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

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	Naked 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	Knuckles 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] [56][57]
	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
2023
	Gemma Files	Blood from the Air	Won	[61]
	Todd Keisling	Cold, Black, & Infinite	Nominated	[61]
	Josh Malerman	Spin a Black Yarn
	Christi Nogle	The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future
	Sarah Read	Root Rot & Other Grim Tales
2024
	Mercedes M. Yardley	Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales	Won	[62]
	Laird Barron	Not a Speck of Light	Nominated	[62]
	Mariana Enriquez	A Sunny Place for Shady People
	Angela Sylvaine	The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls
	Tim Waggoner	Old Monsters Never Die

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External links

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