Top Fantasy: The Authors' Choice

Top Fantasy: The Authors' Choice is an anthology of fantasy short stories edited by Josh Pachter, the fourth in his series of "Authors' Choice" anthologies. It was first published in hardcover by J. M. Dent in June 1985, with a trade paperback edition issued by the same publisher in July 1986. The book has also been published in translation in Germany.

The book collects twenty-four short stories and novelettes by as many prominent fantasy authors, with the works included all selected and introduced by their authors as representative of their best short works. The stories were originally published in the magazines Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, New Worlds SF, Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post and Weird Tales, the fanzines Chacal, Dragonfields and Whispers, the anthologies The DAW Science Fiction Reader, Heroic Visions, Lands of Never, New Terrors, Quark/1, Rooms of Paradise, Science Fiction Tales, Speculations and Wandering Stars, and the collections The Compass Rose and Dark Companions. The book includes an introduction by the editor.