The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction published in English during the previous calendar year. The awards have been described by book critics such as The Guardian as a "prestigious fantasy prize",[1] and one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards (which cover both fantasy and science fiction).[2][3] The World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology is given each year for anthologies of fantasy stories by multiple authors published in English. An anthology can have any number of editors, and works in the anthology may have been previously published; awards are also given out for collections of works by a single author in the collection category. The World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology has been awarded annually since 1988, though from 1977 through 1987 anthologies were admissible as nominees in the collection category. During the ten years they were admissible for that category they won the award seven times and represented 38 of the 56 nominations.[4]
World Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner.[4][5] The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors[6] and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties.[4] The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October.[5] Winners were presented with a statue in the form of a bust of H. P. Lovecraft through the 2015 awards; future ceremonies will present a different, unannounced statuette.[7]
During the 28 nomination years, 101 editors have had works nominated; 32 of them have won, including co-editors. Only three editors have won more than once. Ellen Datlow has won eight times out of 31 nominations, the most of any editor; Terri Windling has won six times out of 18 nominations, all of the nominations as a co-editor with Datlow; and Dennis Etchison has won twice out of three nominations. After Datlow and Windling, the editors with the most nominations are Stephen Jones, who has won once out of fourteen nominations, and David Sutton and Martin H. Greenberg, who each have been nominated six times without winning. Fourteen editors in total have been nominated more than twice.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the anthology was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the editor's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.
* Winners
Year |
Editor |
Novel |
Publisher |
Ref. |
1988 |
Kathryn Cramer* |
The Architecture of Fear |
Arbor House |
[8] |
Peter D. Pautz* |
David G. Hartwell |
The Dark Descent |
Tor Books |
[8] |
Jeanne Van Buren Dann |
In the Field of Fire |
Tor Books |
[8] |
Jack Dann |
J. N. Williamson |
Masques II |
Maclay & Associates |
[8] |
Anonymous |
Night Visions 4 |
Dark Harvest |
[8] |
Christopher Evans |
Other Edens |
Allen & Unwin |
[8] |
Robert Holdstock |
Karl Edward Wagner |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XV |
DAW Books |
[8] |
1989 |
Ellen Datlow* |
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[9] |
Terri Windling* |
Anonymous |
Night Visions 6 |
Dark Harvest |
[9] |
Douglas E. Winter |
Prime Evil |
New American Library |
[9] |
David Schow |
Silver Scream |
Dark Harvest |
[9] |
1990 |
Ellen Datlow* |
The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[10] |
Terri Windling* |
Ellen Datlow |
Blood Is Not Enough |
William Morrow and Company |
[10] |
John Skipp |
Book of the Dead |
Bantam Books |
[10] |
Craig Spector |
Joe R. Lansdale |
Razored Saddles |
Dark Harvest |
[10] |
Pat LoBrutto |
1991 |
Stephen Jones* |
Best New Horror |
Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers |
[11] |
Ramsey Campbell* |
Ellen Datlow |
Alien Sex |
Dutton Penguin |
[11] |
Thomas F. Monteleone |
Borderlands |
Maclay & Associates, Avon Publications |
[11] |
David Sutton |
Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror |
Pan Books |
[11] |
Stephen Jones |
Kathryn Cramer |
Walls of Fear |
William Morrow and Company |
[11] |
Ellen Datlow |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[11] |
Terri Windling |
1992 |
Ellen Datlow* |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[12] |
Terri Windling* |
Martin H. Greenberg |
After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien |
Tor Books |
[12] |
Stefan R. Dziemianowicz |
Famous Fantastic Mysteries |
Gramercy Books |
[12] |
Robert Weinberg |
Martin H. Greenberg |
Charles L. Grant |
Final Shadows |
Doubleday Foundation |
[12] |
Lewis Shiner |
When the Music's Over |
Bantam Spectra |
[12] |
Ellen Datlow |
A Whisper of Blood |
William Morrow and Company |
[12] |
1993 |
Dennis Etchison* |
MetaHorror |
Dell Abyss |
[13] |
F. Paul Wilson |
Freak Show |
Pocket Books |
[13] |
Richard Gilliam |
Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences |
Unnameable Press |
[13] |
Martin H. Greenberg |
Edward E. Kramer |
Peter Crowther |
Narrow Houses |
Little, Brown and Company |
[13] |
Don Hutchison |
Northern Frights |
Mosaic Press |
[13] |
1994 |
Lou Aronica* |
Full Spectrum 4 |
Bantam Spectra |
[14] |
Amy Stout* |
Betsy Mitchell* |
David G. Hartwell |
Christmas Forever |
Tor Books |
[14] |
Alison Lurie |
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales |
Oxford University Press |
[14] |
George Hatch |
Sinistre |
Horror's Head Press |
[14] |
Ellen Datlow |
Snow White, Blood Red |
Morrow AvoNova |
[14] |
Terri Windling |
Ellen Datlow |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[14] |
Terri Windling |
1995 |
Ellen Datlow* |
Little Deaths |
Millennium |
[15] |
Ellen Datlow |
Black Thorn, White Rose |
Morrow AvoNova |
[15] |
Terri Windling |
Poppy Z. Brite |
Love in Vein |
HarperPrism |
[15] |
Martin H. Greenberg |
Stephen Jones |
Shadows Over Innsmouth |
Fedogan & Bremer |
[15] |
1996 |
A. Susan Williams* |
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women |
Viking Press |
[16] |
Richard Glyn Jones* |
Nancy A. Collins |
Dark Love |
Roc Books |
[16] |
Edward E. Kramer |
Martin H. Greenberg |
Stephen Jones |
Dark Terrors |
Victor Gollancz |
[16] |
David Sutton |
Steve Rasnic Tem |
High Fantastic |
Ocean View Books |
[16] |
Lucy Sussex |
She's Fantastical |
Sybylla Feminist Press |
[16] |
Judith Raphael Buckrich |
1997 |
Patrick Nielsen Hayden* |
Starlight 1 |
Tor Books |
[17] |
Stephen Jones |
Dark Terrors 2 |
Victor Gollancz |
[17] |
David Sutton |
Katharine Kerr |
The Shimmering Door |
HarperPrism |
[17] |
Martin H. Greenberg |
Ellen Datlow |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[17] |
Terri Windling |
1998 |
Nicola Griffith* |
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy |
White Wolf Publishing |
[18] |
Stephen Pagel* |
Stephen Jones |
Dark Terrors 3 |
Victor Gollancz |
[18] |
David Sutton |
Gardner Dozois |
Modern Classics of Fantasy |
St. Martin's Press |
[18] |
Don Hutchison |
Northern Frights 4 |
Mosaic Press |
[18] |
Douglas E. Winter |
Revelations |
HarperPrism |
[18] |
1999 |
Jack Dann* |
Dreaming Down-Under |
HarperCollins Voyager |
[19] |
Janeen Webb* |
Bryan Cholfin |
The Best of Crank! |
Tor Books |
[19] |
Stephen Jones |
Dark Terrors 4 |
Victor Gollancz |
[19] |
David Sutton |
Robert Silverberg |
Legends |
Tor Books |
[19] |
Patrick Nielsen Hayden |
Starlight 2 |
Tor Books |
[19] |
2000 |
Ellen Datlow* |
Silver Birch, Blood Moon |
Avon Publications |
[20] |
Terri Windling* |
Al Sarrantonio |
999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense |
Avon Publications |
[20] |
Stephen Jones |
Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths |
Fedogan & Bremer |
[20] |
Don Hutchison |
Northern Frights 5 |
Mosaic Press |
[20] |
Ellen Datlow |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[20] |
Terri Windling |
2001 |
Sheree Thomas* |
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora |
Warner Aspect |
[21] |
Stephen Jones |
Dark Terrors 5 |
Victor Gollancz |
[21] |
David Sutton |
Barbara Roden |
Shadows and Silence |
Ash-Tree Press |
[21] |
Christopher Roden |
Ellen Datlow |
Vanishing Acts |
Tor Books |
[21] |
Nalo Hopkinson |
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction |
Invisible Cities Press |
[21] |
Ellen Datlow |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[21] |
Terri Windling |
2002 |
Dennis Etchison* |
The Museum of Horrors |
Leisure Books |
[22] |
Stephen Jones |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Twelve |
Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers |
[22] |
Stephen Jones |
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women |
Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers |
[22] |
Jerad Walters |
Stigmata |
Cocytus Press |
[22] |
Ellen Datlow |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[22] |
Terri Windling |
2003 |
Ellen Datlow* |
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest |
Viking Press |
[23] |
Terri Windling* |
Jeff VanderMeer |
Leviathan, Volume Three |
The Ministry of Whimsy Press |
[23] |
Forrest Aguirre |
Brian Thomsen |
The American Fantasy Tradition |
Tor Books |
[23] |
Peter Straub |
Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists |
Bard College |
[23] |
Ellen Datlow |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[23] |
Terri Windling |
2004 |
Rosalie Parker* |
Strange Tales |
Tartarus Press |
[24] |
Ellen Datlow |
The Dark: New Ghost Stories |
Tor Books |
[24] |
Jack Dann |
Gathering the Bones |
HarperCollins Voyager |
[24] |
Dennis Etchison |
Ramsey Campbell |
Jeff VanderMeer |
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases |
Night Shade Books |
[24] |
Mark Roberts |
Kelly Link |
Trampoline: An Anthology |
Small Beer Press |
[24] |
2005 |
Barbara Roden* |
Acquainted with the Night |
Ash-Tree Press |
[25] |
Christopher Roden* |
Sheree Thomas |
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones |
Warner Aspect |
[25] |
Ellen Datlow |
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm |
Viking Press |
[25] |
Terri Windling |
Harry Turtledove |
The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age |
Tor Books |
[25] |
Noreen Doyle |
Deborah Layne |
Polyphony, Volume 4 |
Wheatland Press |
[25] |
Jay Lake |
2006 |
Marvin Kaye* |
The Fair Folk |
Science Fiction Book Club |
[26] |
Chris Roberson |
Adventure, Vol. 1 |
MonkeyBrain Books |
[26] |
Neil Williamson |
Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction |
Crescent Books |
[26] |
Andrew J. Wilson |
Deborah Layne |
Polyphony, Volume 5 |
Wheatland Press |
[26] |
Jay Lake |
Stephen Jones |
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth |
Fedogan & Bremer |
[26] |
2007 |
Ellen Datlow* |
Salon Fantastique |
Thunder's Mouth Press |
[27] |
Terri Windling* |
Scott A. Cupp |
Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard |
MonkeyBrain Books |
[27] |
Joe R. Lansdale |
Sharyn November |
Firebirds Rising |
Firebird Books |
[27] |
Joe R. Lansdale |
Retro-Pulp Tales |
Subterranean Press |
[27] |
David Moles |
Twenty Epics |
All-Star Stories |
[27] |
Susan Marie Groppi |
2008 |
Ellen Datlow* |
Inferno |
Tor Books |
[28] |
Ellen Datlow |
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales |
Viking Press |
[28] |
Terri Windling |
Gary A. Braunbeck |
Five Strokes to Midnight |
Haunted Pelican Press |
[28] |
Hank Schwaeble |
John Klima |
Logorrhea |
Bantam Spectra |
[28] |
Jack Dann |
Wizards |
Berkley Books |
[28] |
Gardner Dozois |
2009 |
Ekaterina Sedia* |
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy |
Senses Five Press |
[29] |
Ellen Datlow |
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy |
Del Rey Books |
[29] |
John Joseph Adams |
The Living Dead |
Night Shade Books |
[29] |
Ann VanderMeer |
Steampunk |
Tachyon Publications |
[29] |
Jeff VanderMeer |
Ellen Datlow |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection |
St. Martin's Press |
[29] |
Kelly Link |
Gavin Grant |
2010 |
Peter Straub* |
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps/from the 1940s to Now |
Library of America |
[30] |
Jonathan Strahan |
Eclipse Three |
Night Shade Books |
[30] |
Danel Olson |
Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations |
Ash-Tree Press |
[30] |
Ellen Datlow |
Poe |
Solaris Books |
[30] |
George R. R. Martin |
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance |
Subterranean Press, HarperCollins Voyager |
[30] |
Gardner Dozois |
Gordon Van Gelder |
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology |
Tachyon Publications |
[30] |
2011 |
Kate Bernheimer* |
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me |
Penguin Books |
[31] |
S. T. Joshi |
Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror |
PS Publishing |
[31] |
Ellen Datlow |
Haunted Legends |
Tor Books |
[31] |
Nick Mamatas |
Neil Gaiman |
Stories: All-New Tales |
William Morrow and Company, Headline Review |
[31] |
Al Sarrantonio |
Jonathan Strahan |
Swords & Dark Magic |
Eos |
[31] |
Lou Anders |
John Joseph Adams |
The Way of the Wizard |
Prime Books |
[31] |
2012 |
Ann Vandermeer* |
The Weird |
Corvus, Tor Books |
[32] |
Jeff Vandermeer* |
Ellen Datlow |
Blood and Other Cravings |
Tor Books |
[32] |
Stephen Jones |
A Book of Horrors |
Jo Fletcher Books |
[32] |
Conrad Williams |
Gutshot |
PS Publishing |
[32] |
Ann Vandermeer |
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities |
Harper Voyager |
[32] |
Jeff Vandermeer |
2013 |
Danel Olson* |
Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4 |
PS Publishing |
[33] |
John Joseph Adams |
Epic: Legends of Fantasy |
Tachyon Publications |
[33] |
Jonathan Oliver |
Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane |
Solaris Books |
[33] |
Eduardo Jiménez Mayo |
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic |
Small Beer Press |
[33] |
Chris N. Brown |
Jonathan Strahan |
Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron |
Random House |
[33] |
2014 |
George R. R. Martin* |
Dangerous Women |
Tor Books, Voyager |
[34] |
Gardner Dozois* |
Jonathan Oliver |
End of the Road |
Solaris Books |
[34] |
Jonathan Strahan |
Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy |
Solaris Books |
[34] |
Stephen Jones |
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 |
Smith & Jones, PS Publishing |
[34] |
Ellen Datlow |
Queen Victoria's Book of Spells |
Tor Books |
[34] |
Terri Windling |
Kate Bernheimer |
xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths |
Penguin Books |
[34] |
2015 |
Kelly Link* |
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales |
Candlewick Press |
[35] |
Gavin J. Grant* |
Ellen Datlow |
Fearful Symmetries |
ChiZine Publications |
[35] |
Gardner Dozois |
Rogues |
Bantam Books |
[35] |
George R. R. Martin |
Rose Fox |
Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History |
Crossed Genres |
[35] |
Daniel José Older |
Michael Kelly |
Shadows & Tall Trees |
Undertow Publications |
[35] |
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