Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection


The Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association. 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 for each year.
Year PublishedRecipientNominated workResultRef
1987Won
1987Midnight Pleasures
1987Scared StiffNomitated
1987Why Not You and I?Nomitated
1987All About Strange Monsters of the Recent PastNomitated
1988Charles Beaumont: Selected StoriesWon
1988
1988Angry CandyNomitated
1988'Nomitated
1988Scare TacticsNomitated
1988Blood and Water and Other Tales-
1989Richard Matheson: Collected StoriesWon
1989Patterns
1989By Bizarre Hands
1989Blue World
1989Soft and Others
1990Four Past MidnightWon
1990
1990Prayers To Broken Stones
1990Houses Without Doors
1991Prayers to Broken StonesWon
1991Waking Nightmares
1991Sex Punks & Savage Sagas
1991Naked Flesh of Feeling
1992Mr. Fox and Other Feral TalesWon
1992Nightmare Flower
1992Fantastic Tales
1993Alone With The HorrorsWon
1993Nightmares & Dreamscapes
1993
1993Lovedeath
1993Close to the Bone
1994Won
1994Writer of the Purple Rage
1994
1994Born Bad
1995Won
1995Cages
1995
1995Strange Highways
1996Won
1996
1996Shadow Dreams
1996With Wounds Still Wet
1996
1997Exorcisms and EcstasiesWon
1997Things Left Behind
1997
1997Painted in Blood
1998Black ButterfliesWon
1998Leavings
1998Smoke and Mirrors
1998
1999Won
1999Death Drives a Semi
1999Hearts in Atlantis
1999Deep into that Darkness Peering
2000Magic TerrorWon
2000Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold
2000Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales
2000City Fishing
2001Won
2001
2001As the Sun Goes Down
2001
2002One More for the RoadWon
2002Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead
2002Knuckles and Tales
2002Everything's Eventual
2002
2003Peaceable KingdomWon
2003Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Vol 1
2003Told by the Dead
2003Bibliomancy
2003Fangs and Angel Wings
2004Fearful SymmetriesWon
2004100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories
2004
2004Demonized
2004Fears Unnamed
200520th Century GhostsWon
2005Magic for Beginners
2005Looking for Jake
2005Haunted
2006Destinations UnknownWon
2006Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear
2006
2006
2006American Morons
2007Proverbs for MonstersWon
20075 StoriesWon
2007
2007Old Devil Moon
2007Defining Moments
2008Just After SunsetWon
2008
2008Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales
2008Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
2008Gleefully Macabre Tales
2009Won
2009Martyrs and Monsters
2009Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories
2009In the Closet, Under the Bed
2010Full Dark, No StarsWon
2010Occultation
2010Blood and Gristle
2010
2010
2011Won
2011Voices: Tales of Horror
2011Red Gloves
2011Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan
2011Monsters of L.A.
2011Multiplex Fandango
2012New Moon on the WaterWon
2012Black Dahlia and White Rose: StoriesWon
2012Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories
2012Errantry: Strange Stories
2012
2013Won
2013North American Lake Monsters: Stories
2013
2013
2013Dance of the Blue Lady
2013Bible Stories for Secular Humanists
2014Soft ApocalypsesWon
2014After the People Lights Have Gone Off
2014Little by Little
2014Gifts for the One Who Comes After
2014
2015While the Black Stars BurnWon
2015Halfway Down the Stairs
2015
2015
2015
2016Won
2016Swift to Chase
2016
2016Lethal Birds
2016American Nocturne
2017Strange WeatherWon
2017And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe
2017Goblin
2017
2017Writing Madness
2018That Which Grows WildWon
2018Spectral Evidence
2018Coyote Songs
2018Garden of Eldritch Delights
2018Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection
2019Growing Things and Other StoriesWon
2019Exhalation: Stories
2019Lady Bits
2019Sefira and Other Betrayals
2019Out of Water
2020Grotesque: Monster StoriesWon
2020Velocities: Stories
2020Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies
2020
2020Bloody Britain
2021In That Endlessness, Our EndWon
2021Beneath a Pale Sky
2021Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead
2021
2021
2022Breakable ThingsWon
2022We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
2022Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted
2022Spontaneous Human Combustion
2022'
2023----
2023Blood from the AirWon
2023Cold, Black, & InfiniteNominated
2023Spin a Black YarnNominated
2023The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our FutureNominated
2023Root Rot & Other Grim TalesNominated
2024----
2024Love is a Crematorium and Other TalesWon
2024Not a Speck of LightNominated
2024A Sunny Place for Shady PeopleNominated
2024The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost GirlsNominated
2024Old Monsters Never DieNominated