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The latest winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection is featured below, along with a list of all previous winners, links to other World Fantasy Awards and to a our index of the dozens of book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees. World Fantasy Awards included on our site are Best Collection, Lifetime Achievement, Best Anthology, Novel of the Year.

The World Fantasy Awards are given annually for outstanding achievement by writers and artists in the field of fantasy fiction and nonfiction.


The Latest Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection of the Year (by an individual author)

2008 - Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman (2009 award will be announced fall 2009)

 

All winners of the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection of the Year

(Until 1988 the award for best collection and best anthology were combined in one category - so winners can be either.)

 

1975 - Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman

 

1976 - The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson

 

1977 - Frights edited by Kirby McCauley


1978 - Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave

 

1979 - Shadows edited by Charles L. Grant

 

1980 - Amazons edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

 

1981 - Dark Forces edited by Kirby McCauley

 

1982 - Elsewhere edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold

 

1983 - Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant

 

1984 - High Spirits by Robertson Davies

 

1985 - Clive Barker's Books of Blood I, II, III by Clive Barker

 

1986 - Imaginary Lands edited by Robin McKinley

 

1987 - Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree, Jr.

 

1988 - The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard

 

1989 - Storeys From the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe | Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison

 

1990 - Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson

 

1991 - The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller

 

1992 - The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard

 

1993 - The Sons of Noah and Other Stories by Jack Cady

 

1994 - Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961 - 1991 by Ramsey Campbell

 

1995 - The Calvin Coolidge Home For Dead Comedians by Bradley Denton | A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton

 

1996 - Seven Tales and a Fable by Gwyneth Jones

 

1997 - The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem

 

1998 - The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton

 

1999 - Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler

 

2000 - Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint | Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson

 

2001 - Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan

 

2002 - Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson

 

2003 - The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford

 

2004 - Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand

 

2005 - Dark Juice by Margo Lanagan

 

2006 - The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers

 

2007 - Map of Dreams by M. Rickert

 

2008 - Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman

 

2009 - Award will be announced Fall 2009

 

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