The Ealdwood Stories, also known as the Arafel Stories, are a collection of fantasy works by American writer C. J. Cherryh.
 The books are works of high fantasy based in part on Celtic mythology.
 Arafel, a main character, is a Daoine Sidhe, the highest of the Sidhe faery-folk.
 She dwells in the magical small forest of Ealdwood, from which the tales take their name.
The Dreamstone is a 1983 fantasy novel by American science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh.
 It includes revisions of the author's 1979 short story "The Dreamstone" ("Amazons!
", ed.
 Jessica Amanda Salmonson) and her 1981 novella "Ealdwood", plus additional material.
 The book is the first of two novels in Cherryh's "Ealdwood Stories" series, the second being "The Tree of Swords and Jewels".
 The series draws on Celtic mythology and is about Ealdwood, a forest at the edge of Faery, and Arafel, a Daoine Sidhe.
The Philip K. Dick Reader is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick.
 It was first published by Citadel Twilight in 1997.
 Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines "If", "Science Fiction Adventures", "Science Fiction Stories", "Orbit", "Fantasy and Science Fiction", "Imagination", "Future", "Galaxy Science Fiction", "Beyond Fantasy Fiction", "Satellite", "Imaginative Tales", "Fantastic Universe" and "Space Science Fiction".
 It is identical in content and order to the edition of volume 3 of the Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick produced by the same publisher apart from the substitution of three stories in positions 21-23 of 24 and the omission of the end notes in the Collected Stories edition.
 At press time, stories 21 and 24 had already been made into successful movie adaptations and stories 22 and 23 had been optioned.
Maps in a Mirror (1990) is a collection of short stories by American writer Orson Scott Card.
 Like Card's novels, most of the stories have a science fiction or fantasy theme.
 Some of the stories, such as "Ender's Game", "Lost Boys", and "Mikal's Songbird" were later expanded into novels.
 Each of the smaller volumes that make up the larger collection as a whole are centered on a theme or genre.
 For instance, Volume 1, "The Changed Man", reprints several of Card's horror stories.
 The collection won the Locus Award in 1991.
Avram Davidson (April 23, 1923 – May 8, 1993) was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche.
 He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, and an "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" short story award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre.
 Davidson edited "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" from 1962 to 1964.
 His last novel "" was completed by Grania Davis and was a Nebula Award finalist in 1998. "
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction" says "he is perhaps sf's most explicitly literary author".
Edgar Allan Poe ( ; born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.
 Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
 He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story.
 Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
 He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
The Tree of Swords and Jewels is a 1983 fantasy novel by American science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh.
 It is the second of two novels in Cherryh's "Ealdwood Stories" series, the first being "The Dreamstone".
 The series draws on Celtic mythology and is about Ealdwood, a forest at the edge of Faery, and Arafel, a Daoine Sidhe.
This is a bibliography of works by or about the American writer Rex Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975), an American writer noted for his detective fiction.
 He began his literary career in the 1910s, writing more than 40 stories that appeared in pulp magazines between 1912 and 1918.
 He wrote no fiction for more than a decade, until the late 1920s, when he had saved enough money through his business activities to write when and what he pleased.
 In 1929, he wrote his first published book, "How Like a God", an unusual psychological story written in the second person.
 He wrote a pioneering political thriller, "The President Vanishes" (1934), before he turned to writing detective fiction.
 His 1934 novel "Fer-de-Lance" introduced his best-known characters, detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin, who were featured in 33 novels and 39 novellas and short stories between 1934 and 1975.
 In 1959, Stout received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award.
 The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon XXXI, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was nominated Best Mystery Writer of the Century.
"Ealdwood" is a fantasy novella by American writer C. J. Cherryh.
 One of Cherryh's "Ealdwood Stories", it was first published in 1981 by Donald M. Grant in a limited edition of 1,050 copies.
 The edition was illustrated by the author's brother, David A. Cherry.
 The novella draws on Celtic mythology and is about Ealdwood, a forest at the edge of Faery, and Arafel, a Daoine Sidhe.
Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.
 She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels "Downbelow Station" (1981) and "Cyteen" (1988), both set in her Alliance-Union universe.
 She is known for "world building," depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology.
 Her series of fantasy novels set in the Alliance-Union universe, the Morgaine Stories, have sold in excess of 3 million copies.

Question: Ealdwood Stories was written by the American writer in what genre?
Answer: speculative fiction