British Fantasy Award for Best Collection

British Fantasy Award for Best Collection
British Fantasy Award for Best Collection
Awarded for	Collection of works by a single author
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Fantasy Society
First award	1991; 35 years ago
Most recent winner	Elephants in Bloom by Cecile Cristofari
Website	britishfantasysociety.org
Related	British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology

Awarded forCollection of works by a single author

CountryUnited Kingdom

Presented byBritish Fantasy Society

First award1991; 35 years ago

The British Fantasy Award for Best Collection is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.

Year	Author/Editor	Work	Publisher	Ref.
1991	Stephen Jones, ed.*	Best New Horror	Robinson	^[2]
	Ramsey Campbell, ed.*	Best New Horror	Robinson	^[2]
	Thomas F. Monteleone, ed.	Borderlands	Borderlands Press	^[2]
	Stephen Jones, ed.	Dark Voices: The Pan Book of Horror	Pan Books	^[2]
	David Sutton, ed.	Dark Voices: The Pan Book of Horror	Pan Books	^[2]
	Stephen King	Four Past Midnight	Viking Press	^[2]
	Richard Dalby, ed.	The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories	Robinson	^[2]
1992	Nicholas Royle, ed.*	Darklands	Egerton Press	^[3]
	Thomas F. Monteleone, ed.	Borderlands 2	Borderlands Press	^[3]
	David Sutton, ed.	Dark Voices	Pan Books	^[3]
	Stephen Jones, ed.	Dark Voices	Pan Books	^[3]
1993	Nicholas Royle, ed.*	Darklands 2	Egerton Press	^[4]
1994	David Sutton, ed.*	Dark Voices 5	Pan Books	^[5]
1994	Stephen Jones, ed.*	Dark Voices 5	Pan Books	^[5]
1995	Joel Lane*	The Earth Wire and Other Stories	Egerton Press	^[6]
	Paul Lewis, ed.	Cold Cuts II	Alun Press	^[6]
	Steve Lockley, ed.	Cold Cuts II	Alun Press	^[6]
	Ellen Datlow, ed.	Little Deaths	Millenium	^[6]
	Kim Newman	The Original Dr Shade and Other Stories	Simon & Schuster	^[6]
	Janny Wurts	This Way Lies Camelot	HarperCollins	^[6]
1996	Andy Cox, ed.*	Last Rites and Resurrections	TTA Press	^[7]
	Paul Lewis, ed.	Cold Cuts III	Alun Press	^[7]
	Steve Lockley, ed.	Cold Cuts III	Alun Press	^[7]
	Ellen Datlow, ed.	Little Deaths	Millenium	^[7]
	Stephen Jones, ed.	Dark Terrors	Gollancz	^[7]
	David Sutton, ed.	Dark Terrors	Gollancz	^[7]
	Kim Newman	Famous Monsters	Pocket UK	^[7]
	Neil Gaiman	The Sandman: World's End	Vertigo	^[7]
1997	Thomas Ligotti*	The Nightmare Factory	Raven Books / Carroll & Graf Publishers	^[8]
	Chaz Brenchley	Blood Waters	Flambard Press	^[8]
	Stephen Jones, ed.	Dark Terrors 2	Gollancz	^[8]
	David Sutton, ed.	Dark Terrors 2	Gollancz	^[8]
	Stephen Jones, ed.	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Seven	Raven Books / Carroll & Graf Publishers	^[8]
	Shirley Jackson	The Masterpieces of Shirley Jackson	Raven Books / Carroll & Graf Publishers	^[8]
	Neil Gaiman, ed.	The Sandman: Book of Dreams	Harper Prism / HarperCollins	^[8]
	Edward E. Kramer, ed.	The Sandman: Book of Dreams	Harper Prism / HarperCollins	^[8]
1998	Stephen Jones, ed.*	Dark Terrors 3	Gollancz	^[9]
	David Sutton, ed.*	Dark Terrors 3	Gollancz	^[9]
	Mike Ashley, ed.	Chronicles of the Round Table	Carroll & Graf Publishers	^[9]
	Barbara Roden, ed.	Midnight Never Comes	Ash-Tree Press	^[9]
	Christopher Roden, ed.	Midnight Never Comes	Ash-Tree Press	^[9]
	Neil Gaiman	The Sandman: The Wake	Titan Books	^[9]
	Andrew Haigh, ed.	Scaremongers	Tanjen	^[9]

Year	Author	Work	Publisher	Ref.
1999	Ramsey Campbell*	Ghosts and Grisly Things	Pumpkin Books	^[10]
	Brian Lumley	A Coven of Vampires	Fedogan & Bremer / Headline Publishing Group	^[10]
	Ray Bradbury	Driving Blind	Avon Books / Earthlight	^[10]
	Tim Lebbon	Faith in the Flesh	Razorblade Press	^[10]
	Graham Masterton	Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton	British Fantasy Society	^[10]
	Ray Clark
	Matt Williams
	Mike Chinn	The Paladin Mandates	Alchemy Press	^[10]
	Christopher Fowler	Personal Demons	Serpent's Tail	^[10]
	Jo Fletcher	Shadows of Light and Dark	Alchemy Press	^[10]
2000	Peter Crowther*	Lonesome Roads	Razorblade Press	^[11]
	Robert Aickman	The Collected Strange Stories	Tartarus Press / Durtro	^[11]
	Stephen King	Hearts in Atlantis	Hodder & Stoughton	^[11]
	Charles de Lint	Moonlight and Vines	Tor Books	^[11]
	Michael Marshall Smith	What You Make It	HarperCollins UK	^[11]
2001	Kim Newman*	Where the Bodies Are Buried	Alchemy Press	^[12]
	Robert E. Howard	The Conan Chronicles, 1	Gollancz	^[12]
	Terry Lamsley	Dark Matters	Ash-Tree Press	^[12]
	Stephen Laws	Midnight Man	Silver Salamander Press	^[12]
	R. Chetwynd-Hayes	Phantom & Fiends	Robert Hale	^[12]
2002	Paul Finch*	Aftershocks	Ash-Tree Press	^[13]
	Tim Lebbon	As the Sun Goes Down	Night Shade Books	^[13]
	Robert E. Howard	The Conan Chronicles Volume Two: The Hour of the Dragon	Gollancz	^[13]
	Michael Moorcock	London Bone	Scribner	^[13]
	Peter Straub	Magic Terror: Seven Tales	HarperCollins	^[13]
2003	Ramsey Campbell*	Ramsey Campbell, Probably: On Horror and Sundry Fantasies	PS Publishing	^[14]
	Clark Ashton Smith	The Emperor of Dreams	Gollancz	^[14]
	Stephen King	Everything's Eventual	Hodder & Stoughton	^[14]
	Ursula K. Le Guin	Tales from Earthsea	Gollancz	^[14]
	Andrew Hook	The Virtual Menagerie	Elastic Press	^[14]
2004	Ramsey Campbell*	Told by the Dead	PS Publishing	^[15]
	Christopher Fowler	Demonized	Serpent's Tail	^[15]
	Michael Marshall Smith	More Tomorrow & Other Stories	Earthling Publications	^[15]
	M. John Harrison	Things That Never Happen	Night Shade Books	^[15]
	Mark Samuels	The White Hands and Other Weird Tales	Tartarus Press	^[15]
2005	Stephen Gallagher*	Out of His Mind	PS Publishing	^[16]
	Paul Finch	Darker Ages	Sarob Press	^[16]
	Allen Ashley	Somnambulists	Elastic Press	^[16]
	M. John Harrison	Things That Never Happen	Gollancz	^[16]
	Lucius Shepard	Trujillo and Other Stories	PS Publishing	^[16]
2006	Joe Hill*	20th Century Ghosts	PS Publishing	^[17]
	Andrew Hook	Beyond Each Blue Horizon	Crowswing Books	^[17]
	Simon Clark	Hotel Midnight	Robert Hale	^[17]
	Tim Lee	The Life to Come	Elastic Press	^[17]
	Stuart Young	The Mask Behind the Face and Other Stories	Pendragon Press	^[17]
	Leigh Brackett	Sea Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories	Gollancz	^[17]
2007	Neil Gaiman*	Fragile Things	Headline Publishing Group	^[18]
	Christopher Teague	Choices	Pendragon Press	^[18]
	Neil Williamson	The Ephemera	Elastic Press	^[18]
	Joel Lane	The Lost District and Other Stories	Night Shade Books	^[18]
	Kim Newman	The Man from the Diogenes Club	MonkeyBrain	^[18]
	Mike O'Driscoll	Unbecoming and Other Tales of Horror	Elastic Press	^[18]
2008	Christopher Fowler*	Old Devil Moon	Serpent's Tail	^[19]
	Gary McMahon	Dirty Prayers	Gray Friar Press	^[19]
	Tony Richards	Going Back	Elastic Press	^[19]
	Simon Clark	Midnight Bazaar: A Secret Arcade of Strange and Eerie Tales	Robert Hale	^[19]
	Stephen Gallagher	Plots and Misadventures	Subterranean Press	^[19]
	Paul Finch	Stains	Gray Friar Press	^[19]
2009	Allyson Bird*	Bull Running for Girls	Screaming Dreams	^[20]
	Mark Samuels	Glyphotech	PS Publishing	^[20]
	Gary McMahon	How To Make Monsters	Morrigan Books	^[20]
	Paul Meloy	Islington Crocodiles	TTA Press	^[20]
	Stephen King	Just After Sunset	Hodder & Stoughton	^[20]
2010	Robert Shearman*	Love Songs for the Shy And Cynical	Big Finish Productions	^[21]
	Allen Ashley	Once & Future Cities	Eibonvale	^[21]
	Ramsey Campbell	Just Behind You	PS Publishing	^[21]
	Joel Lane	The Terrible Changes	Ex Occidente	^[21]
	Ian McDonald	Cyberabad Days	Gollancz	^[21]
2011	Stephen King*	Full Dark, No Stars	Hodder & Stoughton	^[22]
	Simon Clark	The Gravedigger's Tale: Fables of Fear	Robert Hale	^[22]
	Tim Lebbon	Last Exit for the Lost	Cemetery Dance Publications	^[22]
	Paul Finch	One Monster Is Not Enough	Gray Friar Press	^[22]
	Paul Finch	Walkers in the Dark	Ash-Tree Press	^[22]
2012	Robert Shearman*	Everyone's Just So So Special	Big Finish Productions	^[23]
	Peter Atkins	Rumours of the Marvellous	Alchemy Press	^[23]
	Reggie Oliver	Mrs Midnight	Tartarus Press	^[23]
	Liz Williams	A Glass of Shadow	NewCon	^[23]
2013	Robert Shearman*	Remember Why You Fear Me	ChiZine	^[24]
	Jonathan Carroll	The Woman Who Married a Cloud	Subterranean Press	^[24]
	Joel Lane	Where Furnaces Burn	PS Publishing	^[24]
	Thana Niveau	From Hell to Eternity	Gray Friar Press	^[24]
2014	Stephen Volk*	Monsters in the Heart	Gray Friar Press	^[25]
	Nathan Ballingrud	North American Lake Monsters	Small Beer Press	^[25]
	Ramsey Campbell	Holes for Faces	Dark Regions Press	^[25]
	Anna Taborska	For Those Who Dream Monsters	Mortbury Press	^[25]
2015	Adrian Cole	Nick Nightmare Investigates	Alchemy & Airgedlámh	^[26]
	Hal Duncan	Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites	Lethe Press	^[26]
	Carole Johnstone	The Bright Day Is Done	Gray Friar Press	^[26]
	Helen Marshall	Gifts for the One Who Comes After	ChiZine	^[26]
	Lavie Tidhar	Black Gods Kiss	PS Publishing	^[26]
2016	Tananarive Due*	Ghost Summer: Stories	Prime Books	^[27]
	Ray Cluley	Probably Monsters	ChiZine	^[27]
	Margrét Helgadóttir	The Stars Seem So Far Away	Fox Spirit	^[27]
	Paul Kane	Monsters	Alchemy Press	^[27]
	Joel Lane	Scar City	Eibonvale	^[27]
	V. H. Leslie	Skein and Bone	Undertow	^[27]
2017	Adam Nevill*	Some Will Not Sleep	Ritual Limited	^[28]
	Stephen Volk	The Parts We Play	PS Publishing	^[28]
	Neil Williamson	Secret Language	NewCon	^[28]
	Joe Abercrombie	Sharp Ends	Gollancz	^[28]
	Pete Sutton	A Tiding of Magpies	Kensington Gore Hammered Horror	^[28]
	Tracy Fahey	The Unheimlich Menoeuvre	Boo Books	^[28]
2018	Joe Hill*	Strange Weather	Gollancz	^[29]
	Neil Gaiman	Norse Mythology	Bloomsbury Publishing	^[29]
	Tanith Lee	Tanith by Choice	NewCon	^[29]
	Sofia Samatar	Tender: Stories	Small Beer Press	^[29]
	Malcolm Devlin	You Will Grow into Them	Unsung Stories	^[29]
2019	Priya Sharma*	All the Fabulous Beasts	Undertow	^[30]
	Catherynne M. Valente	The Future is Blue	Subterranean Press	^[30]
	N. K. Jemisin	How Long 'til Black Future Month?	Orbit Books	^[30]
	Marian Womack	Lost Objects	Luna Press	^[30]
	Thana Niveau	Octoberland	PS Publishing	^[30]
	Rosanne Rabinowitz	Resonance & Revolt	Eibonvale	^[30]
2020	Laura Mauro*	Sing Your Sadness Deep	Undertow	^[31]
	Maura McHugh	The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams	NewCon	^[31]
	Paul G. Tremblay	Growing Things	Titan Books	^[31]
	Georgina Bruce	This House of Wounds	Undertow	^[31]
	Aliette de Bodard	Of Wars, And Memories, And Starlight	Subterranean Press	^[31]
2021	Charlotte Bond*	The Watcher in the Woods	Black Shuck Books	^[32]
	Anna Taborska	Bloody Britain	Shadow	^[32]
	Dan Coxon	Only the Broken Remain	Black Shuck Books	^[32]
	Robert Shearman	We All Hear Stories in the Dark	PS Publishing	^[32]
2022	Isabel Yap*	Never Have I Ever	Small Beer Press	^[33]
	A. C. Wise	The Ghost Sequences	Undertow	^[33]
	Tracy Fahey	I Spit Myself Out	Sinister Horror Company	^[33]
	Pete W. Sutton	The Museum for Forgetting	Grimbold	^[33]
	C. A. Yates	We All Have Teeth	Fox Spirit	^[33]
2023	E. M. Faulds*	Under the Moon	Ghost Moth	^[34]
	Penny Jones	Behind a Broken Smile	Black Shuck Books	^[34]
	Cassandra Khaw	Breakable Things	Undertow	^[34]
	Andrew Hook	Candescent Blooms	Salt	^[34]
2024	Tobi Ogundiran*	Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic	Undertow	^[35]
	Alison Littlewood	A Curious Cartography	Black Shuck Books	^[35]
	Phil Sloman	No Happily Ever After	Self-published	^[35]
	Premee Mohamed	No One Will Come Back for Us	Undertow	^[35]
	Georgina Bruce	The House on the Moon	Black Shuck Books	^[35]
	K. J. Parker	Under my Skin	Subterranean Press	^[35]
2025	Cecile Cristofari*	Elephants in Bloom	NewCon	^[36]
	Steve Toase	Dirt Upon My Skin	Black Shuck Books	^[36]
	Lyndsey Croal	Limelight and Other Stories	Shortwave Publishing	^[36]
	Dave Jeffery	Mood Swings	Black Shuck Books	^[36]
	James Bennett	Preaching To The Perverted	Lethe Press	^[36]

British Fantasy Award for Best Collection

Winners and shortlist

Combined Anthology/Collection Award

Award for Best Collection

References

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