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1987 |
Win |
The Essential Ellison
|
Harlan Ellison
|
Nomination |
Foreword: The Left-Handed Muse
|
Lewis Shiner
|
Nomination |
Midnight Pleasures
|
Robert Bloch
|
Nomination |
Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death
|
Ramsey Campbell
|
Nomination |
Why Not You and I?
|
Karl Edward Wagner
|
|
1988 |
Win |
Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories
|
Charles Beaumont
|
Nomination |
Angry Candy
|
Harlan Ellison
|
Nomination |
Blood and Water and Other Tales
|
Patrick McGrath
|
Nomination |
Scare Tactics
|
John Farris
|
Nomination |
The Blood Kiss
|
Dennis Etchison
|
Nomination |
The Toynbee Convector
|
Ray Bradbury
|
|
1989 |
Win |
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories
|
Richard Matheson
|
Nomination |
Blue World and Other Stories
|
Robert R. McCammon
|
Nomination |
By Bizarre Hands
|
Joe R. Lansdale
|
Nomination |
Patterns
|
Pat Cadigan
|
Nomination |
Soft and Others
|
F. Paul Wilson
|
|
1990 |
Win |
Four Past Midnight
|
Stephen King
|
Nomination |
Houses Without Doors
|
Peter Straub
|
Nomination |
Prayers to Broken Stones
|
Dan Simmons
|
Nomination |
The Brains of Rats
|
Michael Blumlein
|
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1991 |
Win |
Prayers to Broken Stones
|
Dan Simmons
|
Nomination |
Sexpunks & Savage Sagas
|
Richard Sutphen
|
Nomination |
The Naked Flesh of Feeling
|
J. N. Williamson
|
Nomination |
Waking Nightmares
|
Ramsey Campbell
|
|
1992 |
Win |
Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales
|
Norman Partridge
|
Nomination |
Fantastic Tales
(translation of Racconti fantastici)
|
I. U. Tarchetti
|
Nomination |
Nightmare Flower
|
Elizabeth Engstrom
|
|
1993 |
Win |
Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961–1991
|
Ramsey Campbell
|
Nomination |
A Good, Secret Place
|
Richard Laymon
|
Nomination |
Close to the Bone
|
Lucy Taylor
|
Nomination |
Lovedeath
|
Dan Simmons
|
Nomination |
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
|
Stephen King
|
|
1994 |
Win |
The Early Fears
|
Robert Bloch
|
Nomination |
Born Bad
|
Andrew Vachss
|
Nomination |
The Flesh Artist
|
Lucy Taylor
|
Nomination |
Writer of the Purple Rage
|
Joe R. Lansdale
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Nameless Sins
|
Nancy A. Collins
|
|
1995 |
Win |
The Panic Hand
|
Jonathan Carroll
|
Nomination |
Cages
|
Ed Gorman
|
Nomination |
Strange Highways
|
Dean Koontz
|
Nomination |
The Black Carousel
|
Charles Grant
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Pentacle
|
Tom Piccirilli
|
* |
The Language of Fear
|
Del James
|
* |
The Second Wish and Other Exhalations
|
Brian Lumley
|
|
1996 |
Win |
The Nightmare Factory
|
Thomas Ligotti
|
Nomination |
Shadow Dreams
|
Elizabeth Massie
|
Nomination |
The Convulsion Factory
|
Brian Hodge
|
Nomination |
The Pavilion of Frozen Women
|
S. P. Somtow
|
Nomination |
With Wounds Still Wet
|
Wayne Allen Sallee
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Bad Intentions
|
Norman Partridge
|
* |
Midnight Promises
|
Richard T. Chizmar
|
* |
Painfreak
|
Gerard Daniel Houarner
|
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1997 |
Win |
Exorcisms and Ecstasies
|
Karl Edward Wagner
|
Nomination |
Painted in Blood
|
Lucy Taylor
|
Nomination |
The Throne of Bones
|
Brian McNaughton
|
Nomination |
Things Left Behind
|
Gary A. Braunbeck
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Distorture
|
Rob Hardin
|
* |
Fiends
|
Richard Laymon
|
* |
Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories
|
Sharyn McCrumb
|
* |
Horizon Lines
|
Jeffrey Osier
|
* |
Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror
|
James Hynes
|
* |
The Dog Syndrome & Other Sick Puppies
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Tom Piccirilli
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* |
The Final Trick of Funnyman and Other Stories
|
Bruce Taylor
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* |
The Mirror of Night
|
Roberta Lannes
|
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1998 |
Win |
Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side
|
John Shirley
|
Nomination |
Leavings
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P. D. Cacek
|
Nomination |
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
|
Neil Gaiman
|
Nomination |
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales
|
Gahan Wilson
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Crypt Orchids
|
David J. Schow
|
* |
Death Drives a Semi
|
Edo van Belkom
|
* |
Falling Idols
|
Brian Hodge
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* |
Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies
|
Robert Bloch
|
* |
Last Summer at Mars Hill
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Elizabeth Hand
|
* |
One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality
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Bradley Denton
|
* |
The Collector of Hearts
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Joyce Carol Oates
|
* |
The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard
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Jack Ketchum
|
* |
The Night We Buried Road Dog
|
Jack Cady
|
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1999 |
Win |
The Nightmare Chronicles
|
Douglas Clegg
|
Nomination |
Death Drives a Semi
|
Edo van Belkom
|
Nomination |
Deep into that Darkness Peering
|
Tom Piccirilli
|
Nomination |
Hearts in Atlantis
|
Stephen King
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
All of Us Are Dying and Other Stories
|
George Clayton Johnson
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* |
Black Evening
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David Morrell
|
* |
Broken on the Wheel of Sex
|
Jack Ketchum
|
* |
Brotherly Love: and Other Tales of Trust and Knowledge
|
David Case
|
* |
Demons, Freaks and Other Abnormalities
|
Michael Laimo
|
* |
Down to Sleep
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Greg F. Gifune
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* |
Dread in the Beast
|
Charlee Jacob
|
* |
Everybody Pays
|
Andrew Vachss
|
* |
Flesh Wounds
|
Brian A. Hopkins
|
* |
Night Tales
|
John Maclay
|
* |
Really, Really, Really, Really, Weird Stories
|
John Shirley
|
* |
Salt Snake and Other Bloody Cuts
|
Simon Clark
|
* |
The Alchemy of Love
|
Elizabeth Engstrom
|
* |
The Crawling Abattoir
|
Martin Mundt
|
* |
The Devil with You!
|
Robert Bloch
|
* |
The House Spider and Other Strange Visitors
|
Kurt Newton
|
* |
The Longest Single Note and Other Strange Compositions
|
Peter Crowther
|
* |
The Sound of His Horn and The King of the Lake
|
Sarban
|
* |
The Ushers
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Edward Lee
|
* |
What You Make It
|
Michael Marshall Smith
|
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2000 |
Win |
Magic Terror: Seven Tales
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Peter Straub
|
Nomination |
City Fishing
|
Steve Rasnic Tem
|
Nomination |
Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold
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Charlee Jacob
|
Nomination |
Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales
|
Bruce Holland Rogers
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Black Evening
|
David Morrell
|
* |
Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions
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John Everson
|
* |
Dystopia: Collected Stories
|
Richard Christian Matheson
|
* |
Frights of Fancy
|
J. N. Williamson
|
* |
Ghost Music and Other Tales
|
Thomas Tessier
|
* |
Ghosts, Spirits, Computers and World Machines
|
Gene O'Neill
|
* |
I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It
|
Gerard Houarner
|
* |
Moon on the Water
|
Mort Castle
|
* |
Night Freight
|
Bill Pronzini
|
* |
Punktown
|
Jeffrey Thomas
|
* |
Scary Rednecks and Other Inbred Horrors
|
Weston Ochse
and
David Whitman
|
* |
Tales of Pain and Wonder
|
|
* |
Terror Incognita
|
Jeffrey Thomas
|
* |
Thank You for the Flowers
|
Scott Nicholson
|
* |
The Death Artist
|
Dennis Etchison
|
* |
The Vampire Stories of Nancy Kilpatrick
|
Nancy Kilpatrick
|
* |
Toybox
|
Al Sarrantonio
|
|
2001 |
Win |
The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists
|
Norman Partridge
|
Nomination |
As the Sun Goes Down
|
Tim Lebbon
|
Nomination |
The Dark Fantastic
|
Ed Gorman
|
Nomination |
The Whisperer and Other Voices
|
Brian Lumley
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
4X4
|
Geoff Cooper
and
Michael T. Huyck, Jr.
and
Brian Keene
and
Michael Oliveri
|
* |
Cobwebs and Whispers
|
Scott Thomas
|
* |
Dial Your Dreams & Other Nightmares
|
Robert Weinberg
|
* |
Escaping Purgatory
|
Gary A. Braunbeck
and
Alan M. Clark
|
* |
Eye
|
David J. Schow
|
* |
Heretics
|
Greg F. Gifune
|
* |
Meet Me in the Moon Room
|
Ray Vukcevich
|
* |
Night Moves and Other Stories
|
Tim Powers
|
* |
No Rest for the Wicked Redux
|
Brian Keene
|
* |
Salt Water Tears
|
Brian A. Hopkins
|
* |
Six Inch Spikes
|
Edo van Belkom
|
* |
Stranger Things Happen
|
Kelly Link
|
* |
Talking in the Dark: Selected Stories
|
Dennis Etchison
|
* |
These I Know by Heart
|
Brian A. Hopkins
|
* |
Through Shattered Glass
|
David B. Silva
|
* |
Wondrous Strange: Tales of the Uncanny
|
Robin Spriggs
|
|
2002 |
Win |
One More for the Road
|
Ray Bradbury
|
Nomination |
Everything's Eventual
|
Stephen King
|
Nomination |
Knuckles and Tales
(variant of Knuckles & Tales)
|
Nancy A. Collins
|
Nomination |
Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead
|
Mort Castle
|
Nomination |
The Collection
|
Bentley Little
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Aaaiiieee!!!
|
Jeffrey Thomas
|
* |
All Too Surreal
|
Tim Waggoner
|
* |
Caliban and Other Tales
|
Robert Devereaux
|
* |
Christmas Trees and Monkeys
|
Daniel G. Keohane
|
* |
Dark Demons
|
Kurt Newton
|
* |
Die Laughing!
|
John R. Platt
|
* |
Dragonfly
|
Brian Knight
|
* |
Five Days on the Banks of Acheron
|
Jason Brannon
|
* |
Guises
|
Charlee Jacob
|
* |
Lies & Ugliness
|
Brian Hodge
|
* |
Maternal Instinct
|
J. F. Gonzalez
|
* |
Restless Shades
|
Paul Melniczek
|
* |
Visions Through a Shattered Lens
|
Gerard Houarner
|
* |
|
Dan Simmons
|
|
2003 |
Nomination |
Bibliomancy
|
Elizabeth Hand
|
Nomination |
Fangs and Angel Wings
|
Karen E. Taylor
|
Nomination |
Graveyard People
|
Gary A. Braunbeck
|
Nomination |
Peaceable Kingdom
|
Jack Ketchum
|
Nomination |
Told by the Dead
|
Ramsey Campbell
|
|
2004 |
Win |
Fearful Symmetries
|
Thomas F. Monteleone
|
Nomination |
100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories
|
Michael A. Arnzen
|
Nomination |
Demonized: Short Stories
|
Christopher Fowler
|
Nomination |
Fears Unnamed
|
Tim Lebbon
|
Nomination |
The Machinery of Night
|
Douglas Clegg
|
|
2005 |
Win |
20th Century Ghosts
|
Joe Hill
|
Nomination |
Haunted
|
Chuck Palahniuk
|
Nomination |
Looking for Jake and Other Stories
(variant of Looking for Jake: Stories)
|
|
Nomination |
Magic for Beginners
|
Kelly Link
|
|
2006 |
Win |
Destinations Unknown
|
Gary A. Braunbeck
|
Nomination |
American Morons
|
Glen Hirshberg
|
Nomination |
Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear
|
Terry Dowling
|
Nomination |
The Commandments
|
Angeline Hawkes
|
Nomination |
The Empire of Ice Cream
|
Jeffrey Ford
|
|
2007 |
Win |
Proverbs for Monsters
|
Michael A. Arnzen
|
Nomination |
5 Stories
|
Peter Straub
|
Nomination |
Defining Moments
|
David Niall Wilson
|
Nomination |
Old Devil Moon
|
Christopher Fowler
|
Nomination |
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
|
Laird Barron
|
|
2008 |
Win |
Just After Sunset
|
Stephen King
|
Nomination |
Gleefully Macabre Tales
|
Jeff Strand
|
Nomination |
Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales
|
Fran Friel
|
Nomination |
Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
|
John Langan
|
Nomination |
The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others
|
Kealan Patrick Burke
|
|
2009 |
Win |
Taste of Tenderloin
|
Gene O'Neill
|
Nomination |
Got to Kill Them All & Other Stories
|
Dennis Etchison
|
Nomination |
In the Closet, Under the Bed
|
Lee Thomas
|
Nomination |
Martyrs & Monsters
|
Robert Dunbar
|
|
2010 |
Win |
Full Dark, No Stars
|
Stephen King
|
Nomination |
A Host of Shadows
|
Harry Shannon
|
Nomination |
Blood and Gristle
|
Michael Louis Calvillo
|
Nomination |
Occultation and Other Stories
|
Laird Barron
|
Nomination |
The Ones That Got Away
|
Stephen Graham Jones
|
|
2011 |
Win ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury. |
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
|
Joyce Carol Oates
|
Nomination ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation. |
Monsters of L.A.
|
Lisa Morton
|
Nomination ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation. |
Multiplex Fandango
|
Weston Ochse
|
Nomination ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury.
Nomination is for "The London Horrors" |
Red Gloves, Volume I & II
|
Christopher Fowler
|
Nomination ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury. |
Two Worlds and In Between
|
|
Nomination ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation. |
Voices: Tales of Horror
|
Lawrence C. Connolly
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation. |
Eldritch Evolutions
|
Lois H. Gresh
|
* ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury. |
Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors
|
Livia Llewellyn
|
* ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation. |
Let's Play White
|
Chesya Burke
|
* ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury. |
Mrs Midnight and Other Stories
|
Reggie Oliver
|
* ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation. |
The Last Days of Kali Yuga
|
Paul Haines
|
|
2012 |
Win ⓘtie |
Black Dahlia & White Rose
|
Joyce Carol Oates
|
Win ⓘtie |
New Moon on the Water
|
Mort Castle
|
Nomination |
Errantry: Strange Stories
|
Elizabeth Hand
|
Nomination |
The Janus Tree and Other Stories
|
Glen Hirshberg
|
Nomination |
The Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories
|
Jonathan Carroll
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Ad Nauseam
|
C. W. LaSart
|
* |
Beautiful Sorrows
|
Mercedes M. Yardley
|
* |
Christmas Ghost Stories: A Collection of Winter Tales
|
Mark Onspaugh
|
* |
These Old Tales
|
Kenneth W. Cain
|
* |
Valentines for the Dead
|
Corrine De Winter
|
* |
Where Furnaces Burn
|
Joel Lane
|
|
2013 |
Win |
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories
|
Laird Barron
|
Nomination |
Bible Stories for Secular Humanists
|
S. P. Somtow
|
Nomination |
Dance of the Blue Lady
|
Gene O'Neill
|
Nomination |
North American Lake Monsters: Stories
|
Nathan Ballingrud
|
Nomination |
The Ape's Wife and Other Stories
|
|
Nomination |
The Tears of Isis
|
James Dorr
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Deeply Twisted
|
Chantal Noordeloos
|
* |
Flowers of the Sea: Thirteen Stories and Two Novellas
|
Reggie Oliver
|
* |
The Crossroads: A Collection of Narrative Horror
|
K. Trap Jones
|
* |
They Might Be Demons
|
Max Booth, III
|
|
2014 |
Win |
Soft Apocalypses
|
Lucy A. Snyder
|
Nomination |
After the People Lights Have Gone Off
|
Stephen Graham Jones
|
Nomination |
Gifts for the One Who Comes After
|
Helen Marshall
|
Nomination |
Little by Little
|
John R. Little
|
Nomination |
The End in All Beginnings
|
John F. D. Taff
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Escape Plans
|
David Sakmyster
|
* |
Inkblots and Blood Spots
|
Michael Bailey
|
* |
Songs for the Lost
|
Alexander Zelenyj
|
* |
The Madeleine Wheel: Playing with Spiders
|
Terrence Scott
|
* |
The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom
|
Robin Spriggs
|
|
2015 |
Win |
While the Black Stars Burn
|
Lucy A. Snyder
|
Nomination |
Halfway Down the Stairs
|
Gary A. Braunbeck
|
Nomination |
The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
|
Taylor Grant
|
Nomination |
The Hitchhiking Effect
|
Gene O'Neill
|
Nomination |
The Mirrors
|
Nicole Cushing
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Apocalypse Girl Dreaming
|
Jennifer Brozek
|
* |
Dominoes in Time
|
Matthew Warner
|
* |
New Avalon: Love and Loss in the City of Steam
|
Neal F. Litherland
|
* |
Sacrificing Virgins
|
John Everson
|
* |
The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After
|
Shane Jiraiya Cummings
|
|
2016 |
Win |
The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror
|
Joyce Carol Oates
|
Nomination |
A Long December
|
Richard Chizmar
|
Nomination |
American Nocturne
|
Hank Schwaeble
|
Nomination |
Lethal Birds
|
Gene O'Neill
|
Nomination |
Swift to Chase
|
Laird Barron
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
A Tiding of Magpies
|
Pete Sutton
|
* |
Greener Pastures
|
Michael Wehunt
|
* |
Meet Me in the Middle of the Air
|
Eric Schaller
|
* |
Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness
|
Richard Gavin
|
* |
The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales
|
Daniel Braum
|
|
2017 |
Win |
Strange Weather
|
Joe Hill
|
Nomination |
And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe
|
Gwendolyn Kiste
|
Nomination |
Goblin: A Novel in Six Novellas
|
Josh Malerman
|
Nomination |
The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales
|
Thersa Matsuura
|
Nomination |
Writing Madness
|
Patrick McGrath
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Behold the Void
|
Philip Fracassi
|
* |
Embers
|
Kenneth W. Cain
|
* |
Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories
|
Deborah Sheldon
|
* |
Speaking to Skull Kings and Other Stories
|
Emily B. Cataneo
|
* |
The Dreamer in Fire and Other Stories
|
Sam Gafford
|
* |
Tombs: A Chronicle of Latter-Day Times of Earth
|
James S. Dorr
|
|
2018 |
Win |
That Which Grows Wild
|
Eric J. Guignard
|
Nomination |
Coyote Songs
|
Gabino Iglesias
|
Nomination |
Dark and Distant Voices
|
Tim Waggoner
|
Nomination |
Garden of Eldritch Delights
|
Lucy A. Snyder
|
Nomination |
Spectral Evidence
|
Gemma Files
|
--- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
* |
Apple and Knife
|
Intan Paramaditha
|
* |
Frozen Shadows and Other Chilling Stories
|
Gene O'Neill
|
* |
Little Black Spots
|
John F. D. Taff
|
* |
Occasional Beasts
|
John Claude Smith
|
* |
Octoberland
|
Thana Niveau
|
* |
Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked
|
Christa Carmen
|
|
2019 |
Win |
Growing Things and Other Stories
|
Paul Tremblay
|
Nomination |
Exhalation
|
Ted Chiang
|
Nomination |
Lady Bits
|
Kate Jonez
|
Nomination |
Out of Water
|
Sarah Read
|
Nomination |
Sefira and Other Betrayals
|
John Langan
|
|
2020 |
Win |
Grotesque: Monster Stories
|
Lee Murray
|
Nomination |
Bloody Britain
|
Anna Taborska
|
Nomination |
Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies
|
John Langan
|
Nomination |
The Cuckoo Girls
|
Patricia Lillie
|
Nomination |
|
Kathe Koja
|
|
2021 |
Win |
In That Endlessness, Our End
|
Gemma Files
|
Nomination |
Beneath a Pale Sky
|
Philip Fracassi
|
Nomination |
Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead
|
Jonathan Maberry
|
Nomination |
The Dead Hours of Night
|
Lisa Tuttle
|
Nomination |
The Ghost Sequences
|
A. C. Wise
|
|
2022 |
Nomination |
Breakable Things
|
Cassandra Khaw
|
Nomination |
Hell Hath No Sorrow like a Woman Haunted
|
R. J. Joseph
|
Nomination |
Spontaneous Human Combustion
|
Richard Thomas
|
Nomination |
The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales
|
Attila Veres
|
Nomination |
We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
|
Paula D. Ashe
|
|
2023 |
Nomination |
Blood from the Air
|
Gemma Files
|
Nomination |
Cold, Black, & Infinite: Stories of the Horrific and the Strange
|
Todd Keisling
|
Nomination |
Root Rot & Other Grim Tales
|
Sarah Read
|
Nomination |
Spin a Black Yarn
|
Josh Malerman
|
Nomination |
The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future
|
Christi Nogle
|