| Year |
Winner or nominee |
Reason(s) |
Ref. |
| 1975 |
Ian Ballantine* |
N/A |
[8] |
| Betty Ballantine* |
| Donald A. Wollheim | N/A |
[8] |
| 1976 |
Donald M. Grant* | publishing |
[9] |
| Donald A. Wollheim | publishing and editing |
[9] |
| Arkham House | publishing |
[9] |
| Frank Belknap Long | Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside |
[9] |
| Willis Conover | Lovecraft at Last |
[9] |
| L. Sprague de Camp | Lovecraft: A Biography |
[9] |
| 1977 |
Shelley Torgeson* |
Alternate World Recordings |
[10] |
| Roy Torgeson* |
| Arkham House | publishing |
[10] |
| Edward L. Ferman | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[10] |
| DAW Books | publishing |
[10] |
| Ballantine Books | publishing |
[10] |
| 1978 |
Everett F. Bleiler* | N/A |
[11] |
| Edward L. Ferman | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[11] |
| Donald A. Wollheim | DAW Books |
[11] |
| Judy-Lynn del Rey |
Ballantine Books |
[11] |
| Lester del Rey |
| 1979 |
Edward L. Ferman* | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[12] |
| Donald M. Grant | Donald M. Grant, Publisher |
[12] |
| 1980 |
Donald M. Grant* | Donald M. Grant, Publisher |
[13] |
| Pat LoBrutto | Doubleday |
[13] |
| James Turner | Arkham House |
[13] |
| Donald A. Wollheim | DAW Books |
[13] |
| Lester del Rey | Ballantine Del Rey Fantasy |
[13] |
| 1981 |
Donald A. Wollheim* | DAW Books |
[14] |
| Tim Underwood |
Underwood–Miller |
[14] |
| Chuck Miller |
| Terry Carr | anthologies |
[14] |
| Lester del Rey | Ballantine Del Rey |
[14] |
| David G. Hartwell | Timescape Books |
[14] |
| Edward L. Ferman | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[14] |
| 1982 |
Edward L. Ferman* | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[15] |
| David G. Hartwell | Timescape Books |
[15] |
| T. E. D. Klein | The Twilight Zone Magazine |
[15] |
| Tim Underwood |
Underwood–Miller |
[15] |
| Chuck Miller |
| Donald M. Grant | Donald M. Grant, Publisher |
[15] |
| 1983 |
Donald M. Grant* | Donald M. Grant, Publisher |
[16] |
| Lester del Rey | Ballantine Del Rey |
[16] |
| David G. Hartwell | Timescape Books |
[16] |
| Pat LoBrutto | Doubleday |
[16] |
| Douglas E. Winter | writing and reviewing |
[16] |
| 1984 |
Ian Ballantine* |
The High Kings |
[17] |
| Betty Ballantine* |
| Joy Chant* |
| George Sharp* |
| David Larkin* |
| Edward L. Ferman | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[17] |
| Pat LoBrutto | Doubleday |
[17] |
| L. Sprague de Camp |
Dark Valley Destiny |
[17] |
| Catherine Crook de Camp |
| Jane Whittington Griffin |
| Everett F. Bleiler | The Guide to Supernatural Fiction |
[17] |
| 1985 |
Chris Van Allsburg* | The Mysteries of Harris Burdick |
[18] |
| T. E. D. Klein | The Twilight Zone Magazine |
[18] |
| Pat LoBrutto | Doubleday |
[18] |
| Shawna McCarthy | Asimov's Science Fiction |
[18] |
| Tim Underwood |
Underwood–Miller |
[18] |
| Chuck Miller |
| Robert H. Boyer |
Fantasists on Fantasy |
[18] |
| Kenneth J. Zahorski |
| 1986 |
Pat LoBrutto* | Doubleday |
[19] |
| Terri Windling | editing |
[19] |
| Donald M. Grant | Donald M. Grant, Publisher |
[19] |
| Thomas Canty |
A Monster at Christmas |
[19] |
| Phil Hale |
| 1987 |
Jane Yolen* | Favorite Folktales from Around the World |
[20] |
| Terri Windling | Ace Books |
[20] |
| Simon Ounsley |
Interzone |
[20] |
| David Pringle |
| David G. Hartwell | Arbor House |
[20] |
| Donald M. Grant | Donald M. Grant, Publisher |
[20] |
| Jack Sullivan | The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural |
[20] |
| 1988 |
David G. Hartwell* | Arbor House, Tor Books, anthologies |
[21] |
| Dean Koontz | service to the field |
[21] |
| Terri Windling | Ace Books, Armadillo |
[21] |
| Shawna McCarthy | Bantam Spectra |
[21] |
| Tappan King | The Twilight Zone Magazine |
[21] |
| Gardner Dozois | Asimov's Science Fiction, anthologies |
[21] |
| George Scithers | Weird Tales |
[21] |
| 1989 |
Terri Windling* | editing |
[22] |
| Robert Weinberg* | A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists |
[22] |
| Ellen Datlow | Omni, anthologies |
[22] |
| Dean Koontz | writing |
[22] |
| Paul Mikol |
Dark Harvest |
[22] |
| Scot Stadalsky |
| 1990 |
Mark V. Ziesing* | Mark V. Ziesing |
[23] |
| Ellen Datlow | editing |
[23] |
| Paul Mikol |
Dark Harvest |
[23] |
| Scot Stadalsky |
| Tim Underwood |
Underwood–Miller |
[23] |
| Chuck Miller |
| 1991 |
Arnie Fenner* | designing, Mark V. Ziesing, and Ursus |
[24] |
| Ellen Datlow | editing |
[24] |
| Paul Mikol |
Dark Harvest |
[24] |
| Scot Stadalsky |
| David Pringle | Interzone |
[24] |
| S. T. Joshi | The Weird Tale |
[24] |
| 1992 |
George Scithers* |
Weird Tales |
[25] |
| Darrell Schweitzer* |
| Ramsey Campbell | writing and editing |
[25] |
| Donald M. Grant | publishing |
[25] |
| Dean Wesley Smith |
publishing, Pulphouse Publishing |
[25] |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch |
| Terri Windling | editing |
[25] |
| 1993 |
Jeanne Cavelos* | editing Dell Abyss |
[26] |
| Martin H. Greenberg | anthologies |
[26] |
| Terri Windling | editing |
[26] |
| Grant Morrison |
Batman: Gothic |
[26] |
| Klaus Janson |
| James Gurney | Dinotopia |
[26] |
| 1994 |
Tim Underwood* |
publishing, Underwood–Miller |
[27] |
| Chuck Miller* |
| John Clute | reviewing |
[27] |
| Ellen Datlow | editing |
[27] |
| Terri Windling | book editing |
[27] |
| Mark V. Ziesing | publishing |
[27] |
| David J. Skal | The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror |
[27] |
| 1995 |
Ellen Datlow* | editing |
[28] |
| Fedogan & Bremer | book publishing |
[28] |
| John Clute | reviewing |
[28] |
| Mark V. Ziesing | Mark V. Ziesing |
[28] |
| Paul Williams | The Ultimate Egoist: Volume I: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon by Theodore Sturgeon |
[28] |
| 1996 |
Richard Evans* | contributions to the genre |
[29] |
| Stephen Jones | editing and anthologies |
[29] |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | editing The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[29] |
| Gordon Van Gelder | editing |
[29] |
| Paul Williams | Microcosmic God: Volume II: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon and for his work with the Literary Estate of Theodore Sturgeon |
[29] |
| 1997 |
Michael J. Weldon* | The Psychotronic Video Guide |
[30] |
| Stephen Jones | editing and anthologies |
[30] |
| David Pringle | contributions to the genre |
[30] |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | editing The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[30] |
| Diana Wynne Jones | The Tough Guide to Fantasyland |
[30] |
| 1998 |
John Clute* |
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy |
[31] |
| John Grant* |
| Ellen Datlow | editing and anthologies |
[31] |
| Gardner Dozois | editing and anthologies |
[31] |
| Stephen Jones | editing and anthologies |
[31] |
| Gordon Van Gelder | editing books at St. Martin's Press and editing The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[31] |
| 1999 |
Jim Turner* | Golden Gryphon Press |
[32] |
| Jo Fletcher | editing |
[32] |
| David Pringle | Interzone |
[32] |
| Robert Silverberg |
editing The Avram Davidson Treasury |
[32] |
| Grania Davis |
| Les Daniels | Superman: The Complete History |
[32] |
| 2000 |
Gordon Van Gelder* | editing books at St. Martin's Press and editing The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[33] |
| John Betancourt | Wildside Press |
[33] |
| Warren Lapine | DNA Publications |
[33] |
| Seamus Heaney | the new translation of Beowulf |
[33] |
| Stephen Jones | The Essential Monster Movie Guide |
[33] |
| Kim Newman | Millennium Movies |
[33] |
| 2001 |
Tom Shippey* | J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century |
[34] |
| Ellen Datlow | editing Sci Fiction and anthologies |
[34] |
| William K. Schafer | Subterranean Press |
[34] |
| Gary Turner |
Golden Gryphon Press |
[34] |
| Marty Halpern |
| Cathy Fenner |
Spectrum 7: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art |
[34] |
| Arnie Fenner |
| 2002 |
Jo Fletcher* | editing the Fantasy Masterworks series |
[35] |
| Stephen Jones* | editing |
[35] |
| Ellen Datlow | editing |
[35] |
| Douglas E. Winter | Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic |
[35] |
| Randy Broecker | Fantasy of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History |
[35] |
| 2003 |
Gordon Van Gelder* | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[36] |
| Paul Barnett | Paper Tiger art books |
[36] |
| Ellen Datlow | editing |
[36] |
| William K. Schafer | Subterranean Press |
[36] |
| Gary Turner |
Golden Gryphon Press |
[36] |
| Marty Halpern |
| Terri Windling | editing |
[36] |
| 2004 |
Peter Crowther* | PS Publishing |
[37] |
| John Howe |
artwork in The Lord of the Rings |
[37] |
| Alan Lee |
| Kelly Link |
Small Beer Press |
[37] |
| Gavin Grant |
| Sharyn November | Firebird Books |
[37] |
| David Pringle | Interzone and services to the field |
[37] |
| Sean Wallace | Prime Books |
[37] |
| 2005 |
S. T. Joshi* | scholarship |
[38] |
| Kelly Link |
Small Beer Press |
[38] |
| Gavin Grant |
| Sharyn November | editing |
[38] |
| Gordon Van Gelder | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[38] |
| Terri Windling | editing |
[38] |
| 2006 |
Sean Wallace* | Prime Books |
[39] |
| Susan Allison |
Ace Books |
[39] |
| Ginjer Buchanan |
| Lou Anders | editing at Pyr |
[39] |
| S. T. Joshi |
Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia |
[39] |
| Stefan Dziemanowicz |
| Peter Lavery | Pan MacMillan UK and Tor UK |
[39] |
| Chris Roberson |
MonkeyBrain Books |
[39] |
| Allison Baker |
| 2007 |
Ellen Asher* | work at Science Fiction Book Club |
[40] |
| Mark Finn | Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard |
[40] |
| Deanna Hoak | copyediting |
[40] |
| Greg Ketter | DreamHaven Books |
[40] |
| Leonard S. Marcus | The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy |
[40] |
| 2008 |
Peter Crowther* | PS Publishing |
[41] |
| Chris Roberson |
MonkeyBrain Books |
[41] |
| Allison Baker |
| Alan Beatts |
Borderlands Books |
[41] |
| Jude Feldman |
| Jeremy Lassen |
Night Shade Books |
[41] |
| Jason Williams |
| Shawna McCarthy | Realms of Fantasy |
[41] |
| Gordon Van Gelder | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[41] |
| 2009 |
Kelly Link* |
Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House |
[42] |
| Gavin Grant* |
| Farah Mendlesohn | Rhetorics of Fantasy |
[42] |
| Stephen H. Segal |
Weird Tales |
[42] |
| Ann VanderMeer |
| Jerad Walters | A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft |
[42] |
| Jacob Weisman | Tachyon Publications |
[42] |
| 2010 |
Jonathan Strahan* | editing anthologies |
[43] |
| Peter Crowther |
PS Publishing |
[43] |
| Nicky Crowther |
| Ellen Datlow | editing anthologies |
[43] |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Ponyo |
[43] |
| Barbara Roden |
Ash-Tree Press |
[43] |
| Christopher Roden |
| Jacob Weisman |
Tachyon Publications |
[43] |
| Rina Weisman |
| 2011 |
Marc Gascoigne* | Angry Robot |
[44] |
| John Joseph Adams | editing and anthologies |
[44] |
| Lou Anders | editing at Pyr |
[44] |
| Stéphane Marsan |
Bragelonne |
[44] |
| Alain Névant |
| Brett Alexander Savory |
ChiZine Publications |
[44] |
| Sandra Kasturi |
| 2012 |
Eric Lane* | publishing in translation – Dedalus Books |
[45] |
| Jo Fletcher | editing – Jo Fletcher Books |
[45] |
| John Joseph Adams | editing – anthology and magazine |
[45] |
| Brett Alexander Savory |
ChiZine Publications |
[45] |
| Sandra Kasturi |
| Jeff VanderMeer |
The Steampunk Bible |
[45] |
| S. J. Chambers |
| 2013 |
Lucia Graves* | the translation of The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
[46] |
| Brett Alexander Savory |
ChiZine Publications |
[46] |
| Sandra Kasturi |
| Peter Crowther |
PS Publishing |
[46] |
| Nicky Crowther |
| William K. Schafer | Subterranean Press |
[46] |
| Adam Mills |
Weird Fiction Review |
[46] |
| Ann VanderMeer |
| Jeff VanderMeer |
| 2014 |
Irene Gallo* | art direction of Tor.com |
[47] |
| William K. Schafer* | Subterranean Press |
[47] |
| John Joseph Adams | magazine and anthology editing |
[47] |
| Ginjer Buchanan | editing at Ace Books |
[47] |
| Jeff VanderMeer |
Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction |
[47] |
| Jeremy Zerfoss |
| Jerad Walters | Centipede Press |
[47] |
| 2015 |
Sandra Kasturi* |
ChiZine Publications |
[48] |
| Brett Alexander Savory* |
| John Joseph Adams | editing anthologies and Nightmare and Fantasy magazines |
[48] |
| Jeanne Cavelos | Odyssey Writing workshops |
[48] |
| Gordon Van Gelder | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[48] |
| Jerad Walters | Centipede Press |
[48] |
| 2016 |
Stephen Jones* | The Art of Horror |
[49] |
| Joe Monti | contributions to the genre |
[49] |
| Heather J. Wood | Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary |
[49] |
| Neil Gaiman |
The Sandman: Overture |
[49] |
| Dave Stewart |
| J. H. Williams III |
| Robert Jordan |
The Wheel of Time Companion |
[49] |
| Harriet McDougal |
| Alan Romanczuk |
| Maria Simons |
| 2017 |
Michael Levy* |
Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction |
[50] |
| Farah Mendlesohn* |
| L. Timmel Duchamp | Aqueduct Press |
[50] |
| Charles Coleman Finlay | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[50] |
| Kelly Link | contributions to the genre |
[50] |
| Joe Monti | contributions to the genre |
[50] |
| 2018 |
Harry Brockway* |
Writing Madness |
[51] |
| Patrick McGrath* |
| Danel Olson* |
| Charles Coleman Finlay | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[51] |
| Irene Gallo | art direction at Tor Books and Tor.com |
[51] |
| Greg Ketter | DreamHaven Books |
[51] |
| Leslie S. Klinger | The New Annotated Frankenstein |
[51] |
| 2019 |
Huw Lewis-Jones* | The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands |
[52] |
| Molly Barton |
Serial Box |
[52] |
| Jeff Li |
| James Stuart |
| Julian Yap |
| Charles Coleman Finlay | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[52] |
| Irene Gallo | art direction at Tor Books and Tor.com |
[52] |
| Catherine McIlwaine | Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth exhibition |
[52] |
| 2020 |
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas* | The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (New York University Press) |
[53] |
| Charles Coleman Finlay | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[53] |
| Leslie S. Klinger | The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (Liveright) |
[53] |
| Ellen Oh | We Need Diverse Books |
[53] |
| Sheree Thomas | Contributions to the genre |
[53] |
| 2021 |
Charles Coleman Finlay* | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[54] |
| Clive Bloom | The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan) |
[54] |
| Jo Fletcher | Jo Fletcher Books |
[54] |
| Maria Dahvana Headley | Beowulf: A New Translation (MCD x FSG Originals US/Scribe UK) |
[54] |
| Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock | The Monster Theory Reader (University of Minnesota Press) |
[54] |
| 2022 |
Marjorie Liu* |
Monstress Volume Six: The Vow (Image Comics) |
[55] |
| Sana Takeda* |
| Charlie Jane Anders | Never Say You Can't Survive (Tor.com Publishing) |
[55] |
| Cam Collins |
Old Gods of Appalachia (podcast) |
[55] |
| Steve Shell |
| Irene Gallo | Tor.com |
[55] |
| William K. Schafer | Subterranean Press |
[55] |
| Sheree Thomas | editing The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[55] |
| 2023 |
Matt Ottley* | The Tree of Ecstasy and Unbearable Sadness (Dirt Lane Press) |
[56] |
| Irene Gallo | Tor.com |
[56] |
| Kelly Link |
Small Beer Press |
[56] |
| Gavin Grant |
| Tim Lebbon |
Without Walls (PS Publishing) |
[56] |
| Daniele Serra |
| Fiona Moore | Management Lessons from Game of Thrones: Organization Theory and Strategy in Westeros (Edward Elgar Publishing) |
[56] |
| 2024 |
Liza Groen Trombi* | Locus |
[57] |
| Bill Campbell | Rosarium Books |
[57] |
| E. M. Carroll | A Guest in the House (First Second Books) |
[57] |
| M. John Harrison | Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir (Serpent's Tail) |
[57] |
| Stephen Jones | The Weird Tales Boys (PS Publishing) |
[57] |
| 2025 |
Sydney Paige Guerrero* |
Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction (The University of the Philippines Press) |
[58] |
| Gabriela Lee* |
| Anna Felicia Sanchez* |
| Hildur Knútsdóttir |
The Night Guest audiobook (Nightfire) |
[58] |
| Mary Robinette Kowal |
| David Thomas Moore | editorial work with Solaris Books/Rebellion Developments |
[58] |
| Sheree Renée Thomas | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
[58] |
| Jacob Weisman | Tachyon Publications |
[58] |
| 2026 |
Clive Bloom | London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic) |
[59] |
| Jaymee Goh |
Tachyon Publications |
[59] |
| Jill Roberts |
| Jacob Weisman |
| Tim Lucas | Succubus (PS Publishing/Electric Dreamhouse) |
[59] |
| Blumhouse Productions |
Horror's New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse (Simon Element) |
[59] |
| Dave Schilling |
| Becky Siegel Spratford | Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature (Saga Press) |
[59] |
| Richard Wolinsky | Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends (Tachyon Publications) |
[59] |