Information about Bram Stoker Award For Best Short Fiction
This category was previously titled "best short story". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.
Short Story:
Short Story:
- 1987: "The Deep End" by Robert R. McCammon
- "Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll
- "This Old Man" by Charles L. Grant
- "Day-Tay-Vao" by F. Paul Wilson
- "Traps" by F. Paul Wilson
- 1988: "Night They Missed the Horrow Show" by Joe R. Lansdale
- "The Young Thing at the Top of the Stairs" by Ray Bradbury
- "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" by Harlan Ellison
- "The Music of the Dark time" by Chet Williamson
- "Jack's Decline" by Lucius Shepard
- "Nobody Lives There Now" by Carol Orlock
- 1989: "Eat Me" by Robert R. McCammon
- "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" by Edward Bryant
- "Bodies and Heads" by Steve Rasnic Tem
- "Each Night, Each Year" by Kathryn Ptacek
- "'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy' He Said" by Chet Williamson
- 1990: "The Calling" by David B. Silva
- "Back Windows" by Steve Rasnic Tem
- "But You'll Never Follow Me" by Karl Edward Wagner
- "From the Papers of Helmut Hecher" by Chet Williamson
- "The Loneliest Number" by Edward Bryant
- 1991: "Lady Madonna" by Nancy Holder
- "The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire" by Poppy Z. Brite
- "Love Doll: A Fable" by Joe R. Lansdale
- "The Braille Encyclopaedia" by Grant Morrison
- "Wolf Winter" by Maxine O'Callaghan
- "Richard's Head" by Al Sarrantonio
- 1992: "This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons
- "Farm Wife" by Nancy Kilpatrick
- "Did They Get You to Trade?" by Karl Edward Wagner
- "Come One, Come All" by Gahan Wilson
- "Bright Lights, Big Zombie" by Douglas E. Winter
- 1993: "I Hear the Mermaids Singing" by Nancy Holder
- "Death Fiend Guerrillas" by William S. Burroughs
- "Distances" by Sherman Alexie
- "The Dog Park" by Dennis Etchison
- "Pain Grin" by Wayne Allen Sallee
- 1994: "The Box" by Jack Ketchum (tie)
- 1994: "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" by Nancy Holder (tie)
- "Mr. Torso" by Edward Lee
- "Things of Which We Do Not Speak" by Lucy Taylor
- 1995: "Chatting With Anubis" by Harlan Ellison
- "Becky Lives" by Harry Crews
- "The Bunglaow House" by Thomas Ligotti
- "The Death of the Novel" by William Browning Spencer
- 1996: "metalica" by P.D. Cacek
- "The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman" by Robert Devereaux
- "The Secret Shih Tan" by Graham Masterton
- "The House of Mourning" by Brian Stableford
- "Plan 10 from Inner Space" by Karl Edward Wagner
- 1997: "Rat Food" by Edo van Belkom & David Nickle
- "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" by Douglas Clegg
- "A Plague on Both Your Houses" by Scott Edelman
- "Madame Babylon" by Brian Hodge
- 1998: "The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
- "Blues-Born" by Tina L. Jens
- "Autopsy Room Four" by Stephen King
- "The Rug" by Edo van Belkom
- 1999: "Aftershock" by F. Paul Wilson
- "The Grave" by P.D. Cacek
- "The Entertainment" by Ramsey Campbell
- "Halloween Street" by Steve Rasnic Tem
- 2000: "Gone" by Jack Ketchum
- "Dead Cat Bounce" by Gerard Daniel Houarner
- "Fallen Angel" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "Mexican Moon" by Karen E. Taylor
- 2001: "Reconstructing Amy" by Tim Lebbon
- "I Am Your Need" by Mort Castle
- "The Haunt" by Jack Ketchum
- "Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" by David B. Silva
- 2002: "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Depair" by Tom Piccirilli
- "Disappearances" by Mort Castle
- "The Green Man" by Christopher Fowler
- "The Plague Species" by Charlee Jacob
- "Details" by China Miéville
- 2003: "Duty" by Gary A. Braunbeck
- "The Last Supper" by Scott Edelman
- "Harvey's Dream" by Stephen King
- "The Haunting" by Joyce Carol Oates
- "The Red Bow" by George Saunders
- 2004: "Nimitseahpah" by Nancy Etchemendy
- "Just Out of Reach" by Gary A. Braunbeck
- "A Madness of Starlings" by Douglas Clegg
- "Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland" by John Farris
- "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan
- "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk
- 2005: "We Now Pause for Station Identification" by Gary A. Braunbeck
- "Haeckel's Tale" by Clive Barker
- "As Others See Us" by Mort Castle
- "Times of Atonement" by Yvonne Navarro
- "Invisible" by Steve Rasnic Tem
- 2006: "Tested" by Lisa Morton
- "FYI" by Mort Castle
- "Feeding the Dead Inside" by Yvonne Navarro
- "Balance" by Gene O'Neill
- "31/10" by Stephen Volk
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Robert R. McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. He retired from publishing in the late 1990s, but returned to publish "Speaks the Nightbird" and the forthcoming Queen of Bedlam.
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Jonathan Samuel Carroll (born January 26, 1949) is an American author of magic realist/slipstream/mainstream fiction.
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Charles Lewis Grant (September 12, 1942 in Newark, New Jersey-September 15, 2006) was a novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror.
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Francis Paul Wilson (b. May 17, 1946) is an author, born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He writes novels and short stories primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer (1976). Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician.
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Francis Paul Wilson (b. May 17, 1946) is an author, born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He writes novels and short stories primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer (1976). Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician.
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Joe R. Lansdale
Born: September 28 1951
Gladewater, Texas
Occupation: Writer, martial arts instructor
Nationality: American
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Born: September 28 1951
Gladewater, Texas
Occupation: Writer, martial arts instructor
Nationality: American
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury in 1975 (photo by Alan Light).
Born: July 22 1920
Waukegan, Illinois
Occupation: Writer, Playwright
Nationality: American
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Ray Bradbury in 1975 (photo by Alan Light).
Born: July 22 1920
Waukegan, Illinois
Occupation: Writer, Playwright
Nationality: American
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Chet Williamson (born 1948) is the author of nearly twenty books and over a hundred short stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and many other magazines and anthologies. He was born in 1948 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Lucius Shepard (born August 1947, Lynchburg, Virginia, though stories and articles published under his name from 1952-1955 in Collins Magazine indicate that he may be several years older than is officially claimed) is an American writer whose work transcends easy categorization.
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Robert R. McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. He retired from publishing in the late 1990s, but returned to publish "Speaks the Nightbird" and the forthcoming Queen of Bedlam.
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Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (born August 27,1945) is a science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave.
Bryant was born in White Plains, New York.
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Bryant was born in White Plains, New York.
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Steve Rasnic Tem (1950 - ) 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. He got a B.A. in English education.
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Kathryn Ptacek (b: 19??, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American author and editor. She has published science fiction, fantasy, horror, suspense, and romance short stories and novels under a variety of pseudonyms, including:
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- Les Simons
- Kathryn Atwood
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Chet Williamson (born 1948) is the author of nearly twenty books and over a hundred short stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and many other magazines and anthologies. He was born in 1948 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar).
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Steve Rasnic Tem (1950 - ) 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. He got a B.A. in English education.
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Karl Edward Wagner (4 December 1945 – 13 October 1994) 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.
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Chet Williamson (born 1948) is the author of nearly twenty books and over a hundred short stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and many other magazines and anthologies. He was born in 1948 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (born August 27,1945) is a science fiction and horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered The New Wave.
Bryant was born in White Plains, New York.
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Bryant was born in White Plains, New York.
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Nancy Holder
Nancy Holder
Pseudonym: Laurel Chandler
Wendi Davis
Born: July 29 1953
Los Altos, California
Occupation: writer, editor
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Nancy Holder
Pseudonym: Laurel Chandler
Wendi Davis
Born: July 29 1953
Los Altos, California
Occupation: writer, editor
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Poppy Z. Brite (born Melissa Ann Brite on May 25, 1967) is an American author born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Joe R. Lansdale
Born: September 28 1951
Gladewater, Texas
Occupation: Writer, martial arts instructor
Nationality: American
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Born: September 28 1951
Gladewater, Texas
Occupation: Writer, martial arts instructor
Nationality: American
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Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison in 2006.
Born January 31 1960
Glasgow
Nationality Scottish
Area(s) Writer
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Grant Morrison in 2006.
Born January 31 1960
Glasgow
Nationality Scottish
Area(s) Writer
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Al Sarrantonio
Born: May 25 1952
New York City
Occupation: Writer, Editor
Nationality: American
Writing period: 1994 - current
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Born: May 25 1952
New York City
Occupation: Writer, Editor
Nationality: American
Writing period: 1994 - current
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Dan Simmons
Born: March 4 1948
Peoria, Illinois
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: American
Writing period: 1983-Present
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Born: March 4 1948
Peoria, Illinois
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: American
Writing period: 1983-Present
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