Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection
The Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA). It is given for "superior achievement" in horror writing for best fiction collection.
Winners and nominees
[edit]This category was previously titled "best collection". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.[1]
| Year Published | Recipient | Nominated Work | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Harlan Ellison | The Essential Ellison | Won | [2] |
| Robert Bloch | Midnight Pleasures | Nominated | [2] | |
| Ramsey Campbell | Scared Stiff | Nominated | ||
| Karl Edward Wagner | Why Not You and I? | Nominated | ||
| Howard Waldrop | All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past | Nominated | ||
| 1988 | Charles Beaumont | Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories | Won | [3] |
| Ray Bradbury | The Toynbee Convector | Nominated | [3] | |
| Harlan Ellison | Angry Candy | Nominated | ||
| Dennis Etchison | The Blood Kiss | Nominated | ||
| John Farris | Scare Tactics | Nominated | ||
| Patrick McGrath | Blood and Water and Other Tales | |||
| 1989 | Richard Matheson | Richard Matheson: Collected Stories | Won | [4] |
| Pat Cadigan | Patterns | Nominated | [4] | |
| Joe R. Lansdale | By Bizarre Hands | Nominated | ||
| Robert R. McCammon | Blue World | Nominated | ||
| F. Paul Wilson | Soft and Others | Nominated | ||
| 1990 | Stephen King | Four Past Midnight | Won | [5] |
| Michael Blumlein | The Brains of Rats | Nominated | [5] | |
| Dan Simmons | Prayers To Broken Stones | Nominated | ||
| Peter Straub | Houses Without Doors | Nominated | ||
| 1991 | Dan Simmons | Prayers to Broken Stones | Won | [6] |
| Ramsey Campbell | Waking Nightmares | Nominated | [6] | |
| Richard Stuphin | Sex Punks & Savage Sagas | Nominated | ||
| J. N. Williamson | Naken Flesh of Feeling | Nominated | ||
| 1992 | Norman Partridge | Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales | Won | [7] |
| Elizabeth Engstrom | Nightmare Flower | Nominated | [7] | |
| I. U. Tarchetti | Fantastic Tales | Nominated | ||
| 1993 | Ramsey Campbell | Alone With The Horrors | Won | [8] |
| Stephen King | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Nominated | [8] | |
| Richard Laymon | A Good and Secret Place | Nominated | ||
| Dan Simmons | Lovedeath | Nominated | ||
| Lucy Taylor | Close to the Bone | Nominated | ||
| 1994 | Robert Bloch | The Early Fears | Won | [9] |
| Joe R. Lansdale | Writer of the Purple Rage | Nominated | [9] | |
| Lucy Taylor | The Flesh Artist | Nominated | ||
| Andrew Vachss | Born Bad | Nominated | ||
| 1995 | Jonathan Carroll | The Panic Hand | Won | [10] |
| Ed Gorman | Cages | Nominated | [10] | |
| Charles L. Grant | The Black Carousel | Nominated | ||
| Dean Koontz | Strange Highways | Nominated | ||
| 1996 | Thomas Ligotti | The Nightmare Factory | Won | [11] |
| Brian Hodge | The Convulsion Factory | Nominated | [11] | |
| Elizabeth Massie | Shadow Dreams | Nominated | ||
| Wayne Allen Sallee | With Wounds Still Wet | Nominated | ||
| S. P. Somtow | The Pavilion of Frozen Women | Nominated | ||
| 1997 | Karl Edward Wagner | Exorcisms and Ecstasies | Won | [12] |
| Gary A. Braunbeck | Things Left Behind | Nominated | [12] | |
| Brian McNaughton | The Throne of Bones | Nominated | ||
| Lucy Taylor | Painted in Blood | Nominated | ||
| 1998 | John Shirley | Black Butterflies | Won | [13] |
| P. D. Cacek | Leavings | Nominated | [13] | |
| Neil Gaiman | Smoke and Mirrors | Nominated | ||
| Gahan Wilson | The Cleft and Other Odd Tales | Nominated | ||
| 1999 | Douglas Clegg | The Nightmare Chronicles | Won | [14] |
| Edo van Belkom | Death Drives a Semi | Nominated | [14] | |
| Stephen King | Hearts in Atlantis | Nominated | ||
| Tom Piccirilli | Deep into that Darkness Peering | Nominated | ||
| 2000 | Peter Straub | Magic Terror | Won | [15] |
| Charlee Jacob | Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold | Nominated | [15] | |
| Bruce Holland Rogers | Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales | Nominated | ||
| Steve Rasnic Tem | City Fishing | Nominated | ||
| 2001 | Norman Partridge | The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists | Won | [16] |
| Ed Gorman | The Dark Fantastic | Nominated | [16] | |
| Tim Lebbon | As the Sun Goes Down | Nominated | ||
| Brian Lumley | The Whisperer and Other Voices | Nominated | ||
| 2002 | Ray Bradbury | One More for the Road | Won | [17] |
| Mort Castle | Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead | Nominated | [17] | |
| Nancy A. Collins | Knucles and Tales | Nominated | ||
| Stephen King | Everything's Eventual | Nominated | ||
| Bentley Little | The Collection | Nominated | ||
| 2003 | Jack Ketchum | Peaceable Kingdom | Won | [18] |
| Gary A. Braunbeck | Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Vol 1 | Nominated | [18] | |
| Ramsey Campbell | Told by the Dead | Nominated | ||
| Elizabeth Hand | Bibliomancy | Nominated | ||
| Karen E. Taylor | Fangs and Angel Wings | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | Thomas F. Monteleone | Fearful Symmetries | Won | [19] |
| Michael Arnzen | 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories | Nominated | [19] | |
| Douglas Clegg | The Machinery of Night | Nominated | ||
| Christopher Fowler | Demonized | Nominated | ||
| Tim Lebbon | Fears Unnamed | Nominated | ||
| 2005 | Joe Hill | 20th Century Ghosts | Won | [20] |
| Kelly Link | Magic for Beginners | Nominated | [20] | |
| China Miéville | Looking for Jake | Nominated | ||
| Chuck Palahniuk | Haunted | Nominated | ||
| 2006 | Gary A. Braunbeck | Destinations Unknown | Won | [21] |
| Terry Dowling | Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear | Nominated | [21] | |
| Jeffrey Ford | The Empire of Ice Cream | Nominated | ||
| Angeline Hawkes | The Commandments | Nominated | ||
| Glen Hirshberg | American Morons | Nominated | ||
| 2007 | Michael A. Arnzen | Proverbs for Monsters | Won (Tie) | [22] |
| Peter Straub | 5 Stories | Won (Tie) | ||
| Laird Barron | The Imago Sequence | Nominated | [22] | |
| Christopher Fowler | Old Devil Moon | Nominated | ||
| David Niall Wilson | Defining Moments | Nominated | ||
| 2008 | Stephen King | Just After Sunset | Won | [23] |
| Kealan Patrick Burke | The Number 121 to Pennsylvania | Nominated | [23] | |
| Fran Friel | Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales | Nominated | ||
| John Langan | Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters | Nominated | ||
| Jeff Strand | Gleefully Macabre Tales | Nominated | ||
| 2009 | Gene O'Neill | A Taste of Tenderloin | Won | [24] |
| Robert Dunbar | Martyrs and Monsters | Nominated | [24] | |
| Dennis Etchison | Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories | Nominated | ||
| Lee Thomas | In the Closet, Under the Bed | Nominated | ||
| 2010 | Stephen King | Full Dark, No Stars | Won | [25] |
| Laird Barron | Occultation | Nominated | [25] | |
| Michael Louis Calvillo | Blood and Gristle | Nominated | ||
| Stephen Graham Jones | The Ones that Got Away | Nominated | ||
| Harry Shannon | A Host of Shadows | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | Joyce Carol Oates | The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares | Won | [26][27] |
| Lawrence C. Connolly | Voices: Tales of Horror | Nominated | ||
| Christopher Fowler | Red Gloves | Nominated | ||
| Caitlin R. Kiernan | Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One) | Nominated | ||
| Lisa Morton | Monsters of L.A. | Nominated | ||
| Weston Ochse | Multiplex Fandango | Nominated | ||
| 2012 | Mort Castle | New Moon on the Water | Won (Tie) | [28][29][30] |
| Joyce Carol Oates | Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories | Won (Tie) | ||
| Jonathan Carroll | Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories | Nominated | ||
| Elizabeth Hand | Errantry: Strange Stories | Nominated | ||
| Glen Hirshberg | The Janus Tree | Nominated | ||
| 2013 | Laird Barron | The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories | Won | [31][32][33] |
| Nathan Ballingrud | North American Lake Monsters: Stories | Nominated | ||
| James Dorr | The Tears of Isis | Nominated | ||
| Caitlin R. Kiernan | The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories | Nominated | ||
| Gene O'Neill | Dance of the Blue Lady | Nominated | ||
| S. P. Somtow | Bible Stories for Secular Humanists | Nominated | ||
| 2014 | Lucy A. Snyder | Soft Apocalypses | Won | [34][35][36] |
| Stephen Graham Jones | After the People Lights Have Gone Off | Nominated | ||
| John R. Little | Little by Little | Nominated | ||
| Helen Marshall | Gifts for the One Who Comes After | Nominated | ||
| John F. D. Taff | The End in All Beginnings | Nominated | ||
| 2015 | Lucy A. Snyder | While the Black Stars Burn | Won | [37][38][39] |
| Gary A. Braunbeck | Halfway Down the Stairs | Nominated | ||
| Nicole Cushing | The Mirrors | Nominated | ||
| Taylor Grant | The Dark at the End of the Tunnel | Nominated | ||
| Gene O'Neill | The Hitchhiking Effect | Nominated | ||
| 2016 | Joyce Carol Oates | The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror | Won | [40][41][42] |
| Laird Barron | Swift to Chase | Nominated | ||
| Richard Chizmar | A Long December | Nominated | ||
| Gene O'Neill | Lethal Birds | Nominated | ||
| Hank Schwaeble | American Nocturne | Nominated | ||
| 2017 | Joe Hill | Strange Weather | Won | [43][44][45] |
| Gwendolyn Kiste | And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe | Nominated | ||
| Josh Malerman | Goblin | Nominated | ||
| Thersa Matsuura | The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales | Nominated | ||
| Patrick McGrath | Writing Madness | Nominated | ||
| 2018 | Eric J. Guignard | That Which Grows Wild | Won | [46][47][48] |
| Gemma Files | Spectral Evidence | Nominated | ||
| Gabino Iglesias | Coyote Songs | Nominated | ||
| Lucy A. Snyder | Garden of Eldritch Delights | Nominated | ||
| Tim Waggoner | Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection | Nominated | ||
| 2019 | Paul Tremblay | Growing Things and Other Stories | Won | [49][50][51] |
| Ted Chiang | Exhalation: Stories | Nominated | ||
| Kate Jonez | Lady Bits | Nominated | ||
| John Langan | Sefira and Other Betrayals | Nominated | ||
| Sarah Read | Out of Water | Nominated | ||
| 2020 | Lee Murray | Grotesque: Monster Stories | Won | [52][53][54] |
| Kathe Koja | Velocities: Stories | Nominated | ||
| John Langan | Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies | Nominated | ||
| Patricia Lillie | The Cuckoo Girls | Nominated | ||
| Anna Taborska | Bloody Britain | Nominated | ||
| 2021 | Gemma Files | In That Endlessness, Our End | Won | [55] |
| Philip Fracassi | Beneath a Pale Sky | Nominated | ||
| Jonathan Maberry | Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead | Nominated | ||
| Lisa Tuttle | The Dead Hours of Night | Nominated | ||
| A. C. Wise | The Ghost Sequences | Nominated | ||
| 2022 | Cassandra Khaw | Breakable Things | Won | [58][59][60] |
| Paula D. Ashe | We Are Here to Hurt Each Other | Nominated | ||
| RJ Joseph | Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted | Nominated | ||
| Richard Thomas | Spontaneous Human Combustion | Nominated | ||
| Attila Veres | The Black Maybe | Nominated |
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