Short Story Collections & Anthologies Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fans Should Read

Few anthologies have ever been as ambitious as this doorstopper collection that chronicles the evolution and revolution of weird fiction from before the pulps to the present day, featuring classic tales by many of the most renowned (and most criminally overlooked) practitioners of the craft from as far back as 1908. 

Sure, Lovecraft is in here, along with Robert Bloch, James Tiptree, Jr., Shirley Jackson, M. R. James, Ray Bradbury, Ramsay Campbell, Clive Barker, Thomas Ligotti, and many more. 

But so is Jorge Luis Borges, Daphne du Maurier, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Harlan Ellison, Joyce Carol Oates, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Michael Chabon, and many others.