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) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for best fiction collection.

Winners and nominees

This category was previously titled "best collection". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.[1]

Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection winners and nominees
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]

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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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External links

  • Stoker Award on the HWA web page
  • Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees
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