World Fantasy Award—Collection

The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction published in English during the previous calendar year. The awards have been described by book critics such as The Guardian as a "prestigious fantasy prize", and one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The World Fantasy Award—Collection is given each year for collections of fantasy stories by a single author published in English. A collection can have any number of editors, and works in the collection may have been previously published; awards are also given out for anthologies of works by multiple authors in the Anthology category. The Collection category has been awarded annually since 1975, though from 1977 through 1987 anthologies were admissible as nominees. Anthologies were split into a separate category beginning in 1988; during the 10 years they were admissible they won the award 7 times and were 38 of the 56 nominations.
World Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner. The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties. The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October. Winners were presented with a statue in the form of a bust of H. P. Lovecraft through the 2015 awards; more recent winners receive a statuette of a tree.
During the 51 nomination years, 178 writers have had works nominated; 50 of them have won, including ties, co-authors and translators. Only six writers or editors have won more than once. Jeffrey Ford has won the regular collection award three times out of six nominations, while Karen Joy Fowler, Lucius Shepard, and Gene Wolfe won the regular collection award twice, out of two, four, and two nominations, respectively. Charles L. Grant and Kirby McCauley won the award as editors of anthologies while those were eligible; Grant was nominated nine times as an editor and once for a collection, while McCauley won both times he was nominated for anthologies. Grant's ten nominations are the most of any writer or editor, followed by Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Kelly Link, and Charles de Lint at five, with two of Campbell's nominations coming for anthologies. Link has had the most nominations without winning, followed by Peter S. Beagle, Dennis Etchison, Stephen King, Fritz Leiber, and Stuart David Schiff at four; one of Etchison's and all of Schiff's nominations were for anthologies.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the collection was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a yellow background and an asterisk next to the author's name have won the award; the other entries are the other nominees on the shortlist. If the work was an anthology rather than a collection, the editor's name is appended with to distinguish them from authors of collections.
* Winners

Year	Author/editor	Collection/anthology	Publisher	Ref.
	*	Worse Things Waiting	Carcosa
		From Evil's Pillow	Arkham House
	*		Warner
		Deathbird Stories	Harper & Row
			Doubleday
		Far Lands, Other Days	Carcosa
	*	Frights	St. Martin's Press
		Cinnabar	Macmillan Publishers
		Flashing Swords! 3: Warriors and Wizards	Dell Publishing
			Arkham House
		Long After Midnight	Alfred A. Knopf
		Superhorror	St. Martin's Press
	*	Murgunstrumm and Others	Carcosa
		Cold Chills	Doubleday
		Swords and Ice Magic	Ace Books
		'	Doubleday
			DAW Books
	*	'	Doubleday
		Heroes and Horrors	Whispers Press
		Night Shift	Doubleday
		Night Winds	Warner
			Doubleday
			DAW Books
	*	Amazons!	DAW Books
		Nightmares	Playboy Press
		Shadows 2	Doubleday
		Thieves' World	Ace Books
		'	Doubleday
			Berkley Books
	*	Dark Forces	Viking Press
		Dragons of Light	Ace Books
		Mummy! A Chrestomathy of Crypt-ology	Arbor House
		New Terrors	Pan Books
		Shadows 3	Doubleday
		Shatterday	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
	*	Elsewhere	Ace Books
	*	Elsewhere	Ace Books
		Fantasy Annual IV	Timescape
		Shadows 4	Doubleday
		Tales from the Nightside	Arkham House
		'	Doubleday
	*	Nightmare Seasons	Doubleday
			Scream/Press
		Different Seasons	Viking Press
		Hecate's Cauldron	DAW Books
		Perpetual Light	Warner
		Shadows 5	Doubleday
	*	High Spirits	Penguin
			Dodd, Mead and Company
		Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer	DAW Books
		Shadows 6	Doubleday
		Tales of Wonder	Schocken Books
	*	Books of Blood, Vols. I-III	Sphere Books
			Doubleday
		Masques	Maclay & Associates
		Night Visions 1	Dark Harvest
			Victor Gollancz
		Viriconium Nights	Ace Books
	*	Imaginary Lands	Ace Books
		Black Venus	Hogarth Press
		Books of Blood, Vols. IV-VI	Sphere Books
		Dragonfield and Other Stories	Ace Books
		Faery!	Ace Books
		Night Visions 2	Dark Harvest
		Skeleton Crew	Putnam Publishing Group
		'	Doubleday
	*	Tales of the Quintana Roo	Arkham House
		Black Wine	Dark Harvest
		Cutting Edge	Doubleday
		Dreams of Dark and Light	Arkham House
		Liavek: The Players of Luck	Ace Books
		Liavek: The Players of Luck	Ace Books
		Merlin's Booke	Ace Books
		Night Visions 3	Dark Harvest
	*		Arkham House
		Night's Sorceries	DAW Books
		Polyphemus	Arkham House
		Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death	Scream/Press
		Why Not You and I?	Tor Books
	*	Angry Candy	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
	*	Storeys from the Old Hotel	Kerosina Books
			Scream/Press
		Cabal	Poseidon Press
		Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories	Dark Harvest
			William Morrow and Company
	*	Richard Matheson: Collected Stories	Scream/Press
		Blue World and Other Stories	Grafton
		By Bizarre Hands	Mark V. Ziesing
		Harlan Ellison's Watching	Underwood–Miller
		Novelty	Doubleday
	*		The Women's Press
			Scream/Press
		Houses Without Doors	Grafton
			Dark Harvest
		Prayers to Broken Stones	Dark Harvest
	*		Arkham House
			Grafton
		Grimscribe: His Lives and Works	Carroll & Graf Publishers
		Lafferty In Orbit	Broken Mirrors Press
		More Shapes Than One	St. Martin's Press
		Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories	Mark V. Ziesing
	*		Broken Moon Press
		Bear's Fantasies	Wildside Press
		Lord Kelvin's Machine	Arkham House
		Meeting in Infinity	Arkham House
		Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales	Roadkill Press
		Spiritwalk	Tor Books
	*	Alone with the Horrors	Arkham House
		Angels and Visitations	DreamHaven Books
		Antiquities	Incunabula
		Dreams Underfoot	Tor Books
		Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands	Edgewood Press
		Transients and Other Disquieting Stories	W. Paul Ganley
		Under the Crust	Wendigo
	*		Wildside Press
			Fedogan & Bremer
			Egerton Press
		Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque	Dutton Penguin
		Travellers In Magic	Tor Books
	*	Seven Tales and a Fable	Edgewood Press
		Death Stalks the Night	Fedogan & Bremer
			Tor Books
			HarperCollins UK
			HarperCollins UK
	*		Harcourt Brace
		Bad Intentions	Subterranean Press
		Bible Stories for Adults	Harcourt Brace
		Conference with the Dead	Ash-Tree Press
		Midnight Promises	Gauntlet Publications
			Carroll & Graf Publishers
			Victor Gollancz
	*		Terminal Fright Press
		Driving Blind	Avon Publications
		Fractal Paisleys	Four Walls Eight Windows
			Tigereyes Press
		Giant Bones	Roc Books
	*	Black Glass	Henry Holt and Company
			Tor Books
		Last Summer at Mars Hill	HarperPrism
		Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton	British Fantasy Society
			DreamHaven Books
	*	Moonlight and Vines	Tor Books
	*	Reave the Just and Other Tales	HarperCollins Voyager
		Deep Into That Darkness Peering	Terminal Fright Press
		Hearts in Atlantis	Charles Scribner's Sons
		Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories	Wildside Press
	*	Beluthahatchie and Other Stories	Golden Gryphon Press
		Blackwater Days	Eidolon Publications
		Magic Terror: Seven Tales	Random House
		Perpetuity Blues and Other Stories	Golden Gryphon Press
			Tor Books
		Travel Arrangements	Victor Gollancz
	*	Skin Folk	Warner Aspect
		Dark Universe: Stories 1951-2001	Stealth Press
			Morpheus International
		Stranger Things Happen	Small Beer Press
		Talking in the Dark	Stealth Press
	*		Golden Gryphon Press
		City of Saints and Madmen	Prime Books
		Figures in Rain	Ash-Tree Press
			Obscura Press
		Waifs and Strays	Viking Press
		Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits	Putnam Publishing Group
		Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits	Putnam Publishing Group
	*	Bibliomancy	PS Publishing
		Ghosts of Yesterday	Night Shade Books
		GRRM: A RRetrospective	Subterranean Press
		More Tomorrow & Other Stories	Earthling Publications
			Carroll & Graf Publishers
	*	Black Juice	Allen & Unwin Australia
		Breathmoss and Other Exhalations	Golden Gryphon Press
		Heat of Fusion and Other Stories	Tor Books
		Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories	Subterranean Press
		Songs of Leaving	Subterranean Press
		Stable Strategies and Others	Tachyon Publications
		Trujillo and Other Stories	PS Publishing
	*		Wheatland Press
		20th Century Ghosts	PS Publishing
		In the Palace of Repose	Prime Books
		Magic for Beginners	Small Beer Press
		To Charles Fort, with Love	Subterranean Press
	*	Map of Dreams	Golden Gryphon Press
		American Morons	Earthling Publications
			Golden Gryphon Press
			Bloomsbury
		Red Spikes	Allen & Unwin Australia
	*	Tiny Deaths	Comma Press
		Dagger Key and Other Stories	PS Publishing
		Hart & Boot & Other Stories	Night Shade Books
		Plots and Misadventures	Subterranean Press
		Portable Childhoods	Tachyon Publications
			MonkeyBrain Books
	*		Harper Perennial
		Filter House	Aqueduct Press
		Pretty Monsters	Viking Press
		Strange Roads	DreamHaven Books
		Tales from Outer Suburbia	Allen & Unwin
	*	There Once Lived [a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby\|There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales]	Penguin
	*		PS Publishing
		Everland and Other Stories	PS Publishing
		Fugue State	Coffee House Press
		Northwest Passages	Prime Books
		We Never Talk About My Brother	Tachyon Publications
	*	What I Didn't See and Other Stories	Small Beer Press
			Subterranean Press
		Holiday	Golden Gryphon Press
		Sourdough and Other Stories	Tartarus Press
			Tachyon Publications
	*		Tachyon Publications
		Bluegrass Symphony	Ticonderoga Publications
		Two Worlds and In Between	Subterranean Press
		After the Apocalypse	Small Beer Press
		Mrs Midnight and Other Stories	Tartarus Press
	*	Where Furnaces Burn	PS Publishing
		At the Mouth of the River of Bees	Small Beer Press
			Small Beer Press
		Remember Why You Fear Me	ChiZine Publications
		Jagannath	Cheeky Frawg Books
	*		Subterranean Press
		North American Lake Monsters: Stories	Small Beer Press
			Night Shade Books
		Flowers of the Sea	Tartarus Press
		How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past, Present, and Future	Subterranean Press
2015	*	The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings	Tartarus Press
2015	*	Gifts for the One Who Comes After	ChiZine Publications
2015		Mercy and Other Stories	Tartarus Press
2015		They Do the Same Things Different There	ChiZine Publications
2015		Death at the Blue Elephant	Ticonderoga Publications
2016	*	Bone Swans	Mythic Delirium
2016		Get in Trouble	Random House
2016		Leena Krohn: The Collected Fiction	Cheeky Frawg Books
2016		Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow	Wesleyan University Press
2016		Skein and Bone	Undertow Publications
2016		You Have Never Been Here	Small Beer Press
2017	*		Small Beer Press
2017		On the Eyeball Floor and Other Stories	Fairwood Press
2017			Saga Press
2017		Sharp Ends	Orbit Books
2017		Vacui Magia	Traversing Z Press
2018	*		Tachyon Publications
2018		Wicked Wonders	Tachyon Publications
2018		Her Body and Other Parties	Graywolf Press
2018		Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers	Baen Books
2018		Tender	Small Beer Press
2019	*		Saga Press
2019	*		Saga Press
2019			Small Beer Press
2019		How Long 'til Black Future Month?	Orbit Books
2019		Phantom Limbs	PS Publishing
2019		Still So Strange	ChiZine Publications
2020	*	Song for the Unraveling of the World	Coffee House Press
2020		Homesick	Dzanc Books
2020		'	Harper Voyager
2020		Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea	Small Beer Press
2020		Unforeseen	Saga Press
2021	*	Where the Wild Ladies Are	Soft Skull Press
2021			PS Publishing
2021		Nine Bar Blues	Third Man Books
2021		Velocities: Stories	Meerkat Press
2021		We All Hear Stories in the Dark	PS Publishing
2022	*	Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan	Kitab Press
2022		Big Dark Hole	Small Beer Press
2022			Undertow Publications
2022		Never Have I Ever	Small Beer Press
2022		Tales the Devil Told Me	Press 53
2022			Tartarus Press
2023	*	All Nightmare Long	PS Publishing
2023		Boys, Beasts & Men	Tachyon Publications
2023		Breakable Things	Undertow Publications
2023		Dark Breakers	Mythic Delirium
2023			Valancourt Books
2024	*	No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories	Undertow Publications
2024			Tachyon Publications
2024			Egaeus Press
2024		Jackal, Jackal	Undertow Publications
2024		Jewel Box	Erewhon Books
2024		White Cat, Black Dog	Random House/Ad Astra
2025	*		Hogarth US/Granta
2025	*		Hogarth US/Granta
2025		Ghostroots	W. W. Norton & Company/Virago Press
2025		Good Night, Sleep Tight	Coffee House Press
2025		Kindling: Stories	Small Beer Press
2025		Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil	Tor Books