The Best of Avram Davidson is a collection of fantasy, science fiction and mystery short stories, written by Avram Davidson and edited by Michael Kurland.

[1] The book collects eleven novelettes and short stories and a chapter from a novel, originally published in various magazines, with a preface by Peter S. Beagle, an introduction by editor Michael Kurland, and an afterword by the author.

The collection was reviewed by Joe de Bolt in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, May 1979 (reprinted in Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review: The Complete Series, Vol.

13, January 1979-February 1980), Charles N. Brown in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1979, and (in French) by Pascal J. Thomas in Fiction #319, 1981.

"The Sources of the Nile" received an honorable mention for the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction.