British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology

British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
Awarded forCollection of works by multiple authors
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Fantasy Society
First award1991 (1991)
Websitebritishfantasysociety.org
RelatedBritish Fantasy Award for Best Collection

The British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.

History

The award for "Best Collection" was originally given to both anthologies and collections. After 1998, the award was divided into the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and the award for Best Anthology.[1]

Winners and shortlist

  *   Winners

Year Editor[a] Work Publisher Ref.
1999 Stephen Jones* Dark Terrors 4: the Gollancz Book of Horror Gollancz [2]
David Sutton*
Avram Davidson (author) The Avram Davidson Treasury Tor Books [2]
Robert Silverberg
Grania Davis
Gahan Wilson (author) The Cleft and other Odd Tales Tor Books [2]
Richard Ford The Granta Book of the American Long Story Granta [2]
Robert Silverberg Legends Tor Books / Harper Voyager [2]
Jeff VanderMeer Leviathan, Volume Two The Ministry of Whimsy Press [2]
Rose Secrest
Stephen Jones The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 Robinson [2]
Steven Savile Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden Tanjen [2]
2000 Stephen Jones* The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 Robinson [3]
Al Sarrantonio 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense Avon [3]
John Pelan The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique Shadowlands Press [3]
Stephen Jones White of the Moon: New Tales of Madness and Dread Pumpkin Books [3]
Ellen Datlow The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press [3]
Terri Windling
2001 Brian Willis* Hideous Progeny: a Frankenstein Anthology Razorblade Press [4]
Stephen Jones Dark Terrors 5 Gollancz [4]
David Sutton
M. P. N. Sims F20: One Enigmatic Press / British Fantasy Society [4]
L. H. Maynard
David J. Howe
Stephen Jones The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11 Robinson [4]
Mike Chinn Swords Against the Millennium Alchemy Press [4]
2002 Stephen Jones* The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 12 Robinson [5]
Peter Crowther Futures Gollancz [5]
Stephen Jones The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women Robinson [5]
David Sutton Phantoms of Venice Shadow Publishing [5]
Ellen Datlow The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press [5]
Terri Windling
2003 Stephen Jones* Keep Out the Night PS Publishing [6]
Frank M. Robinson Art of Imagination: 20th Century Visions of Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Collectors Press [6]
Robert Weinberg
Randy Broecker
Stephen Jones Dark Terrors 6 Gollancz [6]
David Sutton
Robert Silverberg Fantasy: The Best of 2001 ibooks [6]
Karen Haber
Stephen Jones The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 Robinson [6]
Ellen Datlow The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press [6]
Terri Windling
2004 Stephen Jones* The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 Robinson [7]
Joel Lane Beneath the Ground Alchemy Press [7]
Stephen Jones By Moonlight Only PS Publishing [7]
Andy Cox Crimewave 7: The Last Sunset TTA Press [7]
Jeff VanderMeer The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases Night Shade Books [7]
Mark Roberts
Andy W. Robertson William Hope Hodgson's Night Lands, Volume 1: Eternal Love Wildside Press [7]
2005 Andrew Hook* The Alsiso Project Elastic Press [8]
Barbara Roden Acquainted with the Night Ash-Tree Press [8]
Christopher Roden
Stephen Jones The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 Robinson [8]
Jeff VanderMeer The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases Tor UK [8]
Mark Roberts
Ellen Datlow The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press [8]
Kelly Link
Gavin J. Grant
2006 Allen Ashley* The Elastic Book of Numbers Elastic Press [9]
Stephen Jones Don't Turn Out the Light PS Publishing [9]
Peter Crowther Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Members of the Macabre Cemetery Dance Publications [9]
Stephen Jones The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 Constable & Robinson [9]
Gary Fry Poe's Progeny Gray Friar Press [9]
2007 Gary Couzens* Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music Elastic Press [10]
Stephen Jones The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17 Robinson [10]
Alison L. R. Davies Shrouded by Darkness Telos [10]
Ellen Datlow The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press [10]
Gavin J. Grant
Kelly Link
2008 Stephen Jones* The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18 Robinson [11]
Charles Black The Black Book of Horror Mortbury Press [11]
Ian Alexander Martin The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories Humdrumming [11]
John Grant New Writings in the Fantastic Pendragon [11]
D. F. Lewis Zencore! Megazanthus [11]
2009 Stephen Jones* The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19 Constable & Robinson [12]
D. F. Lewis Cone Zero Megazanthus [12]
Ian Whates Myth-Understandings NewCon [12]
Allen Ashley Subtle Edens Elastic Press [12]
Ian Alexander Martin The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Humdrumming [12]
Gary McMahon We Fade to Grey Pendragon [12]
2010 Stephen Jones* The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20 Robinson [13]
D. F. Lewis Cern Zoo: Nemonymous 9 Megazanthus [13]
George R. R. Martin Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance Harper Voyager [13]
Gardner Dozois
Marie O'Regan Hellbound Hearts Pocket Books [13]
Paul Kane
Holly Stacey Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth and Scale Wyvern [13]
2011 Johnny Mains* Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories Noose & Gibbet [14]
Jonathan Oliver End of the Line Solaris Books [14]
Stephen Jones The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 Robinson [14]
Allyson Bird Never Again Gray Friar Press [14]
Joel Lane
Stephen Jones Zombie Apocalypse! Robinson [14]
2012 Jeff VanderMeer* The Weird Corvus [15]
Ann VanderMeer*
Stephen Jones A Book of Horrors Jo Fletcher [15]
Jonathan Oliver House of Fear Solaris Books [15]
Conrad Williams Gutshot PS Publishing [15]
2013 Jonathan Oliver* Magic: an Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane Solaris Books [16]
Paul Finch Terror Tales of the Cotswolds Gray Friar Press [16]
Marie O'Regan The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women Robinson [16]
Anne C. Perry A Town Called Pandemonium Jurassic London [16]
Jared Shurin
2014 Jonathan Oliver* End of the Road Solaris Books [17]
Charles Black The Tenth Black Book of Horror Mortbury Press [17]
Stephen Jones Fearie Tales Jo Fletcher [17]
David Rix Rustblind and Silverbright Eibonvale [17]
Mhairi Simpson Tales of Eve Fox Spirit [17]
2015 Christie Yant* Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue Lightspeed [18]
Jan Edwards The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2 Alchemy Press [18]
Jenny Barber
Paul Finch Terror Tales of Wales Gray Friar Press [18]
Joel Lane Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease Gray Friar Press [18]
Tom Johnstone
Mark Morris The Spectral Book of Horror Stories Spectral [18]
2016 Ellen Datlow* The Doll Collection Tor Books [19]
Margrét Helgadóttir African Monsters Fox Spirit [19]
Jo Thomas
Johnny Mains Best British Horror 2015 Salt Publishing [19]
Mark Morris The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories Spectral [19]
Simon Strantzas Aickman's Heirs Undertow [19]
2017 Nalo Hopkinson* People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction Lightspeed [20]
Kristine Ong*
Roz Clarke Fight Like a Girl Kristell Ink [20]
Joanne Hall
Peter Coleborn Something Remains Alchemy Press [20]
Pauline E. Dungate
Margrét Helgadóttir Asian Monsters Fox Spirit [20]
Dominik Parisien The Starlit Wood Saga Press [20]
Navah Wolfe
Conrad Williams Dead Letters Titan Books [20]
2018 New Fears, ed. Mark Morris
2084, ed. George Sandison
Dark Satanic Mills: Great British Horror Book 2, ed. Steve Shaw
Imposter Syndrome, ed. James Everington & Dan Howarth
Pacific Monsters, ed. Margret Helgadottir
2019 Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5, ed. Robert Shearman & Michael Kelly
The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, ed. Ellen Datlow
Humanagerie, ed. Sarah Doyle & Allen Ashley
New Fears 2, ed. Mark Morris
This Dreaming Isle, ed. Dan Coxon
2020 New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction for People of Color, ed. Nisi Shawl
A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, ed. Jennifer Brozek
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, ed. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales, ed. David Gullen
Wonderland, ed. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane
The Woods, ed. Phil Sloman
2021 Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
After Sundown, ed. Mark Morris
Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, ed. Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn
Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, ed. Michael Kelly
2022 Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction, ed. Xueting C. Ni
Dreamland: Other Stories, ed. Sophie Essex
Out of the Darkness, ed. Dan Coxon
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead, ed. Aaron J. French & Jess Landry
When Things Get Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2023 Someone in Time, ed. Jonathan Strahan
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, ed. Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight |-
The Book of Queer Saints, ed. Mae Murray
Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana, ed. Steve J. Shaw
Isolation: The Horror Anthology, ed. Dan Coxon
Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer – Lee C. Conley, H.L. Tinsley, J.E. Hannaford, David Green, Derek Power, C. Marry Hultman, Damien Larkin and C.F. Welburn
2024 Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, ed. Jordan Peele, (Picador)
At the Lighthouse, ed. Sophie Essex, (Eibonvale Press)
Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology, ed. Wole Talabi, (Android Press)
Never Whistle at Night, ed. Shane Hawk, (Vintage)
Something Peculiar: Great British Horror 8, ed. Steve J. Shaw, (Black Shuck Books)
The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy, eds. Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane, (Titan)
2025 Bury Your Gays – An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, Sofia Ajram, Ghoulish Books
Nova Scotia 2, Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson – Luna Press Publishing
I Want That Twink Obliterated!, Trip Galey, C.L. McCartney, and Robert Berg, Bona Books
Fight Like A Girl 2, Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall, Wizard's Tower Press
Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology, Dan Coxon, PS Publishing
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2023), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Eziaghighala, Caezik SF & Fantasy

Notes

  1. ^ Editor, unless noted otherwise

References

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