Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Best of British SF 2 |
1977 |
Buy |
| The Best of British SF 1 |
1977 |
Buy |
| Sf Choice 77 |
1977 |
Buy |
| Weird Legacies |
1977 |
Buy |
| Souls in Metal |
1977 |
Buy |
| Gaslight & Ghosts |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur |
1989 |
Buy |
| The Camelot Chronicles |
1992 |
Buy |
| Historical Whodunits |
1993 |
Buy |
| Return To Derleth: Selected Essays |
1993 |
Buy |
| 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories |
1995 |
Buy |
| 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories |
1995 |
Buy |
| The Merlin Chronicles |
1995 |
Buy |
| The Giant Book Of Myths And Legends |
1995 |
Buy |
| Classical Whodunnits |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Collected Classical Stories and Classical Whodunnits |
1996 |
Buy |
| Fantasy Stories |
1996 |
Buy |
| Space Stories |
1996 |
Buy |
| Chronicles Of The Holy Grail |
1996 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures |
1997 |
Buy |
| Shakespearean Whodunnits |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales |
1997 |
Buy |
| Shakespearean Detectives |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy |
1998 |
Buy |
| Heroic Adventures |
1998 |
Buy |
| Men O’War |
1999 |
Buy |
| The Chronicles of the Round Table |
1999 |
Buy |
| Royal Whodunnits |
1999 |
Buy |
| Phantom Perfumes And Other Shades |
2000 |
Buy |
| The World’s Greatest Master and Commander Stories |
2001 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy |
2001 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits |
2003 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits |
2004 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction |
2006 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy |
2008 |
Buy |
| Great American Ghost Stories |
2008 |
Buy |
| Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers |
2008 |
Buy |
| The Darker Sex |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF |
2009 |
Buy |
| The Dreaming Sex |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF |
2010 |
Buy |
| Steampunk Prime |
2010 |
Buy |
| Dreams and Wonders |
2010 |
Buy |
| Vampires |
2011 |
Buy |
| The Duel of Shadows |
2011 |
Buy |
| Sisters in Crime |
2013 |
Buy |
| [Insert Coin Here] |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF |
2013 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Classical Whodunnits |
2014 |
Buy |
| The Feminine Future |
2015 |
Buy |
| Fighters of Fear |
2020 |
Buy |
British Library Science Fiction Classics Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Moonrise |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Platform Edge |
2019 |
Buy |
| Menace of the Machine |
2019 |
Buy |
| The End of the World |
2019 |
Buy |
| Spaceworlds: Stories of Life in the Void |
2021 |
Buy |
| Fear in the Blood |
2024 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Who’s Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction |
1977 |
Buy |
| Fantasy Reader’s Guide to Ramsey Campbell |
1980 |
Buy |
| The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Lists |
1982 |
Buy |
| Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines |
1985 |
Buy |
| Barrington J. Bayley |
1987 |
Buy |
| Algernon Blackwood |
1987 |
Buy |
| The Work of Robert A.W. Lowndes |
1988 |
Buy |
| The Work of David H. Keller |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Work of William F. Temple |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Supernatural Index |
1995 |
Buy |
| The Gernsback Days |
1997 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queensof Britain and Ireland |
1997 |
Buy |
| British Monarchs |
1998 |
Buy |
| The Time Machines |
2000 |
Buy |
| Starlight Man |
2001 |
Buy |
| A Brief History of British Kings & Queens |
2002 |
Buy |
| Transformations |
2005 |
Buy |
| The Age of the Storytellers |
2005 |
Buy |
| The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries |
2006 |
Buy |
| Gateways to Forever |
2007 |
Buy |
| A Brief History of King Arthur |
2010 |
Buy |
| Out of This World |
2011 |
Buy |
| Yesterday’s Tomorrows |
2021 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| History of Science Fiction Magazine Volume 1: 1926-1935 |
1974 |
Buy |
| The Enchantresses |
1999 |
Buy |
Tales of the Weird Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea |
2018 |
Buy |
| Glimpses of the Unknown |
2018 |
Buy |
| Haunted Houses: Two Novels |
2019 |
N/A |
| Mortal Echoes |
2018 |
N/A |
| Weird Sisters |
2025 |
Buy |
| The Platform Edge |
2019 |
N/A |
| The Face in the Glass |
2014 |
N/A |
| The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson |
2019 |
N/A |
| Doorway to Dilemma |
2019 |
Buy |
| Evil Roots |
2019 |
N/A |
| Promethean Horrors |
2020 |
N/A |
| Roarings from Further Out |
2019 |
N/A |
| Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink |
- |
N/A |
| The Outcast |
2020 |
N/A |
| A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales |
1886 |
N/A |
| Into the London Fog |
2020 |
N/A |
| Weird Woods |
2020 |
N/A |
| Chill Tidings |
2020 |
N/A |
| Dangerous Dimensions |
2021 |
N/A |
| Heavy Weather |
2021 |
N/A |
| Minor Hauntings |
2021 |
N/A |
| Crawling Horror |
2021 |
N/A |
| Cornish Horrors |
2021 |
N/A |
| I Am Stone |
2021 |
N/A |
| Sunless Solstice |
2021 |
N/A |
| Shadows on the Wall |
2022 |
N/A |
| The Night Wire |
2022 |
N/A |
| Our Haunted Shores |
2022 |
N/A |
| The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan |
- |
N/A |
| Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird |
- |
N/A |
| Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales For Christmas Nights |
2022 |
N/A |
| Polar Horrors: Strange Tales from the World’s Ends |
- |
N/A |
| Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny |
2023 |
N/A |
| La casa sull’abisso |
1908 |
N/A |
The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Rise of the Cyberzines |
2022 |
Buy |
| The Rise of the Cyberzines: the Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 To 2020: The History of the Science-Fiction Magazines Volume V, Volume 5 |
2022 |
N/A |
Mike Ashley is a British author and editor who has spent more than four decades compiling anthologies and writing reference works about genre fiction. His career as an editor began in the late 1970s with The Best of British SF collections and has continued into the 2020s with the Tales of the Weird series for the British Library.
Ashley’s anthology work covers a broad range of subjects. He edited many volumes in the Mammoth Book series, including The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, and several historical mystery collections like The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits and The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits. He also compiled themed anthologies on Arthurian legend, ghost stories, vampires, and steampunk.
On the non-fiction side, Ashley has written extensively about the history of science fiction publishing. His multi-volume history of SF magazines, including The Time Machines (2000) and Gateways to Forever (2007), is considered a standard reference in the field. He has also authored biographies of Algernon Blackwood (Starlight Man, 2001) and reference guides to British monarchs.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Mike Ashley written?
Mike Ashley has written 122 books across six series.
What was Mike Ashley's first book?
Mike Ashley’s first book is A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales, published in 1886.
What is Mike Ashley best known for?
Mike Ashley is best known as one of the most prolific anthology editors in genre fiction. He edited dozens of volumes in the Mammoth Book series for Robinson Publishing, covering everything from science fiction and fantasy to historical whodunnits and ghost stories. He also wrote The Time Machines, a history of science fiction magazines.