Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction


The Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing for short fiction.

Winners and nominees

This category was previously titled "best short story". Nominees are listed below the winner for each year.

Short fiction

YearRecipientTitleResultCitation
1998Winner
1998Nominee
1998"Blues-Born"Nominee
1998"Autopsy Room Four"Nominee
1999"Aftershock"Winner
1999Nominee
1999Nominee
1999"Halloween Street"Nominee
2000"Gone"Winner
2000"Dead Cat Bounce"Nominee
2000"Fallen Angel"Nominee
2000"Mexican Moon"Nominee
2001"Reconstructing Amy"Winner
2001"I Am Your Need"Nominee
2001Nominee
2001"Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?"Nominee
2002Winner
2002"Disappearances"Nominee
2002Nominee
2002Nominee
2002"Details"Nominee
2003"Duty"Winner
2003Nominee
2003"Harvey's Dream"Nominee
2003Nominee
2003Nominee
2004"Nimitseahpah"Winner
2004"Just Out of Reach"Nominee
2004Nominee
2004"Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland"Nominee
2004"Singing My Sister Down"Nominee
2004"Guts"Nominee
2005"We Now Pause for Station Identification"Co-winners
2005"Haeckel's Tale"Nominee
2005"As Others See Us"Nominee
2005"Times of Atonement"Nominee
2005"Invisible"Nominee
2006"Tested"Winner
2006"FYI"Nominee
2006"Feeding the Dead Inside"Nominee
2006"Balance"Nominee
2006"31/10"Nominee
2007Winner
2007Nominee
2007"Letting Go"Nominee
2007Nominee
2007"There's No Light Between Floor"Nominee
2007"Closet Dreams"Nominee
2008Winner
2008"Petrified"Nominee
2008 and Tim PrattNominee
2008"Evidence of Love in A Case of Abandonment"Nominee
2008"Turtle"Nominee
2009"In the Porches of My Ears"Winner
2009"Keeping Watch"Nominee
2009Nominee
2009Nominee
2010Winner
2010"Return to Mariabronn"Nominee
2010"1925; A Fall River Halloween"Nominee
2010"In the Middle of Poplar Street"Nominee
2010"Final Draft"Nominee
2011"Herman Wouk is Still Alive"Winner
2011"Her Husband's Hands"Nominee
2011"Hypergraphia"Nominee
2011"Graffiti Sonata"Nominee
2011"Home"Nominee
2011"All You Can Do Is Breathe"Nominee
2012"Magdala Amygdala"Winner
2012"Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest"Nominee
2012"Bury My Heart at Marvin Gardens"Nominee
2012"Righteous"Nominee
2012"Available Light"Nominee
2013"Night Train to Paris"Winner
2013"Primal Tongue"Nominee
2013"Snapshot"Nominee
2013Nominee
2013Nominee
2013"Code 666"Nominee
2014Co-Winner
2014"Ruminations"Co-Winner
2014"Hot Tub"Nominee
2014"Baby's Breath"Nominee
2014"Splinterette"Nominee
2014Nominee
2015"Happy Joe's Rest Stop"Winner
2015"All the Day You'll Have Good Luck"Nominee
2015Nominee
2015"Sing Me Your Scars"Nominee
2015"Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers"Nominee
2016Winner
2016"Time is a Face on the Water"Nominee
2016Nominee
2016Nominee
2016"ArbeitMacht Frei"Nominee
2017"Apocalypse Then"Winner
2017"I Will Be the Reflection Until the End"Nominee
2017Nominee
2017"So Sings the Siren"Nominee
2017"Loving You Darkly"Nominee
2018"Mutter"Winner
2018"Dead End Town"Nominee
2018"Glove Box"Nominee
2018Nominee
2018"And in Her Eyes the City Drowned"Nominee
2019Winner
2019Nominee
2019"Bury Me in Tar and Twine"Nominee
2019"Lydia"Nominee
2019Nominee
2020"One Last Transformation"Winner
2020"Am I Missing the Sunlight?"Nominee
2020"Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1"Nominee
2020Nominee
2020"Should Fire Remember the Fuel?"Nominee
2021"Permanent Damage"Winner
2021Nominee
2021Nominee
2021"Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail"Nominee
2021Nominee
2022"Nona Doesn’t Dance"Nominee
2022"Poppy’s Poppy"Nominee
2022""Nominee
2022""Nominee
2022""Nominee
2022"Fracture"Winner
2023----
2023QuondamWinner
2023SilkNominee
2023The Sound of Children ScreamingNominee
2023If Someone You Love Has Become a VurdalakNominee
2023An Inherited TasteNominee
2024----
2024Versus VersusWinner
2024“And She Had Been So Reasonable”Nominee
2024To the WolvesNominee
2024Ten Thousand Crawling ChildrenNominee
2024She Sheds Her SkinNominee