| British Fantasy Award for Best Collection | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Collection of works by a single author |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Fantasy Society |
| First award | 1991 |
| Most recent winner | Call And Response by Christopher Caldwell |
| Website | britishfantasysociety |
| Related | British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology |
The British Fantasy Award for Best Collection is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.
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
| Year | Author/Editor | Work | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Stephen Jones, ed.* | Best New Horror | Robinson | |
| Ramsey Campbell, ed.* | ||||
| Thomas F. Monteleone, ed. | Borderlands | Borderlands Press | ||
| Stephen Jones, ed. | Dark Voices: The Pan Book of Horror | Pan Books | ||
| David Sutton, ed. | ||||
| Stephen King | Four Past Midnight | Viking Press | ||
| Richard Dalby, ed. | The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories | Robinson | ||
| 1992 | Nicholas Royle, ed.* | Darklands | Egerton Press | |
| Thomas F. Monteleone, ed. | Borderlands 2 | Borderlands Press | ||
| David Sutton, ed. | Dark Voices | Pan Books | ||
| Stephen Jones, ed. | ||||
| 1993 | Nicholas Royle, ed.* | Darklands 2 | Egerton Press | |
| 1994 | David Sutton, ed.* | Dark Voices 5 | Pan Books | |
| Stephen Jones, ed.* | ||||
| 1995 | Joel Lane* | The Earth Wire and Other Stories | Egerton Press | |
| Paul Lewis, ed. | Cold Cuts II | Alun Press | ||
| Steve Lockley, ed. | ||||
| Ellen Datlow, ed. | Little Deaths | Millenium | ||
| Kim Newman | The Original Dr Shade and Other Stories | Simon & Schuster | ||
| Janny Wurts | This Way Lies Camelot | HarperCollins | ||
| 1996 | Andy Cox, ed.* | Last Rites and Resurrections | TTA Press | |
| Paul Lewis, ed. | Cold Cuts III | Alun Press | ||
| Steve Lockley, ed. | ||||
| Ellen Datlow, ed. | Little Deaths | Millenium | ||
| Stephen Jones, ed. | Dark Terrors | Gollancz | ||
| David Sutton, ed. | ||||
| Kim Newman | Famous Monsters | Pocket UK | ||
| Neil Gaiman | The Sandman: World's End | Vertigo | ||
| 1997 | Thomas Ligotti* | The Nightmare Factory | Raven Books / Carroll & Graf Publishers | |
| Chaz Brenchley | Blood Waters | Flambard Press | ||
| Stephen Jones, ed. | Dark Terrors 2 | Gollancz | ||
| David Sutton, ed. | ||||
| Stephen Jones, ed. | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Seven | Raven Books / Carroll & Graf Publishers | ||
| Shirley Jackson | The Masterpieces of Shirley Jackson | Raven Books / Carroll & Graf Publishers | ||
| Neil Gaiman, ed. | The Sandman: Book of Dreams | Harper Prism / HarperCollins | ||
| Edward E. Kramer, ed. | ||||
| 1998 | Stephen Jones, ed.* | Dark Terrors 3 | Gollancz | |
| David Sutton, ed.* | ||||
| Mike Ashley, ed. | Chronicles of the Round Table | Carroll & Graf Publishers | ||
| Barbara Roden, ed. | Midnight Never Comes | Ash-Tree Press | ||
| Christopher Roden, ed. | ||||
| Neil Gaiman | The Sandman: The Wake | Titan Books | ||
| Andrew Haigh, ed. | Scaremongers | Tanjen |
| Year | Author | Work | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Ramsey Campbell* | Ghosts and Grisly Things | Pumpkin Books | |
| Brian Lumley | A Coven of Vampires | Fedogan & Bremer / Headline Publishing Group | ||
| Ray Bradbury | Driving Blind | Avon Books / Earthlight | ||
| Tim Lebbon | Faith in the Flesh | Razorblade Press | ||
| Graham Masterton | Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton | British Fantasy Society | ||
| Ray Clark | ||||
| Matt Williams | ||||
| Mike Chinn | The Paladin Mandates | Alchemy Press | ||
| Christopher Fowler | Personal Demons | Serpent's Tail | ||
| Jo Fletcher | Shadows of Light and Dark | Alchemy Press | ||
| 2000 | Peter Crowther* | Lonesome Roads | Razorblade Press | |
| Robert Aickman | The Collected Strange Stories | Tartarus Press / Durtro | ||
| Stephen King | Hearts in Atlantis | Hodder & Stoughton | ||
| Charles de Lint | Moonlight and Vines | Tor Books | ||
| Michael Marshall Smith | What You Make It | HarperCollins UK | ||
| 2001 | Kim Newman* | Where the Bodies Are Buried | Alchemy Press | |
| Robert E. Howard | The Conan Chronicles, 1 | Gollancz | ||
| Terry Lamsley | Dark Matters | Ash-Tree Press | ||
| Stephen Laws | Midnight Man | Silver Salamander Press | ||
| R. Chetwynd-Hayes | Phantom & Fiends | Robert Hale | ||
| 2002 | Paul Finch* | Aftershocks | Ash-Tree Press | |
| Tim Lebbon | As the Sun Goes Down | Night Shade Books | ||
| Robert E. Howard | The Conan Chronicles Volume Two: The Hour of the Dragon | Gollancz | ||
| Michael Moorcock | London Bone | Scribner | ||
| Peter Straub | Magic Terror: Seven Tales | HarperCollins | ||
| 2003 | Ramsey Campbell* | Ramsey Campbell, Probably: On Horror and Sundry Fantasies | PS Publishing | |
| Clark Ashton Smith | The Emperor of Dreams | Gollancz | ||
| Stephen King | Everything's Eventual | Hodder & Stoughton | ||
| Ursula K. Le Guin | Tales from Earthsea | Gollancz | ||
| Andrew Hook | The Virtual Menagerie | Elastic Press | ||
| 2004 | Ramsey Campbell* | Told by the Dead | PS Publishing | |
| Christopher Fowler | Demonized | Serpent's Tail | ||
| Michael Marshall Smith | More Tomorrow & Other Stories | Earthling Publications | ||
| M. John Harrison | Things That Never Happen | Night Shade Books | ||
| Mark Samuels | The White Hands and Other Weird Tales | Tartarus Press | ||
| 2005 | Stephen Gallagher* | Out of His Mind | PS Publishing | |
| Paul Finch | Darker Ages | Sarob Press | ||
| Allen Ashley | Somnambulists | Elastic Press | ||
| M. John Harrison | Things That Never Happen | Gollancz | ||
| Lucius Shepard | Trujillo and Other Stories | PS Publishing | ||
| 2006 | Joe Hill* | 20th Century Ghosts | PS Publishing | |
| Andrew Hook | Beyond Each Blue Horizon | Crowswing Books | ||
| Simon Clark | Hotel Midnight | Robert Hale | ||
| Tim Lee | The Life to Come | Elastic Press | ||
| Stuart Young | The Mask Behind the Face and Other Stories | Pendragon Press | ||
| Leigh Brackett | Sea Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories | Gollancz | ||
| 2007 | Neil Gaiman* | Fragile Things | Headline Publishing Group | |
| Christopher Teague | Choices | Pendragon Press | ||
| Neil Williamson | The Ephemera | Elastic Press | ||
| Joel Lane | The Lost District and Other Stories | Night Shade Books | ||
| Kim Newman | The Man from the Diogenes Club | MonkeyBrain | ||
| Mike O'Driscoll | Unbecoming and Other Tales of Horror | Elastic Press | ||
| 2008 | Christopher Fowler* | Old Devil Moon | Serpent's Tail | |
| Gary McMahon | Dirty Prayers | Gray Friar Press | ||
| Tony Richards | Going Back | Elastic Press | ||
| Simon Clark | Midnight Bazaar: A Secret Arcade of Strange and Eerie Tales | Robert Hale | ||
| Stephen Gallagher | Plots and Misadventures | Subterranean Press | ||
| Paul Finch | Stains | Gray Friar Press | ||
| 2009 | Allyson Bird* | Bull Running for Girls | Screaming Dreams | |
| Mark Samuels | Glyphotech | PS Publishing | ||
| Gary McMahon | How To Make Monsters | Morrigan Books | ||
| Paul Meloy | Islington Crocodiles | TTA Press | ||
| Stephen King | Just After Sunset | Hodder & Stoughton | ||
| 2010 | Robert Shearman* | Love Songs for the Shy And Cynical | Big Finish Productions | |
| Allen Ashley | Once & Future Cities | Eibonvale | ||
| Ramsey Campbell | Just Behind You | PS Publishing | ||
| Joel Lane | The Terrible Changes | Ex Occidente | ||
| Ian McDonald | Cyberabad Days | Gollancz | ||
| 2011 | Stephen King* | Full Dark, No Stars | Hodder & Stoughton | |
| Simon Clark | The Gravedigger's Tale: Fables of Fear | Robert Hale | ||
| Tim Lebbon | Last Exit for the Lost | Cemetery Dance Publications | ||
| Paul Finch | One Monster Is Not Enough | Gray Friar Press | ||
| Paul Finch | Walkers in the Dark | Ash-Tree Press | ||
| 2012 | Robert Shearman* | Everyone's Just So So Special | Big Finish Productions | |
| Peter Atkins | Rumours of the Marvellous | Alchemy Press | ||
| Reggie Oliver | Mrs Midnight | Tartarus Press | ||
| Liz Williams | A Glass of Shadow | NewCon | ||
| 2013 | Robert Shearman* | Remember Why You Fear Me | ChiZine | |
| Jonathan Carroll | The Woman Who Married a Cloud | Subterranean Press | ||
| Joel Lane | Where Furnaces Burn | PS Publishing | ||
| Thana Niveau | From Hell to Eternity | Gray Friar Press | ||
| 2014 | Stephen Volk* | Monsters in the Heart | Gray Friar Press | |
| Nathan Ballingrud | North American Lake Monsters | Small Beer Press | ||
| Ramsey Campbell | Holes for Faces | Dark Regions Press | ||
| Anna Taborska | For Those Who Dream Monsters | Mortbury Press | ||
| 2015 | Adrian Cole | Nick Nightmare Investigates | Alchemy & Airgedlámh | |
| Hal Duncan | Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites | Lethe Press | ||
| Carole Johnstone | The Bright Day Is Done | Gray Friar Press | ||
| Helen Marshall | Gifts for the One Who Comes After | ChiZine | ||
| Lavie Tidhar | Black Gods Kiss | PS Publishing | ||
| 2016 | Tananarive Due* | Ghost Summer: Stories | Prime Books | |
| Ray Cluley | Probably Monsters | ChiZine | ||
| Margrét Helgadóttir | The Stars Seem So Far Away | Fox Spirit | ||
| Paul Kane | Monsters | Alchemy Press | ||
| Joel Lane | Scar City | Eibonvale | ||
| V. H. Leslie | Skein and Bone | Undertow | ||
| 2017 | Adam Nevill* | Some Will Not Sleep | Ritual Limited | |
| Stephen Volk | The Parts We Play | PS Publishing | ||
| Neil Williamson | Secret Language | NewCon | ||
| Joe Abercrombie | Sharp Ends | Gollancz | ||
| Pete Sutton | A Tiding of Magpies | Kensington Gore Hammered Horror | ||
| Tracy Fahey | The Unheimlich Menoeuvre | Boo Books | ||
| 2018 | Joe Hill* | Strange Weather | Gollancz | |
| Neil Gaiman | Norse Mythology | Bloomsbury Publishing | ||
| Tanith Lee | Tanith by Choice | NewCon | ||
| Sofia Samatar | Tender: Stories | Small Beer Press | ||
| Malcolm Devlin | You Will Grow into Them | Unsung Stories | ||
| 2019 | Priya Sharma* | All the Fabulous Beasts | Undertow | |
| Catherynne M. Valente | The Future is Blue | Subterranean Press | ||
| N. K. Jemisin | How Long 'til Black Future Month? | Orbit Books | ||
| Marian Womack | Lost Objects | Luna Press | ||
| Thana Niveau | Octoberland | PS Publishing | ||
| Rosanne Rabinowitz | Resonance & Revolt | Eibonvale | ||
| 2020 | Laura Mauro* | Sing Your Sadness Deep | Undertow | |
| Maura McHugh | The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams | NewCon | ||
| Paul G. Tremblay | Growing Things | Titan Books | ||
| Georgina Bruce | This House of Wounds | Undertow | ||
| Aliette de Bodard | Of Wars, And Memories, And Starlight | Subterranean Press | ||
| 2021 | Charlotte Bond* | The Watcher in the Woods | Black Shuck Books | |
| Anna Taborska | Bloody Britain | Shadow | ||
| Dan Coxon | Only the Broken Remain | Black Shuck Books | ||
| Robert Shearman | We All Hear Stories in the Dark | PS Publishing | ||
| 2022 | Isabel Yap* | Never Have I Ever | Small Beer Press | |
| A. C. Wise | The Ghost Sequences | Undertow | ||
| Tracy Fahey | I Spit Myself Out | Sinister Horror Company | ||
| Pete W. Sutton | The Museum for Forgetting | Grimbold | ||
| C. A. Yates | We All Have Teeth | Fox Spirit | ||
| 2023 | E. M. Faulds* | Under the Moon | Ghost Moth | |
| Penny Jones | Behind a Broken Smile | Black Shuck Books | ||
| Cassandra Khaw | Breakable Things | Undertow | ||
| Andrew Hook | Candescent Blooms | Salt | ||
| 2024 | Tobi Ogundiran* | Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic | Undertow | |
| Alison Littlewood | A Curious Cartography | Black Shuck Books | ||
| Phil Sloman | No Happily Ever After | Self-published | ||
| Premee Mohamed | No One Will Come Back for Us | Undertow | ||
| Georgina Bruce | The House on the Moon | Black Shuck Books | ||
| K. J. Parker | Under my Skin | Subterranean Press | ||
| 2025 | Cecile Cristofari* | Elephants in Bloom | NewCon | |
| Steve Toase | Dirt Upon My Skin | Black Shuck Books | ||
| Lyndsey Croal | Limelight and Other Stories | Shortwave Publishing | ||
| Dave Jeffery | Mood Swings | Black Shuck Books | ||
| James Bennett | Preaching To The Perverted | Lethe Press | ||
| 2026 | Christopher Caldwell* | Call And Response | Neon Hemlock Press | |
| Lyndsey Croal | Dark Crescent | Luna Press | ||
| Joyce Chng | Wolf's Path | Atthis Arts | ||
| Gareth L. Powell | Who Will You Save | Titan Books | ||
| Benjamin Kurt Unsworth | Into Wrack and Ruin | Phantasmagoria Books |