The British Fantasy Award for Best Non-Fiction is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.
Winners and shortlists
* Winners
Year Author / Editor Work Publisher 2007 * Cinema Macabre PS Publishing Dodo Press McFarland & Company Into the Unknown: The Fantastic Life of Nigel Kneale Headpress James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon St. Martin's Press 2008 * Whispers of Wickedness — Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents FAB Press — UKSF Book News — Wormwood Tartarus Press 2009 , * Basil Copper: A Life in Books PS Publishing Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale BBC Books journal.neilgaiman.com — Interzone What Is It We Do When We Read Science Fiction Beccon Publications 2010 * Ansible Link news.ansible.co.uk Knowing Darkness: Artists Inspired by Stephen King Centipede Press It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New Millennium Telos Publishing Whatever scalzi.com/whatever Black Static 2011 * Altered Visions: The Art of Vincent Chong Telos Publishing Cinema Futura PS Publishing Fantastic TV: 50 Years of Cult Fantasy and Science Fiction Plexus Publishing M.P. Shiel: The Middle Years 1897-1923 Roger Beacham Midnight Marquee 2012 * Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Super Hero Jonathan Cape Lest You Should Suffer Nightmares: A Biography of Herbert Van Thal Screaming Dreams Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s Bloomsbury Publishing Studies in Terror: Landmarks of Horror Cinema Signum Black Static 2013 , * Pornokitsch — , * Ansible — , Cambridge University Press , Black Static Fantasy Faction — Reflections: On the Magic of Writing David Fickling 2014 , * Speculative Fiction 2012 Jurassic London , * Fantasy Faction — Doors to Elsewhere Gestalt Real-Time Reviews — 2015 , * Letters to Arkham: The Letters of Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth, 1961-1971 PS Publishing Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions Lethe Press You Are the Hero: A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Snowbooks Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic D. F. Lewis Dreamcatcher Real-Time Reviews , Ginger Nuts of Horror Sibilant Fricative: Essays & Reviews Steel Quill 2016 , * Letters to Tiptree Twelfth Planet , * , Fantasy Faction — , , Applause Theater & Cinema , Ginger Nuts of Horror gingernutsofhorror.com Matrilines Strange Horizons , King for a Year kingreviews2015.blogspot.com 2017 * Tor Books Blood Spectrum Black Static , Ginger Nuts of Horror — This Spectacular Darkness Tartarus Press , Tor.com Words are my Matter: Writings about Life and Books, 2000-2016 Small Beer Press 2018 , * Gender Identity and Sexuality in Science Fiction and Fantasy Luna Press , Ginger Nuts of Horror — , Luminescent Threads Mimi Mondal Twelfth Planet , No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction Quirk Books Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Electric Dreamhouse Press 2019 * Noise and Sparks Shoreline of Infinity , Luna Press — , Ginger Nuts of Horror — Les Vampires PS Publishing 2020 * New York University Press Coffinmaker's Blues: Collected Writings on Terror PS Publishing — Joanna Russ (Modern Masters of SF) University of Illinois Press Notes from the Borderland Black Static, TTA Press Unbound 2021 , * Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre Rutgers University Press , Ties that Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction Luna Press Gylphi Limited It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? Elliot & Thompson Notes from the Borderland Black Static — 2022 , * Writing the Uncanny Dead Ink , * After Human: A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin Liverpool University Press , Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction Luna Press — , Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985 PM Press , , Ginger Nuts of Horror — 2023 * Anti-Oedipus Fantasy: How it Works Oxford University Press Outlander and the Real Jacobites Pen & Sword History My Life in Horror, Vol. 2 Self-published — Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes Doubleday 2024 , * Writing the Future Dead Ink , * Spec Fic for Newbies: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Luna Press Calon — 2025 * Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters Unbound Spec Fic for Newbies Vol 2: A Beginner's Guide to Writing More Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Luna Press BFS Blog — Track Changes Briardene Books Translating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales: A Case Study and Ideological Approach (Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities) Lexington Books 2026 , Writing The Magic: Essays on Crafting Fantasy Fiction Dead Ink , Strange Horizons Nigerian Speculative Fiction: Evolution Routledge India — Britain's Folklore Year: A seasonal journey through our customs, celebrations and rituals National Trust Routledge
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