Winners and nominees

• 1987: The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
  
  
  • Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch
    Robert Bloch
    Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
    
    
  • Scared Stiff
    Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death
    Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death is a collection of horror stories on sexual themes by Ramsey Campbell, first published in the United States in 1987 by Scream/Press. The first British edition was published in 1989 by Macdonald. The book includes an introduction by Clive Barker and an afterword...
    
    by Ramsey Campbell
    Ramsey Campbell
    John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
    
    
  • Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner
    Karl Edward Wagner
    Karl Edward Wagner was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into...
    
    
  • All About Strange Monsters of The Recent Past by Howard Waldrop
    Howard Waldrop
    Howard Waldrop is a science fiction author who works primarily in short fiction.Waldrop's stories combine elements such as alternate history, American popular culture, the American South, old movies , classical mythology, and rock 'n' roll music. His style is sometimes obscure or elliptical...
    
    
• 1988: Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont
  Charles Beaumont
  Charles Beaumont was a prolific American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as "The Howling Man", "Miniature", and "Printer's Devil", but also penned the...
  
  
  • The Toynbee Convector
    The Toynbee Convector
    "The Toynbee Convector" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. First published in Playboy magazine in 1984, the story was subsequently featured in a 1988 short story collection also titled The Toynbee Convector.-Plot summary:...
    
    by Ray Bradbury
    Ray Bradbury
    Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
    
    
  • Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick McGrath
  • The Blood Kiss by Dennis Etchison
    Dennis Etchison
    Dennis William Etchison , is an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. Etchison refers to his own work as “rather dark, depressing, almost pathologically inward fiction about the individual in relation to the world.”Stephen King has called Dennis Etchison “one hell of a fiction...
    
    
  • Angry Candy
    Angry Candy
    Angry Candy is a 1988 collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison that is loosely organized around the theme of death. The title comes the last line of the poem "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" by E. E...
    
    by Harlan Ellison
    Harlan Ellison
    Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
    
    
  • Scare Tactics
    Scare Tactics
    Scare Tactics is a hidden camera/comedy television show, produced by Hallock Healey Entertainment. Its first two seasons aired from April 2003 to December 2004. After a hiatus, the show returned for a third season, beginning July 9, 2008. The first season of the show was hosted by Shannen Doherty....
    
    by John Farris
    John Farris
    John Lee Farris is an American writer, known largely for his work in the southern Gothic genre. He was born 1936 in Jefferson City, Missouri, to parents John Linder Farris and Eleanor Carter Farris . Raised in Tennessee, he graduated from Central High School in Memphis and attended Southwestern...
    
    
• 1989: Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson
  Richard Matheson
  Richard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been...
  
  
  • Blue World
    Blue World
    "Blue World" is a 1983 hit single by The Moody Blues. It was first released as single in August 1983, and was later released on the album The Present. "Blue World" was one of three singles from The Present, with the others being "Sitting at the Wheel" and "Running Water." Blue World also...
    
    by Robert R. McCammon
    Robert R. McCammon
    Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. He received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974. McCammon...
    
    
  • By Bizarre Hands
    By Bizarre Hands
    By Bizarre Hands is the first collection of short stories by American writer Joe R. Lansdale, published in 1989. The collection was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for best fiction collection, and contains two stories which won Stokers...
    
    by Joe R. Lansdale
    Joe R. Lansdale
    Joe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...
    
    
  • Patterns by Pat Cadigan
  • Soft and Others by F. Paul Wilson
    F. Paul Wilson
    Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer . Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school , and continued to write science fiction...
    
    
• 1990: Four Past Midnight
  Four Past Midnight
  Four Past Midnight is a collection of four novellas by Stephen King, published in 1990. The four stories are "The Langoliers"; "Secret Window, Secret Garden"; "The Library Policeman"; and "The Sun Dog".- The Langoliers :...
  
  by Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
  
  • Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub
    Peter Straub
    Peter Francis Straub is an American author and poet, most famous for his work in the horror genre. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award, placing him among the most-honored horror authors in...
    
    
  • Prayers To Broken Stones
    Prayers to Broken Stones
    Prayers to Broken Stones is a short story anthology by the American author Dan Simmons. It includes 13 of his earlier works, along with an introduction by Harlan Ellison in which the latter relates how he "discovered" Dan Simmons at the Colorado Mountain College's "Writers' Conference in the...
    
    by Dan Simmons
    Dan Simmons
    Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....
    
    
  • The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein
    Michael Blumlein
    Michael Blumlein, M.D. is a fiction writer and a physician. Most of his writing is in or near the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His novels include The Healer, The Movement of Mountains and X, Y. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award...
    
    
• 1991: Prayers to Broken Stones
  Prayers to Broken Stones
  Prayers to Broken Stones is a short story anthology by the American author Dan Simmons. It includes 13 of his earlier works, along with an introduction by Harlan Ellison in which the latter relates how he "discovered" Dan Simmons at the Colorado Mountain College's "Writers' Conference in the...
  
  by Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....
  
  
  • Waking Nightmares
    Waking Nightmares
    Waking Nightmares is a collection of horror stories by Ramsey Campbell, first published in 1991 by Tom Doherty. The first British edition was published in 1992 by Little, Brown...
    
    by Ramsey Campbell
    Ramsey Campbell
    John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
    
    
  • Sex Punks & Savage Sagas by Richard Stuphin
  • Naken Flesh of Feeling by J.N. Williamson
• 1992: Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge
  Norman Partridge
  Norman Partridge is an American author of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, Saguaro Riptide and The Ten Ounce Siesta. He is also the author of a Crow novel, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow...
  
  
  • Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom
    Elizabeth Engstrom
    Elizabeth Engstrom is best known as a speculative fiction writer. She was born Bette Lynn Gutzmer, but she legally changed her name to Elizabeth Engstom a few years after publishing her first novel under that pseudonym. She is married to Al Cratty, and sometimes writes under the name Liz Cratty as...
    
    
  • Fantastic Tales by I.U. Tarchetti
• 1993: Alone With The Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
  Ramsey Campbell
  John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
  
  
  • Close to the Bone by Lucy Taylor
    Lucy Taylor
    Lucy Taylor is a horror novel writer. Her novel, The Safety of Unknown Cities was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 1995, and the Deathrealm Award for Best Novel in 1996...
    
    
  • A Good and Secret Place by Richard Laymon
    Richard Laymon
    Richard Carl Laymon was an American author of suspense and horror fiction, particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived as a child in California...
    
    
  • Lovedeath by Dan Simmons
    Dan Simmons
    Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....
    
    
  • Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King
    Stephen King
    Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
    
    
• 1994: The Early Fears
  The Early Fears
  The Early Fears is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author Robert Bloch. It was released in 1994 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 2,400 copies, of which 100 were signed by the author...
  
  by Robert Bloch
  Robert Bloch
  Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
  
  
  • Writer of the Purple Rage
    Writer of the Purple Rage
    Writer of the Purple Rage is a collection of short works by Joe R. Lansdale, published in 1994, which is one of the few places to find his famous short story "Bubba Ho-Tep." It was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in the "Fiction Collection" category...
    
    by Joe R. Lansdale
    Joe R. Lansdale
    Joe R. Lansdale is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense...
    
    
  • The Flesh Artist by Lucy Taylor
    Lucy Taylor
    Lucy Taylor is a horror novel writer. Her novel, The Safety of Unknown Cities was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 1995, and the Deathrealm Award for Best Novel in 1996...
    
    
  • Born Bad by Andrew Vachss
    Andrew Vachss
    Andrew Henry Vachss is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths...
    
    
• 1995: The Panic Hand by Jonathan Carroll
  Jonathan Carroll
  Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American author primarily known for novels, which can be characterized as magic realist, slipstream or modern fantasy...
  
  
  • Cages
    Cages
    Cages is a 2005 film, directed by American film director Graham Streeter which tells the story of a single mother named Ali Tan who attempts to escape repeated bad releationships which puts her before the man she resents the most—her father, Tan...
    
    by Ed Gorman
    Edward Gorman
    Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is currently in post production for a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann....
    
    
  • The Black Carousel by Charles L. Grant
    Charles L. Grant
    Charles Lewis Grant was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror." He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, and Deborah Lewis.Grant won a World Fantasy Award for his novella collection...
    
    
  • Strange Highways
    Strange Highways
    Strange Highways is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Dio. It's also their first album since Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice's reunion tour with Black Sabbath. The European release was on Vertigo, in October 1993; the U.S...
    
    by Dean Koontz
    Dean Koontz
    Dean Ray Koontz is a prolific American author best known for his novels which could be described broadly as suspense thrillers. He also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. A number of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with...
    
    
• 1996: The Nightmare Factory
  The Nightmare Factory
  The Nightmare Factory is a 2007 comics anthology from Fox Atomic Comics adapting individual short stories by Thomas Ligotti. The second book in the series, The Nightmare Factory – Volume 2, was published in September 2008. It features new short essays by Ligotti.-External links:****, Comic Book...
  
  by Thomas Ligotti
  Thomas Ligotti
  Thomas Ligotti is a contemporary American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. His writings are unique in style, have been noted as major continuations of several literary genres – most prominently Lovecraftian horror – and have overall been variously described as works of...
  
  
  • The Convulsion Factory by Brian Hodge
    Brian Hodge
    Brian Hodge is a prolific writer in a number of genres and sub-genres, as well as an avid connoisseur of music. He currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is working on his latest novel.Brian Hodge's novels are often dark in nature. Themes like self...
    
    
  • Shadow Dreams by Elizabeth Massie
    Elizabeth Massie
    Elizabeth Massie is an American author.Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She won her awards for Sineater and Stephen. She has also written historical fiction for young adults....
    
    
  • With Wounds Still Wet by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • The Pavilion of Frozen Women by S.P. Somtow
• 1997: Exorcisms and Ecstasies
  Exorcisms and Ecstasies
  Exorcisms and Ecstasies is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author Karl Edward Wagner. The collection also includes a number of memoirs and articles about Wagner and is edited by Stephen Jones. It was released in 1997 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 2,100 copies, of which...
  
  by Karl Edward Wagner
  Karl Edward Wagner
  Karl Edward Wagner was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into...
  
  , ed. Stephen Jones
  Stephen Jones (author)
  Stephen Jones is an editor of horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications....
  
  
  • Things Left Behind by Gary A. Braunbeck
    Gary A. Braunbeck
    Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...
    
    
  • The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton
    Brian McNaughton
    Brian McNaughton was an American writer of horror and fantasy fiction who mixed sex, satire and black humour. He also wrote thrillers.-Biography:...
    
    
  • Painted in Blood by Lucy Taylor
    Lucy Taylor
    Lucy Taylor is a horror novel writer. Her novel, The Safety of Unknown Cities was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 1995, and the Deathrealm Award for Best Novel in 1996...
    
    
• 1998: Black Butterflies
  Black Butterflies
  Black Butterflies is a Dutch film about the life of South-African poet Ingrid Jonker. The film was directed by Paula van der Oest and premiered in the Netherlands on February 6th before being released on March 31, 2011...
  
  by John Shirley
  John Shirley
  John Shirley is an American fantasist, author of noir fiction, and science-fiction writer. Shirley is a prolific writer of novels and short stories, TV scripts and screenplays who has published over 30 books and 10 collections...
  
  
  • Leavings by P.D. Cacek
  • Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
    Neil Gaiman
    Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
    
    
  • The Cleft and Other Odd Tales by Gahan Wilson
    Gahan Wilson
    Gahan Wilson is an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations...
    
    
• 1999: The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg
  Douglas Clegg
  Douglas Clegg is a horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing. He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website and LiveJournal.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Death Drives a Semi by Edo van Belkom
    Edo van Belkom
    Edo van Belkom is a Canadian author of horror fiction.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the author of the novels Wyrm Wolf, Teeth, Martyrs, Scream Queen, Army of the Dead, and Wolf Pack, and the Dragonlance setting novel Lord Soth , amongst others...
    
    
  • Hearts in Atlantis
    Hearts in Atlantis
    Hearts in Atlantis is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order....
    
    by Stephen King
    Stephen King
    Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
    
    
  • Deep into that Darkness Peering by Tom Piccirilli
• 2000: Magic Terror by Peter Straub
  Peter Straub
  Peter Francis Straub is an American author and poet, most famous for his work in the horror genre. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award, placing him among the most-honored horror authors in...
  
  
  • Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold by Charlee Jacob
    Charlee Jacob
    Charlee Jacob is an American author specializing in horror fiction, dark fantasy, and poetry. Her writing career began in 1981 with the publication of several poems under the name Charlee Carter Broach...
    
    
  • Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales by Bruce Holland Rogers
    Bruce Holland Rogers
    Bruce Holland Rogers is an American author of short fiction who also writes under the pseudonym Hanovi Braddock. His stories have won a Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, two World Fantasy Awards, the Micro Award, and have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award and...
    
    
  • City Fishing by Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem was born in Jonesville, Virginia, which is in the heart of Appalachia. He went to college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He got a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado and studied creative...
    
    
• 2001: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists by Norman Partridge
  Norman Partridge
  Norman Partridge is an American author of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, Saguaro Riptide and The Ten Ounce Siesta. He is also the author of a Crow novel, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow...
  
  
  • The Dark Fantastic
    The Dark Fantastic
    The Dark Fantastic was an American band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1997. They began as a solo project of Mark Pickerel while he was still a member of Truly. Following the disbanding of Truly, Pickerel turned his project into a band, enlisting guitarist Jesse Roberts and bassist Mike Elkins...
    
    by Ed Gorman
    Edward Gorman
    Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is currently in post production for a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann....
    
    
  • As the Sun Goes Down by Tim Lebbon
    Tim Lebbon
    Tim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the...
    
    
  • The Whisperer and Other Voices by Brian Lumley
    Brian Lumley
    Brian Lumley is an English horror fiction writer.Born in County Durham, he joined the British Army's Royal Military Police and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring with the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 in 1980 and becoming a professional writer.He added to H. P...
    
    
• 2002: One More for the Road
  One More for the Road
  One More for the Road is a collection of 25 short stories written by Ray Bradbury.-Contents:# "First Day"# "Heart Transplant"# "Quid Pro Quo"# "After the Ball"# "In Memoriam"# "Téte-á-Téte"# "The Dragon Danced at Midnight"# "The Nineteenth"...
  
  by Ray Bradbury
  Ray Bradbury
  Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
  
  
  • Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead by Mort Castle
    Mort Castle
    Mort Castle is a horror author and writing teacher, with more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit, including Cursed Be the Child and The Strangers. Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional...
    
    
  • Knucles and Tales by Nancy A. Collins
    Nancy A. Collins
    Nancy A. Collins is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has alsowritten for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs...
    
    
  • Everything's Eventual
    Everything's Eventual
    "Everything's Eventual" is a novella by Stephen King. It was originally published in the October/November 1997 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. In 2000, it was included in the game Stephen King's F13...
    
    by Stephen King
    Stephen King
    Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
    
    
  • The Collection by Bentley Little
    Bentley Little
    Bentley Little is an American author of horror novels.-Personal history:Little's first novel, The Revelation, was published with St...
    
    
• 2003: Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum
  Jack Ketchum
  Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for American author Dallas Mayr . He is the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, including The Girl Next Door and Red...
  
  
  • Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Vol 1 by Gary A. Braunbeck
    Gary A. Braunbeck
    Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...
    
    
  • Told by the Dead
    Told by the Dead
    Told by the Dead is a collection of horror stories by Ramsey Campbell, published by PS Publishing in 2003. The first edition contains a foreword by Poppy Z...
    
    by Ramsey Campbell
    Ramsey Campbell
    John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
    
    
  • Bibliomancy
    Bibliomancy
    Bibliomancy is the use of books in divination. The method of employing sacred books for 'magical medicine', for removing negative entities, or for divination is widespread in many religions of the world:-Terminology:...
    
    by Elizabeth Hand
  • Fangs and Angel Wings by Karen E. Taylor
    Karen E. Taylor
    Karen E. Taylor is the author of The Vampire Legacy Series of novels, published by Kensington Books. A voracious reader of vampire/horror novels, Karen first started writing Blood Secrets in January, 1988. She conceived of writing the novel while living across the street from a very large cemetery...
    
    
• 2004: Fearful Symmetries by Thomas F. Monteleone
  Thomas F. Monteleone
  Thomas F. Monteleone is an American science fiction author and horror fiction author. His first novel, Seeds of Change was the lead-off title in the critically unsuccessful Laser Books line of science fiction titles , but he went on to become a popular writer of supernatural thrillers...
  
  
  • 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories by Michael Arnzen
    Michael Arnzen
    Michael A. Arnzen is a horror author and writer of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, Grave Markings . He won his second Bram Stoker Award for his newsletter and his third for his poetry collection, Freakcidents....
    
    
  • The Machinery of Night by Douglas Clegg
    Douglas Clegg
    Douglas Clegg is a horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing. He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website and LiveJournal.-Biography:...
    
    
  • Demonized by Christopher Fowler
    Christopher Fowler
    Christopher Fowler is an English thriller writer. In addition to his numerous horror, satire and crime novels, he has also written a Sherlock Holmes audio drama for BBC 7 entitled The Lady Downstairs...
    
    
  • Fears Unnamed by Tim Lebbon
    Tim Lebbon
    Tim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the...
    
    
• 2005: 20th Century Ghosts
  20th Century Ghosts
  20th Century Ghosts is American author Joe Hill's first published book-length work. An anthology of short stories, it was first published in October 2005 in the United Kingdom and released in October 2007 in the United States.-Publication history:...
  
  by Joe Hill
  Joe Hill (writer)
  Joseph Hillstrom King , better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer. He has published two novels—Heart Shaped Box and Horns—and a collection of short stories entitled 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the author of the graphic novel series Locke & Key...
  
  
  • Magic for Beginners
    Magic for Beginners
    Magic for Beginners is a collection of nine works of fantasy and light horror short fiction by Kelly Link. The stories were all previously published in other venues from 2002 to 2005.The book won the 2006 Locus Award for best short story collection...
    
    by Kelly Link
    Kelly Link
    Kelly Link is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism...
    
    
  • Looking for Jake
    Looking for Jake
    Looking for Jake is a collection of science fiction, horror and fantasy stories by British author China Miéville. It was first published by Del Rey Books, part of Random House, in 2005, and later by Pan MacMillan.-Stories:...
    
    by China Miéville
    China Miéville
    China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
    
    
  • Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
    Chuck Palahniuk
    Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter...
    
    
• 2006: Destinations Unknown by Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...
  
  
  • American Morons by Glen Hirshberg
    Glen Hirshberg
    Glen Hirshberg is an American author of horror fiction. His works include the short story collection The Two Sams, published in 2003 by Carroll & Graf; the collection American Morons, published in 2006 by Earthling Publications; and the novel The Snowman's Children, published by Carroll & Graf in...
    
    
  • The Commandments by Angeline Hawkes
  • The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
    Jeffrey Ford
    Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales...
    
    
  • Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear
    Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear
    Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear is a collection of horror stories by Terry Dowling, a bumper collection in hardcover of the best of his weird and supernatural fiction, which includes two previously uncollected tales...
    
    by Terry Dowling
    Terry Dowling
    Terence William Dowling, born at Lystra Private Hospital , is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer...
    
    
• 2007: (tie)
  • Proverbs for Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen
  • 5 Stories by Peter Straub
    Peter Straub
    Peter Francis Straub is an American author and poet, most famous for his work in the horror genre. His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award, placing him among the most-honored horror authors in...
    
    
    • The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
      Laird Barron
      Laird Samuel Barron is an award winning author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Olympia, Washington.-Biography:Mr...
      
      
    • Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler
      Christopher Fowler
      Christopher Fowler is an English thriller writer. In addition to his numerous horror, satire and crime novels, he has also written a Sherlock Holmes audio drama for BBC 7 entitled The Lady Downstairs...
      
      
    • Defining Moments by David Niall Wilson
      David Niall Wilson
      David Niall Wilson is an American writer primarily known for his works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction.-Background:...
      
      
• 2008: Just After Sunset
  Just After Sunset
  Just After Sunset is the fifth collection of short stories by Stephen King. It was released in hardcover by Scribner on November 11, 2008, and features a holographic dust jacket. On February 6, 2008, the author's official website revealed the title of the collection to be Just Past Sunset. About a...
  
  by Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
  
  • The Number 121 to Pennsylvania by Kealan Patrick Burke
    Kealan Patrick Burke
    Kealan Patrick Burke was born and raised in Dungarvan, Ireland. He is best known as an award-winning author described as "a newcomer worth watching" by Publishers Weekly...
    
    
  • Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel
    Fran Friel
    Fran Friel is an author of horror fiction and resides in rural New England.Mama's Boy, Friel's debut novella, was a finalist in the category of Long Fiction for the 2007 Bram Stoker Award...
    
    
  • Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan
  • Gleefully Macabre Tales by Jeff Strand
• 2009: A Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill
  Gene O'Neill
  Gene O'Neill is best known as a multi-award nominated writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.O'Neill's professional writing career began after completing the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1979. Since that time, over 100 of his works have been published...
  
  
  • Martyrs and Monsters by Robert Dunbar
  • Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories by Dennis Etchison
    Dennis Etchison
    Dennis William Etchison , is an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. Etchison refers to his own work as “rather dark, depressing, almost pathologically inward fiction about the individual in relation to the world.”Stephen King has called Dennis Etchison “one hell of a fiction...
    
    
  • In the Closet, Under the Bed by Lee Thomas
    Lee Thomas (horror writer)
    Lee Thomas is an American author of horror fiction. He is best known for his novel The Dust of Wonderland, which won the Lambda Literary Award for SF/Fantasy/Horror...
    
    
• 2010: Full Dark, No Stars
  Full Dark, No Stars
  Full Dark, No Stars, published in November 2010, is a collection of four novellas by the author Stephen King, all dealing with the theme of retribution...
  
  by Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
  
  • Occultation by Laird Barron
    Laird Barron
    Laird Samuel Barron is an award winning author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Olympia, Washington.-Biography:Mr...
    
    
  • Blood and Gristle by Michael Louis Calvillo
  • The Ones that Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones
    Stephen Graham Jones
    Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. He shares a fan base with fellow authors Will Christopher Baer and Craig Clevenger known as . November 16, 2010 Stephen will have a collection of short stories...
    
    
  • A Host of Shadows by Harry Shannon
    Harry Shannon
    Harry Shannon is an American novelist, songwriter and entertainer. He was born Harry Rivard Siebert in Reno, Nevada, to Dr. William L. Siebert and Belle Elizabeth Cazier. He has a brother, Dwight Siebert, and a sister, Marsha Desiderio. Shannon was married from 1978 to 1988 to Swiss singer...