Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Best of British SF 2 | 1977 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 2 | The Best of British SF 1 | 1977 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 3 | Sf Choice 77 | 1977 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 4 | Weird Legacies | 1977 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 5 | Souls in Metal | 1977 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 6 | Gaslight & Ghosts | 1988 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 7 | The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur | 1989 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 8 | The Camelot Chronicles | 1992 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 9 | Historical Whodunits | 1993 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 10 | Return To Derleth: Selected Essays | 1993 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 11 | 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories | 1995 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 12 | 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories | 1995 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 13 | The Merlin Chronicles | 1995 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 14 | The Giant Book Of Myths And Legends | 1995 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 15 | Classical Whodunnits | 1996 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 16 | The Collected Classical Stories and Classical Whodunnits | 1996 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 17 | Fantasy Stories | 1996 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 18 | Space Stories | 1996 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 19 | Chronicles Of The Holy Grail | 1996 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 20 | The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures | 1997 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 21 | Shakespearean Whodunnits | 1997 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 22 | The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories | 1997 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 23 | The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales | 1997 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 24 | Shakespearean Detectives | 1998 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 25 | The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy | 1998 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 26 | Heroic Adventures | 1998 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 27 | Men O’War | 1999 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 28 | The Chronicles of the Round Table | 1999 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 29 | Royal Whodunnits | 1999 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 30 | Phantom Perfumes And Other Shades | 2000 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 31 | The World’s Greatest Master and Commander Stories | 2001 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 32 | The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy | 2001 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 33 | The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits | 2002 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 34 | The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction | 2002 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 35 | The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction | 2002 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 36 | The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits | 2003 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 37 | The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits | 2004 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 38 | The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction | 2006 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 39 | The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy | 2008 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 40 | Great American Ghost Stories | 2008 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 41 | Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers | 2008 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 42 | The Darker Sex | 2009 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 43 | The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF | 2009 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 44 | The Dreaming Sex | 2010 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 45 | The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF | 2010 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 46 | Steampunk Prime | 2010 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 47 | Dreams and Wonders | 2010 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 48 | Vampires | 2011 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 49 | The Duel of Shadows | 2011 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 50 | Sisters in Crime | 2013 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 51 | [Insert Coin Here] | 2013 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 52 | The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF | 2013 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 53 | The Mammoth Book of Classical Whodunnits | 2014 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 54 | The Feminine Future | 2015 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
| 55 | Fighters of Fear | 2020 | Mike Ashley | Buy |
This page lists the anthologies edited by Mike Ashley outside of his Tales of the Weird and British Library Science Fiction Classics series. Ashley has been one of the most active anthology editors in genre fiction since the late 1970s, with over 50 collections to his name.
A large portion of his work appeared in the Mammoth Book series from Robinson Publishing. These include The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction, The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF, and several historical mystery collections set in ancient Egypt, Rome, and the Roaring Twenties. He also edited The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures and The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy.
Beyond the Mammoth Books, Ashley compiled Arthurian collections (The Pendragon Chronicles, The Camelot Chronicles, The Merlin Chronicles), ghost story anthologies (Great American Ghost Stories, Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades), and themed volumes like Steampunk Prime, The Feminine Future, and Fighters of Fear. His earliest anthologies, including The Best of British SF and Weird Legacies, date back to 1977.