Book prize

World Fantasy Award for Best Collection winners

4 winners and 16 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

All prizes

The World Fantasy Award for Best Collection has 4 winners we hold, from 1976 to 2019, and 16 nominees. The most recent winner here is Skin Folk (2002), first published by Warner Books in 2001. Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.

Won

Winners

  1. 2002 Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson First edition: Warner Books 2001
  2. 1994 Alone with the Horrors : The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991 by Ramsey Campbell First edition: Arkham House 1993
  3. 1988 The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard First edition: Arkham House 1987
  4. 1981 Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley First edition: Macdonald and Jane's 1980
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. 2019 How Long 'Til Black Future Month by N. K. Jemisin First edition: Orbit 2018
  2. 2018 Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado First edition: Highbridge Co 2017
  3. 2017 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu First edition: Saga Press 2016
  4. 2007 The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke First edition: Bloomsbury Publishing 2006
  5. 2006 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill First edition not yet identified
  6. 2006 Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link First edition: Small Beer Press 2005
  7. 2003 City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer First edition: Cosmos Books (NJ) 2001
  8. 2000 Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King First edition: Scribner 1999
  9. 1993 Lord Kelvin's Machine by James Blaylock First edition: Arkham House 1992
  10. 1989 The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber First edition: Morrow 1988
  11. 1987 Dreams of Dark and Light by Tanith Lee First edition: Arkham House 1986
  12. 1986 Black Venus by Angela Carter First edition: Chatto & Windus 1985
  13. 1983 Different Seasons by Stephen King First edition: Viking 1982
  14. 1979 Night Shift by Stephen King First edition: Doubleday 1978
  15. 1977 Long After Midnight by Ray Bradbury First edition: Knopf 1976 £21 to £28
  16. 1976 Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison First edition: Harper & Row 1975

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