The Bram Stoker Award for Fiction Collections - History
This is another category in which I’m nominated this year. Saturday, I’ll either still be saying it’s an honor to be nominated, or I’ll have the award. As I did for short fiction, I thought I’d take a minute and go back over the winners of this category over the years…another list it would NOT suck to be a part of…
1987 - The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
1988 - Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont
1989 - Collected Stories by Richard Matheson
1990 - Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
1991 - Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
1992 - Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge
1993 - Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
1994 - The Early Fears by Robert Bloch
1995 - The Panic Hand by Jonathan Carroll
1996 - The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti
1997 - Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner
1998 - Black Butterflies by John Shirley
1999 - The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg
2000 - Magic Terror by Peter Straub
2001 - The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists by Norman Partridge
2002 - One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury
2003 - Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum
2004 - Fearful Symmetries by Thomas F. Monteleone
2005 - 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
2006 - Destinations Unknown by Gary Braunbeck
No Sir, I would not hate being part of that crowd. Maybe this is my year! If not, I have another collection due this summer, so maybe…
-DNW

