SHORT STORIES
Short story collections by a single author are shelved with fiction, under the author’s last name.
Collections of short stories by multiple authors are shelved under the title of the collection, in the Fiction (or in the Science Fiction or Mystery) section.
Short stories can be found in the Minuteman Catalog by typing the following into the search box: d:("short stories")
A Selected List of Short Story Collections
Fic American American fantastic tales: terror and the uncanny / Peter Straub, editor. 2009.
Fic American The American short story: a collection of the best known and most memorable short stories by the great American authors / edited by Thomas K. Parkes. 1994.
Fic Art The art of the story: an international anthology of contemporary short stories / edited by Daniel Halpern. 1999.
Fic Best The best American short stories. Published annually, Acton has 1990 to date.
Fic Best The best American short stories of the century / edited by John Updike with an introduction by John Updike. 1999.
Fic Best The Best American short stories of the eighties / selected and with an introduction by Shannon Ravenel. 1990.
Fic Best The best of McSweeney's / edited by Dave Eggers and Jordan Bass. 2013.
Fic One 100 years of the best American short stories / edited by Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor. 2015.
Fic Oxford The Oxford book of American short stories / edited by Joyce Carol Oates. 1992.
Fic Oxford The Oxford book of English short stories / edited by A.S. Byatt. 1998.
Fic Oxford The Oxford book of Jewish stories / edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans. 1998. Fic Oxford The Oxford book of modern women's stories / edited by Patricia Craig. 1994.
Fic Penguin The Penguin book of Irish fiction / edited with an introduction by Cólm Toibín. 1999.
Fic Sudden Sudden fiction international: sixty short-short stories / edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas, introduction by Charles Baxter. 1989.
Fic Twenty 20 under 40: stories from The New Yorker / edited by Deborah Treisman. 2010.
Horror Stories
Fic Ghostly Ghostly: a collection of ghost stories / edited, illustrated and introduced by Audrey Niffenegger. 2015.
Fic Horror The Horror Writers Association presents Blood lite: an anthology of humorous horror stories /edited by Kevin J. Anderson. 2008.
Fic Nine 999: new stories of horror and suspense / edited by Al Sarrantonio. 1999.
Fic Poe’s Poe's children: the new horror: an anthology / [edited by] Peter Straub. 2008.
Love Stories
Fic Fall Fall of poppies: stories of love and the Great War / edited by Heather Webb. / edited by Heather Webb. 2016.
Fic Nothing Nothing but you: love stories from the New Yorker / edited by Roger Angell. 1997.
Mystery Stories
Mystery Black The Black Lizard big book of locked-room mysteries: the most complete collection of impossible crime stories ever assembled / edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. 2014.
Mystery Mystery Mystery Writers of America presents The blue religion : new stories about cops, criminals, and the chase / edited by Michael Connelly. 2008.
Mystery Mystery Mystery Writers of America presents the prosecution rests: new stories about courtrooms, criminals, and the law / edited by Linda Fairstein. 2009.
Mystery Mystery Mystery Writers of America presents vengeance / edited by Lee Child. 2012.
Science Fiction Stories
SciFi Best The best of the best. Volume 2, 20 years of the best short science fiction novels / [edited by] Gardner Dozois. 2007.
SciFi Science Science fiction hall of fame. Edited by Robert Silverberg. 1970.
SciFi Twenty Twenty-first century science fiction / edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden. 2013.
Acton Memorial Library, July 2016