Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction

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Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction
Awarded for	Superior achievement in horror writing for short fiction
Presented by	Horror Writers Association
Eligibility	Published in English
Formerly called	Best short story
First awarded	1987 (1987)
Most recent winner	Cindy O’Quinn, “Quondam” (2023)
Most awards	Nancy Holder (3)
Most nominations	Gary A. Braunbeck, Mort Castle, Lisa Manetti, John Palisano, Steve Rasnic Tem (4)
Website	www.thebramstokerawards.com
Related	Bram Stoker Award

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

Year	Recipient	Title	Result
1987	Robert R. McCammon	"The Deep End"	Winner
	Jonathan Carroll	"Friend's Best Man"	Nominee
	Charles L. Grant	"This Old Man"
	F. Paul Wilson	"Day-Tay-Vao"
	F. Paul Wilson	"Traps"
1988	Joe R. Lansdale	"Night They Missed the Horror Show"	Winner
	Ray Bradbury	"The Thing at the Top of the Stairs"	Nominee
	Harlan Ellison	"She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother"
	Carol Orlock	"Nobody Lives There Now"
	Lucius Shepard	"Jack's Decline"
	Chet Williamson	"The Music of the Dark Time"
1989	Robert R. McCammon	"Eat Me"	Winner
	Edward Bryant	"A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned"	Nominee
	Kathryn Ptacek	"Each Night, Each Year"
	Steve Rasnic Tem	"Bodies and Heads"
	Chet Williamson	"'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy' He Said"
1990	David B. Silva	"The Calling"	Winner
	Edward Bryant	"The Loneliest Number"	Nominee
	Steve Rasnic Tem	"Back Windows"
	Karl Edward Wagner	"But You'll Never Follow Me"
	Chet Williamson	"From the Papers of Helmut Hecher"
1991	Nancy Holder	"Lady Madonna"	Winner
	Poppy Z. Brite	"The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire"	Nominee
	Joe R. Lansdale	"Love Doll: A Fable"
	Grant Morrison	"The Braille Encyclopaedia"
	Maxine O'Callaghan	"Wolf Winter"
	Al Sarrantonio	"Richard's Head"
1992	Dan Simmons	"This Year's Class Picture"	Winner
	Nancy Kilpatrick	"Farm Wife"	Nominee
	Karl Edward Wagner	"Did They Get You to Trade?"
	Gahan Wilson	"Come One, Come All"
	Douglas E. Winter	"Bright Lights, Big Zombie"
1993	Nancy Holder	"I Hear the Mermaids Singing"	Winner
	Sherman Alexie	"Distances"	Nominee
	William S. Burroughs	"Death Fiend Guerrillas"
	Dennis Etchison	"The Dog Park"
	Wayne Allen Sallee	"Pain Grin"
1994	Nancy Holder	"Cafe Endless: Spring Rain"	Co-Winner
	Jack Ketchum	"The Box"	Co-Winner
	Edward Lee	"Mr. Torso"	Nominee
	Lucy Taylor	"Things of Which We Do Not Speak"	Nominee
1995	Harlan Ellison	"Chatting With Anubis"	Winner
	Harry Crews	"Becky Lives"	Nominee
	Thomas Ligotti	"The Bungalow House"
	William Browning Spencer	"The Death of the Novel"
1996	P. D. Cacek	"metalica"	Winner
	Robert Devereaux	"The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman"	Nominee
	Graham Masterton	"The Secret Shih Tan"
	Brian Stableford	"The House of Mourning"
	Karl Edward Wagner	"Plan 10 from Inner Space"
1997	Edo van Belkom and David Nickle	"Rat Food"	Winner
	Douglas Clegg	"I Am Infinite, I Contain Multit	Nominee
	Scott Edelman	"A Plague on Both Your Houses"
	Brian Hodge	"Madame Babylon"

Short fiction

Year	Recipient	Title	Result
1998	Bruce Holland Rogers	"The Dead Boy at Your Window"	Winner
	Edo van Belkom	"The Rug"	Nominee
	Tina L. Jens	"Blues-Born"
	Stephen King	"Autopsy Room Four"
1999	F. Paul Wilson	"Aftershock"	Winner
	P. D. Cacek	"The Grave"	Nominee
	Ramsey Campbell	"The Entertainment"
	Steve Rasnic Tem	"Halloween Street"
2000	Jack Ketchum	"Gone"	Winner
	Gerard Daniel Houarner	"Dead Cat Bounce"	Nominee
	Robert J. Sawyer	"Fallen Angel"
	Karen E. Taylor	"Mexican Moon"
2001	Tim Lebbon	"Reconstructing Amy"	Winner
	Mort Castle	"I Am Your Need"	Nominee
	Jack Ketchum	"The Haunt"
	David B. Silva	"Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?"
2002	Tom Piccirilli	"The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair"	Winner
	Mort Castle	"Disappearances"	Nominee
	Christopher Fowler	"The Green Man"
	Charlee Jacob	"The Plague Species"
	China Miéville	"Details"
2003	Gary A. Braunbeck	"Duty"	Winner
	Scott Edelman	"The Last Supper"	Nominee
	Stephen King	"Harvey's Dream"
	Joyce Carol Oates	"The Haunting"
	George Saunders	"The Red Bow"
2004	Nancy Etchemendy	"Nimitseahpah"	Winner
	Gary A. Braunbeck	"Just Out of Reach"	Nominee
	Douglas Clegg	"A Madness of Starlings"
	John Farris	"Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland"
	Margo Lanagan	"Singing My Sister Down"
	Chuck Palahniuk	"Guts"
2005	Gary A. Braunbeck	"We Now Pause for Station Identification"	Co-winners
	Clive Barker	"Haeckel's Tale"	Nominee
	Mort Castle	"As Others See Us"
	Yvonne Navarro	"Times of Atonement"
	Steve Rasnic Tem	"Invisible"
2006	Lisa Morton	"Tested"	Winner
	Mort Castle	"FYI"	Nominee
	Yvonne Navarro	"Feeding the Dead Inside"
	Gene O'Neill	"Balance"
	Stephen Volk	"31/10"
2007	David Niall Wilson	"The Gentle Brush of Wings"	Winner
	C. Dean Andersson	"The Death Wagon Rolls on By"	Nominee
	John Everson	"Letting Go"
	Paul G. Tremblay	"The Teacher"
	Paul G. Tremblay	"There's No Light Between Floor"
	Lisa Tuttle	"Closet Dreams"
2008	Sarah Langan	"The Lost"	Winner
	Scott Edelman	"Petrified"	Nominee
	Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt	"The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft"
	M. Rickert	"Evidence of Love in A Case of Abandonment"
	Lee Thomas	"Turtle"
2009	Norman Prentiss	"In the Porches of My Ears"	Winner
	Nate Kenyon	"Keeping Watch"	Nominee
	Weston Ochse	"The Crossing of Aldo Ray"
	Harry Shannon	"The Night Nurse"
2010	Joe R. Lansdale	"The Folding Man"	Winner
	Gary A. Braunbeck	"Return to Mariabronn"	Nominee
	Lisa Manetti	"1925; A Fall River Halloween"
	Nate Southard	"In the Middle of Poplar Street"
	Mark W. Worthen	"Final Draft"
2011	Stephen King	"Herman Wouk is Still Alive"	Winner
	Adam-Troy Castro	"Her Husband's Hands"	Nominee
	Ken Lillie-Paetz	"Hypergraphia"
	Gene O'Neill	"Graffiti Sonata"
	George Saunders	"Home"
	Kaaron Warren	"All You Can Do Is Breathe"
2012	Lucy Snyder	"Magdala Amygdala"	Winner
	Bruce Boston	"Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest"	Nominee
	Joe McKinney	"Bury My Heart at Marvin Gardens"
	Weston Ochse	"Righteous"
	John Palisano	"Available Light"
2013	David Gerrold	"Night Train to Paris"	Winner
	Michael Bailey	"Primal Tongue"	Nominee
	Patrick Freivald	"Snapshot"
	Lisa Manetti	"The Hunger Artist"
	John Palisano	"The Geminis"
	Michael Reaves	"Code 666"
2014	Usman T. Malik	"The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family"	Co-Winner
	Rena Mason	"Ruminations"	Co-Winner
	Hal Bodner	"Hot Tub"	Nominee
	Sydney Leigh	"Baby's Breath"
	John Palisano	"Splinterette"
	Damien Angelica Walters	"The Floating Girls: A Documentary"
2015	John Palisano	"Happy Joe's Rest Stop"	Winner
	Kate Jonez	"All the Day You'll Have Good Luck"	Nominee
	Gene O'Neill	"The Algernon Effect"
	Damien Angelica Walters	"Sing Me Your Scars"
	Alyssa Wong	"Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers"
2016	Joyce Carol Oates	"The Crawl Space"	Winner
	Michael Bailey	"Time is a Face on the Water"	Nominee
	Hal Bodner	"A Rift in Reflection"
	Christopher Golden	"The Bad Hour"
	Lisa Manetti	"ArbeitMacht Frei"
2017	Lisa Manetti	"Apocalypse Then"	Winner
	Michael Bailey	"I Will Be the Reflection Until the End"	Nominee
	James Chambers	"A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills"
	Annie Neugebauer	"So Sings the Siren"
	Mercedes M. Yardley	"Loving You Darkly"
2018	Jess Landry	"Mutter"	Winner
	Lee Murray	"Dead End Town"	Nominee
	Annie Neugebauer	"Glove Box"
	John F. D. Taff	"A Winter's Tale"
	Kyla Lee Ward	"And in Her Eyes the City Drowned"
2019	Gwendolyn Kiste	"The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary)"	Winner
	Greg Chapman	"The Book of Last Words"	Nominee
	Jess Landry	"Bury Me in Tar and Twine"
	Cindy O'Quinn	"Lydia"
	Tim Waggoner	"A Touch of Madness"
2020	Josh Malerman	"One Last Transformation"	Winner
	Meghan Arcuri	"Am I Missing the Sunlight?"	Nominee
	Kurt Fawver	"Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1"
	Cindy O'Quinn	"The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road"
	Kyla Lee Ward	"Should Fire Remember the Fuel?"
2021	Lee Murray	"Permanent Damage"	Winner
	Carol Gyzander	"The Yellow Crown"	Nominee
	Cindy O'Quinn	"A Gathering at the Mountain"
	Anna Taborska	"Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail"
	Kyla Lee Ward	"A Whisper in the Death Pit"
2022	Aaron Dries	"Nona Doesn’t Dance"	Nominee
	Douglas Gwilym	"Poppy’s Poppy"
	J. A. W. McCarthy	"The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body"
	Anna Taborska	"A Song for Barnaby Jones"
	Anna Taborska	"The Star"
	Mercedes M. Yardley	"Fracture"

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Current categories	Novel (1987–) First Novel (1987–) Young Adult Novel (2011–) Graphic Novel (2011–) Long Fiction (1998–) Short Fiction (1998–) Fiction Collection (1998–) Screenplay (1998–2004, 2011–) Anthology (1998–) Non-Fiction (1987–) Poetry Collection (2000–) Lifetime Achievement (1987–)
Discontinued categories	Novelette (1987–1997) Short Story (1987–1997) Collection (1987–1997) Other Media (1993, 1998–2000) Illustrated Narrative (1998–2004) Work for Young Readers (1998–2004) Alternative Forms (2001–2004)

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