Moore, Merritt, Lovecraft, Howard and Long it seems. The Golden Road - Damon Knight (1973) Fiends and Creatures - Marvin Kaye (1975) Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old and New - Marvin Kaye and Saralee Kaye (1981) Moving into the Stephen King era, and then Clive Barker, making anthology appearances. Night Chills - Kirby McCauley (1975) Beyond Midnight - Kirby McCauley (1976) Frights - Kirby McCauley (1976) Frights 1 - Kirby McCauley (1979) Dark Forces - Kirby McCauley (1980) Nameless Places - Gerald W. Page (1975) Superhorror - Ramsey Campbell (1976) Gahan Wilson's Favorite Tales of Horror - Gahan Wilson (1976) First World Fantasy Awards - Gahan Wilson (1977) A Book Of Contemporary Nightmares - Giles Gordon (1977) The Fantastic Imagination - Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski (1977) Dark Imaginings - Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski (1978) Fantastic Imagination II - Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski (1986) Nightmares - Charles L. Grant (1979) Horrors - Charles L. Grant (1981) Tales from the Nightside - Charles L. Grant (1981) Terrors - Charles L. Grant (1982) The Dodd Mead Gallery of Horror [Gallery of Horror] - Charles L. Grant (1983) Fears - Charles L. Grant (1983) Midnight - Charles L. Grant (1985) After Midnight - Charles L. Grant (1986) Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories - Eric S. Rabkin (1979) Basilisk - Ellen Kushner (1980) The World Fantasy Awards Volume Two - Fritz Leiber and Stuart David Schiff (1980) The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural - Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg and Barry N. Malzberg (1980) The Arbor House Necropolis - Bill Pronzini (1981) Modern Masters of Horror - Frank Coffey (1981) The combination of Carr and Greenberg and Carr and Silverberg have put together a couple of excellent retrospectives, that have been republished more recently, when a second title is given. A Treasury of Modern Fantasy [Masters Of Fantasy] - Martin H. Greenberg and Terry Carr Martin H. Greenberg (1981) Masters of Fantasy - Martin H. Greenberg and Terry Carr Martin H. Greenberg (1981) The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural - Martin H. Greenberg and Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg (1981) The Fantasy Hall of Fame [The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats] - Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg (1983) The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats - Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg (1983) 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories - Terry Carr and Martin H. Greenberg (1984) 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories - Martin H. Greenberg and Terry Carr and Isaac Asimov (1987) A Treasury of Fantasy [The Mammoth Book Of Classic Fantasy] - Cary Wilkins (1981) Cutting Edge - Dennis Etchison (1986) Year's Best Series The first of the fantasy Year's Best series, with Carter displaying more of a like for adventure than the more mundane variety of fantasy the modern Year's Best editors favor, in general. The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 1-14 - Lin Carter [1-6] and Arthur W. Saha [7-12] (1975-1988) Science Fiction Super Editor Carr's series has a different names, the Year's Finest Fantasy for the first two, and then the name below for the final volumes. Fantasy Annual 1-5 - Terry Carr (1978-1982) The Year's Finest Fantasy 1 - Terry Carr (1978) The Year's Finest Fantasy 2 - Terry Carr (1979) Fantasy Annual IV - Terry Carr (1981) Other Series Anthology series became a lot more column, and the shared world anthology arrived in a big way with Robert Asprin and Lynn Abbey's Thieves' World, which is still going. The Avon Fantasy Reader 1-6 - Donald A. Wollheim (1947-1952) 19 Tales of Terror - Whit Burnett and Hallie Burnett (1956) The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 1-8 - Robert Aickman (1964-1972) Fontana Horror 1-2 - Christine Barnard (1966-1967) New Worlds of Fantasy 1-3 - Terry Carr (1967-1971) The Year's Best Horror Stories 1-22 - Karl Edward Wagner [8-22] and Richard Davis [1-3] and Gerald W. Page [4-7] (1971-1992) Mayflower Books of Black Magic Stories 1-6 - Michel Parry (1974-1977) From the Archives of Evil 1-2 - Michel Parry and Christopher Lee (1976) The Armada Monster Book 1-6 - R. Chetwynd-Hayes (1975-1980) The Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories - R. Chetwynd-Hayes (1972-1984) Whispers 1-6 - Stuart Schiff (1977-1987) The Best of Whispers - Stuart Schiff (1995) Shadows 1-10 - Charles L. Grant (1978-1987) The Best of Shadows - Charles L. Grant (1988) Final Shadows - Charles L. Grant (1991) Thieves World - Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey (1979, ongoing) Thieves' World - Robert Lynn Asprin Tales From the Vulgar Unicorn - Robert Lynn Asprin Shadows of Sanctuary - Robert Lynn Asprin New Terrors 1-2 - Ramsey Campbell (1980) New Terrors (selection from above 2 books) - Ramsey Campbell (1982) Weird Tales 1-4 - Lin Carter (1980-1983) Elsewhere 1-3 - Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1981-1984) Night Visions 1-11 - Alan Ryan and Charles L. Grant and George R. R. Martin and Anonymous and Stanley Wiater and Richard Chizmar and Bill Sheehan (1984-2004) Masters of Darkness 1-3 - Dennis Etchison (1986-1991) THE NEW ERA The Hartwell massive tome pops up here, too, so a good place to start, I think, after the end of the many bad books with black covers with skulls on them era. Another Hartwell renaissance if you like, as far as availability of books goes. The Dark Descent - David G. Hartwell (1987) also split up as these volumes The Dark Descent 1 The Colour of Evil - David G. Hartwell (1990) The Dark Descent 2 The Medusa in the Shield - David G. Hartwell (1990) The Dark Descent 3 A Fabulous Formless Darkness - David G. Hartwell (1992) Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment - David G. Hartwell (1988) Foundations of Fear - David G. Hartwell (1992) also split up as Foundations of Fear 1 - David G. Hartwell Shadows of Fear (1994) Foundations of Fear 2 - David G. Hartwell Worlds of Fear (1994) Foundations of Fear 3 - David G. Hartwell Visions of Fear (1994) Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder - David G. Hartwell (1994) The Architecture of Fear - Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz (1987) The Walls of Fear - Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz (1990) The Weirds - Sheldon Jaffrey (1987) The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels - Mike Ashley (1988) Prime Evil - Douglas Winter (1988) Dark Visions - Douglas Winter (1988) The Book of Fantasy - Jorge Luis Borges (1989) Book of the Dead - John Skipp and Craig Spector (1989) Still Dead - John Skipp and Craig Spector (1989) Horrorstory: Volume 4 - Karl Edward Wagner (1990) The Horror Hall of Fame - Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Silverberg (1991) Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves - Alan Dean Foster and Martin H. Greenberg (1991) Horrors! 365 Scary Stories - Martin H. Greenberg and Stefan Dziemianowicz and Robert Weinberg (1997) Horrors! 365 Scary Stories: Get Your Daily Dose of Terror - Martin H. Greenberg and Stefan Dziemianowicz and Robert Weinberg (1998) My Favorite Fantasy Story - Martin H. Greenberg (2000) My Favorite Horror Story - Martin H. Greenberg (2000) Under the Fang - Robert McCammon (1991) Visions & Imaginings: Classic Fantasy Fiction - Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski (1992) MetaHorror - Dennis Etchsion (1992) The Museum of Horrors - Dennis Etchsion (2001) Gathering the Bones - Jack Dann and Ramsey Campbell and Dennis Etchison (2003) H. P. Lovecraft's Book Of Horror - Stephen Jones and David Carson (1994) The Giant Book of Fantasy and the Supernatural - Stephen Jones and David Sutton (1994) The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural - Stephen Jones and David Sutton (1994 Dark of the Night - Stephen Jones (1998) Dancing with the Dark - Stephen Jones (1998) White Of the Moon - Stephen Jones (1999) Keep out the Night - Stephen Jones (2002) Freakshow - F. Paul Wilson (1992) Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown - Marvin Kaye (1993) 100 Hair Raising Little Horror Stories - Al Sarrantonio (1993) 999: New Tales of Horror and Suspense - Al Sarrantonio (1999) The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories - Tom Shippey (1994) New Masterpieces of Horror - John Gregory Betancourt (1996) also split up as Horrorscape 1: New Masterpieces of Horror - John Gregory Betancourt (2005) Horrorscape 2: New Masterpieces of Horror - John Gregory Betancourt (2005) Modern Classics of Fantasy - Gardner Dozois (1997) Treasures of Fantasy - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (1997) The Wizards of Odd - Peter Haining (1997) Legends - Robert Silverberg (1998) also split as Legends 1 - Robert Silverberg (1999) Legends 2 - Robert Silverberg (1999) Legends 3 - Robert Silverberg (2000) Legends II - Robert Silverberg (2003) also split as Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King - Robert Silverberg (2004) Legends II: Shadows, Gods, and Demons - Robert Silverberg (2004) The Fantasy Hall of Fame sfwa - Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (1998) The Mammoth Book of Fantasy - Mike Ashley (2001) The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers' Tales - Mike Ashley (2004) The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy - Mike Ashley (2008) Familiar and Haunting - Philippa Pearce (2002) The Ultimate Undead - Byron Preiss and John Gregory Betancourt (2006) Best New Fantasy - Sean Wallace (2006) The Coyote Road - Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2007) Inferno - Ellen Datlow (2008) Movement Anthologies Splatterpunks 1-2 - Paul Sammon (1990-1996) The New Weird - Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer (2008) Year's Best Series Two major ongoing series that still continue. The Best New Horror Series is now called the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. The Datlow and Windling, then Link and Grant series is sort of two books, with Datlow doing the horror, and the others the fantasy, indicating who chose which, but it is not 'all horror first' then the fantasy stories next. Best New Horror - Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell (1-5) (1990, ongoing) The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 - Stephen Jones The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1-16) and Kelly Link and Gavin Grant (17-20) The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 18th Annual Collection - Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin Grant The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19th Annual Collection - Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin Grant The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 20th Annual Collection - Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link and Gavin Grant David Hartwell started a science fiction year's best series, so I suppose someone suggested fantasy, too, and with that comes a similar proliferation of Year's Best Series, with Haber and Silverberg, Haber and Strahan, Horton, and Betancourt and Wallace all producing volumes. The Year's Best Fantasy - David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (2001, Ongoing) The Year's Best Fantasy 6 - David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer The Year's Best Fantasy 7 - David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer The Year's Best Fantasy 8 - David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer Fantasy the Best Of 1-3 - Karen Haber and Robert Silverberg and Jonathan Strahan (2001-2004) Fantasy the Best of the Year 2001 - Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (2001) Fantasy the Best of 2004 - Jonathan Strahan and Karen Haber (2004) Fantasy the Very Best of 2005 - Jonathan Strahan (2006) The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Of the Year 1 - Jonathan Strahan (2007) The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Of the Year 2 - Jonathan Strahan (2008) Horror the Best of the Year - John Gregory Betancourt and Sean Wallace (2006, ongoing) Fantasy the Best of the Year - Rich Horton (2006, ongoing) Fantasy the Best of the Year 2006 - Rich Horton (2006) Fantasy the Best of the Year 2007 - Rich Horton (2007) Other Series More Year's Best series, not so many of the ordinary anthology series, it would appear, although a couple of new books by Mann and Datlow may say this develop, at least for fantasy, anyway. Masques 1-5 - J. N. Williamson and Gary Braunbeck [5] (1984-2006) Braunbeck Best of Masques - J. N. Williamson (1988) Dark Masques - J. N. Williamson(2001) Darker Masques - J. N. Williamson(2002) Borderlands 1-5 - Thomas F. Monteleone and Elizabeth E. MOnteleone [4-5] (1990-2003) Dark Voices 1-6 - Stephen Jones and David Sutton (1991-1994) Dark Voices II - Stephen Jones and David Sutton Dark Terrors 1-6 - Stephen Jones and David Sutton (1995-2002) Dark Terrors 4 - Stephen Jones and David Sutton Extreme Visions 1-3 - Al Sarrantonio (2001-2006) Redshift - Al Sarrantonio (2001) Flights 1 - Al Sarrantonio (2004) Flights 2 - Al Sarrantonio (2006) Eclipse - Jonathan Strahan (2007, ongoing) Eclipse 1 - Jonathan Strahan (2007) Eclipse 2 - Jonathan Strahan (2008) The Solaris Book Of New Fantasy - George Mann (2007, ongoing) The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy - Ellen Datlow (2008) APPENDICES I am not saying these are major anthologies as such (and maybe not even good), although some may be These are just some I have come across, or examples I have read and included. This is also to point out the wide range of good stuff that can be seen. Also for people that like particular monsters, or Cthulhu, or faeries, or dragons, there are some examples. Have a particular interest in sword and sorcery and ghost busting 'dark detectives' to use Stephen Jones' rather nice title, for example. Also Australian fiction, and there are likely geographical examples of ghost story anthologies from many, many places. 1. SUBSET ANTHOLOGIES Examples of books that are restricted by geography, or by sex. Cornish Tales of Terror - R. Chetwynd Hayes (1970) Scottish Tales of Terror - R. Chetwynd Hayes (1972) Welsh Tales of Terror - R. Chetwynd Hayes (1973) The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories - Alberto Manguel (1984) Modern Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers - Richard Dalby (1992) Terror Australis - Leigh Blackmore (1993) The Screaming Skull and Other Great American Ghost Stories - David G. Hartwell(1994) The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women - A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (1995) Bonescribes: Year's Best Australian Horror: 1995 - Robert Hood and Bill Congreve (1996) The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy - Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy Byrne (1996-1997) The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy - Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy Byrne (2006) The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy 2 - Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy Byrne (2007) Great Irish Tales of Fantasy - Peter Haining (1999) The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women - Stephen Jones (2001) The American Fantasy Tradition - Brian M. Thomsen (2002) The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy 1-3 - Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (2005,ongoing) The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy One - Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (2006) The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy 2 - Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (2007) The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy 3 - Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (2008) The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction - Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver Best American Fantasy - Jeff VanderMeer (2007) Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others - Mike Ashley (2008) 2. THEME ANTHOLOGIES Books that focus on a particular subject, or type of fantasy. Sword and Sorcery The Ghoul Keepers - Leo Margulies (1961) Swords & Sorcery - L. Sprague De Camp (1963) The Spell of Seven - L. Sprague de Camp (1965) Realms Of Wizardry - Lin Carter (1976) The Fantastic Swordsmen - L. Sprague de Camp (1967 The Young Magicians - Lin Carter (1969) The Mighty Barbarians - Hans Stefan Santesson (1969) The Mighty Swordsmen - Hans Stefan Santesson (1970) Warlocks and Warriors - L. Sprague De Camp (1970) New Worlds For Old - Lin Carter (1971) Swordsmen and Supermen - Donald M. Grant (1972) Flashing Swords 1-5 - Lin Carter (1973-1977) Flashing Swords 1 - Lin Carter Flashing Swords 2 - Lin Carter Flashing Swords! 3 Warriors and Wizards - Lin Carter Flashing Swords 4 - Lin Carter Flashing Swords 5 - Lin Carter Realms Of Wizardy - Lin Carter (1976)) Swords Against Darkness 1-5 - Andrew J. Offutt (1977-1979) Swords Against Darkness 1 - Andrew J. Offutt Swords Against Darkness 2 - Andrew J. Offutt Swords Against Darkness 3 - Andrew J. Offutt Swords Against Darkness 4 - Andrew J. Offutt Swords Against Darkness 5 - Andrew J. Offutt Savage Heroes - Donald A. Wollheim (1977) Heroic Fantasy - Gerald W. Page and Hank Reinhardt (1979) Amazons 1-2 - Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1979-1982) Amazons! - Jessica Amanda Salmonson Amazons 2 - Jessica Amanda Salmonson Heroic Visions 1-2 - Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1983-1986) Heroic Visions 1 - Jessica Amanda Salmonson Heroic Visions 2 - Jessica Amanda Salmonson Sword and Sorceress - Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. Paxon [21-22] and Elisabeth Waters [23]] (1984, ongoing) Barbarians 1-2 - Robert Adams and Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh and Pamela Crippen Adams (1985-1988) Barbarians - Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Adams and Charles G. Waugh Barbarians II - Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Adams and Pamela Crippen Adams Echoes of Valor (1-3) - Karl Edward Wagner (1991-1993) Echoes Of Valor - Karl Edward Wagner Echoes Of Valor II - Karl Edward Wagner Echoes Of Valor III - Karl Edward Wagner Chicks In Chainmail 1-5 - Esther M. Friesner (1995-2004) Ghost Busters Supernatural Sleuths - Peter Haining (1986) The Supernatural Solution - Michel Parry (1976) Ghostbreakers - Michel Parry (1985) Supernatural Sleuths - Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg (1996) Dark Detectives - Stephen Jones (1999) Vampire Slayers: Stories of Those Who Dare to Take Back the Night - Martin H. Greenberg and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (2003) Cthulhu Mythos Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos - August Derleth (1969) The Spawn of Cthulhu - Lin Carter (1971) Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Volume 1 - August Derleth (1971) Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Volume 2 - August Derleth (1971) New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos - Ramsey Campbell (1980) Shadows Over Innsmouth - Stephen Jones (2001) Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth - Stephen Jones (2005) H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: A Weird Tales Retrospective - John Gregory Betancourt and Robert Weinberg (2007) Arthurian The Pendragon Chronicles - Mike Ashley (1990) The Camelot Chronicles - Mike Ashley (1992) The Giant Book Of Arthurian Tales - Mike Ashley (1992) The Merlin Chronicles - Mike Ashley (1995) The Chronicles of the Holy Grail [Quest for the Holy Grail] - Mike Ashley (1996) The Chronicles of the Round Table [Tales of the Round Table] - Mike Ashley (1997) The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends - Mike Ashley (1998) The Mammoth Book of King Arthur - Mike Ashley (2005) Fairy Tales Faery! - Terri Windling (1984) Faery - Terri Windling (1985) Fairy Tale Anthologies (1-6) - Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1993-2000) Snow White Blood Red - Ellen Datlow (1993) Black Thorn White Rose - Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1994) The Faery Reel - Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2004) The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales - Alison Lurie (1994) The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales - Mike Ashley (1997) The Outspoken Princess and the Gentle Knight: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales - Jack Zipes (1995) The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors (1995) Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (1998) with Ellen Datlow A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (2000) with Ellen Datlow Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (2001) The Green Man: Tales of the Mythic Forest (2002) with Ellen Datlow The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (2004) with Ellen Datlow Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold (2005) with Ellen Datlow Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy (2006) with Ellen Datlow The Coyote Road (2007) with Ellen Datlow Dragons The Ultimate Dragon - Byron Preiss and John Gregory Betancourt and Keith R. A. DeCandido (1995) The Dragon Quintet - Marvin Kaye Dragons of Light/Darkness 1-2 - Orson Scott Card (1980-1981) Vampires Vampire - Peter Haining (1985) Blood Is Not Enough - Ellen Datlow (1988) The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories - Alan Ryan (1988) A Whisper Of Blood - Ellen Datlow (1991) Vampire Stories - Richard Dalby (1992) The Mammoth Book of Vampires - Stephen Jones (1994) The Giant Book Of Vampires 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories - Martin H. Greenberg and Stefan Dziemianowicz and Robert Weinberg (1995) The Vampire Omnibus - Peter Haining (1995) Vampire Sexette - Marvin Kaye (2002) Classic Vampire Stories - Leslie Shepard (1995) Vampires the Great Stories - Martin H. Greenberg Dracula The Ultimate Dracula - Byron Preiss and David Keller and Megan Miller (1991) The Mammoth Book of Dracula - Stephen Jones (1997) Frankenstein The Ultimate Frankenstein - Byron Preiss and Megan Miller and David Keller and John Betancourt (1991) The Frankenstein Omnibus - Peter Haining (1994) The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein - Stephen Jones (1994) Werewolves Book of the Werewolf - Brian J. Frost (1973) Werewolf! - Bill Pronzini (1979) Werewolf Horror Stories of the Man-Beast - Peter Haining (1987) The Ultimate Werewolf - Byron Preiss and John Gregory Betancourt and Megan Miller and David Keller (1991) The Mammoth Book of Werewolves - Stephen Jones (1994) Mummies The Mummy Walks Among Us - Vic Ghidalia (1971) Mummy! - Bill Pronzini (1980) The Mummy Stories Of the Living Corpse - Peter Haining (1988) Mummy Stories - Martin H. Greenberg (1990) The Face of Tutankhamun - Christopher Frayling (1992) Zombies Zombie - Peter Haining (1985) The Mammoth Book of Zombies - Stephen Jones (1993) The Ultimate Zombie - Byron Preiss and John Gregory Betancourt (1993) Ghosts Specter! - Bill Pronzini (1982) Christmas Ghosts - David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (1987) Ghost Stories - Robert Westall (1988) Spirits of Christmas - David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (1989) The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories - Richard Dalby (1990) The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 - Richard Dalby (1991) The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century: Volume 2 - Richard Dalby (1991) 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories - Martin H. Greenberg and Stefan Dziemianowicz and Robert Weinberg (1993) Western Ghosts - Frank D. McSherry and Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg (1990) Eastern Ghosts (1990) - Frank D. McSherry and Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg (1990) Civil War Ghosts - Frank D. McSherry and Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg (1991) The Anthology of Ghost Stories - Richard Dalby (1994) Gahan Wilson's The Ultimate Haunted House (1996) with Nancy A. Collins The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories - Peter Haining (1998) Great Ghost Stories - Stephen Jones and R. Chetwynd-Hayes (2004) More Great Ghost Stories - Stephen Jones and R. Chetwynd-Hayes (2006) The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories - Peter Haining (2007) Spinetinglers: Ghoulish Ghost Stories - Robert Westall (2007) Witches Tales of Witchcraft - Richard Dalby (1992) The Ultimate Witch - Byron Preiss and John Gregory Betancourt (1993) 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (1995) with Stefan Dziemianowicz and Robert Weinberg Paranormal Romance My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding - P. N. Elrod (2006) My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon - P. N. Elrod (2007) Erotic Hot Blood - Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett and Lonn Friend [1] (ongoing,1989) Hot Blood - Jeff Gelb (1989) Stranger By Night - Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett (1995) Little Deaths - Ellen Datlow (1994) Love In Vein 1-2 - Poppy Z. Brite and Martin H. Greenberg (1994-1997) Forbidden Acts - Nancy A. Collins and Martin H. Greenberg and Edward E. Kramer (1995) Dark Love - Nancy A. Collins and Martin H. Greenberg and Edward E. Kramer (1995) Paranormal Romance Hotter Than Hell - Kim Harrison Miscellaneous Voodoo! - Bill Pronzini (1980) Mad Scientists - Stuart Schiff (1980) Creature! - Bill Pronzini (1981) The Exclamatory Series (Unicorns! to Angels!) - Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (1982-1995) Note that some of this series is science fiction. Greystone Bay 1-4 - Charles L. Grant (1985-1994) Borderland/Bordertown 1-3 - Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1986-1991) The Essential Bordertown - Terri Windling and Delia Sherman (1998) What Did Miss Darrington See? (1989) Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh (1983-1984) The New Gothic - Bradford Morrow and Patrick McGrath (1990) Isaac Asimov's Magic Worlds of Fantasy 1-12 - Isaac Asimov and Martin H. (1983-1991) Fantastic! Series - Martin H. Greenberg and various others (1991-2002) World Fantasy 1-2 - Martin H. Greenberg and various others (1992-1994) Phobias 1-2 - Martin H. Greenberg and various others (1994-1995) Magical Realist Fiction - Keith Hollaman and David Young (1984) The Mammoth Book of Terror - Stephen Jones (1991) The Mammoth Book Of New Terror - Stephen Jones (2004) The Mammoth Book of Monsters - Stephen Jones (2007) Horror For Christmas - Richard Dalby (1992) American Gothic Tales - Joyce Carol Oates (1996) The Horns of Elfland - Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman and Donald G. Keller (1997) Robert Bloch's Psychos - Robert Bloch (1997) 100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment - Martin H. Greenberg and Stefan Dziemianowicz and Robert Weinberg (1998) Horror at Halloween - Stephen Jones (1999) The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories - Peter Haining (2000) Cities - Peter Crowther (2002) Daikaiju 1-3 - Robert Hood (2006-2008) Summer Chills - Stephen Jones (2007) DAW Publishes a monthly anthology with a different theme, some of which are fantasy, for example :- The Secret History Of Vampires - Martin H. Greenberg and Darrell Schweitzer (2007) 3. MAGAZINE ANTHOLOGIES Books that have stories culled from the pages of a particular periodical that no longer exists. Examples from Defunct Magazines Unknown Famous Fantastic Mysteries Fantastic Universe Fantasy Tales Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine The Fantastic Universe Omnibus - Hans Stefan Santesson (1960) The Unknown - D. R. Bensen (1963) The Unknown 5 - D. R. Bensen (1964) The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1994) The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine Vol. II - Marion Zimmer Bradley and Elisabeth Waters (1995) Famous Fantastic Mysteries - Martin H. Greenberg and Robert Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg (1991) The Giant Book Of Fantasy Tales - Stephen Jones and Richard Sutton The Best Horror From Fantasy Tales - Stephen Jones and Richard Sutton Veteran Books that have stories culled from the pages of a particular periodical that has been around a long time. Fantasy and Science Fiction Weird Tales Asimov's Large numbers of anthologies have been taken from these magazines over the years, for example, there are many from FSF and Asimov's alone. The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Edward L. Ferman (1985) The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - Edward L. Ferman and Anne Jordan (1988) The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. I - Edward L. Ferman and Anne Jordan (1989) The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume II - Edward L. Ferman and Anne Jordan (1990) In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Gordon Van Gelder (2004) Weird Tales - Martin H. Greenberg and Stefan Dziemianowicz and Robert Weinberg (1988) Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors - Martin H. Greenberg and Stefan Dziemianowicz and Robert Weinberg (1988) The Best of Weird Tales - John Gregory Betancourt (1995) Weird Tales: The Magazine that Never Dies - Marvin Kaye and Saralee Kaye (1996) Weird Tales - Marvin Kaye (1996) Isaac Asimov's Ghosts - Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams (1995) Isaac Asimov's Vampires - Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams 1996) Isaac Asimov's Camelot - Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams (1998) New A couple of new magazines, that are definitely feature a majority of science fiction work - around two thirds in this case. Black Gate Black Static Cemetery Dance Clarkesworld Fantasy Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Realms Of Fantasy The Best of Cemetery Dance - Richard Chizmar (1998) The Best of Cemetery Dance 1 - Richard Chizmar (2000) The Best of Cemetery Dance 2 - Richard Chizmar (2001) Cemetery Dance: A Fifteen Year Celebration - Richard Chizmar (2008) The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet - Kelly Link and Gavin Grant (2007) Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine - Sean Wallace and Nick Mamatas (2007) 4. MINOR ANTHOLOGIES SERIES New Writings in Horror and the Supernatural 1-2 - David Sutton (1971-1972) Tales by Moonlight 1-2 (1984-1989) Other Edens 1-3 - Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock (1987-1989) Echoes Of Valor 1-3 - Karl Edward Wagner (1987-1991) Darklands - Nicholas Royle (1991) Darklands 2 - Nicholas Royle (1992) Xanadu 1-3 - Jane Yolen (1993-1995) Pulphouse 3-5,7,9 - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (1989-1991) Narrow Houses 1-3 - Peter Crowther (1992-1994) The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy 1-5 - Mike Ashley (1998-2005) Fantasy Annual 3-4 - Sean Wallace (1999-2000) Fantasy Adventures 1-10 - Philip Harbottle (2002-2005) 5. EDITOR LIST Isfdb links to the various editors mentioned, so you can look up their work and the contents of the volumes if you like. Isfdb will often have wikipedia links to them, as well. Lynn Abbey Robert Aickman Brian Aldiss Mark Alan Arnold Mike Ashley Robert Lynn Asprin Cynthia Asquit Isaac Asimov Mike Baker Christine Barnard D. R. Bensen R. L. Bensen John Gregory Betancourt Charles Birkin Leigh Blackmore Elinor Blaisdell Everett F. Bleiler Robert H. Boyer Jorge Luis Borges Marion Zimmer Bradley Gary A. Braunbeck Randolph Bull Hallie Burnett Whit Burnett Ramsey Campbell Orson Scott Card Terry Carr Lin Carter Jeanne Cavelos R. Chetwynd-Hayes Richard Chizmar Frank Coffey Nancy A. Collins Vere Henry Collins Bill Congreve Groff Conklin Kathryn Cramer Edmund Crispin Peter Crowther Richard Dalby Jack Dann Ellen Datlow Richard Davis Russell Davis L. Sprague de Camp Colin de la Mare Keith R. A. DeCandido John DeChancie Lester del Rey August Derleth Kay Dick P. N. Elrod Gardner Dozois Stefan% Dziemianowicz Dennis Etchison Christopher Evans Edward L. Ferman Marjorie Fisher Alan Dean Foster Phyllis M. Fraser Joseph Lewis French Lonn Friend Esther M. Friesner Brian J. Frost Michael Garrett John Gawsworth Vic Ghidalia Richard Gilliam Giles Gordon Charles L. Grant Gavin J. Grant Martin H. Greenberg Rosalind M. Greenberg Frederik Stuart Greene Karen Haber Peter Haining Alex Hamilton T. Everett Harre Dashiell Hammett Thomas R. Hanlon Philip Harbottle David G. Hartwell John Helfers Robert Holdstock Robert Hood Rolfe Humphries Richard Glyn Jones Stephen Jones Boris Karloff Marvin Kaye David Keller Donald G. Keller Damon Knight Brittiany A. Koren Edward E. Kramer Ellen Kushner Hugh Lamb Alexander Lang Christopher Lee Fritz Leiber Keith Hollaman Alison Lurie Barry N. Malzberg Alberto Manguel George R. R. Martin Henry Mazzeo Robert McCammon Kirby McCauley Patrick McGrath J. Walker McSpadden Frank D. McSherry Megan Miller A. R. Morlan Jane Morley Bradford Morrow Violet T. Murray Sam Moskowitz A. Neimark Bryan A. Netherwood Alden H. Norton Andrew J. Offutt Gerald W. Page Michel Parry Peter D. Pautz Diana L. Paxon Alexander Potter Byron Preiss Bill Pronzini Eric S. Rabkin Mickey Zucker Reichert Hank Reinhardt Mike Resnick Ernest Rhys Nicholas Royle Kristine Kathryn Rusch Ray Russell Alan Ryan Paul Sammon Arthur W. Saha Hans Stefan Santesson Al Sarrantonio Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Stuart Schiff Lawrence Schimel C. A. Dawson Scott Larry Segriff Bill Sheehan Delia Sherman Tom Shippey Robert Silverberg John Skipp Craig Spector Robert Donald Spector Jonathan Strahan Montague Summers David Sutton Brian M. Thomsen Christine Campbell Thomson Gordon Van Gelder Ann VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer Karl Edward Wagner Sean Wallace Hugh Walpole Elisabeth Waters Charles G. Waugh Wendy Webb Robert E. Weinberg Robert Westall Dennis Wheatley Stanley Wiater A. Susan Williams Sheila Williams Cary Wilkins J. N. Williamson Gahan Wilson F. Paul Wilson Terri Windling Herbert Wise Donald A. Wollheim Jane Yolen David Young Kenneth J. Zahorski Jack Zipes 6. REFERENCES Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections - William G. Contento Locus Index to Science Fiction - William G. Contento and Charles N. Brown Isfdb.org Building the Genre Fantasy Canon, Black Gate Magazine 02 - Rich Horton (2001) Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature - Frank Northern McGill (1983) Fantasy & Horror - Neil Barron (1999) Supernatural Literature of the World - S.T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz (2003)