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Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection

Category of the American horror fiction award.

About Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection

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.

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Recent winners

YearWinnerWinning work
2025John Langan—
2023Gemma FilesBlood from the Air
2022Cassandra KhawBreakable Things
2021Gemma FilesIn That Endlessness, Our End
2020Lee MurrayGrotesque: Monster Stories
2019Paul G. TremblayGrowing Things and Other Stories
2018Eric J. GuignardThat Which Grows Wild
2017Joe HillStrange Weather

From Wikidata; the list may be incomplete for some years.

Eligibility and entering

Check the official rules of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection for the current eligibility window, accepted formats, residency or language requirements and any entry fee. For most established prizes the publisher submits on the author's behalf, often with a limit on entries per imprint.

If you are self-published, look for an explicit statement that independently published books are accepted, and budget for entry fees and copies for judges.

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