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The Book of Dragons

Jonathan Strahan, Garth Nix, Scott Lynch, R.F. Kuang, Ann Leckie, Rachel Swirsky, Daniel Abraham, Peter S. Beagle, Beth Cato, Zen Cho, C.S.E. Cooney, Aliette de Bodard, Kate Elliott, Theodora Goss, Ellen Klages, Ken Liu, Patricia A. McKillip, K.J. Parker, Kelly Robson, Michael Swanwick, Jo Walton, Elle Katharine White, Jane Yolen, Kelly Barnhill, Brooke Bolander, Sarah Gailey, J.Y. Yang, Neon Yang

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Wonderland: An Anthology

Marie O'Regan, Angela Slatter, James Lovegrove, Alison Littlewood, Cavan Scott, Laura Mauro, Lilith Saintcrow, Genevieve Cogman, Jonathan Green, Jane Yolen, L.L. McKinney, George Mann, M.R. Carey, Rio Youers, Catriona Ward, Robert Shearman, Juliet Marillier, Cat Rambo, Mark Chadbourn · 2019

A multi-author anthology reimagines Alice’s Wonderland through horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and other darkly inventive lenses.

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Plot structure labels: standalone stories · mixed bag anthology · bookended by poems · varied interpretations · direct retellings · continuations · loosely connected pieces · increasingly dark turns · twist endings · surprise reveals · gradual reveal · fragmented structure · dip-in-dip-out reading

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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 41: The Best New SF & Fantasy of the Year

L. Ron Hubbard · 2025

An illustrated anthology of winning new sci-fi and fantasy shorts, plus bonus stories and craft essays, from emerging talent.

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Plot structure labels: short story collection · multiple standalones · bonus stories · art interludes · craft essays · varied pacing

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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Neil Gaiman · 2022 · American Gods

A varied collection of dark, whimsical short fiction and poems, including retellings, ghost stories, and tie-in pieces.

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Plot structure labels: mixed collection · story within a story · framing story · open endings · twist endings · fragmented structure · vignette form · microfiction · anthology sequencing · interstitial poems

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Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Joshua Whitehead · 2019

An Indigenous queer anthology of nine speculative stories imagining post-apocalyptic futures shaped by love, land, and survival.

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Plot structure labels: short story collection · varied standalone stories · anthology arc · linked thematic unity · open endings · mixed-length pieces · snapshot storytelling

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Nine Tomorrows

Isaac Asimov · 1987

Nine near-future stories explore AI, prediction, math, work, and humanity’s changing place in a technological future.

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Plot structure labels: short story collection · multiple independent stories · varied length · some novella length · bookended by poems · open-ended thought experiment

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Distance: 0.1099

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The Emerald Circus

Jane Yolen · 2017 · Yolen's Short Fiction

A themed short-story collection that reimagines fairy tales, legends, and literary classics with dark, feminist twists.

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Plot structure labels: collection format · standalone stories · linked by theme · varied length · endnotes · author notes · bonus poems · multiple retellings · mashup structure

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The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories

H.P. Lovecraft · 1991

A varied Lovecraft collection of dream tales, ancient curses, and early weird fiction, heavy on atmosphere and dread.

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Plot structure labels: story collection · loose collection · odds and ends · chronological development · varied lengths · prose poems · collaborations · ghostwritten pieces

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Distance: 0.1158

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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Neil Gaiman · 2005

A mixed short-fiction collection where Neil Gaiman remixes myth, horror, fantasy, and poetry into dark, sly, often explicit tales.

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Plot structure labels: loose collection · mixed-length pieces · embedded story · interstitial author notes · experimental pieces · open-ended endings · vignette-like

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The Starlit Wood

Dominik Parisien, Margo Lanagan, Marjorie M. Liu, Seanan McGuire, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, Sofia Samatar, Karin Tidbeck, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, Amal El-Mohtar, Charlie Jane Anders, Aliette de Bodard, Jeffrey Ford, Max Gladstone, Theodora Goss, Daryl Gregory, Kat Howard, Stephen Graham Jones · 2016 · The Universe of Xuya

An anthology of fairy tale retellings that reworks familiar and obscure tales across fantasy, SF, horror, and western modes.

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Plot structure labels: anthology structure · standalone stories · varied endings · multiple retellings · author notes · mixed lengths · riff on source tales

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Distance: 0.1211

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