The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.

Terminology

In 2007, the inaugural award was given as the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology. Beginning in 2010, the award has been entitled the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology.

Criteria

To be eligible for the award, an anthology must total at least 40,000 words. The anthology must contain at least 3 separate stories by at least 3 different authors. At least 50% of the anthology must be fiction, and at least 50% of the material must be previously unpublished.

Winners and Finalists

  *   Winners

Year Editor Novel Publisher Ref. 2007 * Inferno Tor Books At Ease with the Dead Ash-Tree Press Dark Delicacies 2 Running Press Logorrhea Bantam Spectra Wizards Berkley Books 2008 ** Comma Press Bound for Evil Dead Letter Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo Ash-Tree Press Fast Ships, Black Sails Night Shade Books Shades of Darkness Ash-Tree Press 2009 * Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe Solaris Books Lovecraft Unbound Dark Horse British Invasion Cemetery Dance Publications Apparitions Undertow Exotic Gothic 3 Ash-Tree Press 2010 ** Stories Morrow Black Wings PS Publishing Haunted Legends Tor Books My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me Penguin Books Swords & Dark Magic HarperCollins 2011 ** Ghosts by Gaslight Harper Voyager Blood and Other Cravings Tor Books Supernatural Noir Dark Horse Teeth HarperCollins Jo Fletcher Books Harper Voyager 2012 * Exotic Gothic 4: Postscripts #28/29 PS Publishing Night Shadows Bold Strokes Books 21st Century Dead St. Martin's Press Black Wings II PS Publishing Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury Morrow 2013 * Miskatonic River Press Jurassic London End of the Road Solaris Books Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy Tor Books Where thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe Lethe Press 2014 * Fearful Symmetries ChiZine Letters to Lovecraft Stone Skin Shadows & Tall Trees 14 Undertow / ChiZine Word Horde Spectral 2015 * Aickman's Heirs Undertow Tor Books Seize the Night Gallery Press Black Wings IV PS Publishing Exigencies Dark House 2016 ** Saga Press Influx Press Autumn Cthulhu Lovecraft eZine Press Fedogan & Bremer Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories Exile Editions 2017 * Shadows & Tall Trees 7 Undertow Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales Pegasus Rebellion Developments / Solaris Books Looming Low Volume I Dim Shores Tales From a Talking Board Word Horde 2018 ** Robots vs Fairies Saga Press Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations Written Backwards This Dreaming Isle Unsung Stories Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder Black Balloon Undertow 2019 ** Twisted Publishing Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories Saga Press Saga Press PS Publishing Wonderland: An Anthology of Works Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Titan Publishing Group 2020 ** Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women Omnium Gatherum Northampton House Shadows & Tall Trees 8 Undertow Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror Wicked Run Tiny Nightmares Catapult After Sundown Flame Tree Publishing Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors Written Backwards 2021 * Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World Dark Moon Books * Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness Neon Hemlock Giving The Devil His Due: A Charity Anthology Running Wild There Is No Death, There Are No Dead Crystal Lake Stitched Lips: An Anthology of Horror from Silenced Voices Dragon's Roost 2022 * Bad Hand Chiral Mad 5 Written Backwards Your Body is Not Your Body Tenebrous Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous Tor Nightfire Other Terrors Morrow 2023 * Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic Cosmic Horror Monthly Shakespeare Unleashed Monstrous Never Whistle at Night Vintage Books Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror Penguin Random House Mooncalves NO Press 2024 ** Why Didn’t You Just Leave Cursed Morsels Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror Ghoulish Tor Books Monsters in the Mills Interactive Publications Neon Hemlock 2025 * Night & Day Saga Press * Unquiet Guests Dead Ink Books Roots of My Fears Titan Books Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora Bad Hand Books Were Wolf Short Stories Flame Tree Publishing

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