Dark Night in Toyland (ISBN 0-575-04448-9) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Bob Shaw, first published in 1989.

Timmy, the son of Kirkham, a Methodist minister, and his wife Dora, will soon die of spinal cancer.

On his last Christmas one of his presents is "Biodoh", which he has chosen: it is a construction kit from which seemingly living creatures can be made.

A man with low self-esteem visits "Alterealites Inc", a shop in New York which can send him to a choice of countless other universes where the inhabitants may have a higher regard for him.

After "World War Three Point Three Repeating", the narrator, on one of many aerial excursions in "a silent sled", detects the location of a coming storm; he guides it and communicates with a physicist working in an underground laboratory, telling him when to activate a mast and receive a lightning-strike to power his experiment.

Ciano, Ritzo and other members of the colony's ruling family intend to mine minerals without the consent of Kston, the local representative.

Although peaceful and childlike, Kston is physically indestructible, hardly noticing an assassination attempt, and is strong enough to unintentionally kill people; he realizes he can overcome the colonists.

Recommended by a friend, a man visits Mr Zurek, who runs his business from a basement room: he can fulfill a client's wish, in exchange for his immortal soul.

He also wonders if there is witchcraft, since Muriel and her family seem to make machinery behave perversely; a final accident with the car confirms this.

Their king, Garadan, controls them by predicting the appearances of the many moons, which he does by monitoring a box, a computer salvaged from the crashed ship.

The voyage of a sole passenger in a small aircraft is in jeopardy when the pilot bales out with a parachute because his union has declared a strike.