World Fantasy Award - Anthology (Awarded by World Fantasy Convention)

Awards List

2022

Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)
(Winner)
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Speculative Fiction for Dreamers
(Nominee)
Alex Hernandez

When Things Get Dark
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow
in When Things Get Dark

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume Two
(Nominee)
Paula Guran

Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World
(Nominee)
Eric J. Guignard

2019

Worlds Seen in Passing
(Winner)
Irene Gallo

Best New Horror #28
(Nominee)
Stephen Jones
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Robots vs. Fairies
(Nominee)
Novah Wolfe
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Sword and Sonnet
(Nominee)
E. Catherine Tobler
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Robots vs. Fairies
(Nominee)
Dominik Parisien

Sword and Sonnet
(Nominee)
Aidan Doyle

Sword and Sonnet
(Nominee)
Rachael K. Jones

The Book of Magic
(Nominee)
Gardner Dozois

2018

The New Voices of Fantasy
(Winner)
Peter S. Beagle

Black Feathers
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories
(Nominee)
Mahvesh Murad

The Best of Subterranean
(Nominee)
William Schafer

Book of Swords
(Nominee)
Gardner Dozois

2017

Clockwork Phoenix 5
(Nominee)
Mike Allen

Children of Lovecraft
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016
(Nominee)
John Joseph Adams

The Starlit Wood
(Nominee)
Dominik Parisien

2016

She Walks in Shadows
(Winner)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Doll Collection
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

Aickman's Heirs
(Nominee)
Simon Strantzas

2015

Monstrous Affections
(Winner)
Candlewick Press

Long Hidden
(Nominee)
Multiple Authors

Fearful Symmetries
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

Rogues
(Nominee)
Multiple Authors

Shadows & Tall Trees 2014
(Nominee)
Multiple Authors

2014

Dangerous Women
(Winner)
Tor Books

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

The Fearsome Journeys
(Nominee)
Jonathan Strahan

Xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths
(Nominee)
Kate Bernheimer

The End of the Road
(Nominee)
Solaris Books

2013

Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic
(Nominee)
Eduardo Jimenez Mayo

Under My Hat
(Nominee)
Jonathan Strahan

Epic: Legends of Fantasy
(Nominee)
John Joseph Adams

Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane
(Nominee)
Solaris Books

2012

The Weird
(Winner)
Jeff VanderMeer

The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities
(Nominee)
Ann VanderMeer

Blood and Other Cravings
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

A Book of Horrors
(Nominee)
Stephen Jones

2011

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
(Winner)
Penguin Books

Stories: All-new Tales
(Nominee)
Neil Gaiman

Swords & Dark Magic
(Nominee)
Jonathan Strahan

Haunted Legends
(Nominee)
Nick Mamatas

The Way of the Wizard
(Nominee)
John Joseph Adams

Black Wings of Cthulhu
(Nominee)
S.T. Joshi

2010

American Fantastic Tales:Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
(Winner)
Peter Straub

Eclipse 3
(Nominee)
Jonathan Strahan

Songs of the Dying Earth
(Nominee)
George R.R. Martin

2009

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
(Winner)
Hal Duncan

The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

The Living Dead
(Nominee)
John Joseph Adams

2008

Inferno
(Winner)
Ellen Datlow

Logorrhea
(Nominee)
John Klima

Wizards: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy
(Nominee)
Penguin Books

The Coyote Road
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

2007

Salon Fantastique
(Winner)
Ellen Datlow

Retro Pulp Tales
(Nominee)
Joe R. Lansdale

Firebirds Rising
(Nominee)
Francesca Lia Block

Twenty Epics
(Nominee)
Susan Groppi; David Moles

2006

Carolina Man
(Winner)
Virginia Kantra

Polyphony 5
(Nominee)
Deborah Layne

Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth
(Nominee)
Stephen Jones

2005

The First Heroes
(Nominee)
Harry Turtledove

The Faery Reel
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

2004

Trampoline: An Anthology
(Nominee)
Kelly Link

2003

The Green Man
(Winner)
Ellen Datlow

2002

The Museum of Horrors
(Winner)
Dennis Etchison

The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
(Nominee)
Stephen Jones

2001

Vanishing Acts
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

2000

999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense
(Nominee)
Al Sarrantonio

1999

Starlight 2
(Nominee)
Patrick Nielsen Hayden

The Best of Crank!
(Nominee)
Bryan Cholfin

Legends
(Nominee)
Robert Silverberg

1998

Modern Classics of Fantasy
(Nominee)
Gardner Dozois

1996

Dark Love
(Nominee)
Nancy A. Collins

1994

Full Spectrum 4
(Winner)
Lou Aronica

Christmas Forever
(Nominee)
David G. Hartwell

1993

Metahorror
(Winner)
Dennis Etchison

Narrow Houses
(Nominee)
Peter Crowther
  • / Horror
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Freak Show
(Nominee)
F. Paul Wilson

Grails
(Nominee)
Richard Gilliam

1992

When the Music's Over
(Nominee)
Lewis Shiner

Final Shadows
(Nominee)
Charles L. Grant

After the King
(Nominee)
Martin H. Greenberg

A Whisper of Blood
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

1991

Walls of Fear
(Nominee)
Kathryn Cramer

Alien Sex
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

Borderlands
(Nominee)
Thomas F. Monteleone

1990

Blood Is Not Enough
(Nominee)
Ellen Datlow

Razored Saddles
(Nominee)
Joe R. Lansdale

Award Categories

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Anthology/Collection

Collection

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