Bram Stoker Award For Best Fiction Collection - Winners and Nominees

Winners and Nominees

This category was previously titled "best collection". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

• 1987: The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
  • Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch
  • Scared Stiff by Ramsey Campbell
  • Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner
  • All About Strange Monsters of The Recent Past by Howard Waldrop
• 1988: Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont
  • The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
  • Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick McGrath
  • The Blood Kiss by Dennis Etchison
  • Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
  • Scare Tactics by John Farris
• 1989: Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson
  • Blue World by Robert R. McCammon
  • By Bizarre Hands by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Patterns by Pat Cadigan
  • Soft and Others by F. Paul Wilson
• 1990: Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
  • Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub
  • Prayers To Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
  • The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein
• 1991: Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
  • Waking Nightmares by Ramsey Campbell
  • Sex Punks & Savage Sagas by Richard Stuphin
  • Naken Flesh of Feeling by J.N. Williamson
• 1992: Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge
  • Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom
  • Fantastic Tales by I.U. Tarchetti
• 1993: Alone With The Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
  • Close to the Bone by Lucy Taylor
  • A Good and Secret Place by Richard Laymon
  • Lovedeath by Dan Simmons
  • Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
• 1994: The Early Fears by Robert Bloch
  • Writer of the Purple Rage by Joe R. Lansdale
  • The Flesh Artist by Lucy Taylor
  • Born Bad by Andrew Vachss
• 1995: The Panic Hand by Jonathan Carroll
  • Cages by Ed Gorman
  • The Black Carousel by Charles L. Grant
  • Strange Highways by Dean Koontz
• 1996: The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti
  • The Convulsion Factory by Brian Hodge
  • Shadow Dreams by Elizabeth Massie
  • With Wounds Still Wet by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • The Pavilion of Frozen Women by S.P. Somtow
• 1997: Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner, ed. Stephen Jones
  • Things Left Behind by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton
  • Painted in Blood by Lucy Taylor
• 1998: Black Butterflies by John Shirley
  • Leavings by P.D. Cacek
  • Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  • The Cleft and Other Odd Tales by Gahan Wilson
• 1999: The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg
  • Death Drives a Semi by Edo van Belkom
  • Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
  • Deep into that Darkness Peering by Tom Piccirilli
• 2000: Magic Terror by Peter Straub
  • Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold by Charlee Jacob
  • Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • City Fishing by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 2001: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists by Norman Partridge
  • The Dark Fantastic by Ed Gorman
  • As the Sun Goes Down by Tim Lebbon
  • The Whisperer and Other Voices by Brian Lumley
• 2002: One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury
  • Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead by Mort Castle
  • Knucles and Tales by Nancy A. Collins
  • Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
  • The Collection by Bentley Little
• 2003: Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum
  • Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Vol 1 by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • Told by the Dead by Ramsey Campbell
  • Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand
  • Fangs and Angel Wings by Karen E. Taylor
• 2004: Fearful Symmetries by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories by Michael Arnzen
  • The Machinery of Night by Douglas Clegg
  • Demonized by Christopher Fowler
  • Fears Unnamed by Tim Lebbon
• 2005: 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
  • Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
  • Looking for Jake by China Miéville
  • Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
• 2006: Destinations Unknown by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • American Morons by Glen Hirshberg
  • The Commandments by Angeline Hawkes
  • The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
  • Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear by Terry Dowling
• 2007: (tie)
  • Proverbs for Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen
  • 5 Stories by Peter Straub
    • The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
    • Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler
    • Defining Moments by David Niall Wilson
• 2008: Just After Sunset by Stephen King
  • The Number 121 to Pennsylvania by Kealan Patrick Burke
  • Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel
  • Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan
  • Gleefully Macabre Tales by Jeff Strand
• 2009: A Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill
  • Martyrs and Monsters by Robert Dunbar
  • Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories by Dennis Etchison
  • In the Closet, Under the Bed by Lee Thomas
• 2010: Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
  • Occultation by Laird Barron
  • Blood and Gristle by Michael Louis Calvillo
  • The Ones that Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones
  • A Host of Shadows by Harry Shannon