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 shortlists

  *   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 The 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 Mark Morris* New Fears Titan Books [21]
George Sandison 2084 Unsung Stories [21]
Steve Shaw Dark Satanic Mills: Great British Horror Book 2 Black Shuck Books [21]
James Everington Imposter Syndrome Dark Minds Press [21]
Dan Howarth
Margrét Helgadóttir Pacific Monsters Fox Spirit [21]
2019 Robert Shearman* Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5 Undertow [22]
Michael Kelly*
Ellen Datlow The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea Night Shade Books [22]
Sarah Doyle Humanagerie Eibonvale [22]
Allen Ashley
Mark Morris New Fears 2 Titan Books [22]
Dan Coxon This Dreaming Isle Unsung Stories [22]
2020 Nisi Shawl* New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color Solaris Books [23]
Jennifer Brozek A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods Pulse Publishing [23]
Ann VanderMeer The Big Book of Classic Fantasy Vintage Books [23]
Jeff VanderMeer
David Gullen Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales NewCon [23]
Marie O'Regan Wonderland Titan Books [23]
Paul Kane
Phil Sloman The Woods Hersham Horror [23]
2021 Zelda Knight* Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora Aurelia Leo [24]
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki*
Mark Morris After Sundown Flame Tree Publishing [24]
Lee Murray Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women Omnium Gatherum [24]
Geneve Flynn
Michael Kelly Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8 Undertow [24]
2022 Xueting Christine Ni* Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction Solaris Books [25]
Sophie Essex Dreamland: Other Stories Black Shuck Books [25]
Dan Coxon Out of the Darkness Unsung Stories [25]
Aaron J. French There Is No Death, There Are No Dead Crystal Lake [25]
Jess Landry
Ellen Datlow When Things Get Dark Titan Books [25]
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction Jembefola [25]
2023 Jonathan Strahan* Someone in Time Solaris Books [26]
Sheree Renée Thomas Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction Tordotcom [26]
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Zelda Knight
Mae Murray The Book of Queer Saints Medusa [26]
Steve J. Shaw Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana Black Shuck Books [26]
Dan Coxon Isolation: The Horror Anthology Titan Books [26]
Lee C. Conley et al. Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer Nordic [26]
2024 Jordan Peele* Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror Random House [27]
John Joseph Adams*
Sophie Essex At the Lighthouse Eibonvale [27]
Wole Talabi Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology Android Press [27]
Shane Hawk Never Whistle at Night Vintage Books [27]
Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
Steve J. Shaw Great British Horror 8 Black Shuck Books [27]
Marie O'Regan The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy Titan Books [27]
Paul Kane
2025 Sofia Ajram* Bury Your Gays – An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror Ghoulish [28]
Neil Williamson Nova Scotia 2 Luna Press Publishing [28]
Andrew J. Wilson
Trip Galey I Want That Twink Obliterated! Bona Books [28]
C. L. McCartney
Robert Berg
Roz Clarke Fight Like A Girl 2 Wizard's Tower Press [28]
Joanne Hall
Dan Coxon Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology PS Publishing [28]
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2023 Caezik SF & Fantasy [28]
Chinaza Eziaghighala
2026 J S Fields Lesbians In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before Space Wizard Press [29]
William C Tracey
Heather Tracey
Neil Williamson Blood in the Bricks NewCon Press [29]
Dave Jeffery This Way Lies Madness Flame Tree Publishing [29]
Lee Murray
Kristy Park Kulski Silk and Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora Bad Hand Books [29]

Notes

  1. ↑ Editor, unless noted otherwise

References

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  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2009 British Fantasy Awards Winners". Locus. 22 September 2009. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 "2010 British Fantasy Awards Winners". Locus. 21 September 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 "2011 British Fantasy Award Winners". Locus. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
  15. 1 2 3 4 "2012 British Fantasy Awards Winners". Locus. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
  16. 1 2 3 4 "2013 British Fantasy Awards". Locus. 3 November 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2026.
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  27. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "2024 British Fantasy Awards Winners". Locus. 14 October 2024. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
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