1952 — 2025
Al
Sarrantonio
Novelist, short story writer, and editor. Across five decades he wrote horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and the Western, and edited anthologies that gathered the field's best writers.
- Books
- 50+
- Short stories
- ~90
- Anthologies
- 10
Find your way in
Which Sarrantonio book should you read first?
Horror, Halloween, mystery, the Western, science fiction, short stories — he wrote across all of them. Five questions and we will point you at one book.
Question 1 of 5
What kind of night are you in the mood for?
Choose the one that sounds most like you, then continue below.
Pick an answer to continue.
The work
The library
The Fireside Treasury of Great Humor
1987 · Simon & Schuster
The Fireside Treasury of New Humor
1989 · Simon & Schuster
Also
As editor
He assembled anthologies that gathered the field's best writers. The work won the Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Audie awards.
- 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense1999
- Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction2001
- Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy2004
- Stories: All-New Tales2010 · with Neil Gaiman
Seasonal
October
Halloween runs through the Orangefield novels and much of his short fiction. We keep a space for it here year-round.
