Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basilisk | 1980 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 2 | Borderland | 1986 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 3 | The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection | 1991 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 4 | Fourth Annual Collection | 1991 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 5 | Life on the Border | 1991 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 6 | Fifth Annual Collection | 1992 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 7 | Seventh Annual Collection | 1994 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 8 | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | 1997 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 9 | The Horns of Elfland | 1997 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 10 | Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers | 1998 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 11 | Starlight 2 | 1998 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 12 | Eleventh Annual Collection | 1998 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 13 | The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women | 2001 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 14 | New Magics | 2004 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 15 | In Lands That Never Were | 2004 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 16 | The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales | 2007 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 17 | Last Drink Bird Head | 2009 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 18 | The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People | 2009 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 19 | Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction | 2011 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 20 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5 | 2011 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 21 | Teeth: Vampire Tales | 2011 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 22 | Welcome to Bordertown | 2011 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 23 | Season of Wonder | 2012 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 24 | Queen Victoria’s Book of Spell | 2013 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 25 | Games Creatures Play | 2014 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 26 | The Book Of Swords: Part 2 | 2018 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
| 27 | Silk & Steel | 2020 | Ellen Kushner | Buy |
Ellen Kushner has been involved with anthologies throughout her career, both as an editor and as a contributing author. Her anthology work spans four decades and covers a wide range of fantasy subgenres, from fairy tale retellings to urban fantasy to queer speculative fiction.
Several of these anthologies are connected to the Bordertown shared-world project, which Kushner helped create along with Terri Windling. The Bordertown books are set in a city where our world meets the land of Faerie, and they feature stories by multiple authors all working within the same setting. Borderland (1986), Life on the Border (1991), and Welcome to Bordertown (2011) are the main volumes. Kushner also co-edited multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror annual anthology series with Windling.
Other anthologies on this list are multi-author collections where Kushner contributed individual stories. These range from themed volumes like Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (focused on LGBTQ+ fantasy) and The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales to broader collections like Silk & Steel and The Book of Swords. Her fiction in these volumes often carries the same emphasis on social dynamics and personal relationships that defines her Riverside novels.