Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | 1999 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 2 | The Vintage Book of Amnesia | 2000 | Kelly Link | N/A |
| 3 | Tails of Wonder and Imagination | 2001 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 4 | Fourteenth Annual Collection | 2001 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 5 | Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | 2002 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 6 | Fifteenth Annual Collection | 2002 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 7 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | 2003 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 8 | The Dark: New Ghost Stories | 2003 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 9 | Trampoline | 2003 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 10 | Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection | 2003 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 11 | Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection | 2004 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 12 | The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm | 2004 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 13 | Firebirds Rising | 2005 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 14 | Best New Horror 16 | 2005 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 15 | Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition | 2006 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 16 | Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection | 2006 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 17 | Best New Fantasy | 2006 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 18 | The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet | 2007 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 19 | Nebula Awards 41 (2007) | 2007 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 20 | Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 | 2007 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 21 | Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology | 2007 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 22 | The Restless Dead | 2007 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 23 | The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales | 2007 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 24 | Best American Fantasy | 2007 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 25 | TwentiethAnnual Collection | 2007 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 26 | Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition | 2008 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 27 | The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2 | 2008 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 28 | Twenty-First Annual Collection | 2008 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 29 | The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 | 2008 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 30 | Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd | 2009 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 31 | Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror | 2010 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 32 | Bloody Fabulous | 2010 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 33 | Sympathy for the Devil | 2010 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 34 | The Living Dead 2 | 2010 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 35 | My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me | 2010 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 36 | The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition | 2010 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 37 | Happily Ever After | 2011 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 38 | Fantasy Magazine, July 2011 | 2011 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 39 | Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories | 2011 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 40 | Z: Zombie Stories | 2011 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 41 | Monsters of Literary Sightings | 2012 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 42 | Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful | 2012 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 43 | The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 | 2012 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 44 | Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | 2012 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 45 | Lightspeed Magazine, December 2012 | 2012 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 46 | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 | 2013 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 47 | Super Stories of Heroes and Villains | 2013 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 48 | Superheroes | 2013 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 49 | The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 | 2013 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 50 | The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Nine | 2014 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 51 | Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales | 2014 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 52 | Parallàxis: A twist in the mind | 2014 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 53 | Lightspeed Magazine, October 2014 | 2014 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 54 | My True Love Gave to Me | 2014 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 55 | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 | 2015 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 56 | Lightspeed Magazine, December 2015 | 2015 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 57 | Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold | 2016 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 58 | Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology | 2017 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 59 | Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore | 2017 | Kelly Link | Buy |
| 60 | Edited By | 2020 | Kelly Link | Buy |
Kelly Link’s anthology appearances reflect her status as one of the most widely reprinted short fiction writers in contemporary speculative literature. Her stories have been selected for dozens of Year’s Best collections, Nebula Award volumes, and themed anthologies spanning fantasy, horror, fairy tales, and literary fiction.
From The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror to The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Link’s work consistently crosses genre boundaries. She has also contributed to anthologies with specific themes — superheroes, fairy tale retellings, zombie fiction, steampunk — bringing her distinctive voice to each setting while maintaining the uncanny quality that defines her writing.