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.
Winners and nominees This category was previously titled "best short story". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.
Short story YearRecipientTitleResultCitation1987Winner"Friend's Best Man"Nominee"This Old Man""Day-Tay-Vao""Traps"1988"Night They Missed the Horror Show"WinnerNominee"She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother""Nobody Lives There Now""Jack's Decline"1989"Eat Me"WinnerNominee"Each Night, Each Year""Bodies and Heads""'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy' He Said"1990WinnerNominee"Back Windows""But You'll Never Follow Me""From the Papers of Helmut Hecher"1991"Lady Madonna"WinnerNominee"Love Doll: A Fable""Wolf Winter""Richard's Head"1992"This Year's Class Picture"Winner"Farm Wife"Nominee"Did They Get You to Trade?""Come One, Come All""Bright Lights, Big Zombie"1993"I Hear the Mermaids Singing"Winner"Distances"Nominee"Death Fiend Guerrillas""Pain Grin"1994"Cafe Endless: Spring Rain"Co-Winner"Mr. Torso"Nominee"Things of Which We Do Not Speak"1995"Chatting With Anubis"Winner"Becky Lives"Nominee1996"metalica"WinnerNominee"Plan 10 from Inner Space"1997 and David Nickle"Rat Food"Winner"I Am Infinite, I Contain MultitNominee"Madame Babylon"
Short fiction
YearRecipientTitleResultCitation1998WinnerNominee"Blues-Born""Autopsy Room Four"1999"Aftershock"WinnerNominee"Halloween Street"2000"Gone"Winner"Dead Cat Bounce"Nominee"Fallen Angel""Mexican Moon"2001"Reconstructing Amy"Winner"I Am Your Need"Nominee"Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?"2002Winner"Disappearances"Nominee"Details"2003"Duty"WinnerNominee"Harvey's Dream"2004"Nimitseahpah"Winner"Just Out of Reach"Nominee"Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland""Singing My Sister Down""Guts"2005"We Now Pause for Station Identification"Co-winners"Haeckel's Tale"Nominee"As Others See Us""Times of Atonement""Invisible"2006"Tested"Winner"FYI"Nominee"Feeding the Dead Inside""Balance""31/10"2007WinnerNominee"Letting Go""There's No Light Between Floor""Closet Dreams"2008Winner"Petrified"Nominee and Tim Pratt"Evidence of Love in A Case of Abandonment""Turtle"2009"In the Porches of My Ears"Winner"Keeping Watch"Nominee2010Winner"Return to Mariabronn"Nominee"1925; A Fall River Halloween""In the Middle of Poplar Street""Final Draft"2011"Herman Wouk is Still Alive"Winner"Her Husband's Hands"Nominee"Hypergraphia""Graffiti Sonata""Home""All You Can Do Is Breathe"2012"Magdala Amygdala"Winner"Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest"Nominee"Bury My Heart at Marvin Gardens""Righteous""Available Light"2013"Night Train to Paris"Winner"Primal Tongue"Nominee"Snapshot""Code 666"2014Co-Winner"Ruminations""Hot Tub"Nominee"Baby's Breath""Splinterette"2015"Happy Joe's Rest Stop"Winner"All the Day You'll Have Good Luck"Nominee"Sing Me Your Scars""Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers"2016Winner"Time is a Face on the Water"Nominee"ArbeitMacht Frei"2017"Apocalypse Then"Winner"I Will Be the Reflection Until the End"Nominee"So Sings the Siren""Loving You Darkly"2018"Mutter"Winner"Dead End Town"Nominee"Glove Box""And in Her Eyes the City Drowned"2019WinnerNominee"Bury Me in Tar and Twine""Lydia"2020"One Last Transformation"Winner"Am I Missing the Sunlight?"Nominee"Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1""Should Fire Remember the Fuel?"2021"Permanent Damage"WinnerNominee"Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail"2022"Nona Doesn’t Dance"Nominee"Poppy’s Poppy""""" """Fracture"Winner 2023Quondam WinnerSilkNomineeThe Sound of Children Screaming If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak An Inherited Taste 2024Versus Versus Winner“And She Had Been So Reasonable”NomineeTo the Wolves Ten Thousand Crawling Children She Sheds Her Skin2025InheritanceWinnerStomataFinalistSaint Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls[Ir]reversibleAutogas Ferryman
References
External links Stoker Award on the HWA web page Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees