Book meme! Day 17

Day 17 - Favorite story or collection of stories (short stories, novellas, novelettes, etc.)

I don't know which was the first volume of Year's Best Fantasy and Horror I read, but I adored those.  I enjoy horror short stories as long as they're broken up in tone with other things, but I'm too easily terrified to read a whole book of horror short stories.  So the fantasy/horror back and forth worked well for me.
Tanith Lee's short story collections have pretty much always charmed me, and I think Dreams of Dark and Light was the first big one I checked out of the library.
The multi-volume Theodore Sturgeon short story collections can completely suck me under every time.
I read a John Varley collection called Blue Champagne that I liked a lot in high school.
Peter S. Beagle's The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances made me ridiculously happy.  Peter S. Beagle short stories make me happy in general.
Diana Wynne Jones's Warlock at the Wheel, in grade school.

Maybe, if I had to pick a single highlight from childhood, I'd go with either Imaginary Lands or Dragons and Dreams.  Dragons and Dreams had short stories by Diane Duane AND Diana Wynne Jones, which I read and loved before I read the series they were connected with.  And Imaginary Lands kind of felt sideways-slippery while I was reading through it in an intriguing way.
The Jack Zipes edited Don't Bet on the Prince was a big one for me too.

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