Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction

Winners and nominees

Short Story

• 1987: "The Deep End" by Robert R. McCammon
• * "Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll
• * "This Old Man" by Charles L. Grant
• * "Day-Tay-Vao" by F. Paul Wilson
• * "Traps" by F. Paul Wilson
• 1988: "Night They Missed the Horror Show" by Joe R. Lansdale
• * "The Thing at the Top of the Stairs" by Ray Bradbury
• * "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" by Harlan Ellison
• * "The Music of the Dark time" by Chet Williamson
• * "Jack's Decline" by Lucius Shepard
• * "Nobody Lives There Now" by Carol Orlock
• 1989: "Eat Me" by Robert R. McCammon
• * "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" by Edward Bryant
• * "Bodies and Heads" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• * "Each Night, Each Year" by Kathryn Ptacek
• * "'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy' He Said" by Chet Williamson
• 1990: "The Calling" by David B. Silva
• * "Back Windows" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• * "But You'll Never Follow Me" by Karl Edward Wagner
• * "From the Papers of Helmut Hecher" by Chet Williamson
• * "The Loneliest Number" by Edward Bryant
• 1991: "Lady Madonna" by Nancy Holder
• * "The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire" by Poppy Z. Brite
• * "Love Doll: A Fable" by Joe R. Lansdale
• * "The Braille Encyclopaedia" by Grant Morrison
• * "Wolf Winter" by Maxine O'Callaghan
• * "Richard's Head" by Al Sarrantonio
• 1992: "This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons
• * "Farm Wife" by Nancy Kilpatrick
• * "Did They Get You to Trade?" by Karl Edward Wagner
• * "Come One, Come All" by Gahan Wilson
• * "Bright Lights, Big Zombie" by Douglas E. Winter
• 1993: "I Hear the Mermaids Singing" by Nancy Holder
• * "Death Fiend Guerrillas" by William S. Burroughs
• * "Distances" by Sherman Alexie
• * "The Dog Park" by Dennis Etchison
• * "Pain Grin" by Wayne Allen Sallee
• 1994: "The Box" by Jack Ketchum
• 1994: "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" by Nancy Holder
• * "Mr. Torso" by Edward Lee
• * "Things of Which We Do Not Speak" by Lucy Taylor
• 1995: "Chatting With Anubis" by Harlan Ellison
• * "Becky Lives" by Harry Crews
• * "The Bungalow House" by Thomas Ligotti
• * "The Death of the Novel" by William Browning Spencer
• 1996: "metalica" by P.D. Cacek
• * "The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman" by Robert Devereaux
• * "The Secret Shih Tan" by Graham Masterton
• * "The House of Mourning" by Brian Stableford
• * "Plan 10 from Inner Space" by Karl Edward Wagner
• 1997: "Rat Food" by Edo van Belkom & David Nickle
• * "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" by Douglas Clegg
• * "A Plague on Both Your Houses" by Scott Edelman
• * "Madame Babylon" by Brian Hodge

  Short Fiction

• 1998: "The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
• * "Blues-Born" by Tina L. Jens
• * "Autopsy Room Four" by Stephen King
• * "The Rug" by Edo van Belkom
• 1999: "Aftershock" by F. Paul Wilson
• * "The Grave" by P.D. Cacek
• * "The Entertainment" by Ramsey Campbell
• * "Halloween Street" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 2000: "Gone" by Jack Ketchum
• * "Dead Cat Bounce" by Gerard Daniel Houarner
• * "Fallen Angel" by Robert J. Sawyer
• * "Mexican Moon" by Karen E. Taylor
• 2001: "Reconstructing Amy" by Tim Lebbon
• * "I Am Your Need" by Mort Castle
• * "The Haunt" by Jack Ketchum
• * "Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" by David B. Silva
• 2002: "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair" by Tom Piccirilli
• * "Disappearances" by Mort Castle
• * "The Green Man" by Christopher Fowler
• * "The Plague Species" by Charlee Jacob
• * "Details" by China Miéville
• 2003: "Duty" by Gary A. Braunbeck
• * "The Last Supper" by Scott Edelman
• * "Harvey's Dream" by Stephen King
• * "The Haunting" by Joyce Carol Oates
• * "The Red Bow" by George Saunders
• 2004: "Nimitseahpah" by Nancy Etchemendy
• * "Just Out of Reach" by Gary A. Braunbeck
• * "A Madness of Starlings" by Douglas Clegg
• * "Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland" by John Farris
• * "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan
• * "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk
• 2005: "We Now Pause for Station Identification" by Gary A. Braunbeck
• * "Haeckel's Tale" by Clive Barker
• *"As Others See Us" by Mort Castle
• *"Times of Atonement" by Yvonne Navarro
• *"Invisible" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 2006: "Tested" by Lisa Morton
• *"FYI" by Mort Castle
• *"Feeding the Dead Inside" by Yvonne Navarro
• *"Balance" by Gene O'Neill
• *"31/10" by Stephen Volk
• 2007: "The Gentle Brush of Wings" by David Niall Wilson
• * "The Death Wagon Rolls on By" from C. Dean Andersson
• * "Letting Go" by John Everson
• * "The Teacher" by Paul G. Tremblay
• * "There's No Light Between Floor" by Paul G. Tremblay
• * "Closet Dreams" by Lisa Tuttle
• 2008: "The Lost" by Sarah Langan
• * "Petrified" by Scott Edelman
• * "The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft" by Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt
• * "Evidence of Love in A Case of Abandonment" by M. Rickert
• * "Turtle" by Lee Thomas
• 2009: "In the Porches of My Ears" by Norman Prentiss
• * "Keeping Watch" by Nate Kenyon
• * "The Crossing of Aldo Ray" by Weston Ochse
• * "The Night Nurse" by Harry Shannon
• 2010: "The Folding Man" by Joe R. Lansdale
• * "Return to Mariabronn" by Gary A. Braunbeck
• * "1925; A Fall River Halloween" by Lisa Mannetti
• * "In the Middle of Poplar Street" by Nate Southard
• * "Final Draft" by Mark W. Worthen
• 2011: "Herman Wouk is Still Alive" by Stephen King
• * "Her Husband's Hands" by Adam-Troy Castro
• * "Hypergraphia" by Ken Lillie-Paetz
• * "Graffiti Sonata" by Gene O'Neill
• * "Home" by George Saunders
• * "All You Can Do Is Breathe" by Kaaron Warren
• 2012: "Magdala Amygdala" by Lucy Snyder
• * "Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest" by Bruce Boston
• * "Bury My Heart at Marvin Gardens" by Joe McKinney
• * "Righteous" by Weston Ochse
• * "Available Light" by John Palisano
• 2013: "Night Train to Paris" by David Gerrold
• * "Primal Tongue" by Michael Bailey
• * "Snapshot" by Patrick Freivald
• * "The Hunger Artist" by Lisa Mannetti
• * "The Geminis" by John Palisano
• * "Code 666" by Michael Reaves
• 2014: "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" by Usman T. Malik
• 2014: "Ruminations" by Rena Mason
• * "Hot Tub" by Hal Bodner
• * "Baby's Breath" by Sydney Leigh
• * "Splinterette" by John Palisano
• * "The Floating Girls: A Documentary" by Damien Angelica Walters
• 2015: "Happy Joe's Rest Stop" by John Palisano
• * "All the Day You'll Have Good Luck" by Kate Jonez
• * "The Algernon Effect" by Gene O'Neill
• * "Sing Me Your Scars" by Damien Angelica Walters
• * "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong
• 2017: "Apocalypse Then" by Lisa Manetti
• * "I Will Be the Reflection Until the End" by Michael Bailey
• * "A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills" by James Chambers
• * "So Sings the Siren" by Annie Neugebauer
• * "Loving You Darkly" by Mercedes M. Yardley
• 2018: "Mutter" by Jess Landry
• * "A Winter's Tale" by John F.D. Taff
• * "Dead End Town" by Lee Murray
• * "Glove Box" by Annie Neugebauer
• * "And in Her Eyes the City Drowned" by Kyla Lee Ward