World Fantasy Award—Anthology
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", and one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The World Fantasy Award—Anthology is given each year for anthologies of fantasy stories by multiple authors published in English. An anthology can have any number of editors, and works in the anthology may have been previously published; awards are also given out for collections of works by a single author in the Collection category. The Anthology category has been awarded annually since 1988, though from 1977 through 1987 anthologies were admissible as nominees in the Collection category. During the ten years they were admissible for that category they won the award seven times and represented 38 of the 56 nominations.
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. The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties. The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October. 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.
During the 32 nomination years, 118 editors have had works nominated; 37 of them have won, including co-editors. Only four editors have won more than once. Ellen Datlow has won 8 times out of 34 nominations, the most of any editor; Terri Windling has won 6 times out of 18 nominations, all of the nominations as a co-editor with Datlow; Jack Dann has won twice out of five nominations; and Dennis Etchison has won twice out of 3 nominations. After Datlow and Windling, the editors with the most nominations are Stephen Jones, who has won once out of fifteen nominations, Gardner Dozois, who has won once out of seven nominations, and David Sutton and Martin H. Greenberg, who each have been nominated six times without winning. Fifteen editors in total have been nominated more than twice.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the anthology was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk next to the editor's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.* Winners
| Year | Editor | Novel | Publisher | Ref. |
| * | Arbor House | |||
| * | Arbor House | |||
| Tor Books | ||||
| In the Field of Fire | Tor Books | |||
| In the Field of Fire | Tor Books | |||
| Masques II | Maclay & Associates | |||
| Anonymous | Night Visions 4 | Dark Harvest | ||
| Other Edens | Allen & Unwin | |||
| Other Edens | Allen & Unwin | |||
| DAW Books | ||||
| * | St. Martin's Press | |||
| * | St. Martin's Press | |||
| Anonymous | Night Visions 6 | Dark Harvest | ||
| Prime Evil | New American Library | |||
| Silver Scream | Dark Harvest | |||
| * | St. Martin's Press | |||
| * | St. Martin's Press | |||
| Blood Is Not Enough | William Morrow and Company | |||
| Book of the Dead | Bantam Books | |||
| Book of the Dead | Bantam Books | |||
| Razored Saddles | Dark Harvest | |||
| Razored Saddles | Dark Harvest | |||
| * | Best New Horror | Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers | ||
| * | Best New Horror | Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers | ||
| Alien Sex | Dutton Penguin | |||
| Borderlands | Maclay & Associates, Avon Publications | |||
| Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror | Pan Books | |||
| Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror | Pan Books | |||
| Walls of Fear | William Morrow and Company | |||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| * | St. Martin's Press | |||
| * | St. Martin's Press | |||
| After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien | Tor Books | |||
| Famous Fantastic Mysteries | Gramercy Books | |||
| Famous Fantastic Mysteries | Gramercy Books | |||
| Famous Fantastic Mysteries | Gramercy Books | |||
| Final Shadows | Doubleday Foundation | |||
| When the Music's Over | Bantam Spectra | |||
| William Morrow and Company | ||||
| * | MetaHorror | Dell Abyss | ||
| Freak Show | Pocket Books | |||
| Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences | Unnameable Press | |||
| Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences | Unnameable Press | |||
| Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences | Unnameable Press | |||
| Narrow Houses | Little, Brown and Company | |||
| ' | Mosaic Press | |||
| * | Full Spectrum 4 | Bantam Spectra | ||
| * | Full Spectrum 4 | Bantam Spectra | ||
| * | Full Spectrum 4 | Bantam Spectra | ||
| Christmas Forever | Tor Books | |||
| Oxford University Press | ||||
| Sinistre | Horror's Head Press | |||
| Snow White, Blood Red | Morrow AvoNova | |||
| Snow White, Blood Red | Morrow AvoNova | |||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| * | Little Deaths | Millennium | ||
| Black Thorn, White Rose | Morrow AvoNova | |||
| Black Thorn, White Rose | Morrow AvoNova | |||
| Love in Vein | HarperPrism | |||
| Love in Vein | HarperPrism | |||
| Shadows Over Innsmouth | Fedogan & Bremer | |||
| * | Viking Press | |||
| * | Viking Press | |||
| Dark Love | Roc Books | |||
| Dark Love | Roc Books | |||
| Dark Love | Roc Books | |||
| ' | Victor Gollancz | |||
| ' | Victor Gollancz | |||
| High Fantastic | Ocean View Books | |||
| She's Fantastical | Sybylla Feminist Press | |||
| She's Fantastical | Sybylla Feminist Press | |||
| * | Starlight 1 | Tor Books | ||
| Dark Terrors 2 | Victor Gollancz | |||
| Dark Terrors 2 | Victor Gollancz | |||
| HarperPrism | ||||
| HarperPrism | ||||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| * | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | White Wolf Publishing | ||
| * | Bending the Landscape: Fantasy | White Wolf Publishing | ||
| Dark Terrors 3 | Victor Gollancz | |||
| Dark Terrors 3 | Victor Gollancz | |||
| Modern Classics of Fantasy | St. Martin's Press | |||
| Northern Frights 4 | Mosaic Press | |||
| Revelations | HarperPrism | |||
| * | Dreaming Down-Under | HarperCollins Voyager | ||
| * | Dreaming Down-Under | HarperCollins Voyager | ||
| Tor Books | ||||
| Dark Terrors 4 | Victor Gollancz | |||
| Dark Terrors 4 | Victor Gollancz | |||
| Legends | Tor Books | |||
| Starlight 2 | Tor Books | |||
| * | Silver Birch, Blood Moon | Avon Publications | ||
| * | Silver Birch, Blood Moon | Avon Publications | ||
| 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense | Avon Publications | |||
| Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths | Fedogan & Bremer | |||
| Northern Frights 5 | Mosaic Press | |||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| * | Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora | Warner Aspect | ||
| Dark Terrors 5 | Victor Gollancz | |||
| Dark Terrors 5 | Victor Gollancz | |||
| Shadows and Silence | Ash-Tree Press | |||
| Shadows and Silence | Ash-Tree Press | |||
| Vanishing Acts | Tor Books | |||
| Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction | Invisible Cities Press | |||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| * | Leisure Books | |||
| Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers | ||||
| Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers | ||||
| Stigmata | Cocytus Press | |||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| * | Viking Press | |||
| * | Viking Press | |||
| Leviathan, Volume Three | ||||
| Leviathan, Volume Three | ||||
| Tor Books | ||||
| Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists | Bard College | |||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| * | Strange Tales | Tartarus Press | ||
| Tor Books | ||||
| Gathering the Bones | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Gathering the Bones | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Gathering the Bones | HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Night Shade Books | ||||
| Night Shade Books | ||||
| Trampoline: An Anthology | Small Beer Press | |||
| * | Acquainted with the Night | Ash-Tree Press | ||
| * | Acquainted with the Night | Ash-Tree Press | ||
| Dark Matter: Reading the Bones | Warner Aspect | |||
| Viking Press | ||||
| Viking Press | ||||
| Tor Books | ||||
| Tor Books | ||||
| ' | Wheatland Press | |||
| ' | Wheatland Press | |||
| * | Science Fiction Book Club | |||
| Adventure, Vol. 1 | MonkeyBrain Books | |||
| ' | Crescent Books | |||
| ' | Crescent Books | |||
| ' | Wheatland Press | |||
| ' | Wheatland Press | |||
| Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | Fedogan & Bremer | |||
| * | Salon Fantastique | Thunder's Mouth Press | ||
| * | Salon Fantastique | Thunder's Mouth Press | ||
| Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard | MonkeyBrain Books | |||
| Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard | MonkeyBrain Books | |||
| Firebirds Rising | Firebird Books | |||
| Retro-Pulp Tales | Subterranean Press | |||
| Twenty Epics | All-Star Stories | |||
| Twenty Epics | All-Star Stories | |||
| * | Inferno | Tor Books | ||
| Viking Press | ||||
| Viking Press | ||||
| Five Strokes to Midnight | Haunted Pelican Press | |||
| Five Strokes to Midnight | Haunted Pelican Press | |||
| Logorrhea | Bantam Spectra | |||
| Wizards | Berkley Books | |||
| Wizards | Berkley Books | |||
| * | Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy | Senses Five Press | ||
| Del Rey Books | ||||
| Night Shade Books | ||||
| Steampunk | Tachyon Publications | |||
| Steampunk | Tachyon Publications | |||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| St. Martin's Press | ||||
| * | American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps/from the 1940s to Now | Library of America | ||
| Eclipse Three | Night Shade Books | |||
| Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations | Ash-Tree Press | |||
| Poe | Solaris Books | |||
| Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance | Subterranean Press, HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance | Subterranean Press, HarperCollins Voyager | |||
| Tachyon Publications | ||||
| * | My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me | Penguin Books | ||
| Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror | PS Publishing | |||
| Haunted Legends | Tor Books | |||
| Haunted Legends | Tor Books | |||
| Stories: All-New Tales | William Morrow and Company, Headline Review | |||
| Stories: All-New Tales | William Morrow and Company, Headline Review | |||
| Swords & Dark Magic | Eos | |||
| Swords & Dark Magic | Eos | |||
| Prime Books | ||||
| * | ' | Corvus, Tor Books | ||
| * | ' | Corvus, Tor Books | ||
| Blood and Other Cravings | Tor Books | |||
| ' | Jo Fletcher Books | |||
| Gutshot | PS Publishing | |||
| ' | Harper Voyager | |||
| ' | Harper Voyager | |||
| * | Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4 | PS Publishing | ||
| Epic: Legends of Fantasy | Tachyon Publications | |||
| Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane | Solaris Books | |||
| Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic | Small Beer Press | |||
| Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic | Small Beer Press | |||
| Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron | Random House | |||
| * | Dangerous Women | Tor Books, Voyager | ||
| * | Dangerous Women | Tor Books, Voyager | ||
| End of the Road | Solaris Books | |||
| Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy | Solaris Books | |||
| Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 | Smith & Jones, PS Publishing | |||
| Queen Victoria's Book of Spells | Tor Books | |||
| Queen Victoria's Book of Spells | Tor Books | |||
| xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths | Penguin Books | |||
| 2015 | * | ' | Candlewick Press | |
| 2015 | * | ' | Candlewick Press | |
| 2015 | Fearful Symmetries | ChiZine Publications | ||
| 2015 | Rogues | Bantam Books | ||
| 2015 | Rogues | Bantam Books | ||
| 2015 | Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History | Crossed Genres | ||
| 2015 | Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History | Crossed Genres | ||
| 2015 | Shadows & Tall Trees | Undertow Publications | ||
| 2016 | * | She Walks in Shadows | Innsmouth Free Press | |
| 2016 | * | She Walks in Shadows | Innsmouth Free Press | |
| 2016 | Aickman's Heirs | Undertow Publications | ||
| 2016 | Black Wings IV | PS Publishing | ||
| 2016 | Cassilda's Song | Chaosium | ||
| 2016 | Tor Books | |||
| 2017 | * | Dreaming in the Dark | PS Australia | |
| 2017 | Mariner Books | |||
| 2017 | Mariner Books | |||
| 2017 | Children of Lovecraft | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| 2017 | Clockwork Phoenix 5 | Mythic Delirium | ||
| 2017 | Saga Press | |||
| 2017 | Saga Press | |||
| 2018 | * | Tachyon Publications | ||
| 2018 | * | Tachyon Publications | ||
| 2018 | Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales | Pegasus Books | ||
| 2018 | Bantam Books | |||
| 2018 | Solaris Books | |||
| 2018 | Solaris Books | |||
| 2018 | Subterranean Press | |||
| 2019 | * | Worlds Seen in Passing | Tor.com Publishing | |
| 2019 | Best New Horror 28 | Drugstore Indian | ||
| 2019 | Bantam Books | |||
| 2019 | Robots vs Fairies | Saga Press | ||
| 2019 | Robots vs Fairies | Saga Press | ||
| 2019 | Sword and Sonnet | Ate Bit Bear | ||
| 2019 | Sword and Sonnet | Ate Bit Bear | ||
| 2019 | Sword and Sonnet | Ate Bit Bear |