British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
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Annual literary award for speculative fiction
Awarded forCollection of works by multiple authors
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Fantasy Society
First award1991; 35 years ago (1991)
| British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Collection of works by multiple authors |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Fantasy Society |
| First award | 1991; 35 years ago (1991) |
| Website | britishfantasysociety |
| Related | British Fantasy Award for Best Collection |
The British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.
The award for "Best Collection" was originally given to both anthologies and collections. After 1998, the award was divided into the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and the award for Best Anthology.[1]
Winners and shortlist
* Winners
| Year | Editor[a] | Work | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Stephen Jones* | Dark Terrors 4: the Gollancz Book of Horror | Gollancz | [2] |
| David Sutton* | ||||
| Avram Davidson (author) | The Avram Davidson Treasury | Tor Books | [2] | |
| Robert Silverberg | ||||
| Grania Davis | ||||
| Gahan Wilson (author) | The Cleft and other Odd Tales | Tor Books | [2] | |
| Richard Ford | The Granta Book of the American Long Story | Granta | [2] | |
| Robert Silverberg | Legends | Tor Books / Harper Voyager | [2] | |
| Jeff VanderMeer | Leviathan, Volume Two | The Ministry of Whimsy Press | [2] | |
| Rose Secrest | ||||
| Stephen Jones | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 | Robinson | [2] | |
| Steven Savile | Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden | Tanjen | [2] | |
| 2000 | Stephen Jones* | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | Robinson | [3] |
| Al Sarrantonio | 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense | Avon | [3] | |
| John Pelan | The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique | Shadowlands Press | [3] | |
| Stephen Jones | White of the Moon: New Tales of Madness and Dread | Pumpkin Books | [3] | |
| Ellen Datlow | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection | St. Martin's Press | [3] | |
| Terri Windling | ||||
| 2001 | Brian Willis* | Hideous Progeny: a Frankenstein Anthology | Razorblade Press | [4] |
| Stephen Jones | Dark Terrors 5 | Gollancz | [4] | |
| David Sutton | ||||
| M. P. N. Sims | F20: One | Enigmatic Press / British Fantasy Society | [4] | |
| L. H. Maynard | ||||
| David J. Howe | ||||
| Stephen Jones | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11 | Robinson | [4] | |
| Mike Chinn | Swords Against the Millennium | Alchemy Press | [4] | |
| 2002 | Stephen Jones* | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 12 | Robinson | [5] |
| Peter Crowther | Futures | Gollancz | [5] | |
| Stephen Jones | The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women | Robinson | [5] | |
| David Sutton | Phantoms of Venice | Shadow Publishing | [5] | |
| Ellen Datlow | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection | St. Martin's Press | [5] | |
| Terri Windling | ||||
| 2003 | Stephen Jones* | Keep Out the Night | PS Publishing | [6] |
| Frank M. Robinson | Art of Imagination: 20th Century Visions of Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy | Collectors Press | [6] | |
| Robert Weinberg | ||||
| Randy Broecker | ||||
| Stephen Jones | Dark Terrors 6 | Gollancz | [6] | |
| David Sutton | ||||
| Robert Silverberg | Fantasy: The Best of 2001 | ibooks | [6] | |
| Karen Haber | ||||
| Stephen Jones | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | Robinson | [6] | |
| Ellen Datlow | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection | St. Martin's Press | [6] | |
| Terri Windling | ||||
| 2004 | Stephen Jones* | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | Robinson | [7] |
| Joel Lane | Beneath the Ground | Alchemy Press | [7] | |
| Stephen Jones | By Moonlight Only | PS Publishing | [7] | |
| Andy Cox | Crimewave 7: The Last Sunset | TTA Press | [7] | |
| Jeff VanderMeer | The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases | Night Shade Books | [7] | |
| Mark Roberts | ||||
| Andy W. Robertson | William Hope Hodgson's Night Lands, Volume 1: Eternal Love | Wildside Press | [7] | |
| 2005 | Andrew Hook* | The Alsiso Project | Elastic Press | [8] |
| Barbara Roden | Acquainted with the Night | Ash-Tree Press | [8] | |
| Christopher Roden | ||||
| Stephen Jones | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 | Robinson | [8] | |
| Jeff VanderMeer | The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases | Tor UK | [8] | |
| Mark Roberts | ||||
| Ellen Datlow | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection | St. Martin's Press | [8] | |
| Kelly Link | ||||
| Gavin J. Grant | ||||
| 2006 | Allen Ashley* | The Elastic Book of Numbers | Elastic Press | [9] |
| Stephen Jones | Don't Turn Out the Light | PS Publishing | [9] | |
| Peter Crowther | Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Members of the Macabre | Cemetery Dance Publications | [9] | |
| Stephen Jones | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 | Constable & Robinson | [9] | |
| Gary Fry | Poe's Progeny | Gray Friar Press | [9] | |
| 2007 | Gary Couzens* | Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music | Elastic Press | [10] |
| Stephen Jones | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17 | Robinson | [10] | |
| Alison L. R. Davies | Shrouded by Darkness | Telos | [10] | |
| Ellen Datlow | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection | St. Martin's Press | [10] | |
| Gavin J. Grant | ||||
| Kelly Link | ||||
| 2008 | Stephen Jones* | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18 | Robinson | [11] |
| Charles Black | The Black Book of Horror | Mortbury Press | [11] | |
| Ian Alexander Martin | The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories | Humdrumming | [11] | |
| John Grant | New Writings in the Fantastic | Pendragon | [11] | |
| D. F. Lewis | Zencore! | Megazanthus | [11] | |
| 2009 | Stephen Jones* | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 | Constable & Robinson | [12] |
| D. F. Lewis | Cone Zero | Megazanthus | [12] | |
| Ian Whates | Myth-Understandings | NewCon | [12] | |
| Allen Ashley | Subtle Edens | Elastic Press | [12] | |
| Ian Alexander Martin | The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror | Humdrumming | [12] | |
| Gary McMahon | We Fade to Grey | Pendragon | [12] | |
| 2010 | Stephen Jones* | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20 | Robinson | [13] |
| D. F. Lewis | Cern Zoo: Nemonymous 9 | Megazanthus | [13] | |
| George R. R. Martin | Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance | Harper Voyager | [13] | |
| Gardner Dozois | ||||
| Marie O'Regan | Hellbound Hearts | Pocket Books | [13] | |
| Paul Kane | ||||
| Holly Stacey | Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth and Scale | Wyvern | [13] | |
| 2011 | Johnny Mains* | Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories | Noose & Gibbet | [14] |
| Jonathan Oliver | The End of the Line | Solaris Books | [14] | |
| Stephen Jones | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 | Robinson | [14] | |
| Allyson Bird | Never Again | Gray Friar Press | [14] | |
| Joel Lane | ||||
| Stephen Jones | Zombie Apocalypse! | Robinson | [14] | |
| 2012 | Jeff VanderMeer* | The Weird | Corvus | [15] |
| Ann VanderMeer* | ||||
| Stephen Jones | A Book of Horrors | Jo Fletcher | [15] | |
| Jonathan Oliver | House of Fear | Solaris Books | [15] | |
| Conrad Williams | Gutshot | PS Publishing | [15] | |
| 2013 | Jonathan Oliver* | Magic: an Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane | Solaris Books | [16] |
| Paul Finch | Terror Tales of the Cotswolds | Gray Friar Press | [16] | |
| Marie O'Regan | The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women | Robinson | [16] | |
| Anne C. Perry | A Town Called Pandemonium | Jurassic London | [16] | |
| Jared Shurin | ||||
| 2014 | Jonathan Oliver* | End of the Road | Solaris Books | [17] |
| Charles Black | The Tenth Black Book of Horror | Mortbury Press | [17] | |
| Stephen Jones | Fearie Tales | Jo Fletcher | [17] | |
| David Rix | Rustblind and Silverbright | Eibonvale | [17] | |
| Mhairi Simpson | Tales of Eve | Fox Spirit | [17] | |
| 2015 | Christie Yant* | Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue | Lightspeed | [18] |
| Jan Edwards | The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2 | Alchemy Press | [18] | |
| Jenny Barber | ||||
| Paul Finch | Terror Tales of Wales | Gray Friar Press | [18] | |
| Joel Lane | Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease | Gray Friar Press | [18] | |
| Tom Johnstone | ||||
| Mark Morris | The Spectral Book of Horror Stories | Spectral | [18] | |
| 2016 | Ellen Datlow* | The Doll Collection | Tor Books | [19] |
| Margrét Helgadóttir | African Monsters | Fox Spirit | [19] | |
| Jo Thomas | ||||
| Johnny Mains | Best British Horror 2015 | Salt Publishing | [19] | |
| Mark Morris | The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories | Spectral | [19] | |
| Simon Strantzas | Aickman's Heirs | Undertow | [19] | |
| 2017 | Nalo Hopkinson* | People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction | Lightspeed | [20] |
| Kristine Ong* | ||||
| Roz Clarke | Fight Like a Girl | Kristell Ink | [20] | |
| Joanne Hall | ||||
| Peter Coleborn | Something Remains | Alchemy Press | [20] | |
| Pauline E. Dungate | ||||
| Margrét Helgadóttir | Asian Monsters | Fox Spirit | [20] | |
| Dominik Parisien | The Starlit Wood | Saga Press | [20] | |
| Navah Wolfe | ||||
| Conrad Williams | Dead Letters | Titan Books | [20] | |
| 2018 | Mark Morris* | New Fears | Titan Books | [21] |
| George Sandison | 2084 | Unsung Stories | [21] | |
| Steve Shaw | Dark Satanic Mills: Great British Horror Book 2 | Black Shuck Books | [21] | |
| James Everington | Imposter Syndrome | Dark Minds Press | [21] | |
| Dan Howarth | ||||
| Margrét Helgadóttir | Pacific Monsters | Fox Spirit | [21] | |
| 2019 | Robert Shearman* | Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5 | Undertow | [22] |
| Michael Kelly* | ||||
| Ellen Datlow | The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea | Night Shade Books | [22] | |
| Sarah Doyle | Humanagerie | Eibonvale | [22] | |
| Allen Ashley | ||||
| Mark Morris | New Fears 2 | Titan Books | [22] | |
| Dan Coxon | This Dreaming Isle | Unsung Stories | [22] | |
| 2020 | Nisi Shawl* | New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction for People of Color | Solaris Books | [23] |
| Jennifer Brozek | A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods | Pulse Publishing | [23] | |
| Ann VanderMeer | The Big Book of Classic Fantasy | Vintage Books | [23] | |
| Jeff VanderMeer | ||||
| David Gullen | Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales | NewCon | [23] | |
| Marie O'Regan | Wonderland | Titan Books | [23] | |
| Paul Kane | ||||
| Phil Sloman | The Woods | Hersham Horror | [23] | |
| 2021 | Zelda Knight* | Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora | Aurelia Leo | [24] |
| Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki* | ||||
| Mark Morris | After Sundown | Flame Tree Publishing | [24] | |
| Lee Murray | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women | Omnium Gatherum | [24] | |
| Geneve Flynn | ||||
| Michael Kelly | Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8 | Undertow | [24] | |
| 2022 | Xueting Christine Ni* | Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction | Solaris Books | [25] |
| Sophie Essex | Dreamland: Other Stories | Black Shuck Books | [25] | |
| Dan Coxon | Out of the Darkness | Unsung Stories | [25] | |
| Aaron J. French | There Is No Death, There Are No Dead | Crystal Lake | [25] | |
| Jess Landry | ||||
| Ellen Datlow | When Things Get Dark | Titan Books | [25] | |
| Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki | The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction | Jembefola | [25] | |
| 2023 | Jonathan Strahan* | Someone in Time | Solaris Books | [26] |
| Sheree Renée Thomas | Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction | Tordotcom | [26] | |
| Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki | ||||
| Zelda Knight | ||||
| Mae Murray | The Book of Queer Saints | Medusa | [26] | |
| Steve J. Shaw | Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana | Black Shuck Books | [26] | |
| Dan Coxon | Isolation: The Horror Anthology | Titan Books | [26] | |
| Lee C. Conley et al. | Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer | Nordic | [26] | |
| 2024 | Jordan Peele* | Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror | Random House | [27] |
| John Joseph Adams* | ||||
| Sophie Essex | At the Lighthouse | Eibonvale | [27] | |
| Wole Talabi | Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology | Android Press | [27] | |
| Shane Hawk | Never Whistle at Night | Vintage Books | [27] | |
| Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. | ||||
| Steve J. Shaw | Great British Horror 8 | Black Shuck Books | [27] | |
| Marie O'Regan | The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy | Titan Books | [27] | |
| Paul Kane | ||||
| 2025 | Sofia Ajram* | Bury Your Gays – An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror | Ghoulish | [28] |
| Neil Williamson | Nova Scotia 2 | Luna Press Publishing | [28] | |
| Andrew J. Wilson | ||||
| Trip Galey | I Want That Twink Obliterated! | Bona Books | [28] | |
| C. L. McCartney | ||||
| Robert Berg | ||||
| Roz Clarke | Fight Like A Girl 2 | Wizard's Tower Press | [28] | |
| Joanne Hall | ||||
| Dan Coxon | Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology | PS Publishing | [28] | |
| Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki | The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2023 | Caezik SF & Fantasy | [28] | |
| Chinaza Eziaghighala |
Notes
- ↑ Editor, unless noted otherwise
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