# Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for an anthology.

## Winners and nominees

Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.
Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology winners and nominees :
| Year | Recipient | Title | Result |
| 1998 | ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg & Robert Weinberg | Horrors! 365 Scary Stories | Winner |
| 1998 | ed. Robert Bloch | Robert Bloch's Psychos | Nomination |
| 1998 | ed. Richard Chizmar | Best of Cemetery Dance | Nomination |
| 1998 | ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 11th Annual Collection | Nomination |
| 1999 | ed. Al Sarrantonio | 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense | Winner |
| 1999 | ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 12th Annual Collection | Nomination |
| 1999 | ed. Stephen Jones | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | Nomination |
| 1999 | ed. John Pelan | The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique | Nomination |
| 2000 | ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 13th Annual Collection | Winner |
| 2000 | ed. Steve Eller | Brainbox: The Real Horror | Nomination |
| 2000 | ed. Brian A. Hopkins | Extremes: Fantasy & Horror from the Ends of the Earth | Nomination |
| 2000 | ed. Richard Laymon | Bad News | Nomination |
| 2001 | ed. Brian A. Hopkins | Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth | Winner |
| 2001 | ed. Richard Chizmar | Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas | Nomination |
| 2001 | ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 14th Annual Collection | Nomination |
| 2001 | ed. Brian Keene | The Best of Horrorfind | Nomination |
| 2002 | ed. John Pelan | The Darker Side | Winner |
| 2002 | ed. Richard Chizmar | Shivers | Nomination |
| 2002 | ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 15th Annual Collection | Nomination |
| 2002 | ed. Stephen Jones | The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | Nomination |
| 2002 | ed. Benjamin Adams and John Pelan | Children of Cthulhu | Nomination |
| 2003 | ed. Elizabeth Monteleone and Thomas F. Monteleone | Borderlands 5 | Winner |
| 2003 | ed. Bill Congreve | Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural | Nomination |
| 2003 | ed. Ramsey Campbell, Jack Dann, and Dennis Etchison | Gathering The Bones | Nomination |
| 2003 | ed. Ellen Datlow | The Dark | Nomination |
| 2003 | ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 16th Annual Collection | Nomination |
| 2004 | ed. Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant, and Kelly Link | The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 17th Annual Collection | Winner |
| 2004 | ed. Kealan-Patrick Burke | Quietly Now | Nomination |
| 2004 | ed. Jeanne Cavelos | The Many Faces of Van Helsing | Nomination |
| 2004 | ed. Richard Chizmar | Shivers III | Nomination |
| 2004 | ed. Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden | Acquainted with the Night | Nomination |
| 2005 | ed. Jeff Gelb and Del Howison | Dark Delicacies | Winner |
| 2005 | ed. Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick | Outsiders | Nomination |
| 2005 | ed. Stephen Jones | Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | Nomination |
| 2005 | ed. Julia Sevin and RJ Sevin | Corpse Blossoms | Nomination |
| 2006 | ed. Joe R. Lansdale | Retro Pulp Tales | Winner (tie) |
| 2006 | ed. John Skipp | Mondo Zombie | Winner (tie) |
| 2006 | ed. Gill Ainsworth and Jason Sizemore | Aegri Somnia | Nomination |
| 2006 | ed. John Pelan | Alone on the Darkside | Nomination |
| 2007 | ed. Gary A. Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble | Five Strokes to Midnight | Winner |
| 2007 | ed. Ellen Datlow | Inferno | Nomination |
| 2007 | ed. Jeff Gelb and Del Howison | Dark Delicacies 2: Fear | Nomination |
| 2007 | ed. Tom Piccirilli | Midnight Premiere | Nomination |
| 2007 | ed. Barbara Roden and Christopher Roden | At Ease with the Dead | Nomination |
| 2008 | ed. Chad Helder and Vince A. Liaguno | Unspeakable Horror | Winner |
| 2008 | ed. Bill Breedlove | Like a Chinese Tattoo | Nomination |
| 2008 | ed. R. J. Cavender | Horror Library, Vol. 3 | Nomination |
| 2008 | ed. Tim Deal | Beneath the Surface | Nomination |
| 2009 | ed. Christopher Conlon | He is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson | Winner |
| 2009 | ed. Ellen Datlow | Lovecraft Unbound | Nomination |
| 2009 | ed. Ellen Datlow | Poe | Nomination |
| 2009 | ed. Lisa Morton | Midnight Walk | Nomination |
| 2010 | ed. Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas | Haunted Legends | Winner |
| 2010 | ed. Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon | Dark Faith | Nomination |
| 2010 | ed. R. J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris | Horror Library, Vol. 4 | Nomination |
| 2010 | ed. Angela Challis and Marty Young | Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears | Nomination |
| 2010 | ed. Christopher Golden | The New Dead | Nomination |
| 2011 | ed. John Skipp | Demons: Encounters with the Devil and his Minions, Fallen Angels and the Possessed | Winner |
| 2011 | ed. Ellen Datlow | Blood And Other Cravings | Nomination |
| 2011 | ed. Jack Dann and Nick Gevers | Ghosts By Gaslight | Nomination |
| 2011 | ed. Tracy L. Carbone | NEHW Presents: Epitaphs | Nomination |
| 2011 | ed. Ellen Datlow | Supernatural Noir | Nomination |
| 2011 | ed. Frank J. Hutton | Tattered Souls 2 | Nomination |
| 2012 | ed. Mort Castle and Sam Weller | Shadow Show | Winner |
| 2012 | ed. Eric J. Guignard | Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations | Nomination |
| 2012 | ed. Eric Miller | Hell Comes to Hollywood | Nomination |
| 2012 | ed. R. J. Cavender, Mark C. Scioneaux, and Robert S. Wilson | Horror for Good: A Charitable Anthology | Nomination |
| 2012 | ed. Stan Swanson | Slices of Flesh | Nomination |
| 2013 | ed. Eric J. Guignard | After Death... | Winner |
| 2013 | ed. R. J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris | Horror Library: Volume 5 | Nomination |
| 2013 | ed. Michael Knost and Nancy Eden Siegel | Barbers & Beauties | Nomination |
| 2013 | ed. Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. | The Grimscribe’s Puppets | Nomination |
| 2013 | ed. Sharon Lawson and Anthony Rivera | Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror, Volume One | Nomination |
| 2014 | ed. Ellen Datlow | Fearful Symmetries | Winner |
| 2014 | ed. Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas and Dennis Widmyer | Burnt Tongues | Nomination |
| 2014 | ed. Jason V Brock | A Darke Phantastique | Nomination |
| 2014 | ed. Brett J. Talley | Limbus, Inc., Book II | Nomination |
| 2014 | ed. Michael Bailey | Qualia Nous | Nomination |
| 2015 | ed. Michael Bailey | The Library of the Dead | Winner |
| 2015 | ed. Ellen Datlow | The Doll Collection | Nomination |
| 2015 | ed. Christopher Golden | Seize the Night | Nomination |
| 2015 | ed. Del Howison and Joseph Nassise | Midian Unmade | Nomination |
| 2015 | ed. Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles | nEvermore! | Nomination |
| 2015 | ed. Jonathan Maberry | X-Files: Trust No One | Nomination |
| 2016 | ed. Elizabeth Monteleone and Thomas F. Monteleone | Borderlands 6 | Winner |
| 2016 | ed. Michael Bailey | Chiral Mad 3 | Nomination |
| 2016 | ed. Alessandro Manzetti | The Beauty of Death | Nomination |
| 2016 | ed. Billie Sue Mosiman | Fright Mare -- Women Write Horror | Nomination |
| 2016 | ed. Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward | Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories | Nomination |
| 2017 | ed. Doug Murano | Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders | Winner |
| 2017 | ed. Jodi Renee Lester and Alessandro Manzetti | The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2: Death by Water | Nomination |
| 2017 | ed. Linda D. Addison, Kinitra Brooks, and Susana Morris | Sycorax's Daughters | Nomination |
| 2017 | ed. Ellen Datlow | Black Feathers | Nomination |
| 2017 | ed. Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero | Nights of the Living Dead | Nomination |
| 2018 | ed. Ellen Datlow | The Devil and the Deep | Winner |
| 2018 | ed. James Chambers, April Grey, and Robert Masterson | A New York State of Fright | Nomination |
| 2018 | ed. Eric J. Guignard | A World of Horror | Nomination |
| 2018 | ed. Lee Murray | Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror | Nomination |
| 2018 | ed. D. Alexander Ward | Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road | Nomination |
| 2019 | ed. Ellen Datlow | Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories | Winner |
| 2019 | ed. Jennifer Brozek | A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods | Nomination |
| 2019 | ed. Christopher Golden and James A. Moore | The Twisted Book of Shadows | Nomination |
| 2019 | ed. Eric J. Guignard | Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror | Nomination |
| 2019 | ed. Robert S. Wilson | Nox Pareidolia | Nomination |
| 2020 | ed. Geneve Flynn and Lee Murray | Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women | Winner |
| 2020 | ed. Michael Bailey and Doug Murano | Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors | Nomination |
| 2020 | ed. Samantha Kolesnik | Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror | Nomination |
| 2020 | ed. Sara Tantlinger | Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror | Nomination |
| 2020 | ed. Mercedes M. Yardley | Arterial Bloom | Nomination |
| 2021 | ed. Ellen Datlow | When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson | Winner |
| 2021 | ed. James Chambers | Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign | Nomination |
| 2021 | ed. Aaron J. French and Jess Landry | There is No Death, There are No Dead | Nomination |
| 2021 | ed. Eric J. Guignard | Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World | Nomination |
| 2021 | ed. Eugene Johnson | Attack From the '80s | Nomination |
| 2022 | ed. Ellen Datlow | Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous | Nomination |
| 2022 | ed. Sadie Hartmann and Ashley Saywers | Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology | Nomination |
| 2022 | ed. Christi Nogle and Willow Becker | Mother: Tales of Love and Terror | Nomination |
| 2022 | ed. Lindy Ryan | Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga | Nomination |
| 2022 | ed. Sara Tantlinger | Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror | Nomination |