The British Fantasy Award for Best Collection is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.

History

The award was originally given to both anthologies and collections. After 1998, the award was divided into the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and another award for Best Anthology.

Winners and shortlists

Combined Anthology/Collection Award

  *   Winners

+ Best Anthology/Collection Year Author/Editor Work Publisher 1991 , * Best New Horror Robinson , * , Borderlands Borderlands Press , Dark Voices: The Pan Book of Horror Pan Books , Four Past Midnight Viking Press , Robinson 1992 , * Darklands Egerton Press , Borderlands 2 Borderlands Press , Dark Voices Pan Books , 1993 , * Darklands 2 Egerton Press 1994 , * Dark Voices 5 Pan Books , * 1995 * Egerton Press , Cold Cuts II Alun Press , , Little Deaths Millenium Simon & Schuster This Way Lies Camelot HarperCollins 1996 , * Last Rites and Resurrections TTA Press , Cold Cuts III Alun Press , , Little Deaths Millenium , Dark Terrors Gollancz , Famous Monsters Pocket UK Vertigo 1997 * Raven Books / Carroll & Graf Publishers Blood Waters Flambard Press , Dark Terrors 2 Gollancz , , Raven Books / Carroll & Graf Publishers Raven Books / Carroll & Graf Publishers , Harper Prism / HarperCollins , 1998 , * Dark Terrors 3 Gollancz , * , Chronicles of the Round Table Carroll & Graf Publishers , Midnight Never Comes Ash-Tree Press , Titan Books , Scaremongers Tanjen

Award for Best Collection

+ Best Collection Year Author Work Publisher 1999 * Ghosts and Grisly Things Pumpkin Books Fedogan & Bremer / Headline Publishing Group Driving Blind Avon Books / Earthlight Faith in the Flesh Razorblade Press Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton British Fantasy Society Alchemy Press Personal Demons Serpent's Tail Shadows of Light and Dark Alchemy Press 2000 * Lonesome Roads Razorblade Press Tartarus Press / Durtro Hearts in Atlantis Hodder & Stoughton Moonlight and Vines Tor Books What You Make It HarperCollins UK 2001 * Where the Bodies Are Buried Alchemy Press Gollancz Dark Matters Ash-Tree Press Midnight Man Silver Salamander Press Phantom & Fiends Robert Hale 2002 * Aftershocks Ash-Tree Press As the Sun Goes Down Night Shade Books Gollancz London Bone Scribner Magic Terror: Seven Tales HarperCollins 2003 * Ramsey Campbell, Probably: On Horror and Sundry Fantasies PS Publishing Gollancz Everything's Eventual Hodder & Stoughton Tales from Earthsea Gollancz Elastic Press 2004 * Told by the Dead PS Publishing Demonized Serpent's Tail More Tomorrow & Other Stories Earthling Publications Things That Never Happen Night Shade Books Tartarus Press 2005 * Out of His Mind PS Publishing Darker Ages Sarob Press Somnambulists Elastic Press Things That Never Happen Gollancz Trujillo and Other Stories PS Publishing 2006 * 20th Century Ghosts PS Publishing Beyond Each Blue Horizon Crowswing Books Hotel Midnight Robert Hale Elastic Press Pendragon Press Sea Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories Gollancz 2007 * Fragile Things Headline Publishing Group Choices Pendragon Press Elastic Press Night Shade Books MonkeyBrain Unbecoming and Other Tales of Horror Elastic Press 2008 * Old Devil Moon Serpent's Tail Dirty Prayers Gray Friar Press Going Back Elastic Press Midnight Bazaar: A Secret Arcade of Strange and Eerie Tales Robert Hale Plots and Misadventures Subterranean Press Stains Gray Friar Press 2009 * Bull Running for Girls Screaming Dreams Glyphotech PS Publishing How To Make Monsters Morrigan Books Islington Crocodiles TTA Press Just After Sunset Hodder & Stoughton 2010 * Love Songs for the Shy And Cynical Big Finish Productions Once & Future Cities Eibonvale Just Behind You PS Publishing Ex Occidente Cyberabad Days Gollancz 2011 * Full Dark, No Stars Hodder & Stoughton Robert Hale Last Exit for the Lost Cemetery Dance Publications One Monster Is Not Enough Gray Friar Press Walkers in the Dark Ash-Tree Press 2012 * Everyone's Just So So Special Big Finish Productions Rumours of the Marvellous Alchemy Press Mrs Midnight Tartarus Press NewCon 2013 * Remember Why You Fear Me ChiZine Subterranean Press Where Furnaces Burn PS Publishing From Hell to Eternity Gray Friar Press 2014 * Monsters in the Heart Gray Friar Press North American Lake Monsters Small Beer Press Holes for Faces Dark Regions Press For Those Who Dream Monsters Mortbury Press 2015 Nick Nightmare Investigates Alchemy & Airgedlámh Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites Lethe Press Gray Friar Press Gifts for the One Who Comes After ChiZine Black Gods Kiss PS Publishing 2016 * Ghost Summer: Stories Prime Books Probably Monsters ChiZine Fox Spirit Monsters Alchemy Press Scar City Eibonvale Skein and Bone Undertow 2017 * Some Will Not Sleep Ritual Limited PS Publishing Secret Language NewCon Sharp Ends Gollancz Kensington Gore Hammered Horror Boo Books 2018 * Strange Weather Gollancz Norse Mythology Bloomsbury Publishing Tanith by Choice NewCon Tender: Stories Small Beer Press You Will Grow into Them Unsung Stories 2019 * All the Fabulous Beasts Undertow Subterranean Press How Long 'til Black Future Month? Orbit Books Lost Objects Luna Press Octoberland PS Publishing Resonance & Revolt Eibonvale 2020 * Sing Your Sadness Deep Undertow NewCon Growing Things Titan Books This House of Wounds Undertow Of Wars, And Memories, And Starlight Subterranean Press 2021 * Black Shuck Books Bloody Britain Shadow Only the Broken Remain Black Shuck Books We All Hear Stories in the Dark PS Publishing 2022 * Never Have I Ever Small Beer Press Undertow I Spit Myself Out Sinister Horror Company Grimbold We All Have Teeth Fox Spirit 2023 * Under the Moon Ghost Moth Behind a Broken Smile Black Shuck Books Breakable Things Undertow Candescent Blooms Salt 2024 * Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic Undertow Black Shuck Books No Happily Ever After Self-published No One Will Come Back for Us Undertow Black Shuck Books Under my Skin Subterranean Press 2025 * Elephants in Bloom NewCon Dirt Upon My Skin Black Shuck Books Limelight and Other Stories Shortwave Publishing Mood Swings Black Shuck Books Preaching To The Perverted Lethe Press 2026 Dark Crescent Luna Press Call And Response Neon Hemlock Press Wolf's Path Atthis Arts Who Will You Save Titan Books Into Wrack and Ruin Phantasmagoria Books

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