The British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.
History
Prior to 2008, this award was called the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.
Winners and shortlists
* Winners
Year Author Work Publisher or Publication 1973 * Signet 1974 * Flashing Swords #2 1975 * "Sticks" Whispers, #3 "Ghoul's Garden" Flashing Swords #2 F&SF, October 1974 1976 * DAW Books Whispers, #2 "White Stars" New Worlds 8 1977 * "Two Suns Setting" Fantastic, May 1976 "Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen" Chacal "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" F&SF, March 1976 1978 * "In the Bag" Cold Fear Fantastic Stories, June 1977 Fantastic Stories, September 1977 1979 * "Jeffty is Five" F&SF, July 1977 Weird Heroes Volume 8 Swords Against Darkness III F&SF, February 1978 1980 * Whispers, #13/14 "First Make Them Mad" Fantasy Tales, #4 "Red as Blood" F&SF, July 1979 1981 * New Terrors 1 "Crouch End" New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Kadath, #3 Dark Forces 1982 * Fantasy Tales. #8 "Elric at the End of Time" Elsewhere 1 Gallery, November 1981 "Through the Walls" British Fantasy Society Booklet, #5 1983 * Different Seasons "Apt Pupil" Different Seasons "Name and Number" Kadath, July 1982 1984 * "Neither Brute Nor Human" World Fantasy Con Programme Booklet 1985 * "In the Hills, the Cities" Books of Blood, Volume I 1986 * Fantasy Tales, #14 1987 * Fantasy Tales, #16 1988 * "Leaks" Whispers VI 1989 * "Fruiting Bodies" Weird Tales, Summer 1988 1990 * "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks" Book of the Dead 1991 * Dark Voices 2 1992 * Darklands Peeping Tom, #4 "Slipping" Borderlands 2 1993 * "Night Shift Sister" In Dreams 1994 * Dark Voices 5 1995 * "Out of the Night, When the Full Moon Is Bright..." "To Receive is Better" 1996 * "More Tomorrow" Dark Terrors "Annabelle Says" British Fantasy Society Booklet #20 Interzone, #95 "I've Come to Talk with You Again" Dark Terrors "Last Rites and Resurrections" 1997 * "Dancing About Architecture" Visionary Tongue, #4 "Citizen Ed" Interzone, #113 "Foreign Bodies" Lethal Kisses "Hell Hath Enlarged Herself" Dark Terrors 2 "Scars" Grue, #18 "Teatro Grottesco" 1998 * "Wageslaves" Destination Unknown; Secret City: Strange Tales of London "Even Beggars Would Ride" "Family" Interzone, #127 Dark Terrors 3 Millennium 1999 * Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden "China Dolls" "Jedella Ghost" Interzone, #135 "Kiss Me with your Jackal Lips" "Lolicia" Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton "Nevere to be Heard" Dark Terrors 4 "Song of the Dawn" 2000 * "White" Masters of Terror Press 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense Enigmatic Press "Leningrad Nights" PS Publishing "Where Does the Town Go at Night?" Interzone, #147 2001 * "Naming of Parts" PS Publishing Dark Terrors 5 "No Story in It" Dark Terrors 5 Swords Against the Millennium F20: One 2002 * "Goblin City Lights" Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips "Black Dust" Subterranean Press "Diamond Dogs" PS Publishing "Nearly People" PS Publishing "Telling the Tale" Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips 2003 * PS Publishing "Cape Wrath" Telos "Firing the Cathedral" PS Publishing "Open the Box" PS Publishing 2004 * "American Waitress" Crimewave 7: The Last Sunset "Exorcising Angels" Exorcising Angels "Fear the Dead" "Wonderland" Telos 2005 * "Black Static" Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy "Roads Were Burning" Postscripts, #1 "You Will Hear the Locust Sing" 2006 * "Best New Horror" Postscripts, #3 "Approaching Zero" "Can You See Me?" Midnight Street, #5 "Homeland" Assembly of Rogues "Just Behind You" Poe's Progeny New Wave of Speculative Fiction "Soft Apocalypse" Interzone, #200 2007 * "Whisper Lane" BFS: A Celebration "31/10" Dark Corners Time Pieces Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music "Puca Muc" Shrouded by Darkness Postscripts, #6 2008 * "My Stone Desire" Black Static, #1 "Digging Deep" Phobic: Modern Horror Stories "Discovering Ghosts" Postscripts, #10 "Thumbprint" Postscripts, #10 2009 * "Do You See" Myth-Understandings "All Mouth" Black Static, #6 "N." Just After Sunset "Pinholes in Black Muslin" Bull Running for Girls Islington Crocodiles "Winter Journey" Black Static, #5 2010 * "What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night" Nightjar "My Brother's Keeper" Black Static, #12 "Careful What You Wish For" Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth and Scale Hellbound Hearts "George Clooney's Moustache" 2011 * "Fool's Gold" Nightjar "Otterburn" Estronomicon, December 2010 "Something for Nothing" Catastrophia 2012 * "Dermot" Black Static, August-September 2011 "King Death" Spectral "Sad, Dark Thing" "Florrie" House of Fear 2013 * "Shark! Shark!" Black Static, #29 "Sunshine" Black Static, #29 "Our Island" Where Are We Going? "Wish for a Gun" 2014 * "Signs of the Times" Black Static, #33 "Chalk" This is Horror "Golden Apple" "Death Walks En Pointe" "Family Business" "Moonstruck" Shadows & Tall Trees, #5 This is Horror 2015 * Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets Beside the Seaside "Ptichka" Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease Wicked Women 2016 * "Fabulous Beasts" Tor.com, July 2015 "When the Moon Man Knocks" Black Static, October-November 2015 "Strange Creation" Tenebris Nyxies Skein and Bone "Dirt Land" Black Static, November-December 2015 "Hippocampus" Terror Tales of the Ocean 2017 * "White Rabbit" Black Static, January-February 2016 "Charmed Life" Something Remains: Joel Lane and Friends "Greenteeth" Black Static, January-February 2016 "Waxy" Granta — 2018 * "Looking for Laika" Interzone #273 Black Static #61 "Four Abstracts" New Fears "Illumination" Book of Dragons PS Publishing "Shepherd's Business" New Fears 2019 * "Down Where Sound Comes Blunt" F&SF, March-April 2018 "Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Trees" "In the Gallery of Silent Screams" Black Static, September-October 2018 All the Fabulous Beasts "Telling Stories" , December 2018 "Thumbsucker" New Fears 2 2020 * Undertow "Dendrochronology" Hersham Horror "I Say (I Say, I Say)" "Tomorrow, when I Was Young" Eibonvale Press 2021 * "Infinite Tea in the Demara Café" London Centric: Tales of Future London "We Do Like to be Beside" Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2 "Daylight Robbery" Bloody Britain "8-Bit Free Will" PodCastle, November 24, 2020 2022 * "Bathymetry" Strange Horizons, March 2021 "Henrietta" BFS Horizons "O2 Arena" Galaxy's Edge, November 2021 Shoreline of Infinity, August 2021 "Sky Eyes" Dreamland: Other Stories "Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath" Dreamland: Other Stories 2023 * "Morta" Fantasy, August 2022 Weird Horror Anthology ParSec #4 2024 * IZ Digital, May 2023 "Professor Flotsam’s Cabinet of Peculiarities" Great British Horror 8 From the Arcane Great British Horror 8 "Turn Again, O My Sweetness" At the Lighthouse 2025 * "Loneliness Universe" Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2024 Trembling with Fear, September 2024 "Godskin" Strange Horizons, March 2024 Bound in Blood "Jinx" PseudoPod, February 2024 2026 "Godzilla As A Young Man Named Mike" PodCastle "Shadow Jack" Giganotosaurus "No One Knows the Old Ways Anymore and It Will Be The End of Everything" Hiding Under the Leaves anthology; The Slab Press "Down Street" Blood in the Bricks anthology; NewCon Press
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