Short Story Books

As anyone who knows me must realise by now, I love the short story form.

I thought it would be interesting to see how many short stories I can read in a year…

Then I thought that the posts I would do would be a bit too big for Twitter and a bit too short for a blog post and was wondering what to do.

I then remembered that I have a Patreon and a Ko-Fi and since I really want to start using both a bit more Patreon is where the post will go when I have finished reading a short story and I’ll link to it from the book it’s in.

First of all there will be the obligatory list of books I’ve already got to read from (in progress) and each book will get it’s own post, and the way I’m going to choose is to use a random number generator to choose a book and then read that through until finished:

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
2. Asimov’s Science Fiction: April 2011
3. Asimov’s Science Fiction: March 2011
4. Asimov’s Science Fiction: February 2011
5. Asimov’s Science Fiction: January 2011
6. Asimov’s Science Fiction: December 2010
7. Asimov’s Science Fiction: October 2021
8. Asimov’s Science Fiction: September 2010
9. Asimov’s Science Fiction: August 2010
10. The Book of Newcastle: A City in Short Fiction
11. Bloody Scotland: 10th Anniversary
12. Conan Omnibus: The Young Swordsman
13. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
14. The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror
15. The Devil and the Giro: The Scottish Short Story
16. The Devourer Below
17. Dragon Lords and Warrior Women
18. Extinct Doesn’t Mean Forever
19. famished
20. The Fahrenheit Twins and Other Stories
21. First Contact: Digital Science Fiction Anthology 1
22. Fritz Leiber Super Pack #1
23. Ghost Stories of Antiquity
24. Ghost Stories of Antiquity Part 2: More Ghost Stories
25. Ghost Tales, Volume 1
26. Her Body and Other Parties
27. Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
28. Household Tales
29. Infinite Stars
30. Infinities
31. Isolation: The Horror Anthology
32. The Kimota Anthology
33. Kzine Issue 1
34. Kzine Issue 2
35. Kzine Issue 3
36. Life Ceremony
37. Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet
38. The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories
39. The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF
40. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (20th Anniversary Edition)
41. The Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards SF
42. The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF
43. The Mammoth Book of SF Short Stories by Women
44. The Mammoth Book of SF Wars
45. The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
46. Menace of the Monster: Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond
47. Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventure
48. My Pen is the Wing of a Bird
49. The New Abject
50. New Suns
51. Palestine +100: stories from a century after the Nakba
52. Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
53. Past the Borders: Collected Science Fiction
54. The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
55. The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories
56. Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
57. Reverse Engineering II
58. Robert E. Howard Ultimate Collection
59. Salt Slow
60. The Second Conan Omnibus: The Master Swordsman
61. Some of the Best from Tor.com 2016 Edition
62. Some of the Best from Tor.com 2019 Edition
63. Some of the Best from Tor.com 2021 Edition
64. Tales of Dune: Expanded Edition
65. Tales of Mystery & the Macabre
66. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
67. Things in the Dark: A Fox Pocket Anthology
68. The Time Traveller’s Almanac
69. Twenty Tiny Tales by Willie Wat
70. Twenty Tiny Tales and a few tails
71. Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite

plus many more sci-fi, horror, and fantasy collections I got on the Kindle ages ago, and I’ll be adding more collections/anthologies to this list as I go along.

So the plan is to read a short story a day, write something about it on the anthology/collection page, and tweet about that post when I’ve finished.

If you have a favourite collection or anthology that I’ve missed why not let me know?