Year |
Author/editor |
Collection/anthology |
Publisher |
Ref. |
1975 |
Manly Wade Wellman* | Worse Things Waiting | Carcosa |
[8] |
Basil Copper | From Evil's Pillow | Arkham House |
[8] |
1976 |
Avram Davidson* | The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy | Warner |
[9] |
Harlan Ellison | Deathbird Stories | Harper & Row |
[9] |
Frank Belknap Long | The Early Long | Doubleday |
[9] |
E. Hoffmann Price | Far Lands, Other Days | Carcosa |
[9] |
1977 |
Kirby McCauley* (editor) | Frights | St. Martin's Press |
[10] |
Edward Bryant | Cinnabar | Macmillan Publishers |
[10] |
Lin Carter (editor) | Flashing Swords! 3: Warriors and Wizards | Dell Publishing |
[10] |
Ramsey Campbell | The Height of the Scream | Arkham House |
[10] |
Ray Bradbury | Long After Midnight | Alfred A. Knopf |
[10] |
Ramsey Campbell (editor) | Superhorror | St. Martin's Press |
[10] |
1978 |
Hugh B. Cave* | Murgunstrumm and Others | Carcosa |
[11] |
Robert Bloch | Cold Chills | Doubleday |
[11] |
Fritz Leiber | Swords and Ice Magic | Ace Books |
[11] |
Stuart David Schiff (editor) | Whispers | Doubleday |
[11] |
Gerald W. Page (editor) | The Year's Best Horror Stories V | DAW Books |
[11] |
1979 |
Charles L. Grant* (editor) | Shadows | Doubleday |
[12] |
Fritz Leiber | Heroes and Horrors | Whispers Press |
[12] |
Stephen King | Night Shift | Doubleday |
[12] |
Karl Edward Wagner | Night Winds | Warner |
[12] |
Avram Davidson | The Redward Edward Papers | Doubleday |
[12] |
Gerald W. Page (editor) | The Year's Best Horror Stories VI | DAW Books |
[12] |
1980 |
Jessica Amanda Salmonson* (editor) | Amazons! | DAW Books |
[13] |
Charles L. Grant (editor) | Nightmares | Playboy Press |
[13] |
Charles L. Grant (editor) | Shadows 2 | Doubleday |
[13] |
Robert Asprin (editor) | Thieves' World | Ace Books |
[13] |
Stuart David Schiff (editor) | Whispers II | Doubleday |
[13] |
Terry Carr (editor) | The Year's Finest Fantasy, Volume 2 | Berkley Books |
[13] |
1981 |
Kirby McCauley* (editor) | Dark Forces | Viking Press |
[14] |
Orson Scott Card (editor) | Dragons of Light | Ace Books |
[14] |
Bill Pronzini (editor) | Mummy! A Chrestomathy of Crypt-ology | Arbor House |
[14] |
Ramsey Campbell (editor) | New Terrors | Pan Books |
[14] |
Charles L. Grant (editor) | Shadows 3 | Doubleday |
[14] |
Harlan Ellison | Shatterday | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
[14] |
1982 |
Terri Windling* (editor) |
Elsewhere |
Ace Books |
[15] |
Mark Alan Arnold* (editor) |
Terry Carr (editor) | Fantasy Annual IV | Timescape |
[15] |
Charles L. Grant (editor) | Shadows 4 | Doubleday |
[15] |
Charles L. Grant | Tales from the Nightside | Arkham House |
[15] |
Stuart David Schiff (editor) | Whispers III | Doubleday |
[15] |
1983 |
Charles L. Grant* (editor) | Nightmare Seasons | Doubleday |
[16] |
Dennis Etchison | The Dark Country | Scream/Press |
[16] |
Stephen King | Different Seasons | Viking Press |
[16] |
Susan Shwartz (editor) | Hecate's Cauldron | DAW Books |
[16] |
Alan Ryan (editor) | Perpetual Light | Warner |
[16] |
Charles L. Grant (editor) | Shadows 5 | Doubleday |
[16] |
1984 |
Robertson Davies* | High Spirits | Penguin |
[17] |
Charles L. Grant (editor) | The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror | Dodd, Mead and Company |
[17] |
Tanith Lee | Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer | DAW Books |
[17] |
Charles L. Grant (editor) | Shadows 6 | Doubleday |
[17] |
Jane Yolen | Tales of Wonder | Schocken Books |
[17] |
1985 |
Clive Barker* | Books of Blood, Vols. I-III | Sphere Books |
[18] |
Parke Godwin | The Fire When It Comes | Doubleday |
[18] |
J. N. Williamson (editor) | Masques | Maclay & Associates |
[18] |
Alan Ryan (editor) | Night Visions 1 | Dark Harvest |
[18] |
Garry Kilworth | The Songbirds of Pain | Victor Gollancz |
[18] |
M. John Harrison | Viriconium Nights | Ace Books |
[18] |
1986 |
Robin McKinley* (editor) | Imaginary Lands | Ace Books |
[19] |
Angela Carter | Black Venus | Hogarth Press |
[19] |
Clive Barker | Books of Blood, Vols. IV-VI | Sphere Books |
[19] |
Jane Yolen | Dragonfield and Other Stories | Ace Books |
[19] |
Terri Windling (editor) | Faery! | Ace Books |
[19] |
Charles L. Grant (editor) | Night Visions 2 | Dark Harvest |
[19] |
Stephen King | Skeleton Crew | Putnam Publishing Group |
[19] |
Stuart David Schiff (editor) | Whispers V | Doubleday |
[19] |
1987 |
James Tiptree Jr.* | Tales of the Quintana Roo | Arkham House |
[20] |
Douglas E. Winter (editor) | Black Wine | Dark Harvest |
[20] |
Dennis Etchison (editor) | Cutting Edge | Doubleday |
[20] |
Tanith Lee | Dreams of Dark and Light | Arkham House |
[20] |
Emma Bull (editor) |
Liavek: The Players of Luck |
Ace Books |
[20] |
Will Shetterly (editor) |
Jane Yolen | Merlin's Booke | Ace Books |
[20] |
George R. R. Martin (editor) | Night Visions 3 | Dark Harvest |
[20] |
1988 |
Lucius Shepard* | The Jaguar Hunter | Arkham House |
[21] |
Tanith Lee | Night's Sorceries | DAW Books |
[21] |
Michael Shea | Polyphemus | Arkham House |
[21] |
Ramsey Campbell | Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death | Scream/Press |
[21] |
Karl Edward Wagner | Why Not You and I? | Tor Books |
[21] |
1989 |
Harlan Ellison* | Angry Candy | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
[22] |
Gene Wolfe* | Storeys from the Old Hotel | Kerosina Books |
[22] |
Dennis Etchison | The Blood Kiss | Scream/Press |
[22] |
Clive Barker | Cabal | Poseidon Press |
[22] |
Charles Beaumont | Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories | Dark Harvest |
[22] |
Fritz Leiber | The Knight and Knave of Swords | William Morrow and Company |
[22] |
1990 |
Richard Matheson* | Richard Matheson: Collected Stories | Scream/Press |
[23] |
Robert R. McCammon | Blue World and Other Stories | Grafton |
[23] |
Joe R. Lansdale | By Bizarre Hands | Mark V. Ziesing |
[23] |
Harlan Ellison | Harlan Ellison's Watching | Underwood–Miller |
[23] |
John Crowley | Novelty | Doubleday |
[23] |
1991 |
Carol Emshwiller* | The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories | The Women's Press |
[24] |
Michael Blumlein | The Brains of Rats | Scream/Press |
[24] |
Peter Straub | Houses Without Doors | Grafton |
[24] |
Fritz Leiber | The Leiber Chronicles | Dark Harvest |
[24] |
Dan Simmons | Prayers to Broken Stones | Dark Harvest |
[24] |
1992 |
Lucius Shepard* | The Ends of the Earth | Arkham House |
[25] |
Robert Holdstock | The Bone Forest | Grafton |
[25] |
Thomas Ligotti | Grimscribe: His Lives and Works | Carroll & Graf Publishers |
[25] |
R. A. Lafferty | Lafferty In Orbit | Broken Mirrors Press |
[25] |
Fred Chappell | More Shapes Than One | St. Martin's Press |
[25] |
Howard Waldrop | Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories | Mark V. Ziesing |
[25] |
1993 |
Jack Cady* | The Sons of Noah & Other Stories | Broken Moon Press |
[26] |
Greg Bear | Bear's Fantasies | Wildside Press |
[26] |
James Blaylock | Lord Kelvin's Machine | Arkham House |
[26] |
John Kessel | Meeting in Infinity | Arkham House |
[26] |
Norman Partridge | Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales | Roadkill Press |
[26] |
Charles de Lint | Spiritwalk | Tor Books |
[26] |
1994 |
Ramsey Campbell* | Alone with the Horrors | Arkham House |
[27] |
Neil Gaiman | Angels and Visitations | DreamHaven Books |
[27] |
John Crowley | Antiquities | Incunabula |
[27] |
Charles de Lint | Dreams Underfoot | Tor Books |
[27] |
Garry Kilworth | Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands | Edgewood Press |
[27] |
Darrell Schweitzer | Transients and Other Disquieting Stories | W. Paul Ganley |
[27] |
Terry Lamsley | Under the Crust | Wendigo |
[27] |
1995 |
Bradley Denton* | The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist | Wildside Press |
[28] |
Robert Bloch | The Early Fears | Fedogan & Bremer |
[28] |
Joel Lane | The Earth Wire & Other Stories | Egerton Press |
[28] |
Joyce Carol Oates | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque | Dutton Penguin |
[28] |
Lisa Goldstein | Travellers In Magic | Tor Books |
[28] |
1996 |
Gwyneth Jones* | Seven Tales and a Fable | Edgewood Press |
[29] |
Hugh B. Cave | Death Stalks the Night | Fedogan & Bremer |
[29] |
Charles de Lint | The Ivory and the Horn | Tor Books |
[29] |
Jonathan Carroll | The Panic Hand | HarperCollins UK |
[29] |
Brian W. Aldiss | The Secret of This Book | HarperCollins UK |
[29] |
1997 |
Jonathan Lethem* | The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye | Harcourt Brace |
[30] |
Norman Partridge | Bad Intentions | Subterranean Press |
[30] |
James K. Morrow | Bible Stories for Adults | Harcourt Brace |
[30] |
Terry Lamsley | Conference with the Dead | Ash-Tree Press |
[30] |
Richard Chizmar | Midnight Promises | Gauntlet Publications |
[30] |
Thomas Ligotti | The Nightmare Factory | Carroll & Graf Publishers |
[30] |
S. P. Somtow | The Pavilion of Frozen Women | Victor Gollancz |
[30] |
1998 |
Brian McNaughton* | The Throne of Bones | Terminal Fright Press |
[31] |
Ray Bradbury | Driving Blind | Avon Publications |
[31] |
Paul Di Filippo | Fractal Paisleys | Four Walls Eight Windows |
[31] |
Michael Swanwick | A Geography of Unknown Lands | Tigereyes Press |
[31] |
Peter S. Beagle | Giant Bones | Roc Books |
[31] |
1999 |
Karen Joy Fowler* | Black Glass | Henry Holt and Company |
[32] |
Gahan Wilson | The Cleft and Other Odd Tales | Tor Books |
[32] |
Elizabeth Hand | Last Summer at Mars Hill | HarperPrism |
[32] |
Graham Masterton | Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton | British Fantasy Society |
[32] |
Jack Cady | The Night We Buried Road Dog | DreamHaven Books |
[32] |
2000 |
Charles de Lint* | Moonlight and Vines | Tor Books |
[33] |
Stephen R. Donaldson* | Reave the Just and Other Tales | HarperCollins Voyager |
[33] |
Thomas Piccirilli | Deep Into That Darkness Peering | Terminal Fright Press |
[33] |
Stephen King | Hearts in Atlantis | Charles Scribner's Sons |
[33] |
Darrell Schweitzer | Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories | Wildside Press |
[33] |
2001 |
Andy Duncan* | Beluthahatchie and Other Stories | Golden Gryphon Press |
[34] |
Terry Dowling | Blackwater Days | Eidolon Publications |
[34] |
Peter Straub | Magic Terror: Seven Tales | Random House |
[34] |
Neal Barrett, Jr. | Perpetuity Blues and Other Stories | Golden Gryphon Press |
[34] |
Robert Charles Wilson | The Perseids and Other Stories | Tor Books |
[34] |
M. John Harrison | Travel Arrangements | Victor Gollancz |
[34] |
2002 |
Nalo Hopkinson* | Skin Folk | Warner Aspect |
[35] |
William F. Nolan | Dark Universe: Stories 1951-2001 | Stealth Press |
[35] |
Harlan Ellison | The Essential Ellison: A 50-Year Retrospective: Revised and Expanded | Morpheus International |
[35] |
Kelly Link | Stranger Things Happen | Small Beer Press |
[35] |
Dennis Etchison | Talking in the Dark | Stealth Press |
[35] |
2003 |
Jeffrey Ford* | The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories | Golden Gryphon Press |
[36] |
Jeff VanderMeer | City of Saints and Madmen | Prime Books |
[36] |
Chet Williamson | Figures in Rain | Ash-Tree Press |
[36] |
Richard Parks | The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups | Obscura Press |
[36] |
Charles de Lint | Waifs and Strays | Viking Press |
[36] |
Robin McKinley |
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits |
Putnam Publishing Group |
[36] |
Peter Dickinson |
2004 |
Elizabeth Hand* | Bibliomancy | PS Publishing |
[37] |
Jack Cady | Ghosts of Yesterday | Night Shade Books |
[37] |
George R. R. Martin | GRRM: A RRetrospective | Subterranean Press |
[37] |
Michael Marshall Smith | More Tomorrow & Other Stories | Earthling Publications |
[37] |
Glen Hirshberg | The Two Sams: Ghost Stories | Carroll & Graf Publishers |
[37] |
2005 |
Margo Lanagan* | Black Juice | Allen & Unwin Australia |
[38] |
Ian R. MacLeod | Breathmoss and Other Exhalations | Golden Gryphon Press |
[38] |
John M. Ford | Heat of Fusion and Other Stories | Tor Books |
[38] |
Joe R. Lansdale | Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories | Subterranean Press |
[38] |
Peter Crowther | Songs of Leaving | Subterranean Press |
[38] |
Eileen Gunn | Stable Strategies and Others | Tachyon Publications |
[38] |
Lucius Shepard | Trujillo and Other Stories | PS Publishing |
[38] |
2006 |
Bruce Holland Rogers* | The Keyhole Opera | Wheatland Press |
[39] |
Joe Hill | 20th Century Ghosts | PS Publishing |
[39] |
Holly Phillips | In the Palace of Repose | Prime Books |
[39] |
Kelly Link | Magic for Beginners | Small Beer Press |
[39] |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | To Charles Fort, with Love | Subterranean Press |
[39] |
2007 |
M. Rickert* | Map of Dreams | Golden Gryphon Press |
[40] |
Glen Hirshberg | American Morons | Earthling Publications |
[40] |
Jeffrey Ford | The Empire of Ice Cream | Golden Gryphon Press |
[40] |
Susanna Clarke | The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories | Bloomsbury |
[40] |
Margo Lanagan | Red Spikes | Allen & Unwin Australia |
[40] |
2008 |
Robert Shearman* | Tiny Deaths | Comma Press |
[41] |
Lucius Shepard | Dagger Key and Other Stories | PS Publishing |
[41] |
Tim Pratt | Hart & Boot & Other Stories | Night Shade Books |
[41] |
Stephen Gallagher | Plots and Misadventures | Subterranean Press |
[41] |
Ellen Klages | Portable Childhoods | Tachyon Publications |
[41] |
Kim Newman | The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club | MonkeyBrain Books |
[41] |
2009 |
Jeffrey Ford* | The Drowned Life | Harper Perennial |
[42] |
Nisi Shawl | Filter House | Aqueduct Press |
[42] |
Kelly Link | Pretty Monsters | Viking Press |
[42] |
Peter S. Beagle | Strange Roads | DreamHaven Books |
[42] |
Shaun Tan | Tales from Outer Suburbia | Allen & Unwin |
[42] |
2010 |
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya* | There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales | Penguin |
[43] |
Gene Wolfe* | The Best of Gene Wolfe | PS Publishing |
[43] |
Paul Witcover | Everland and Other Stories | PS Publishing |
[43] |
Brian Evenson | Fugue State | Coffee House Press |
[43] |
Barbara Roden | Northwest Passages | Prime Books |
[43] |
Peter S. Beagle | We Never Talk About My Brother | Tachyon Publications |
[43] |
2011 |
Karen Joy Fowler* | What I Didn't See and Other Stories | Small Beer Press |
[44] |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | The Ammonite Violin & Others | Subterranean Press |
[44] |
M. Rickert | Holiday | Golden Gryphon Press |
[44] |
Angela Slatter | Sourdough and Other Stories | Tartarus Press |
[44] |
Jeff VanderMeer | The Third Bear | Tachyon Publications |
[44] |
2012 |
Tim Powers* | The Bible Repairman and Other Stories | Tachyon Publications |
[45] |
Lisa L. Hannett | Bluegrass Symphony | Ticonderoga Publications |
[45] |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | Two Worlds and In Between | Subterranean Press |
[45] |
Maureen F. McHugh | After the Apocalypse | Small Beer Press |
[45] |
Reggie Oliver | Mrs Midnight and Other Stories | Tartarus Press |
[45] |
2013 |
Joel Lane* | Where Furnaces Burn | PS Publishing |
[46] |
Kij Johnson | At the Mouth of the River of Bees | Small Beer Press |
[46] |
Ursula K. Le Guin | The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth and Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands | Small Beer Press |
[46] |
Robert Shearman | Remember Why You Fear Me | ChiZine Publications |
[46] |
Karin Tidbeck | Jagannath | Cheeky Frawg Books |
[46] |
2014 |
Caitlín R. Kiernan* | The Ape's Wife and Other Stories | Subterranean Press |
[47] |
Nathan Ballingrud | North American Lake Monsters: Stories | Small Beer Press |
[47] |
Laird Barron | The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories | Night Shade Books |
[47] |
Reggie Oliver | Flowers of the Sea | Tartarus Press |
[47] |
Rachel Swirsky | How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past, Present, and Future | Subterranean Press |
[47] |
2015 |
Angela Slatter* | The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings | Tartarus Press |
[48] |
Helen Marshall* | Gifts for the One Who Comes After | ChiZine Publications |
[48] |
Rebecca Lloyd | Mercy and Other Stories | Tartarus Press |
[48] |
Robert Shearman | They Do the Same Things Different There | ChiZine Publications |
[48] |
Janeen Webb | Death at the Blue Elephant | Ticonderoga Publications |
[48] |
2016 |
C. S. E. Cooney* | Bone Swans | Mythic Delirium |
[49] |
Kelly Link | Get in Trouble | Random House |
[49] |
Leena Krohn | Leena Krohn: The Collected Fiction | Cheeky Frawg Books |
[49] |
James K. Morrow | Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow | Wesleyan University Press |
[49] |
V. H. Leslie | Skein and Bone | Undertow Publications |
[49] |
M. Rickert | You Have Never Been Here | Small Beer Press |
[49] |
2017 |
Jeffrey Ford* | A Natural History of Hell | Small Beer Press |
[50] |
Tina Connolly | On the Eyeball Floor and Other Stories | Fairwood Press |
[50] |
Ken Liu | The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | Saga Press |
[50] |
Joe Abercrombie | Sharp Ends | Orbit Books |
[50] |
L. S. Johnson | Vacui Magia | Traversing Z Press |
[50] |
2018 |
Jane Yolen* | The Emerald Circus | Tachyon Publications |
[51] |
Ellen Klages | Wicked Wonders | Tachyon Publications |
[51] |
Carmen Maria Machado | Her Body and Other Parties | Graywolf Press |
[51] |
Tim Powers | Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers | Baen Books |
[51] |
Sofia Samatar | Tender | Small Beer Press |
[51] |
2019 |
Paolo Bacigalupi* |
The Tangled Lands |
Saga Press |
[52] |
Tobias S. Buckell* |
Andy Duncan | An Agent of Utopia | Small Beer Press |
[52] |
N. K. Jemisin | How Long 'til Black Future Month? | Orbit Books |
[52] |
Margo Lanagan | Phantom Limbs | PS Publishing |
[52] |
Amanda Downum | Still So Strange | ChiZine Publications |
[52] |
2020 |
Brian Evenson* | Song for the Unraveling of the World | Coffee House Press |
[53] |
Nino Cipri | Homesick | Dzanc Books |
[53] |
John Hornor Jacobs | A Lush and Seething Hell | Harper Voyager |
[53] |
Sarah Pinsker | Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea | Small Beer Press |
[53] |
Molly Gloss | Unforeseen | Saga Press |
[53] |
2021 |
Aoko Matsuda* | Where the Wild Ladies Are | Soft Skull Press |
[54] |
Jeffrey Ford | The Best of Jeffrey Ford | PS Publishing |
[54] |
Sheree Renée Thomas | Nine Bar Blues | Third Man Books |
[54] |
Kathe Koja | Velocities: Stories | Meerkat Press |
[54] |
Robert Shearman | We All Hear Stories in the Dark | PS Publishing |
[54] |
2022 |
Usman T. Malik* | Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan | Kitab Press |
[55] |
Jeffrey Ford | Big Dark Hole | Small Beer Press |
[55] |
A. C. Wise | The Ghost Sequences | Undertow Publications |
[55] |
Isabel Yap | Never Have I Ever | Small Beer Press |
[55] |
Jen Fawkes | Tales the Devil Told Me | Press 53 |
[55] |
Angela Slatter | The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales | Tartarus Press |
[55] |
2023 |
Tim Lebbon* | All Nightmare Long | PS Publishing |
[56] |
Sam J. Miller | Boys, Beasts & Men | Tachyon Publications |
[56] |
Cassandra Khaw | Breakable Things | Undertow Publications |
[56] |
C. S. E. Cooney | Dark Breakers | Mythic Delirium |
[56] |
Luigi Musolino | A Different Darkness and Other Abominations | Valancourt Books |
[56] |
2024 |
Premee Mohamed* | No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories | Undertow Publications |
[57] |
Peter S. Beagle | The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volumes 1 & 2 | Tachyon Publications |
[57] |
Lisa L. Hannett | The Fortunate Isles | Egaeus Press |
[57] |
Tobi Ogundiran | Jackal, Jackal | Undertow Publications |
[57] |
E. Lily Yu | Jewel Box | Erewhon Books |
[57] |
Kelly Link | White Cat, Black Dog | Random House/Ad Astra |
[57] |
2025 |
Pemi Aguda | Ghostroots | W. W. Norton & Company/Virago Press |
[58] |
Mariana Enríquez |
A Sunny Place for Shady People |
Hogarth US/Granta |
[58] |
Megan McDowell (translator) |
Brian Evenson | Good Night, Sleep Tight | Coffee House Press |
[58] |
Kathleen Jennings | Kindling: Stories | Small Beer Press |
[58] |
Ananda Lima | Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil | Tor Books |
[58] |