Index to Science Fiction
Anthologies and Collections,
Combined Edition

by William G. Contento

Last Updated: March 18, 2015
Copyright © 2015 by William G. Contento

An index to 4,260 SF anthologies and single-author collections published before 1984, containing over 46,000 stories by 4,200 authors.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction

• Books:
  • by Author
  • by Title
• Stories:
  • by Author
  • by Title

• Chronological List
• Series List

• Statistics
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• A Note on the Design of the Index

• Homeville
• Locus Indexes
• SF, Fantasy, & Related Links

For books and stories published after 1983 see The Locus Index

This index, combined with The Locus Index to Science Fiction, is available on CD-ROM from Locus Press.

Top Twenty Authors with the Most Entries:

1. (799) Clark Ashton Smith
2. (449) Ray Bradbury
3. (412) Robert E. Howard
4. (337) Isaac Asimov
5. (292) de Camp, L. Sprague
6. (258) Harlan Ellison™
7. (257) H.P. Lovecraft
8. (245) Poul Anderson
9. (221) Robert Bloch
10. (219) Brian W. Aldiss
11. (200) August Derleth
12. (192) Robert Silverberg
13. (187) Fritz Leiber
14. (180) Lafcadio Hearn
15. (170) Barry N. Malzberg
16. (157) R. A. Lafferty
17. (156) Fredric Brown
18. (155) Edgar Allan Poe
19. (153) Theodore Sturgeon
20. (146) Robert Sheckley

Top Ten Most Reprinted Stories:

1. 29 Bradbury, Ray - The Sound of Thunder

2. 27 Aldiss, Brian W. - But Who Can Replace a Man?
   27 Asimov, Isaac - Nightfall
   27 Wells, H.G. - The Star

3. 26 Ellison™, Harlan - "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

4. 23 Bradbury, Ray - There Will Come Soft Rains
   23 Clarke, Arthur C. - The Nine Billion Names of God
   23 Clarke, Arthur C. - The Sentinel of Eternity
   23 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
   23 Simak, Clifford D. - Desertion

5. 22 Godwin, Tom - The Cold Equations
   22 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit and the Pendulum

6. 21 Clarke, Arthur C. - The Star
   21 Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon
   21 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell-Tale Heart

7. 20 Ballard, J.G. - Billenium
   20 Leinster, Murray - First Contact
   20 Shiel, M.P. - Empress of the Earth: The Tale of the Yellow War

8. 19 Wells, H.G. - The Man Who Could Work Miracles
   19 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Cask of Amontillado
   19 Lovecraft, H.P. - The Colour Out of Space

9. 18 Bixby, Jerome - It's a Good Life
   18 del Rey, Lester - Helen O'Loy
   18 Ellison, Harlan - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
   18 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Black Cat

10. 17 Blish, James - Common Time
    17 Brown, Fredric - "Arena"
    17 Clarke, Arthur C. - History Lesson
    17 Forster, E.M. - The Machine Stops
    17 Merril, Judith - That Only a Mother
    17 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Fall of the House of Usher
    17 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Masque of the Red Death
    17 Poe, Edgar Allan - The Murders in the Rue Morgue
    17 Poe, Edgar Allan - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
    17 van Vogt, A.E. - The Monster