Year | Editor | Anthology | Publisher | Ref. |
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1988 | Kathryn Cramer* | The Architecture of Fear | Arbor House | [8] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
[José Older] |
Michael Kelly | Shadows & Tall Trees | Undertow Publications | [35] |
2016 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia* | She Walks in Shadows | Innsmouth Free Press | [36] |
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Paula R. Stiles* |
Simon Strantzas | Aickman's Heirs | Undertow Publications | [36] |
S. T. Joshi | Black Wings IV | PS Publishing | [36] |
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. | Cassilda's Song | Chaosium | [36] |
Ellen Datlow | The Doll Collection | Tor Books | [36] |
2017 | Jack Dann* | Dreaming in the Dark | PS Australia | [37] |
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Karen Joy Fowler | The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 | Mariner Books | [37] |
John Joseph Adams |
Ellen Datlow | Children of Lovecraft | Dark Horse Comics | [37] |
Mike Allen | Clockwork Phoenix 5 | Mythic Delirium | [37] |
Dominik Parisien | The Starlit Wood | Saga Press | [37] |
Navah Wolfe |
2018 | Peter S. Beagle* | The New Voices of Fantasy | Tachyon Publications | [38] |
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Jacob Weisman* |
Ellen Datlow | Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales | Pegasus Books | [38] |
Gardner Dozois | The Book of Swords | Bantam Books | [38] |
Mahvesh Murad | The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories | Solaris Books | [38] |
Jared Shurin |
William Schafer | The Best of Subterranean | Subterranean Press | [38] |
2019 | Irene Gallo* | Worlds Seen in Passing | Tor.com Publishing | [39] |
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Stephen Jones | Best New Horror 28 | Drugstore Indian | [39] |
Gardner Dozois | The Book of Magic | Bantam Books | [39] |
Dominik Parisien | Robots vs Fairies | Saga Press | [39] |
Navah Wolfe |
Aidan Doyle | Sword and Sonnet | Ate Bit Bear | [39] |
Rachael K. Jones |
E. Catherine Tobler |
2020 | Nisi Shawl* | New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color | Solaris Books | [40] |
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Ann VanderMeer | The Big Book of Classic Fantasy | Vintage Books | [40] |
Jeff VanderMeer |
Ellen Datlow | Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories | Saga Press | [40] |
Dominik Parisien | The Mythic Dream | Saga Press | [40] |
Navah Wolfe |
Mahvesh Murad | The Outcast Hours | Solaris Books | [40] |
Jared Shurin |
2021 | Ann VanderMeer* | The Big Book of Modern Fantasy | Vintage Books | [41] |
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Jeff VanderMeer* |
Jonathan Strahan | The Book of Dragons | Harper Voyager | [41] |
Ellen Datlow | Edited By | Subterranean Press | [41] |
Michael Kelly | Shadows & Tall Trees 8 | Undertow Publications | [41] |
James D. Jenkins | The Valencourt Book of World Horror Stories, Vol. 1 | Valancourt Books | [41] |
Ryan Cagle |
2022 | Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki* | The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021) | Jembefola Press | [42] |
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Charlatan Bardot | Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition) | Dark Moon Books | [42] |
Eric J. Guignard |
Alex Hernandez | Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology | Mad Creek Books | [42] |
Matthew David Goodwin |
Sarah Rafael García |
Ellen Datlow | When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson | Titan Books | [42] |
Paula Guran | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume Two | Pyr | [42] |
2023 | Sheree Thomas* | Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction | Tordotcom | [43] |
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki* |
Zelda Knight* |
John F. D. Taff | Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror | Nightfire Books | [43] |
Vince A. Liaguno | Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology | William Morrow and Company | [43] |
Ren Mason |
Ellen Datlow | Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous | Nightfire Books | [43] |
Sheree Thomas | Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue | Third Man Books | [43] |
Pan Morigan |
Troy L. Wiggins |