Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for an anthology.

Winners and nominees

Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

• 1998: Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg & Robert Weinberg
  • Robert Bloch's Psychos, edited by Robert Bloch
  • Best of Cemetery Dance, edited by Richard Chizmar
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 11th Annual Collection), edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
• 1999: 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, edited by Al Sarrantonio
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 12th Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
  • The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10, edited by Stephen Jones
  • The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique, edited by John Pelan
• 2000: The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • Brainbox: The Real Horror, edited by Steve Eller
  • Extremes: Fantasy & Horror from the Ends of the Earth, edited by Brian A. Hopkins
  • Bad News, edited by Richard Laymon
• 2001: Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth, edited by Brian A. Hopkins
  • Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas, edited by Richard Chizmar
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 14th Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
  • The Best of Horrorfind, edited by Brian Keene
• 2002: The Darker Side, edited by John Pelan
  • Shivers, edited by Richard Chizmar
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 15th Annual Collection, edtied by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
  • The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13, edited by Stephen Jones
  • Children of Cthulhu, edited by John Pelan & Benjamin Adams
• 2003: Borderlands 5, edited by Elizabeth Monteleone and Thomas F. Monteleone
  • Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural, edited by Bill Congreve
  • Gathering The Bones, edited by Jack Dann, Ramsey Campbell and Dennis Etchison
  • The Dark, edited by Ellen Datlow
  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 16th Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
• 2004: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 17th Annual, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
  • Quietly Now, edited by Kealan-Patrick Burke
  • The Many Faces of Van Helsing, edited by Jeanne Cavelos
  • Shivers III, edited by Richard Chizmar
  • Acquainted with the Night edited by Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden
• 2005: Dark Delicacies, edited by Jeff Gelb and Del Howison
  • Outsiders, edited by Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick
  • Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, edited by Stephen Jones
  • Corpse Blossoms, edited by Julia Sevin and RJ Sevin
• 2006: (tie)
  • Retro Pulp Tales, edited by Joe Lansdale
  • Mondo Zombie, edited by John Skipp
  • Aegri Somnia, edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth)
  • Alone on the Darkside, edited by John Pelan
• 2007: Five Strokes to Midnight edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble
  • Inferno edited by Ellen Datlow
  • Dark Delicacies 2: Fear edited by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb
  • Midnight Premiere edited by Tom Piccirilli
  • At Ease with the Dead edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden
• 2008: Unspeakable Horror edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder
  • Like a Chinese Tattoo edited by Bill Breedlove
  • Horror Library, Vol. 3 edited by R. J. Cavender
  • Beneath the Surface edited by Tim Deal
• 2009: He is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson edited by Christopher Conlon
  • Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow
  • Poe edited by Ellen Datlow
  • Midnight Walk edited by Lisa Morton
• 2010: Haunted Legends edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas
  • Dark Faith edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon
  • Horror Library, Vol. 4 edited by R. J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris
  • Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears edited by Angela Challis and Marty Young
  • The New Dead edited by Christopher Golden
• 2011: Demons: Encounters with the Devil and his Minions, Fallen Angels and the Possessed edited by John Skipp
  • Blood And Other Cravings edited by Ellen Datlow
  • Ghosts By Gaslight edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers
  • NEHW Presents: Epitaphs edited by Tracy L. Carbone
  • Supernatural Noir edited by Ellen Datlow
  • Tattered Souls 2 edited by Frank J. Hutton
• 2012: Shadow Show edited by Mort Castle and Sam Weller
  • Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations edited by Eric J. Guignard
  • Hell Comes to Hollywood edited by Eric Miller
  • Horror for Good: A Charitable Anthology edited by Mark C. Scioneaux, R.J. Cavender, and Robert S. Wilson
  • Slices of Flesh edited by Stan Swanson
• 2013: After Death... edited by Eric J. Guignard
  • Horror Library: Volume 5 edited by R.J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris
  • Barbers & Beauties edited by Michael Knost and Nancy Eden Siegel
  • The Grimscribe’s Puppets edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
  • Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror, Volume One edited by Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson
• 2014: Fearful Symmetries edited by Ellen Datlow
  • Burnt Tongues edited by Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas and Dennis Widmyer
  • A Darke Phantastique edited by Jason V Brock
  • Limbus, Inc., Book II edited by Brett J. Talley
  • Qualia Nous edited by Michael Bailey
• 2015: The Library of the Dead edited by Michael Bailey
  • The Doll Collection edited by Ellen Datlow
  • Midian Unmade edited by Joseph Nassise and Del Howison
  • nEvermore! edited by Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles
  • Seize the Night edited by Christopher Golden
  • X-Files: Trust No One edited by Jonathan Maberry
• 2016: Borderlands 6 edited by Oliva F. Monteleone and Thomas F. Monteleone
  • The Beauty of Death edited by Alessandro Manzetti
  • Chiral Mad 3 edited by Michael Bailey
  • Fright Mare -- Women Write Horror edited by Billie Sue Mosiman
  • Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward
• 2017: Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders edited by Doug Murano
  • The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2: Death by Water edited by Alessandro Manzetti and Jodi Renee Lester
  • Black Feathers edited by Ellen Datlow
  • Nights of the Living Dead edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero
  • Sycorax's Daughters edited by Kinitra Brooks, Linda D. Addison and Susana Morris
• 2018: The Devil and the Deep edited by Ellen Datlow
  • Hellhole edited by Lee Murray
  • Lost Highways edited by D. Alexander Ward
  • A New York State of Fright edited by James Chambers, April Grey and Robert Masterson
  • A World of Horror edited by Eric J. Guignard
• 2019: Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories by Ellen Datlow
  • A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods by Jennifer Brozek
  • The Twisted Book of Shadows by James A. Moore and Christopher Golden
  • Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror by Eric J. Guignard
  • Nox Pareidolia by Robert S. Wilson

External links

• Stoker Award on the HWA web page
• Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees