"He spent most of the first eight years of his life in a small, white sickbed....'By day, it amounted to sensory deprivation. I lay in a bedroom that was whitewashed and had cheesecloth stretched across the windows...I was so bored, I would create my own out-of-body experiences....At night, it was worse. When you're lying in the semi-darkness, and the moon is coming up, and half of you is paralysed, there is no end to the terrible things a heap of clothes can change into.'"

• The Owl Service (1969), a British TV series transmitted by Granada Television based on Garner's novel of the same name.
• Red Shift (BBC, transmitted 17 January 1978); directed by John Mackenzie; part of the BBC's Play for Today series.
• To Kill a King (1980), part of the BBC series of plays on supernatural themes, Leap in the Dark: an atmospheric story about a writer overcoming depression and writer's block. The hero's home appears to be Garner's own house.
• Garner and Don Webb adapted Elidor into a children's television series for the BBC. The series consisted of six half-hour episodes starring Damian Zuk as Roland and Suzanne Shaw as Helen

• 'The Owl Service' won the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal in 1968
• The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (before 1980)
• Artist Patrick James Lynch won the 1987 Mother Goose Award for his illustrative work on 'A Bag of Moonshine'.
• 'The Stone Book' received the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association (USA) in 1996
• The 1981 film 'Images' won First Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival
• Karl Edward Wagner Award (Special Award) won in 2003

Novels

• The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960)
• The Moon of Gomrath (1963) - Sequel to the above.
• Elidor (1965)
• The Owl Service (1967)
• Red Shift (1973)
• Strandloper (1996)
• Thursbitch (2003)

Collections

• The Stone Book Quartet (1979) - Collection of the four The Stone Book short stories.
• Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales (1984) - illustrated by Derek Collard
• The Alan Garner Collection (Collins, 2005) - Slipcased collection of paperbacks: The Owl Service, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor and A Bag of Moonshine.

Short stories

• The Old Man of Mow (1966) - A 28-page story illustrated with photographs by Roger Hill.
• Feel Free (1967)
• Smith (1969)
• A Book of Goblins (ed) (1969)
• The Breadhorse (1975) - A 30-page story illustrated by Albin Trowski.
• The Stone Book (1976) - First story in The Stone Book.
• Tom Fobble's Day (1977) - Second story in The Stone Book.
• Granny Reardun (1977) - Third story in The Stone Book.
• The Aimer Gate (1978) - Fourth story in The Stone Book.
• Alan Garner's Fairy Tales of Gold (1979)
• A Bag of Moonshine (1986) - A collection of 22 stories chosen from the folklore of England and Wales.
• Fairytales of Gold (1989)
• The Lad of the Gad (1980)
• Once Upon a Time (1993)
• The Well of the Wind (1998) - A 48-page story illustrated by Herve Blondon. ISBN 978-0789425195.

Essays and lectures

• The Voice That Thunders (1997) - a collection of essays and lectures

Edited works

• The Guizer: a Book of Fools (1975) - a collection of stories about fools.