Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | World’s Great Mystery Stories | 1943 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 2 | Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction | 1948 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 3 | Great Tales of Action and Adventure | 1958 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 4 | 21 Great Stories | 1969 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 5 | Scottish Tales of Terror | 1972 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 6 | Sea Tales of Terror | 1974 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 7 | The 10th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories | 1977 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 8 | Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | 1979 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 9 | Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 2 | 1979 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 10 | The 14th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories | 1981 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 11 | 65 Great Spine Chillers | 1982 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 12 | Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries | 1982 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 13 | Mysterious Sea Stories | 1987 | Arthur Conan Doyle | N/A |
| 14 | English Country House Murders | 1988 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 15 | Tales of the Occult | 1989 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 16 | Hound Dunnit | 1989 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 17 | Great Law and Order Stories | 1990 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 18 | Great Tales of Crime and Detection | 1992 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 19 | Horse & Pony Stories | 1992 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 20 | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Volume Three | 1992 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 21 | Murder British Style | 1993 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 22 | Sea-Cursed | 1994 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 23 | Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories | 1997 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 24 | The Oxford Book of Detective Stories | 2000 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 25 | Crime Never Pays | 2001 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 26 | On Glorious Wings | 2003 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 27 | The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction | 2004 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 28 | H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural | 2006 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 29 | The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes | 2007 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 30 | Stories to Get You Through the Night | 2010 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 31 | 50 Classic Novellas | 2011 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 32 | London Stories | 2013 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 33 | A Short Story Anthology | 2013 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 34 | Togas and Tyrants: Collected Tales of Ancient Rome | 2014 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 35 | The Phantom Coach | 2014 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 36 | Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age | 2017 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 37 | Fireside Horror Stories About Mummies and Curses | 2017 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 38 | Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays | 2019 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 39 | The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 | 2019 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 40 | Murder Takes a Holiday | 2021 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
Arthur Conan Doyle’s work has been collected in multi-author anthologies for over eighty years. The earliest entries in this listing date to the 1940s, with volumes like World’s Great Mystery Stories and Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction. These anthologies draw on Doyle’s Holmes stories, his horror and supernatural fiction, his adventure tales, and his historical writing. The forty volumes listed here represent only a fraction of the anthologies that have included his work.
The range of these collections shows how many genres Doyle’s writing touches. There are detective story anthologies (The Oxford Book of Detective Stories, Detection by Gaslight), horror collections (65 Great Spine Chillers, H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural), sea adventure volumes (Sea Tales of Terror, Mysterious Sea Stories), and animal story books (Hound Dunnit, Horse and Pony Stories). Several anthologies focus specifically on holiday crime fiction, while others gather Victorian-era stories or London-set tales. Doyle’s presence in so many different kinds of collections reflects both his popularity and the variety of subjects he wrote about during his long career.