The Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for short fiction.
Winners and nominees
This category was previously titled "best short story". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.
Short story
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|"Friend's Best Man"
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|"Farm Wife"
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|"Distances"
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|"Mr. Torso"
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|"Becky Lives"
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|"I Am Infinite, I Contain Multit
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|"Dead Cat Bounce"
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|"I Am Your Need"
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|"Disappearances"
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|"Just Out of Reach"
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|"Haeckel's Tale"
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|"FYI"
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|"Petrified"
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|"Keeping Watch"
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|"Return to Mariabronn"
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|"Her Husband's Hands"
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|"Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest"
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|"Primal Tongue"
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|"Ruminations"
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|"Hot Tub"
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|"All the Day You'll Have Good Luck"
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|"Time is a Face on the Water"
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|"I Will Be the Reflection Until the End"
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|"Dead End Town"
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|"Am I Missing the Sunlight?"
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|"Poppy’s Poppy"
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|"Fracture"
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|Silk
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|“And She Had Been So Reasonable”
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|“Inheritance”
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|“Saint Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls”
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|“[Ir]reversible”
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|“Autogas Ferryman”
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References
External links
- Stoker Award on the HWA web page
- Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees