The Mirror and Other Strange Reflections (2002).The Merriest Knight: The Collected Arthurian Tales of Theodore Goodridge Roberts (2001).Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades: Memories of Ghost Stories Magazine (2000).Royal Whodunnits: Tales of Right, Royal Murder And Mystery (1999).Published in the US as The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1997) Published in the US as The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories (1997) Classical Whodunnits: Murder And Mystery from Ancient Greece And Rome (1996).Revised and expanded as The Giant Book of Heroic Adventure Stories (1997) The Giant Book of Myths and Legends (1995).The Magic Mirror: Lost Supernatural and Mystery Stories by Algernon Blackwood (1989).Guest edited special issue dedicated to Robert A. Algernon Blackwood's Tales of the Supernatural (1983).Gaskell's Tales of Mystery and Horror (1978) The Best of British SF in 2 volumes (1977).Souls in metal : an anthology of robot futures.Souls in Metal: an Anthology of Robot Futures (1977).This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. He wrote the books to accompany the British Library's exhibitions, Taking Liberties in 2008 and Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It in 2011. He has contributed to many reference works including The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (as Contributing Editor) and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (as Contributing Editor of the third edition).

In addition to the books listed below he edited and prepared for publication the novel The Enchantresses (1997) by Vera Chapman. He won the Edgar Award for The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction. He has a special interest in fiction magazines and has written a multi-volume History of the Science Fiction Magazine and a study of British fiction magazines, The Age of the Storytellers. He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction. Michael Raymond Donald Ashley (born 1948) is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.

Glimpses of the Unknown by Mike Ashley