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
| Year | Recipient | Title | Result | Citation |
| 1998 | Winner | |||
| 1998 | Nominee | |||
| 1998 | "Blues-Born" | Nominee | ||
| 1998 | "Autopsy Room Four" | Nominee | ||
| 1999 | "Aftershock" | Winner | ||
| 1999 | Nominee | |||
| 1999 | Nominee | |||
| 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 | ||
| 2001 | Nominee | |||
| 2001 | "Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" | Nominee | ||
| 2002 | Winner | |||
| 2002 | "Disappearances" | Nominee | ||
| 2002 | Nominee | |||
| 2002 | Nominee | |||
| 2002 | "Details" | Nominee | ||
| 2003 | "Duty" | Winner | ||
| 2003 | Nominee | |||
| 2003 | "Harvey's Dream" | Nominee | ||
| 2003 | Nominee | |||
| 2003 | Nominee | |||
| 2004 | "Nimitseahpah" | Winner | ||
| 2004 | "Just Out of Reach" | Nominee | ||
| 2004 | Nominee | |||
| 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 | ||
| 2007 | Winner | |||
| 2007 | Nominee | |||
| 2007 | "Letting Go" | Nominee | ||
| 2007 | Nominee | |||
| 2007 | "There's No Light Between Floor" | Nominee | ||
| 2007 | "Closet Dreams" | Nominee | ||
| 2008 | Winner | |||
| 2008 | "Petrified" | Nominee | ||
| 2008 | and Tim Pratt | Nominee | ||
| 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 | ||
| 2009 | Nominee | |||
| 2009 | Nominee | |||
| 2010 | Winner | |||
| 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 | ||
| 2013 | Nominee | |||
| 2013 | Nominee | |||
| 2013 | "Code 666" | Nominee | ||
| 2014 | Co-Winner | |||
| 2014 | "Ruminations" | Co-Winner | ||
| 2014 | "Hot Tub" | Nominee | ||
| 2014 | "Baby's Breath" | Nominee | ||
| 2014 | "Splinterette" | Nominee | ||
| 2014 | Nominee | |||
| 2015 | "Happy Joe's Rest Stop" | Winner | ||
| 2015 | "All the Day You'll Have Good Luck" | Nominee | ||
| 2015 | Nominee | |||
| 2015 | "Sing Me Your Scars" | Nominee | ||
| 2015 | "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" | Nominee | ||
| 2016 | Winner | |||
| 2016 | "Time is a Face on the Water" | Nominee | ||
| 2016 | Nominee | |||
| 2016 | Nominee | |||
| 2016 | "ArbeitMacht Frei" | Nominee | ||
| 2017 | "Apocalypse Then" | Winner | ||
| 2017 | "I Will Be the Reflection Until the End" | Nominee | ||
| 2017 | Nominee | |||
| 2017 | "So Sings the Siren" | Nominee | ||
| 2017 | "Loving You Darkly" | Nominee | ||
| 2018 | "Mutter" | Winner | ||
| 2018 | "Dead End Town" | Nominee | ||
| 2018 | "Glove Box" | Nominee | ||
| 2018 | Nominee | |||
| 2018 | "And in Her Eyes the City Drowned" | Nominee | ||
| 2019 | Winner | |||
| 2019 | Nominee | |||
| 2019 | "Bury Me in Tar and Twine" | Nominee | ||
| 2019 | "Lydia" | Nominee | ||
| 2019 | Nominee | |||
| 2020 | "One Last Transformation" | Winner | ||
| 2020 | "Am I Missing the Sunlight?" | Nominee | ||
| 2020 | "Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1" | Nominee | ||
| 2020 | Nominee | |||
| 2020 | "Should Fire Remember the Fuel?" | Nominee | ||
| 2021 | "Permanent Damage" | Winner | ||
| 2021 | Nominee | |||
| 2021 | Nominee | |||
| 2021 | "Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail" | Nominee | ||
| 2021 | Nominee | |||
| 2022 | "Nona Doesn’t Dance" | Nominee | ||
| 2022 | "Poppy’s Poppy" | Nominee | ||
| 2022 | "" | Nominee | ||
| 2022 | "" | Nominee | ||
| 2022 | "" | Nominee | ||
| 2022 | "Fracture" | Winner | ||
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | Quondam | Winner | ||
| 2023 | Silk | Nominee | ||
| 2023 | The Sound of Children Screaming | Nominee | ||
| 2023 | If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak | Nominee | ||
| 2023 | An Inherited Taste | Nominee | ||
| 2024 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | Versus Versus | Winner | ||
| 2024 | “And She Had Been So Reasonable” | Nominee | ||
| 2024 | To the Wolves | Nominee | ||
| 2024 | Ten Thousand Crawling Children | Nominee | ||
| 2024 | She Sheds Her Skin | Nominee |