- Sidle Creek, stories, Jolene McIlwain
- I'm not hungry but I could eat, stories, Christopher Gonzalez
- Chance developments, Alexander McCall Smith
- 145th Street, short stories, Walter Dean Myers
- Kiss me deadly, 13 tales of paranormal love, edited by Trisha Talep
- Baseball in April, and other stories, Gary Soto
- The gods perspire, the collected short fiction, Ken Rand, v. 2
- Murder at the manor, country house mysteries, edited and introduced by Martin Edwards
- Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, Cassandra Clare ; Sarah Rees Brennan ; Maureen Johnson ; Robin Wasserman
- Dark heat, Donna Grant
- Demon slayer, kimetsu no yaiba, the flower of happiness, novel by Aya Yajima ; art and original concept by Koyoharu Gotouge ; translated by Jocelyne Allen
- Rags & bones, new twists on timeless tales, edited by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt
- Playing games, edited by Lawrence Block
- Firebirds rising, an anthology of original science fiction and fantasy, edited by Sharyn November
- What we fed to the manticore, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
- Rats on the roof and other stories, James Marshall
- Under the mistletoe, Mary Balogh
- Reunion beach, stories inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank, Elin Hilderbrand, Adriana Trigiani, Patti Callahan, Mary Alice Monroe and more
- The complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway
- Scary stories for young foxes, the City, Christian McKay Heidicker ; illustrations by Junyi Wu
- Creepy classics II, more hair-raising horror from the masters of the macabre, compiled by Doris Stuart ; illustrations by Barbara Kiwak
- Strange weather, four short novels, Joe Hill
- The collected short stories of Louis L'Amour, v. 3
- Beasts and beauty, dangerous tales, Soman Chainani ; illustrated by Julia Iredale
- Disruptions, stories, Steven Millhauser
- Sorry for your trouble, stories, Richard Ford
- The souvenir museum, Elizabeth McCracken
- Pushcart prize XLII, 2018, best of the small presses, edited by Bill Henderson ; with the Pushcart prize editors
- Lovely, dark, deep, stories, Joyce Carol Oates
- Bad mothers, bad daughters, stories, Maya Sonenberg
- Christmas days, 12 stories and 12 feasts for 12 days, Jeanette Winterson
- How strange a season, fiction, Megan Mayhew Bergman
- The best that you can do, stories, Amina Gautier
- Year's best hardcore horror, edited by Randy Chandler & Cheryl Mullenax, v. 1
- Night of the living rez, Morgan Talty
- The gods of H.P. Lovecraft, edited by Aaron J. French
- Stories of ghosts, Russell Punter ; illustrated by Mike Phillips
- Everything inside, stories, Edwidge Danticat
- All the time in the world, new and selected stories, E. L. Doctorow
- Seeking fortune elsewhere, stories, Sindya Bhanoo
- Illuminations, stories, Alan Moore
- Beach town, stories, David Daniel
- Sports shorts, an anthology of short stories, by Joseph Bruchac ... [et al]
- The Ribbajack & other curious yarns, Brian Jacques
- Boston noir, edited by Dennis Lehane
- The best American nonrequired reading 2018, edited by Sheila Heti and the students of 826 National ; managing editor, Clara Sankey
- Famous modern ghost stories, selected with an introduction by Dorothy Scarborough
- Lips touch, three times, Laini Taylor ; with illustrations by Jim Di Bartolo
- Man v. nature, stories, Diane Cook
- The inheritance and other stories, Robin Hobb