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. +Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection winners and nomineesYear PublishedRecipientNominated workResultRef1987 Midnight PleasuresScared StiffWhy Not You and I?All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past1988 Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories Angry CandyScare TacticsBlood and Water and Other Tales1989 Richard Matheson: Collected Stories PatternsBy Bizarre Hands Blue WorldSoft and Others1990 Four Past MidnightPrayers To Broken StonesHouses Without Doors1991 Prayers to Broken StonesWaking NightmaresSex Punks & Savage SagasNaked Flesh of Feeling1992 Mr. Fox and Other Feral TalesNightmare FlowerFantastic Tales1993 Alone With The HorrorsNightmares & DreamscapesLovedeathClose to the Bone1994 Writer of the Purple RageBorn Bad1995 CagesStrange Highways1996 Shadow DreamsWith Wounds Still Wet1997 Exorcisms and EcstasiesThings Left BehindPainted in Blood1998 Black ButterfliesLeavingsSmoke and Mirrors1999 Death Drives a SemiHearts in AtlantisDeep into that Darkness Peering2000 Magic TerrorUp, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and ColdWind Over Heaven and Other Dark TalesCity Fishing2001 As the Sun Goes Down 2002 One More for the Road Nations of the Living, Nations of the DeadKnuckles and TalesEverything's Eventual2003 Peaceable KingdomGraveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Vol 1Told by the Dead BibliomancyFangs and Angel Wings2004 Fearful Symmetries100 Jolts: Shockingly Short StoriesDemonizedFears Unnamed2005 20th Century GhostsMagic for BeginnersLooking for JakeHaunted2006 Destinations UnknownBasic Black: Tales of Appropriate FearAmerican Morons2007 Proverbs for Monsters (Tie) 5 Stories (Tie)Old Devil MoonDefining Moments2008 Just After SunsetMama's Boy and Other Dark TalesMr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy EncountersGleefully Macabre Tales2009 Martyrs and MonstersGot to Kill Them All and Other StoriesIn the Closet, Under the Bed2010 Full Dark, No StarsOccultationBlood and Gristle2011 Voices: Tales of HorrorRed GlovesTwo Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One)Monsters of L.A.Multiplex Fandango2012 New Moon on the Water (Tie) Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories (Tie)Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected StoriesErrantry: Strange Stories2013 North American Lake Monsters: StoriesDance of the Blue LadyBible Stories for Secular Humanists2014 Soft ApocalypsesAfter the People Lights Have Gone OffLittle by LittleGifts for the One Who Comes After2015 While the Black Stars BurnHalfway Down the Stairs2016 Swift to ChaseLethal BirdsAmerican Nocturne2017 Strange WeatherAnd Her Smile Will Untether the UniverseGoblinWriting Madness2018 That Which Grows WildSpectral EvidenceCoyote SongsGarden of Eldritch DelightsDark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection2019 Growing Things and Other StoriesExhalation: StoriesLady BitsSefira and Other BetrayalsOut of Water2020 Grotesque: Monster StoriesVelocities: StoriesChildren of the Fang and Other GenealogiesBloody Britain2021 In That Endlessness, Our EndBeneath a Pale SkyEmpty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead2022Breakable ThingsWe Are Here to Hurt Each OtherHell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman HauntedSpontaneous Human Combustion 2023Blood from the Air Cold, Black, & InfiniteNominatedSpin a Black Yarn The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future Root Rot & Other Grim Tales 2024Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales Not a Speck of LightNominatedA Sunny Place for Shady People The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls Old Monsters Never Die 2025Lost in The Dark and Other ExcursionsAcquired TasteNominatedLittle Horn: StoriesTeenage Girls Can Be DemonsCyanide Constellations
References
External links Stoker Award on the HWA web page Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees