List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story winners

Winners

1950s

• 1951 Lawrence Blochman "Diagnosis: Homicide"
• 1952 John Collier "Fancies and Goodnights"
• 1953 Philip MacDonald "Something to Hide"
• 1954 Roald Dahl "Someone Like You"
• 1955 Stanley Ellin "The House Party"
• 1956 Philip MacDonald "Dream No More"
• 1957 Stanley Ellin "The Blessington Method"
• 1958 Gerald Kersh "The Secret of the Bottle"
• 1959 William O'Farrell "Over There, Darkness"

  1960s

• 1960 Roald Dahl "The Landlady"
• 1961 John Durham "Tiger"
• 1962 Avram Davidson "Affair at Lahore Cantonment"
• 1963 David Ely "The Sailing Club"
• 1964 Leslie Ann Brownrigg "Man Gehorcht"
• 1965 Lawrence Treat "H as in Homicide"
• 1966 Shirley Jackson "The Possibility of Evil"
• 1967 Rhys Davies "The Chosen One"
• 1968 Edward D. Hoch "The Oblong Room"
• 1969 Warner Law "The Man Who Fooled the World"

  1970s

• 1970 Joe Gores "Goodbye, Pops"
• 1971 Margery Finn Brown "In The Forests of Riga the Beasts Are Very Wild Indeed"
• 1972 Robert L. Fish "Moonlight Gardener"
• 1973 Joyce Harrington "The Purple Shroud"
• 1974 Harlan Ellison "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs"
• 1975 Ruth Rendell "The Fallen Curtain"
• 1976 Jesse Hill Ford "The Jail"
• 1977 Etta Revesz "Like a Terrible Scream"
• 1978 Thomas Walsh "Chance After Chance"
• 1979 Barbara Owens "The Cloud Beneath The Eaves"

  1980s

• 1980 Geoffrey Norman "Armed and Dangerous"
• 1981 Clark Howard "Horn Man"
• 1982 Jack Ritchie "The Absence of Emily"
• 1983 Frederick Forsyth "There Are No Snakes in Ireland"
• 1984 Ruth Rendell "The New Girlfriend"
• 1985 Lawrence Block "By Dawn's Early Light"
• 1986 John Lutz "Ride the Lightning"
• 1987 Robert Sampson "Rain in Pinton County"
• 1988 Harlan Ellison "Soft Monkey"
• 1989 Bill Crenshaw "Flicks"

  1990s

• 1990 Donald E. Westlake "Too Many Crooks"
• 1991 Lynne Barrett "Elvis Lives"
• 1992 Wendy Hornsby "Nine Sons"
• 1993 Benjamin M. Schutz "Mary, Mary, Shut the Door"
• 1994 Lawrence Block "Keller's Therapy"
• 1995 Doug Allyn "The Dancing Bear"
• 1996 Jean B Cooper "The Judge's Boy"
• 1997 Michael Malone "Red Clay"
• 1998 Lawrence Block "Keller on the Spot"
• 1999 Tom Franklin "Poachers"

  2000s

• 2000 Anne Perry "Heroes"
• 2001 Peter Robinson "Missing in Action"
• 2002 S.J. Rozan "Double-Crossing Delancey"
• 2003 Raymond Steiber "Mexican Gatsby"
• 2004 G. Miki Hayden "The Maids"
• 2005 Laurie Lynn Drummond "Something About a Scar"
• 2006 James W. Hall "The Catch"
• 2007 Charles Ardai "The Home Front"
• 2008 Susan Straight "The Golden Gopher"
• 2009 T. Jefferson Parker "Skinhead Central"

  2010s

• 2010 Luis Alberto Urrea "Amapola"
• 2011 Doug Allyn "The Scent of Lilacs"
• 2012 Peter Turnbull "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train"
• 2013 Karin Slaughter "The Unremarkable Heart"
• 2014 John Connolly "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository"
• 2015 Gillian Flynn "What Do You Do?"
• 2016 Stephen King "Obits"*
• 2017 Lawrence Block "Autumn at the Automat"
• 2018 John Crowley “Spring Break”
• 2019 Art Taylor “English 398: Fiction Workshop”