Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection

Winners and nominees

• 1987: The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
• * Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch
• * ' by Ramsey Campbell
• * Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner
• * All About Strange Monsters of The Recent Past by Howard Waldrop
• 1988: ' 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: ' 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, Mercury House Neglected Literary Classics,
• 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
• * ' 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
• * ' 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
• * ' by Terry Dowling
• 2007:
• * 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
• 2011: The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
• * ' by Lawrence C. Connolly
• * Red Gloves by Christopher Fowler
• * ' by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• * Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton
• * Multiplex Fandango by Weston Ochse
• 2012: New Moon on the Water by Mort Castle
• 2012: ' by Joyce Carol Oates
• * ' by Jonathan Carroll
• * by Elizabeth Hand
• * The Janus Tree by Glen Hirshberg
• 2013: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories by Laird Barron
• * North American Lake Monsters: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud
• * The Tears of Isis by James Dorr
• * The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• * Dance of the Blue Lady by Gene O’Neill
• * Bible Stories for Secular Humanists by S. P. Somtow
• 2014: Soft Apocalypses by Lucy A. Snyder
• * After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones
• * The End in All Beginnings by John F. D. Taff
• * Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall
• * Little by Little by John R. Little
• 2015: While the Black Stars Burn by Lucy A. Snyder
• * Halfway Down the Stairs by Gary A. Braunbeck
• * The Mirrors by Nicole Cushing
• * The Dark at the End of the Tunnel by Taylor Grant
• * The Hitchhiking Effect by Gene O'Neill
• 2017: Strange Weather by Joe Hill
• *And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe by Gwendolyn Kiste
• * Goblin by Josh Malerman
• * The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales by Thersa Matsuura
• * Writing Madness by Patrick McGrath
• 2018: That Which Grows Wild by Eric J. Guignard
• * Spectral Evidence by Gemma Files
• * Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
• * Garden of Eldritch Delights by Lucy A. Snyder
• * Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection by Tim Waggoner
• 2019
• *Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
• *Lady Bits by Kate Jonez
• *Sefira and Other Betrayals by John Langan
• *Out of Water by Sarah Read
• *Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay