The Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for short fiction.
| Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Superior achievement in horror writing for short fiction |
| Presented by | Horror Writers Association |
| Eligibility | Published in English |
| Formerly called | Best short story |
| First awarded | 1987 |
| Most recent winner | Cindy O’Quinn, “Quondam” (2023) |
| Most awards | Nancy Holder (3) |
| Most nominations | Gary A. Braunbeck, Mort Castle, Lisa Manetti, John Palisano, Steve Rasnic Tem (4) |
| Website | www |
| Related | Bram Stoker Award |
Winners and nominees
editThis category was previously titled "best short story". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.[1]
Short story
edit| Year | Recipient | Title | Result | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Robert R. McCammon | "The Deep End" | Winner | [2] |
| Jonathan Carroll | "Friend's Best Man" | Nominee | [2] | |
| Charles L. Grant | "This Old Man" | |||
| F. Paul Wilson | "Day-Tay-Vao" | |||
| F. Paul Wilson | "Traps" | |||
| 1988 | Joe R. Lansdale | "Night They Missed the Horror Show" | Winner | [3] |
| Ray Bradbury | "The Thing at the Top of the Stairs" | Nominee | [3] | |
| Harlan Ellison | "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" | |||
| Carol Orlock | "Nobody Lives There Now" | |||
| Lucius Shepard | "Jack's Decline" | |||
| Chet Williamson | "The Music of the Dark Time" | |||
| 1989 | Robert R. McCammon | "Eat Me" | Winner | [4] |
| Edward Bryant | "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" | Nominee | [4] | |
| Kathryn Ptacek | "Each Night, Each Year" | |||
| Steve Rasnic Tem | "Bodies and Heads" | |||
| Chet Williamson | "'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy' He Said" | |||
| 1990 | David B. Silva | "The Calling" | Winner | [5] |
| Edward Bryant | "The Loneliest Number" | Nominee | [5] | |
| Steve Rasnic Tem | "Back Windows" | |||
| Karl Edward Wagner | "But You'll Never Follow Me" | |||
| Chet Williamson | "From the Papers of Helmut Hecher" | |||
| 1991 | Nancy Holder | "Lady Madonna" | Winner | [6] |
| Poppy Z. Brite | "The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire" | Nominee | [6] | |
| Joe R. Lansdale | "Love Doll: A Fable" | |||
| Grant Morrison | "The Braille Encyclopaedia" | |||
| Maxine O'Callaghan | "Wolf Winter" | |||
| Al Sarrantonio | "Richard's Head" | |||
| 1992 | Dan Simmons | "This Year's Class Picture" | Winner | [7] |
| Nancy Kilpatrick | "Farm Wife" | Nominee | [7] | |
| Karl Edward Wagner | "Did They Get You to Trade?" | |||
| Gahan Wilson | "Come One, Come All" | |||
| Douglas E. Winter | "Bright Lights, Big Zombie" | |||
| 1993 | Nancy Holder | "I Hear the Mermaids Singing" | Winner | [8] |
| Sherman Alexie | "Distances" | Nominee | [8] | |
| William S. Burroughs | "Death Fiend Guerrillas" | |||
| Dennis Etchison | "The Dog Park" | |||
| Wayne Allen Sallee | "Pain Grin" | |||
| 1994 | Nancy Holder | "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" | Co-Winner | [9] |
| Jack Ketchum | "The Box" | |||
| Edward Lee | "Mr. Torso" | Nominee | [9] | |
| Lucy Taylor | "Things of Which We Do Not Speak" | |||
| 1995 | Harlan Ellison | "Chatting With Anubis" | Winner | [10] |
| Harry Crews | "Becky Lives" | Nominee | [10] | |
| Thomas Ligotti | "The Bungalow House" | |||
| William Browning Spencer | "The Death of the Novel" | |||
| 1996 | P. D. Cacek | "metalica" | Winner | [11] |
| Robert Devereaux | "The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman" | Nominee | [11] | |
| Graham Masterton | "The Secret Shih Tan" | |||
| Brian Stableford | "The House of Mourning" | |||
| Karl Edward Wagner | "Plan 10 from Inner Space" | |||
| 1997 | Edo van Belkom and David Nickle | "Rat Food" | Winner | [12] |
| Douglas Clegg | "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multit | Nominee | [12] | |
| Scott Edelman | "A Plague on Both Your Houses" | |||
| Brian Hodge | "Madame Babylon" |
Short fiction
edit| Year | Recipient | Title | Result | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Bruce Holland Rogers | "The Dead Boy at Your Window" | Winner | [13] |
| Edo van Belkom | "The Rug" | Nominee | [13] | |
| Tina L. Jens | "Blues-Born" | |||
| Stephen King | "Autopsy Room Four" | |||
| 1999 | F. Paul Wilson | "Aftershock" | Winner | [14] |
| P. D. Cacek | "The Grave" | Nominee | [14] | |
| Ramsey Campbell | "The Entertainment" | |||
| Steve Rasnic Tem | "Halloween Street" | |||
| 2000 | Jack Ketchum | "Gone" | Winner | [15] |
| Gerard Daniel Houarner | "Dead Cat Bounce" | Nominee | [15] | |
| Robert J. Sawyer | "Fallen Angel" | |||
| Karen E. Taylor | "Mexican Moon" | |||
| 2001 | Tim Lebbon | "Reconstructing Amy" | Winner | [16] |
| Mort Castle | "I Am Your Need" | Nominee | [16] | |
| Jack Ketchum | "The Haunt" | |||
| David B. Silva | "Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" | |||
| 2002 | Tom Piccirilli | "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair" | Winner | [17] |
| Mort Castle | "Disappearances" | Nominee | [17] | |
| Christopher Fowler | "The Green Man" | |||
| Charlee Jacob | "The Plague Species" | |||
| China Miéville | "Details" | |||
| 2003 | Gary A. Braunbeck | "Duty" | Winner | [18] |
| Scott Edelman | "The Last Supper" | Nominee | [18] | |
| Stephen King | "Harvey's Dream" | |||
| Joyce Carol Oates | "The Haunting" | |||
| George Saunders | "The Red Bow" | |||
| 2004 | Nancy Etchemendy | "Nimitseahpah" | Winner | [19] |
| Gary A. Braunbeck | "Just Out of Reach" | Nominee | [19] | |
| Douglas Clegg | "A Madness of Starlings" | |||
| John Farris | "Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland" | |||
| Margo Lanagan | "Singing My Sister Down" | |||
| Chuck Palahniuk | "Guts" | |||
| 2005 | Gary A. Braunbeck | "We Now Pause for Station Identification" | Co-winners | [20] |
| Clive Barker | "Haeckel's Tale" | Nominee | [20] | |
| Mort Castle | "As Others See Us" | |||
| Yvonne Navarro | "Times of Atonement" | |||
| Steve Rasnic Tem | "Invisible" | |||
| 2006 | Lisa Morton | "Tested" | Winner | [21] |
| Mort Castle | "FYI" | Nominee | [21] | |
| Yvonne Navarro | "Feeding the Dead Inside" | |||
| Gene O'Neill | "Balance" | |||
| Stephen Volk | "31/10" | |||
| 2007 | David Niall Wilson | "The Gentle Brush of Wings" | Winner | [22] |
| C. Dean Andersson | "The Death Wagon Rolls on By" | Nominee | [22] | |
| John Everson | "Letting Go" | |||
| Paul G. Tremblay | "The Teacher" | |||
| Paul G. Tremblay | "There's No Light Between Floor" | |||
| Lisa Tuttle | "Closet Dreams" | |||
| 2008 | Sarah Langan | "The Lost" | Winner | [23] |
| Scott Edelman | "Petrified" | Nominee | [23] | |
| Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt | "The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft" | |||
| M. Rickert | "Evidence of Love in A Case of Abandonment" | |||
| Lee Thomas | "Turtle" | |||
| 2009 | Norman Prentiss | "In the Porches of My Ears" | Winner | [24] |
| Nate Kenyon | "Keeping Watch" | Nominee | [24] | |
| Weston Ochse | "The Crossing of Aldo Ray" | |||
| Harry Shannon | "The Night Nurse" | |||
| 2010 | Joe R. Lansdale | "The Folding Man" | Winner | [25] |
| Gary A. Braunbeck | "Return to Mariabronn" | Nominee | [25] | |
| Lisa Manetti | "1925; A Fall River Halloween" | |||
| Nate Southard | "In the Middle of Poplar Street" | |||
| Mark W. Worthen | "Final Draft" | |||
| 2011 | Stephen King | "Herman Wouk is Still Alive" | Winner | [26] |
| Adam-Troy Castro | "Her Husband's Hands" | Nominee | [26] | |
| Ken Lillie-Paetz | "Hypergraphia" | |||
| Gene O'Neill | "Graffiti Sonata" | |||
| George Saunders | "Home" | |||
| Kaaron Warren | "All You Can Do Is Breathe" | |||
| 2012 | Lucy Snyder | "Magdala Amygdala" | Winner | [27] |
| Bruce Boston | "Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest" | Nominee | [27] | |
| Joe McKinney | "Bury My Heart at Marvin Gardens" | |||
| Weston Ochse | "Righteous" | |||
| John Palisano | "Available Light" | |||
| 2013 | David Gerrold | "Night Train to Paris" | Winner | [28] |
| Michael Bailey | "Primal Tongue" | Nominee | [28] | |
| Patrick Freivald | "Snapshot" | |||
| Lisa Manetti | "The Hunger Artist" | |||
| John Palisano | "The Geminis" | |||
| Michael Reaves | "Code 666" | |||
| 2014 | Usman T. Malik | "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" | Co-Winner | [29] |
| Rena Mason | "Ruminations" | |||
| Hal Bodner | "Hot Tub" | Nominee | [29] | |
| Sydney Leigh | "Baby's Breath" | |||
| John Palisano | "Splinterette" | |||
| Damien Angelica Walters | "The Floating Girls: A Documentary" | |||
| 2015 | John Palisano | "Happy Joe's Rest Stop" | Winner | [30] |
| Kate Jonez | "All the Day You'll Have Good Luck" | Nominee | [30] | |
| Gene O'Neill | "The Algernon Effect" | |||
| Damien Angelica Walters | "Sing Me Your Scars" | |||
| Alyssa Wong | "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" | |||
| 2016 | Joyce Carol Oates | "The Crawl Space" | Winner | [31] |
| Michael Bailey | "Time is a Face on the Water" | Nominee | [31] | |
| Hal Bodner | "A Rift in Reflection" | |||
| Christopher Golden | "The Bad Hour" | |||
| Lisa Manetti | "ArbeitMacht Frei" | |||
| 2017 | Lisa Manetti | "Apocalypse Then" | Winner | [32] |
| Michael Bailey | "I Will Be the Reflection Until the End" | Nominee | [32] | |
| James Chambers | "A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills" | |||
| Annie Neugebauer | "So Sings the Siren" | |||
| Mercedes M. Yardley | "Loving You Darkly" | |||
| 2018 | Jess Landry | "Mutter" | Winner | [33] |
| Lee Murray | "Dead End Town" | Nominee | [33] | |
| Annie Neugebauer | "Glove Box" | |||
| John F. D. Taff | "A Winter's Tale" | |||
| Kyla Lee Ward | "And in Her Eyes the City Drowned" | |||
| 2019 | Gwendolyn Kiste | "The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary)" | Winner | [34] |
| Greg Chapman | "The Book of Last Words" | Nominee | [34] | |
| Jess Landry | "Bury Me in Tar and Twine" | |||
| Cindy O'Quinn | "Lydia" | |||
| Tim Waggoner | "A Touch of Madness" | |||
| 2020 | Josh Malerman | "One Last Transformation" | Winner | [35] |
| Meghan Arcuri | "Am I Missing the Sunlight?" | Nominee | [35] | |
| Kurt Fawver | "Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1" | |||
| Cindy O'Quinn | "The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road" | |||
| Kyla Lee Ward | "Should Fire Remember the Fuel?" | |||
| 2021 | Lee Murray | "Permanent Damage" | Winner | [36] |
| Carol Gyzander | "The Yellow Crown" | Nominee | [36] | |
| Cindy O'Quinn | "A Gathering at the Mountain" | |||
| Anna Taborska | "Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail" | |||
| Kyla Lee Ward | "A Whisper in the Death Pit" | |||
| 2022 | Aaron Dries | "Nona Doesn’t Dance" | Nominee | [37] |
| Douglas Gwilym | "Poppy’s Poppy" | |||
| J. A. W. McCarthy | "The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body" | |||
| Anna Taborska | "A Song for Barnaby Jones" | |||
| Anna Taborska | "The Star" | |||
| Mercedes M. Yardley | "Fracture" |
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