World Fantasy Award—Anthology

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—Anthology is given each year for anthologies of fantasy stories by multiple authors published in English. An anthology can have any number of editors, and works in the anthology may have been previously published; awards are also given out for collections of works by a single author in the Collection category. The Anthology category has been awarded annually since 1988, though from 1977 through 1987 anthologies were admissible as nominees in the Collection category. During the ten years they were admissible for that category they won the award seven times and represented 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 38 nomination years, 141 editors have had works nominated; 42 of them have won, including co-editors. Only six editors have won more than once. Ellen Datlow has won 8 times out of 39 nominations, the most of any editor; Terri Windling has won 6 times out of 18 nominations, all of the nominations as a co-editor with Datlow; Jeff VanderMeer has two wins each out of seven nominations, with both wins and five nominations shared with Ann VanderMeer; Jack Dann has won twice out of five nominations; Sheree Thomas and Dennis Etchison have won twice out of three nominations, and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki was won both of his nominations. After Datlow and Windling, the editors with the most nominations are Stephen Jones, who has won once out of fifteen nominations, Gardner Dozois, who has won once out of seven nominations, Jonathan Strahan, who has won once out of six nominations, and John Joseph Adams, David Sutton, and Martin H. Greenberg, who each have been nominated six times without winning.

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Winners and nominees

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

Year	Editor	Anthology	Publisher	Ref.
	*		Arbor House
	*		Arbor House
			Tor Books
		In the Field of Fire	Tor Books
		In the Field of Fire	Tor Books
		Masques II	Maclay & Associates
	Anonymous	Night Visions 4	Dark Harvest
		Other Edens	Allen & Unwin
		Other Edens	Allen & Unwin
			DAW Books
	*		St. Martin's Press
	*		St. Martin's Press
	Anonymous	Night Visions 6	Dark Harvest
		Prime Evil	New American Library
		Silver Scream	Dark Harvest
	*		St. Martin's Press
	*		St. Martin's Press
		Blood Is Not Enough	William Morrow and Company
		Book of the Dead	Bantam Books
		Book of the Dead	Bantam Books
		Razored Saddles	Dark Harvest
		Razored Saddles	Dark Harvest
	*	Best New Horror	Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers
	*	Best New Horror	Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers
		Alien Sex	Dutton Penguin
		Borderlands	Maclay & Associates, Avon Publications
		Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror	Pan Books
		Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror	Pan Books
		Walls of Fear	William Morrow and Company
			St. Martin's Press
			St. Martin's Press
	*		St. Martin's Press
	*		St. Martin's Press
		After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien	Tor Books
		Famous Fantastic Mysteries	Gramercy Books
		Famous Fantastic Mysteries	Gramercy Books
		Famous Fantastic Mysteries	Gramercy Books
		Final Shadows	Doubleday Foundation
		When the Music's Over	Bantam Spectra
			William Morrow and Company
	*	MetaHorror	Dell Abyss
		Freak Show	Pocket Books
		Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences	Unnameable Press
		Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences	Unnameable Press
		Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences	Unnameable Press
		Narrow Houses	Little, Brown and Company
		'	Mosaic Press
	*	Full Spectrum 4	Bantam Spectra
	*	Full Spectrum 4	Bantam Spectra
	*	Full Spectrum 4	Bantam Spectra
		Christmas Forever	Tor Books
			Oxford University Press
		Sinistre	Horror's Head Press
		Snow White, Blood Red	Morrow AvoNova
		Snow White, Blood Red	Morrow AvoNova
			St. Martin's Press
			St. Martin's Press
	*	Little Deaths	Millennium
		Black Thorn, White Rose	Morrow AvoNova
		Black Thorn, White Rose	Morrow AvoNova
		Love in Vein	HarperPrism
		Love in Vein	HarperPrism
		Shadows Over Innsmouth	Fedogan & Bremer
	*		Viking Press
	*		Viking Press
		Dark Love	Roc Books
		Dark Love	Roc Books
		Dark Love	Roc Books
		'	Victor Gollancz
		'	Victor Gollancz
		High Fantastic	Ocean View Books
		She's Fantastical	Sybylla Feminist Press
		She's Fantastical	Sybylla Feminist Press
	*	Starlight 1	Tor Books
		Dark Terrors 2	Victor Gollancz
		Dark Terrors 2	Victor Gollancz
			HarperPrism
			HarperPrism
			St. Martin's Press
			St. Martin's Press
	*	Bending the Landscape: Fantasy	White Wolf Publishing
	*	Bending the Landscape: Fantasy	White Wolf Publishing
		Dark Terrors 3	Victor Gollancz
		Dark Terrors 3	Victor Gollancz
		Modern Classics of Fantasy	St. Martin's Press
		Northern Frights 4	Mosaic Press
		Revelations	HarperPrism
	*	Dreaming Down-Under	HarperCollins Voyager
	*	Dreaming Down-Under	HarperCollins Voyager
			Tor Books
		Dark Terrors 4	Victor Gollancz
		Dark Terrors 4	Victor Gollancz
		Legends	Tor Books
		Starlight 2	Tor Books
	*	Silver Birch, Blood Moon	Avon Publications
	*	Silver Birch, Blood Moon	Avon Publications
		999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense	Avon Publications
		Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths	Fedogan & Bremer
		Northern Frights 5	Mosaic Press
			St. Martin's Press
			St. Martin's Press
	*	Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora	Warner Aspect
		Dark Terrors 5	Victor Gollancz
		Dark Terrors 5	Victor Gollancz
		Shadows and Silence	Ash-Tree Press
		Shadows and Silence	Ash-Tree Press
		Vanishing Acts	Tor Books
		Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction	Invisible Cities Press
			St. Martin's Press
			St. Martin's Press
	*		Leisure Books
			Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers
			Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers
		Stigmata	Cocytus Press
			St. Martin's Press
			St. Martin's Press
	*		Viking Press
	*		Viking Press
		Leviathan, Volume Three
		Leviathan, Volume Three
			Tor Books
		Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists	Bard College
			St. Martin's Press
			St. Martin's Press
	*	Strange Tales	Tartarus Press
			Tor Books
		Gathering the Bones	HarperCollins Voyager
		Gathering the Bones	HarperCollins Voyager
		Gathering the Bones	HarperCollins Voyager
			Night Shade Books
			Night Shade Books
		Trampoline: An Anthology	Small Beer Press
	*	Acquainted with the Night	Ash-Tree Press
	*	Acquainted with the Night	Ash-Tree Press
		Dark Matter: Reading the Bones	Warner Aspect
			Viking Press
			Viking Press
			Tor Books
			Tor Books
		'	Wheatland Press
		'	Wheatland Press
	*		Science Fiction Book Club
		Adventure, Vol. 1	MonkeyBrain Books
		Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction	Crescent Books
		Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction	Crescent Books
		'	Wheatland Press
		'	Wheatland Press
		Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth	Fedogan & Bremer
	*	Salon Fantastique	Thunder's Mouth Press
	*	Salon Fantastique	Thunder's Mouth Press
		Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard	MonkeyBrain Books
		Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard	MonkeyBrain Books
		Firebirds Rising	Firebird Books
		Retro-Pulp Tales	Subterranean Press
		Twenty Epics	All-Star Stories
		Twenty Epics	All-Star Stories
	*	Inferno	Tor Books
			Viking Press
			Viking Press
		Five Strokes to Midnight	Haunted Pelican Press
		Five Strokes to Midnight	Haunted Pelican Press
		Logorrhea	Bantam Spectra
		Wizards	Berkley Books
		Wizards	Berkley Books
	*	Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy	Senses Five Press
			Del Rey Books
			Night Shade Books
		Steampunk	Tachyon Publications
		Steampunk	Tachyon Publications
			St. Martin's Press
			St. Martin's Press
			St. Martin's Press
	*	American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps/from the 1940s to Now	Library of America
		Eclipse Three	Night Shade Books
		Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations	Ash-Tree Press
		Poe	Solaris Books
		Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance	Subterranean Press, HarperCollins Voyager
		Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance	Subterranean Press, HarperCollins Voyager
			Tachyon Publications
	*	My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me	Penguin Books
		Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror	PS Publishing
		Haunted Legends	Tor Books
		Haunted Legends	Tor Books
		Stories: All-New Tales	William Morrow and Company, Headline Review
		Stories: All-New Tales	William Morrow and Company, Headline Review
		Swords & Dark Magic	Eos
		Swords & Dark Magic	Eos
			Prime Books
	*	'	Corvus, Tor Books
	*	'	Corvus, Tor Books
		Blood and Other Cravings	Tor Books
		'	Jo Fletcher Books
		Gutshot	PS Publishing
		'	Harper Voyager
		'	Harper Voyager
	*	Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4	PS Publishing
		Epic: Legends of Fantasy	Tachyon Publications
		Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane	Solaris Books
		Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic	Small Beer Press
		Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic	Small Beer Press
		Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron	Random House
	*	Dangerous Women	Tor Books, Voyager
	*	Dangerous Women	Tor Books, Voyager
		End of the Road	Solaris Books
		Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy	Solaris Books
		Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013	Smith & Jones, PS Publishing
		Queen Victoria's Book of Spells	Tor Books
		Queen Victoria's Book of Spells	Tor Books
		xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths	Penguin Books
2015	*	Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales	Candlewick Press
2015	*	Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales	Candlewick Press
2015		Fearful Symmetries	ChiZine Publications
2015		Rogues	Bantam Books
2015		Rogues	Bantam Books
2015		Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History	Crossed Genres
2015		Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History	Crossed Genres
2015		Shadows & Tall Trees	Undertow Publications
2016	*	She Walks in Shadows	Innsmouth Free Press
2016	*	She Walks in Shadows	Innsmouth Free Press
2016		Aickman's Heirs	Undertow Publications
2016		Black Wings IV	PS Publishing
2016		Cassilda's Song	Chaosium
2016			Tor Books
2017	*	Dreaming in the Dark	PS Australia
2017			Mariner Books
2017			Mariner Books
2017		Children of Lovecraft	Dark Horse Comics
2017		Clockwork Phoenix 5	Mythic Delirium
2017			Saga Press
2017			Saga Press
2018	*		Tachyon Publications
2018	*		Tachyon Publications
2018		Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales	Pegasus Books
2018			Bantam Books
2018			Solaris Books
2018			Solaris Books
2018			Subterranean Press
2019	*	Worlds Seen in Passing	Tor.com Publishing
2019		Best New Horror 28	Drugstore Indian
2019			Bantam Books
2019		Robots vs Fairies	Saga Press
2019		Robots vs Fairies	Saga Press
2019		Sword and Sonnet	Ate Bit Bear
2019		Sword and Sonnet	Ate Bit Bear
2019		Sword and Sonnet	Ate Bit Bear
2020	*	New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color	Solaris Books
2020		'	Vintage Books
2020		'	Vintage Books
2020		Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories	Saga Press
2020		'	Saga Press
2020		'	Saga Press
2020		'	Solaris Books
2020		'	Solaris Books
2021	*		Vintage Books
2021	*		Vintage Books
2021			Harper Voyager
2021		Edited By	Subterranean Press
2021		Shadows & Tall Trees 8	Undertow Publications
2021			Valancourt Books
2021			Valancourt Books
2022	*		Jembefola Press
2022		Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World	Dark Moon Books
2022		Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World	Dark Moon Books
2022		Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology	Mad Creek Books
2022		Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology	Mad Creek Books
2022		Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology	Mad Creek Books
2022		When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson	Titan Books
2022			Pyr
2023	*	Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction	Tordotcom
2023	*	Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction	Tordotcom
2023	*	Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction	Tordotcom
2023		Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror	Nightfire Books
2023		Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology	William Morrow and Company
2023		Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology	William Morrow and Company
2023		Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous	Nightfire Books
2023		Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue	Third Man Books
2023		Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue	Third Man Books
2023		Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue	Third Man Books
2024	*		Harper Voyager
2024			Mariner Books
2024			Mariner Books
2024		Christmas and Other Horrors	Titan UK
2024		Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror	Random House/Picador
2024		Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror	Random House/Picador
2024		Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One	Ansible Press
2025	*	Heartwood	Drugstore Indian
2025		Discontinue If Death Ensues	Flame Tree Publishing
2025		Discontinue If Death Ensues	Flame Tree Publishing
2025		Northern Nights	Undertow Publications
2025			PS Publishing
2025			Neon Hemlock