World Fantasy Award for Best Collection

__NOTOC__This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy fiction collection voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.

Award winners and finalists

2008

The World fantasy of 2008 will be held in Calgary, Alberta from October 30 to November 2. Judges for the event will be Peter Coleborn, Robert Hoge, Dennis L. McKiernan, Mark Morris, and Steve Pasechnick.

2007

WFC 2007 was held in Saratoga Springs, New York. Judges for the event were Gavin Grant, Ed Greenwood, Jeremy Lassen, Jeff Mariotte, and Carsten Polzin.

* Winner: "Map of Dreams", M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)
* "The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories", Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
* "The Empire of Ice Cream", Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon)
* "American Morons", Glen Hirshberg (Earthling)
* "Red Spikes", Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin Australia; Knopf)

2006

WFC 2006 was held in Austin, Texas. Judges were Steve Lockley, Barbara Roden, Victoria Strauss, Jeff VanderMeer, and Andrew Wheeler.

* Winner: "The Keyhole Opera", Bruce Holland Rogers (Wheatland Press)
* "20th Century Ghosts", Joe Hill (PS Publishing)
* "To Charles Fort, With Love", Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean Press)
* "Magic for Beginners", Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
* "In the Palace of Repose", Holly Phillips (Prime Books)

2005

WFC 2005 was held in Madison, Wisconsin, and was chaired by Meg Turville-Heitz. Judges were Alis Rasmussen (Kate Elliott), Jeffrey Ford, Tim Lebbon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.

* Winner: "Black Juice", Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin Australia)
* "Songs of Leaving", Peter Crowther (Subterranean Press)
* "Heat of Fusion and Other Stories", John M. Ford (Tor)
* "Stable Strategies and Others", Eileen Gunn (Tachyon Publications)
* "Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories", Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean Press)
* "Breathmoss and Other Exhalations", Ian R. MacLeod (Golden Gryphon Press)
* "Trujillo", Lucius Shepard (PS Publishing)

2004

WFC 2004 was held in Tempe, Arizona. Judges were John Clute, Sherwood Smith, Michael Stackpole, Alain Nevant, and Scott Wyatt.

* Winner: "Bibliomancy", Elizabeth Hand (PS Publishing)
* "Ghosts of Yesterday", Jack Cady (Night Shade Books)
* "The Two Sams", Glen Hirshberg (Carroll & Graf)
* "", George R. R. Martin (Subterranean Press)
* "More Tomorrow & Other Stories", Michael Marshall Smith (Earthling)

2003

* Winner: "The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories", Jeffrey Ford (Golden Gryphon Press)
* "City of Saints and Madmen: The Book of Ambergris", Jeff VanderMeer (Prime Books)
* "Figures in Rain", Chet Williamson (Ash-Tree Press)
* "The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups", Richard Parks (Obscura Press)
* "Waifs and Strays", Charles de Lint (Viking)
* "Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits", Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson (Putnam)

2002

* Winner: "Skin Folk", Nalo Hopkinson (Warner Aspect)
* "Dark Universe: Stories 1951-2001", William F. Nolan (Stealth Press)
* "The Essential Ellison: A 50-Year Retrospective: Revised and Expanded", Harlan Ellison; Terry Dowling with Richard Delap & Gil Lamont, eds. (Morpheus International)
* "Stranger Things Happen", Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
* "Talking in the Dark", Dennis Etchison (Stealth Press)

2001

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories, Andy Duncan (Golden Gryphon Press)

Blackwater Days, Terry Dowling (Eidolon Publications)

Magic Terror: Seven Tales, Peter Straub (Random House)

Perpetuity Blues and Other Stories, Neal Barrett, Jr. (Golden Gryphon Press)

The Perseids and Other Stories, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)

Travel Arrangements, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)

2000

Winner: Moonlight and Vines, Charles de Lint (Tor)

Winner: Reave the Just and Other Tales, Stephen R. Donaldson (HarperCollins Voyager 1998; Bantam Spectra)

Deep Into That Darkness Peering, Tom Piccirilli (Terminal Fright Press)

Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King (Scribner)

Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories, Darrell Schweitzer & Jason Van Hollander (Wildside Press)

1999

Black Glass, Karen Joy Fowler (Henry Holt)

The Cleft and Other Odd Tales, Gahan Wilson (Tor)

Last Summer at Mars Hill, Elizabeth Hand (HarperPrism)

Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton, Graham Masterton, with Ray Clark & Matt Williams (British Fantasy Society)

The Night We Buried Road Dog, Jack Cady (DreamHaven)

1998

The Throne of Bones, Brian McNaughton (Terminal Fright Press)

Driving Blind, Ray Bradbury (Avon)

Fractal Paisleys, Paul Di Filippo (Four Walls Eight Windows)

A Geography of Unknown Lands, Michael Swanwick (Tigereyes Press)

Giant Bones, Peter S. Beagle (Roc)

1997

The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, Jonathan Lethem (Harcourt Brace)

Bad Intentions, Norman Partridge (Subterranean Press)

Bible Stories for Adults, James Morrow (Harcourt Brace)

Conference with the Dead, Terry Lamsley (Ash-Tree Press)

Midnight Promises, Richard T. Chizmar (Gauntlet Publications)

The Nightmare Factory, Thomas Ligotti (Raven Books; Carroll & Graf)

The Pavilion of Frozen Women, S. P. Somtow (Gollancz)

1996

Seven Tales and a Fable, Gwyneth Jones (Edgewood Press)

Death Stalks the Night, Hugh B. Cave (Fedogan & Bremer)

The Ivory and the Horn, Charles de Lint (Tor)

The Panic Hand, Jonathan Carroll (HarperCollins UK)

The Secret of This Book (US title Common Clay), Brian W. Aldiss (HarperCollins UK; St. Martin's)

1995

The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist, Bradley Denton (Wildside Press)

The Early Fears, Robert Bloch (Fedogan & Bremer)

The Earth Wire & Other Stories, Joel Lane (Egerton Press)

Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque, Joyce Carol Oates (Dutton)

Travellers In Magic, Lisa Goldstein (Tor)

1994

Alone with the Horrors, Ramsey Campbell (Arkham House)

Angels & Visitations: A Miscellany, Neil Gaiman (DreamHaven)

Antiquities, John Crowley (Incunabula)

Dreams Underfoot, Charles de Lint (Tor)

Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands, Garry Kilworth (Edgewood Press)

Transients and Other Disquieting Stories, Darrell Schweitzer (W. Paul Ganley)

Under the Crust, Terry Lamsley (Wendigo)

1993

The Sons of Noah & Other Stories, Jack Cady (Broken Moon Press)

Bear's Fantasies, Greg Bear (PSFS/Wildside Press)

Lord Kelvin's Machine, James P. Blaylock (Arkham House)

Meeting in Infinity, John Kessel (Arkham House)

Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, Norman Partridge (Roadkill Press)

Spiritwalk, Charles de Lint (Tor)

1992

*The Ends of the Earth, Lucius Shepard (Arkham House)
*The Bone Forest, Robert Holdstock (Grafton)
*Grimscribe: His Lives and Works, Thomas Ligotti (Carroll & Graf)
*Lafferty In Orbit, R. A. Lafferty (Broken Mirrors Press)
*More Shapes Than One, Fred Chappell (St. Martin's)
*Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories, Howard Waldrop (Ursus/Mark V. Ziesing)

1991

* Winner: "The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories", Carol Emshwiller (The Women's Press; Mercury House 1991)
*"The Brains of Rats", Michael Blumlein (Scream/Press)
*"Houses Without Doors", Peter Straub (Grafton; Dutton)
*"The Leiber Chronicles", Fritz Leiber (Dark Harvest)
*"Prayers to Broken Stones", Dan Simmons (Dark Harvest)

1990

Richard Matheson: Collected Stories, Richard Matheson (Scream/Press)

Blue World and Other Stories, Robert R. McCammon (Grafton)

By Bizarre Hands, Joe R. Lansdale (Mark V. Ziesing)

Harlan Ellison's Watching, Harlan Ellison (Underwood-Miller)

Novelty, John Crowley (Doubleday Foundation)

1989

Angry Candy, Harlan Ellison (Houghton Mifflin)

Storeys from the Old Hotel, Gene Wolfe (Kerosina)

The Blood Kiss, Dennis Etchison (Scream/Press)

Cabal, Clive Barker (Poseidon)

Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories, Charles Beaumont, edited by Roger Anker (Dark Harvest)

The Knight and Knave of Swords, Fritz Leiber (Morrow)

1988

The Jaguar Hunter, Lucius Shepard (Arkham House)

Night's Sorceries, Tanith Lee (DAW)

Polyphemus, Michael Shea (Arkham House)

Scared Stiff, Tales of Sex and Death, Ramsey Campbell (Scream/Press)

Why Not You and I?, Karl Edward Wagner (Tor; Dark Harvest)

Pre-1988 collection winner and nominees

ee also

* World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
* World Fantasy Award for Best Novella
* World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
* World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
* World Fantasy Award for Best Artist
* World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement
* World Fantasy Award
* World Fantasy Convention
* World Fantasy Convention Award
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External links

* [http://www.worldfantasy.org/ World Fantasy Convention]