Year |
Author |
Work |
Publisher/publication |
Ref. |
1982 |
Parke Godwin* | "The Fire When It Comes" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[11] |
C. J. Cherryh | Ealdwood | Donald M. Grant |
[11] |
Robert Holdstock | "Mythago Wood" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[11] |
Karl Edward Wagner | "The River of Night's Dreaming" | Whispers III (Doubleday) |
[11] |
1983 |
Charles L. Grant* | "Confess the Seasons" | Perpetual Light (Warner Books) |
[12] |
Karl Edward Wagner* | "Beyond Any Measure" | Whispers |
[12] |
Stephen King | "The Breathing Method" | Different Seasons (Viking Press) |
[12] |
Fritz Leiber | "Horrible Imaginings" | Death (Playboy Press) |
[12] |
Charles L. Grant | "Night's Swift Dragons" | Nightmare Seasons (Doubleday) |
[12] |
1984 |
Kim Stanley Robinson* | "Black Air" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[13] |
Scott Baker | "The Lurking Duck" | Omni |
[13] |
Michael Bishop | "The Monkey's Bride" | Heroic Visions (Ace Books) |
[13] |
Tanith Lee | "Nunc Dimittis" | The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror (Dodd, Mead and Company) |
[13] |
Elizabeth A. Lynn | The Red Hawk | Cheap Street |
[13] |
1985 |
Geoff Ryman* | "The Unconquered Country" | Interzone |
[14] |
Stephen King | "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[14] |
Gerald Pearce | "In the Sumerian Marshes" | Amazing Stories |
[14] |
Clive Barker | "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament" | Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Vol. II (Sphere Books) |
[14] |
Lucius Shepard | "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[14] |
1986 |
T. E. D. Klein* | "Nadelman's God" | Dark Gods (Viking Press) |
[15] |
David Morrell | "Dead Image" | Night Visions 2 (Dark Harvest) |
[15] |
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | "Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?" | Shadows 8 (Doubleday) |
[15] |
Peter Dickinson | "Flight" | Imaginary Lands (Ace Books) |
[15] |
Kate Wilhelm | "The Gorgon Field" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[15] |
1987 |
Orson Scott Card* | "Hatrack River" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[16] |
Connie Willis | "Chance" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[16] |
Clive Barker | "The Hellbound Heart" | Night Visions 3 (Dark Harvest) |
[16] |
Tim Powers | Night Moves | Axolotl Press |
[16] |
J. N. Williamson | "The Night Seasons" | Night Cry |
[16] |
1988 |
Ursula K. Le Guin* | "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[17] |
Robert R. McCammon | "Best Friends" | Night Visions 4 (Dark Harvest) |
[17] |
Alan Rodgers | "The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead" | Masques II (Maclay & Associates) |
[17] |
Alan Moore | "A Hypothetical Lizard" | Liavek: Wizard's Row (Ace Books) |
[17] |
Scott Baker | "Nesting Instinct" | The Architecture of Fear (Arbor House) |
[17] |
George R. R. Martin | "The Pear-Shaped Man" | Omni |
[17] |
Lucius Shepard | "Shades" | In the Field of Fire (Tor Books) |
[17] |
1989 |
George R. R. Martin* | "The Skin Trade" | Night Visions 5 (Dark Harvest) |
[18] |
Jane Yolen | "The Devil's Arithmetic" | Viking Kestrel |
[18] |
Sheri S. Tepper | "The Gardener" | Night Visions 6 (Dark Harvest) |
[18] |
Lucius Shepard | "The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[18] |
1990 |
John Crowley* | "Great Work of Time" | Novelty (Doubleday) |
[19] |
Michael Bishop | Apartheid, Superstrings, and Mordecai Thubana | Axolotl Press |
[19] |
Howard Waldrop | A Dozen Tough Jobs | Mark V. Ziesing |
[19] |
Lucius Shepard | "The Father of Stones" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[19] |
Joe R. Lansdale | "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks" | Book of the Dead (Bantam Books) |
[19] |
1991 |
Pat Murphy* | "Bones" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[20] |
F. Paul Wilson | "The Barrens" | Lovecraft's Legacy (Tor Books) |
[20] |
Jonathan Carroll | Black Cocktail | Legend Press |
[20] |
Joe Haldeman | "The Hemingway Hoax" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[20] |
1992 |
Robert Holdstock* |
"The Ragthorn" |
A Whisper of Blood (William Morrow and Company) |
[21] |
Garry Kilworth* |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch | The Gallery of His Dreams | Axolotl Press |
[21] |
C. J. Cherryh | "Gwydion and the Dragon" | Once Upon a Time (Legend Press) |
[21] |
Charles de Lint | Our Lady of the Harbour | Axolotl Press |
[21] |
S. P. Somtow | "The Pavilion of Frozen Women" | Cold Shocks (Avon) |
[21] |
Darrell Schweitzer | "To Become a Sorcerer" | Weird Tales |
[21] |
1993 |
Peter Straub* | "The Ghost Village" | MetaHorror (Abyss) |
[22] |
Charles de Lint | "Paperjack" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[22] |
Bradley Denton | "The Territory" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[22] |
Jonathan Carroll | "Uh-Oh City" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[22] |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman | Unmasking | Axolotl Press |
[22] |
1994 |
Terry Lamsley* | "Under the Crust" | Under the Crust (Wendigo) |
[23] |
Elizabeth Hand | "The Erl-King" | Full Spectrum 4 (Bantam Spectra) |
[23] |
Harlan Ellison | Mefisto in Onyx | Mark V. Ziesing |
[23] |
Jack Cady | "The Night We Buried Road Dog" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[23] |
Walter Jon Williams | "Wall, Stone, Craft" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[23] |
1995 |
Elizabeth Hand* | "Last Summer at Mars Hill" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[24] |
Peter Straub | "Fee" | Borderlands 4 (Borderlands Press) |
[24] |
Brian W. Aldiss | "The God Who Slept With Women" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[24] |
Lucius Shepard | "The Last Time" | Little Deaths (Millennium) |
[24] |
Kim Newman | "Out of the Night, When the Full Moon Is Bright..." | The Mammoth Book of Werewolves (Carroll & Graf Publishers) |
[24] |
Robert Devereaux | "A Slow Red Whisper of Sand" | Love In Vein (HarperPrism) |
[24] |
1996 |
Michael Swanwick* | "Radio Waves" | Omni |
[25] |
Ursula K. Le Guin | "Ether OR" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[25] |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman | "Home for Christmas" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[25] |
Jonathan Lethem | "The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Hornebom" | Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam Spectra) |
[25] |
Michael Marshall Smith | "More Tomorrow" | Dark Terrors (Victor Gollancz) |
[25] |
Tim Powers | Where They Are Hid | Charnel House |
[25] |
1997 |
Mark Helprin* | A City in Winter | Viking Ariel |
[26] |
Suzy McKee Charnas | "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[26] |
George R. R. Martin | "Blood of the Dragon" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[26] |
Susan Palwick | "GI Jesus" | Starlight 1 (Tor Books) |
[26] |
Michael Marshall Smith | "Hell Hath Enlarged Herself" | Dark Terrors 2 (Victor Gollancz) |
[26] |
1998 |
Richard Bowes* | "Streetcar Dreams" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[27] |
Kim Newman | "Coppola's Dracula" | The Mammoth Book of Dracula (Robinson Publishing) |
[27] |
Brian Hodge | "The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins" | Love In Vein II (HarperPrism) |
[27] |
Ellen Kushner |
"The Fall of the Kings" |
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (White Wolf Publishing) |
[27] |
Delia Sherman |
Douglas E. Winter | "The Zombies of Madison County" | Dark of the Night (Pumpkin Books) |
[27] |
1999 |
Ian R. MacLeod* | "The Summer Isles" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[28] |
A. S. Byatt | "Cold" | Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (Chatto & Windus) |
[28] |
Ursula K. Le Guin | "Dragonfly" | Legends (Voyager Books) |
[28] |
George R. R. Martin | "The Hedge Knight" | Legends (Voyager Books) |
[28] |
Peter Straub | "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" | Murder for Revenge (Delacorte Press) |
[28] |
2000 |
Laurel Winter* | "Sky Eyes" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[29] |
Jeff VanderMeer* | "The Transformation of Martin Lake" | Palace Corbie Eight (Merrimack Books) |
[29] |
Lucius Shepard | "Crocodile Rock" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[29] |
Tanith Lee | "Scarlet and Gold" | Weird Tales |
[29] |
Connie Willis | "The Winds of Marble Arch" | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[29] |
Michael Meddor | "The Wizard Retires" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[29] |
2001 |
Steve Rasnic Tem* |
The Man on the Ceiling |
American Fantasy Press |
[30] |
Melanie Tem* |
Michael Bishop | "Blue Kansas Sky" | Blue Kansas Sky (Golden Gryphon Press) |
[30] |
Elizabeth Hand | "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol" | Sci Fiction |
[30] |
Glen Hirshberg | "Mr. Dark's Carnival" | Shadows and Silence (Ash-Tree Press) |
[30] |
Susanna Clarke | "Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower" | Black Heart, Ivory Bones (Avon Publications) |
[30] |
David Case | "Pelican Cay" | Dark Terrors 5 (Victor Gollancz) |
[30] |
Ted Chiang | "Seventy-Two Letters" | Vanishing Acts (Tor Books) |
[30] |
2002 |
S. P. Somtow* | "The Bird Catcher" | The Museum of Horrors (Leisure Books) |
[31] |
Elizabeth Hand | "Cleopatra Brimstone" | Redshift (Roc Books) |
[31] |
Lucius Shepard | "Eternity and Afterward" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[31] |
Ursula K. Le Guin | "The Finder" | Tales from Earthsea (Harcourt) |
[31] |
Paul Di Filippo | "Karuna, Inc." | Fantastic Stories of the Imagination |
[31] |
Glen Hirshberg | "Struwwelpeter" | Sci Fiction |
[31] |
2003 |
Zoran Živković* | "The Library" | Leviathan 3 (The Ministry of Whimsy Press) |
[32] |
Neil Gaiman | Coraline | HarperCollins |
[32] |
Elizabeth Hand | "The Least Trumps" | Conjunctions |
[32] |
Charles de Lint | Seven Wild Sisters | Subterranean Press |
[32] |
Paul Di Filippo | A Year in the Linear City | PS Publishing |
[32] |
2004 |
Greer Gilman* | "A Crowd of Bone" | Trampoline (Small Beer Press) |
[33] |
Glen Hirshberg | "Dancing Men" | The Dark (Tor Books) |
[33] |
Jeffrey Ford | "The Empire of Ice Cream" | Sci Fiction |
[33] |
Simon Clark |
"Exorcising Angels" |
Exorcising Angels (Earthling Publications) |
[33] |
Tim Lebbon |
Kelly Link | "The Hortlak" | The Dark (Tor Books) |
[33] |
2005 |
Michael Shea* | "The Growlimb" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[34] |
Gene Wolfe | "Golden City Far" | Flights (Roc Books) |
[34] |
Lisa Tuttle | My Death | PS Publishing |
[34] |
Kim Newman | "Soho Golem" | Sci Fiction |
[34] |
Leena Krohn | Tainaron: Mail from Another City | Prime Books |
[34] |
2006 |
Joe Hill* | Voluntary Committal | Subterranean Press |
[35] |
Simon Morden | Another War | Telos Publishing |
[35] |
Laird Barron | "The Imago Sequence" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[35] |
Michael Cunningham | "In the Machine" | Specimen Days (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
[35] |
Kelly Link | "Magic for Beginners" | Magic for Beginners (Small Beer Press) |
[35] |
Tanith Lee | "UOUS" | The Fair Folk (Science Fiction Book Club) |
[35] |
2007 |
Jeffrey Ford* | "Botch Town" | The Empire of Ice Cream (Golden Gryphon Press) |
[36] |
Norman Partridge | Dark Harvest | Cemetery Dance Publications |
[36] |
Ysabeau S. Wilce | "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[36] |
Kim Newman | "The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train" | The Man from the Diogenes Club (MonkeyBrain Books) |
[36] |
M. Rickert | "Map of Dreams" | Map of Dreams (Golden Gryphon Press) |
[36] |
2008 |
Elizabeth Hand* | Illyria | PS Publishing |
[37] |
Kim Newman | "Cold Snap" | The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (MonkeyBrain Books) |
[37] |
Ian R. MacLeod | "The Master Miller's Tale" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[37] |
Robert Edric | The Mermaids | PS Publishing |
[37] |
Lucius Shepard | "Stars Seen through Stone" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[37] |
2009 |
Richard Bowes* | "If Angels Fight" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[38] |
Nisi Shawl | "Good Boy" | Filter House (Aqueduct Press) |
[38] |
Neil Gaiman | Odd and the Frost Giants | Bloomsbury Publishing |
[38] |
Albert E. Cowdrey | "The Overseer" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[38] |
Peter S. Beagle | "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel" | Strange Roads (DreamHaven Books) |
[38] |
2010 |
Margo Lanagan* | "Sea-Hearts" | X 6 (Coeur de Lion Publishing) |
[39] |
Paul Witcover | "Everland" | Everland and Other Stories (PS Publishing) |
[39] |
Richard Bowes | "I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[39] |
Steve Duffy | "The Lion's Den" | Cern Zoo (Megazanthus Press) |
[39] |
Andy Duncan | The Night Cache | PS Publishing |
[39] |
Kage Baker | The Women of Nell Gwynne's | Subterranean Press |
[39] |
2011 |
Elizabeth Hand* | "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" | Stories (William Morrow and Company) |
[40] |
Elizabeth Bear | Bone and Jewel Creatures | Subterranean Press |
[40] |
Michael Byers | The Broken Man | PS Publishing |
[40] |
Rachel Swirsky | The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window | Subterranean Press |
[40] |
George R. R. Martin | "The Mystery Knight" | Warriors (Tor Books) |
[40] |
Tim Lebbon | The Thief of Broken Toys | ChiZine Publications |
[40] |
2012 |
K. J. Parker* | "A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong" | Subterranean Magazine |
[41] |
Elizabeth Hand | "Near Zennor" | A Book of Horrors (Jo Fletcher Books) |
[41] |
Robert Shearman | "Alice Through the Plastic Sheet" | A Book of Horrors (Jo Fletcher Books) |
[41] |
Lucius Shepard | "Rose Street Attractors" | Ghosts by Gaslight (Harper Voyager) |
[41] |
Catherynne M. Valente | "Silently and Very Fast" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
[41] |
2013 |
K. J. Parker* | "Let Maps to Others" | Subterranean Magazine |
[42] |
Laird Barron | "Hand of Glory" | The Book of Cthulhu II (Night Shade Books) |
[42] |
Brandon Sanderson | The Emperor's Soul | Tachyon Publications |
[42] |
Lucius Shepard | "The Skull" | The Dragon Griaule (Subterranean Press) |
[42] |
Kaaron Warren | "Sky" | Through Splintered Walls (Twelfth Planet Press) |
[42] |
2014 |
Andy Duncan* |
"Wakulla Springs" |
Tor.com |
[43] |
Ellen Klages* |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | Black Helicopters | Subterranean Press |
[43] |
K. J. Parker | "The Sun and I" | Subterranean Magazine |
[43] |
Veronica Schanoes | "Burning Girls" | Tor.com |
[43] |
Catherynne M. Valente | Six-Gun Snow White | Subterranean Press |
[43] |
2015 |
Daryl Gregory* | We Are All Completely Fine | Tachyon Publications |
[5] |
Kai Ashante Wilson | "The Devil in America" | Tor.com |
[5] |
Rachel Swirsky | "Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)" | Subterranean Magazine |
[5] |
Michael Libling | "Hollywood North" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[5] |
Mary Rickert | "The Mothers of Voorhisville" | Tor.com |
[5] |
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen | "Where the Trains Turn" | Tor.com |
[5] |
2016 |
Kelly Barnhill* | The Unlicensed Magician | PS Publishing |
[6] |
Bud Webster | "Farewell Blues" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[6] |
Kim Newman | "Guignol" | Horrorology (Jo Fletcher Books) |
[6] |
Usman T. Malik | "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" | Tor.com |
[6] |
Kelly Robson | "Waters of Versailles" | Tor.com |
[6] |
2017 |
Kij Johnson* | The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe | Tor.com Publishing |
[44] |
Victor LaValle | The Ballad of Black Tom | Tor.com Publishing |
[44] |
Paul F. Olson | "Bloodybones" | Whispered Echoes (Cemetery Dance Publications) |
[44] |
Seanan McGuire | Every Heart a Doorway | Tor.com Publishing |
[44] |
Kai Ashante Wilson | A Taste of Honey | Tor.com Publishing |
[44] |
2018 |
Ellen Klages* | Passing Strange | Tor.com Publishing |
[7] |
JY Yang | The Black Tides of Heaven | Tor.com Publishing |
[7] |
Peter S. Beagle | In Calabria | Tachyon Publications |
[7] |
Stephen Graham Jones | Mapping the Interior | Tor.com Publishing |
[7] |
Simon Avery | The Teardrop Method | TTA Press |
[7] |
2019 |
Kij Johnson* | "The Privilege of the Happy Ending" | Clarkesworld Magazine |
[45] |
Brooke Bolander | The Only Harmless Great Thing | Tor.com Publishing |
[45] |
P. Djèlí Clark | The Black God's Drums | Tor.com Publishing |
[45] |
Aliette de Bodard | The Tea Master and the Detective | Subterranean Press |
[45] |
Seanan McGuire | Beneath the Sugar Sky | Tor.com Publishing |
[45] |
2020 |
Emily Tesh* | Silver in the Wood | Tor.com Publishing |
[46] |
Nathan Ballingrud | "The Butcher's Table" | Wounds (Saga Press) |
[46] |
Rivers Solomon |
The Deep |
Saga Press |
[46] |
Daveed Diggs |
William Hutson |
Jonathan Snipes |
C. S. E. Cooney | Desdemona and the Deep | Tor.com Publishing |
[46] |
Seanan McGuire | In an Absent Dream | Tor.com Publishing |
[46] |
2021 |
Tochi Onyebuchi* | Riot Baby | Tor.com Publishing |
[47] |
Kathleen Jennings | Flyaway | Tor.com Publishing |
[47] |
R. B. Lemberg | The Four Profound Weaves | Tachyon Publications |
[47] |
P. Djèlí Clark | Ring Shout, or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times | Tor.com Publishing |
[47] |
Leah Cypess | "Stepsister" | Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[47] |
2022 |
Premee Mohamed* | And What Can We Offer You Tonight | Neon Hemlock Press |
[48] |
Isabel Yap | "A Canticle for Lost Girls" | Never Have I Ever (Small Beer Press) |
[48] |
A. M. Muffaz | Finches | Vernacular Books |
[48] |
Elizabeth Hand | "For Sale by Owner" | When Things Get Dark (Penguin Random House) |
[48] |
Cassandra Khaw | Nothing But Blackened Teeth | Nightfire Books |
[48] |
2023 |
Priya Sharma* | Pomegranates | Absinthe Books |
[49] |
Naseem Jamnia | The Bruising of Qilwa | Tachyon Publications |
[49] |
C. L. Polk | Even Though I Knew the End | Tordotcom |
[49] |
Naben Ruthnum | Helpmeet | Undertow Publications |
[49] |
Dennis Mombauer | The House of Drought | Stelliform Press |
[49] |