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",^[1] and one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards (which cover both fantasy and science fiction).^[2][3] 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.^[4]

World Fantasy Award—Collection
Awarded for	The best collection of fantasy stories by a single author published in English in the prior calendar year
Presented by	World Fantasy Convention
First award	1975
Most recent winner	Mariana Enríquez author, Megan McDowell, translator (A Sunny Place for Shady People)
Website	www.worldfantasy.org/awards/

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.^[4][5] The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors^[6] and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties.^[4] The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October.^[5] 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.^[7]

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 (editor) to distinguish them from authors of collections.

  *   Winners

Winners and nominees

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	Mariana Enríquez*	A Sunny Place for Shady People	Hogarth US/Granta	[58]
	Megan McDowell (translator)*
	Pemi Aguda	Ghostroots	W. W. Norton & Company/Virago Press	[58]
	Brian Evenson	Good Night, Sleep Tight	Coffee House Press	[59]
	Kathleen Jennings	Kindling: Stories	Small Beer Press	[58]
	Ananda Lima	Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil	Tor Books	[58]