Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection

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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.

1987: The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison

Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch

Scared Stiff by Ramsey Campbell

Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner

All About Strange Monsters of The Recent Past by Howard Waldrop

1988: Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont

The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury

Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick McGrath

The Blood Kiss by Dennis Etchison

Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison

Scare Tactics by John Farris

1989: Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson

Blue World by Robert R. McCammon

By Bizarre Hands by Joe R. Lansdale

Patterns by Pat Cadigan

Soft and Others by F. Paul Wilson

1990: Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub

Prayers To Broken Stones by Dan Simmons

The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein

1991: Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons

Waking Nightmares by Ramsey Campbell

Sex Punks & Savage Sagas by Richard Stuphin

Naken Flesh of Feeling by J.N. Williamson

1992: Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge

Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom

Fantastic Tales by I.U. Tarchetti

1993: Alone With The Horrors by Ramsey Campbell

Close to the Bone by Lucy Taylor

A Good and Secret Place by Richard Laymon

Lovedeath by Dan Simmons

Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King

1994: The Early Fears by Robert Bloch

Writer of the Purple Rage by Joe R. Lansdale

The Flesh Artist by Lucy Taylor

Born Bad by Andrew Vachss

1995: The Panic Hand by Jonathan Carroll

Cages by Ed Gorman

The Black Carousel by Charles L. Grant

Strange Highways by Dean Koontz

1996: The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti

The Convulsion Factory by Brian Hodge

Shadow Dreams by Elizabeth Massie

With Wounds Still Wet by Wayne Allen Sallee

The Pavilion of Frozen Women by S.P. Somtow

1997: Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner, ed. Stephen Jones

Things Left Behind by Gary A. Braunbeck

The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton

Painted in Blood by Lucy Taylor

1998: Black Butterflies by John Shirley

Leavings by P.D. Cacek

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

The Cleft and Other Odd Tales by Gahan Wilson

1999: The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg

Death Drives a Semi by Edo van Belkom

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

Deep into that Darkness Peering by Tom Piccirilli

2000: Magic Terror by Peter Straub

Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold by Charlee Jacob

Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales by Bruce Holland Rogers

City Fishing by Steve Rasnic Tem

2001: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists by Norman Partridge

The Dark Fantastic by Ed Gorman

As the Sun Goes Down by Tim Lebbon

The Whisperer and Other Voices by Brian Lumley

2002: One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury

Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead by Mort Castle

Knucles and Tales by Nancy A. Collins

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King

The Collection by Bentley Little

2003: Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum

Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Vol 1 by Gary A. Braunbeck

Told by the Dead by Ramsey Campbell

Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand

Fangs and Angel Wings by Karen E. Taylor

2004: Fearful Symmetries by Thomas F. Monteleone

100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories by Michael Arnzen

The Machinery of Night by Douglas Clegg

Demonized by Christopher Fowler

Fears Unnamed by Tim Lebbon

2005: 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

Looking for Jake by China Miéville

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

2006: Destinations Unknown by Gary A. Braunbeck

American Morons by Glen Hirshberg

The Commandments by Angeline Hawkes

The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford

Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear by Terry Dowling

2007: (tie)

Proverbs for Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen

5 Stories by Peter Straub

The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron

Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler

Defining Moments by David Niall Wilson

2008: Just After Sunset by Stephen King

The Number 121 to Pennsylvania by Kealan Patrick Burke

Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan

Gleefully Macabre Tales by Jeff Strand

2009: A Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill

Martyrs and Monsters by Robert Dunbar

Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories by Dennis Etchison

In the Closet, Under the Bed by Lee Thomas

2010: Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

Occultation by Laird Barron

Blood and Gristle by Michael Louis Calvillo

The Ones that Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones

A Host of Shadows by Harry Shannon

2011: The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates

Voices: Tales of Horror by Lawrence C. Connolly

Red Gloves by Christopher Fowler

Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One) by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton

Multiplex Fandango by Weston Ochse

2012: New Moon on the Water by Mort Castle (tie)

2012: Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (tie)

Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories by Jonathan Carroll

Errantry: Strange Stories by Elizabeth Hand

The Janus Tree by Glen Hirshberg

2013: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories by Laird Barron

North American Lake Monsters: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud

The Tears of Isis by James Dorr

The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Dance of the Blue Lady by Gene O’Neill

Bible Stories for Secular Humanists by S. P. Somtow

2014: Soft Apocalypses by Lucy A. Snyder

After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones

The End in All Beginnings by John F. D. Taff

Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall

Little by Little by John R. Little

References

Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection Wikipedia

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