The Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA). It is given for "superior achievement" in horror writing for best fiction collection.

Winners and nominees

This category was previously titled "best collection". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

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|Midnight Pleasures

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|Patterns

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|Waking Nightmares

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|Nightmare Flower

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|Nightmares & Dreamscapes

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|Writer of the Purple Rage

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|Cages

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|Things Left Behind

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|Leavings

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|Death Drives a Semi

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|Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold

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|Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead

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|Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Vol 1

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|100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories

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|Magic for Beginners

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|Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear

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| style="background-color:lightyellow" | 5 Stories

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|Martyrs and Monsters

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|Occultation

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|Voices: Tales of Horror

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|Red Gloves

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|Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One)

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|Monsters of L.A.

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|Multiplex Fandango

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| style="background-color:lightyellow" | Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories

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|Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories

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|Errantry: Strange Stories

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|North American Lake Monsters: Stories

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|Dance of the Blue Lady

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|Bible Stories for Secular Humanists

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| style="background-color:lightyellow" | Soft Apocalypses

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|After the People Lights Have Gone Off

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|Little by Little

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|Gifts for the One Who Comes After

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|Halfway Down the Stairs

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|Swift to Chase

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|Lethal Birds

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|American Nocturne

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|And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe

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|Goblin

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|Writing Madness

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|Spectral Evidence

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|Coyote Songs

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|Garden of Eldritch Delights

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|Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection

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|Exhalation: Stories

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|Lady Bits

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|Sefira and Other Betrayals

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|Out of Water

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|Velocities: Stories

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|Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies

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|Bloody Britain

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|Beneath a Pale Sky

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|Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead

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|Breakable Things |Breakable Things

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|We Are Here to Hurt Each Other|We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

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|Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted |Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted

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|Spontaneous Human Combustion|Spontaneous Human Combustion

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|Blood from the Air

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|Cold, Black, & Infinite

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|Not a Speck of Light

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|Little Horn: Stories

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|Lost in The Dark and Other Excursions

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|Teenage Girls Can Be Demons

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|Cyanide Constellations

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References

  • Stoker Award on the HWA web page
  • Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees