Stephen King
Books: Fantasy | Horror
Anthologies
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (1995), The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004), By Blood We Live (2009), The Secret History of Fantasy (2010)
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (1995) edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
Published by St Martins Press
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
Stephen King - Harvey's Dream
Published by St. Martin's Griffin
By Blood We Live (2009) edited by John Joseph Adams
- Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman
- The Master of Rampling Gate by Anne Rice
- Under St. Peter's by Harry Turtledove
- Child of an Ancient City by Tad Williams
- Lifeblood by Michael A. Burstein
- Endless Night by Barbara Roden
- Infestation by Garth Nix
- Life is the Teacher by Carrie Vaughn
- The Vechi Barbat by Nancy Kilpatrick
- The Beautiful, The Damned by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- Pinecones by David Wellington
- Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu by Norman Partridge
- Foxtrot at High Noon by Sergei Lukyanenko
- This is Now by Michael Marshall Smith
- Blood Gothic by Nancy Holder
- Mama Gone by Jane Yolen
- Abraham's Boys by Joe Hill
- Nunc Dimittis by Tanith Lee
- Hunger by Gabriela Lee
- Ode to Edvard Munch by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Finders Keepers by L.A. Banks
- After the Stone Age by Brian Stableford
- Much at Stake by Kevin J. Anderson
- House of the Rising Sun by Elizabeth Bear
- A Standup Dame by Lilith Saintcrow
- Twilight by Kelley Armstrong
- In Darkness, Angels by Eric Van Lustbader
- Sunrise on Running Water by Barbara Hambly
- Hit by Bruce McAllister
- Undead Again by Ken MacLeod
- Peking Man by Robert J. Sawyer
- Necros by Brian Lumley
- Exsanguinations by Catherynne M. Valente
- Lucy in Her Splendor by Charles Coleman Finlay
- The Wide, Carnivorous Sky by John Langan
- One for the Road by Stephen King
The Secret History of Fantasy (2010) edited by Peter S. Beagle
This is an interesting collection of short stories, by some very good authors. I can't say all the stories were to my taste, but they were all very good.
- "Ancestor Money" by Maureen F. McHugh
- "Scarecrow" by Gregory Maguire
- "Lady of the Skulls" by Patricia A. McKillip
- "We Are Norsemen" by T.C. Boyle
- "The Barnum Museum" by Steven Millhauser
- "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" by Stephen King
- "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bison
- "Bones" by Francesca Lia Block
- "Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil Gaiman
- "Fruit and Words" by Aimee Bender
- "The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffery Ford
- "The Edge of the World" by Michael Swanwick
- "Super Goat Man" by Jonathan Lethem
- "John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner" by Susanna Clarke
- "The Book of Martha" by Octavia E. Butler
- "The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company" by Yann Martel
- "Sleight of Hand" by Peter S. Beagle
- "Mythago Wood" by Robert Holdstock
- "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson
Steven King's "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" is not a scary story. A bit unsettling perhaps, and quite surreal in places, but not scary. And I liked the very idea of it.
All in all, an excellent collection of stories, albeit one I don't recommend reading when you're depressed.
Rating: 8/10