Winners and shortlist
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* Winners
| Year | Author | Work | Publisher or Publication | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | L. Sprague de Camp * | "The Fallible Fiend" | ||
| 1974 | Michael Moorcock * | "The Jade Man's Eyes" | ||
| 1975 | Karl Edward Wagner * | "Sticks" | ||
| 1976 | Fritz Leiber * | "The Second Book of Fritz Leiber" | ||
| 1977 | Karl Edward Wagner * | "Two Suns Setting" | ||
| 1978 | Ramsey Campbell * | "In the Bag" | ||
| 1979 | Harlan Ellison * | "Jeffty is Five" | ||
| 1980 | Fritz Leiber * | "The Button Molder" | ||
| 1981 | Robert Aickman * | "The Stains" | ||
| 1982 | Dennis Etchison * | "The Dark Country" | ||
| 1983 | Stephen King * | "The Breathing Method" | ||
| 1984 | Karl Edward Wagner * | "Neither Brute Nor Human" | ||
| 1985 | Clive Barker * | "In the Hills, the Cities" | ||
| 1986 | Clive Barker * | "The Forbidden" | ||
| 1987 | Dennis Etchison * | "The Olympic Runner" | ||
| 1988 | Steve Rasnic Tem * | "Leaks" | ||
| 1989 | Brian Lumley * | "Fruiting Bodies" | ||
| 1990 | Joe R. Lansdale * | "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks" | ||
| 1991 | Michael Marshall Smith * | "The Man Who Drew Cats" | ||
| 1992 | Michael Marshall Smith * | "The Dark Lands" | ||
| 1993 | Nicholas Royle * | "Night Shift Sister" | ||
| 1994 | Dennis Etchison * | "The Dog Park" | ||
| 1995 | Paul J. McAuley * | "The Temptation of Dr. Stein" | ||
| 1996 | Michael Marshall Smith * | "More Tomorrow" | ||
| 1997 | Martin Simpson* | "Dancing About Architecture" | ||
| 1998 | Christopher Fowler * | "Wageslaves" | ||
| 1999 | Stephen Laws * | "The Song My Sister Sang" | ||
| 2000 | Tim Lebbon * | "White" | ||
| 2001 | Tim Lebbon * | "Naming of Parts" | ||
| 2002 | Simon Clark * | "Goblin City Lights" | ||
| 2003 | Mark Chadbourn * | "The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke" | ||
| 2004 | Christopher Fowler * | "American Waitress" | Crimewave 7: The Last Sunset | [2] |
| Simon Clark | "Exorcising Angels" | Exorcising Angels | [2] | |
| Tim Lebbon | ||||
| Ramsey Campbell | "Fear the Dead" | The Fear Within | [2] | |
| Mark Samuels | "The White Hands" | The White Hands and Other Weird Tales | [2] | |
| Mark Chadbourn | "Wonderland" | Telos | [2] | |
| 2005 | Paul Meloy * | "Black Static" | The Third Alternative , #40 | [3] |
| Joe Hill | "The Black Phone" | The Third Alternative , #39 | [3] | |
| Neil Gaiman | "The Problem of Susan" | Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy | [3] | |
| Adam Roberts | "Roads Were Burning" | Postscripts , #1 | [3] | |
| Joe Hill | "You Will Hear the Locust Sing" | The Third Alternative , #37 | [3] | |
| 2006 | Joe Hill * | "Best New Horror" | Postscripts , #3 | [4] |
| John Lucas | "Approaching Zero" | The Elastic Book of Numbers | [4] | |
| Marie O'Regan | "Can You See Me?" | Midnight Street , #5 | [4] | |
| Paul Kane | "Homeland" | Assembly of Rogues | [4] | |
| Ramsey Campbell | "Just Behind You" | Poe's Progeny | [4] | |
| Sean Wright | "The Numberist" | New Wave of Speculative Fiction | [4] | |
| Will McIntosh | "Soft Apocalypse" | Interzone , #200 | [4] | |
| 2007 | Mark Chadbourn * | "Whisper Lane" | BFS: A Celebration | [5] |
| Stephen Volk | "31/10" | Dark Corners | [5] | |
| Sarah Singleton | "The Disappeared" | Time Pieces | [5] | |
| Marion Arnott | "The Little Drummer Boy" | Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music | [5] | |
| Steve Lockley | "Puca Muc" | Shrouded by Darkness | [5] | |
| Paul Lewis | ||||
| Conrad Williams | "The Veteran" | Postscripts , #6 | [5] | |
| 2008 | Joel Lane * | "My Stone Desire" | Black Static , #1 | [6] |
| Ramsey Campbell | "Digging Deep" | Phobic: Modern Horror Stories | [6] | |
| Tim Lebbon | "Discovering Ghosts" | Postscripts , #10 | [6] | |
| Christopher Fowler | "The Spider Kiss" | The Mammoth Book of Monsters | [6] | |
| Joe Hill | "Thumbprint" | Postscripts , #10 | [6] | |
| 2009 | Sarah Pinborough * | "Do You See" | Myth-Understandings | [7] |
| Paul Maloy | "All Mouth" | Black Static , #6 | [7] | |
| Stephen King | "N." | Just After Sunset | [7] | |
| Simon Strantzas | "Pinholes in Black Muslin" | The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror | [7] | |
| Allyson Bird | "The Caul Bearer" | Bull Running for Girls | [7] | |
| John Travis | "The Tobacconist's Concession" | The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror | [7] | |
| Paul Meloy | "The Vague" | Islington Crocodiles | [7] | |
| Joel Lane | "Winter Journey" | Black Static , #5 | [7] | |
| 2010 | Michael Marshall Smith * | "What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night" | Nightjar | [8] |
| Nina Allan | "My Brother's Keeper" | Black Static , #12 | [8] | |
| Justin Carroll | "Careful What You Wish For" | Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth and Scale | [8] | |
| Sarah Pinborough | "The Confessor's Tale" | Hellbound Hearts | [8] | |
| Rob Shearman | "George Clooney's Moustache" | The BFS Yearbook 2009 | [8] | |
| 2011 | Sam Stone * | "Fool's Gold" | The Bitten Word | [9] |
| R. B. Russell | "The Beautiful Room" | Nightjar | [9] | |
| Nicholas Royle | "The Lure" | The End of the Line | [9] | |
| Jan Edwards | "Otterburn" | Estronomicon, December 2010 | [9] | |
| Joe Essid | "Something for Nothing" | Catastrophia | [9] | |
| 2012 | Angela Slatter * | "The Coffin-Maker's Daughter" | A Book of Horrors | [10] |
| Simon Bestwick | "Dermot" | Black Static , August-September 2011 | [10] | |
| Paul Finch | "King Death" | Spectral | [10] | |
| Michael Marshall Smith | "Sad, Dark Thing" | A Book of Horrors | [10] | |
| Adam Nevill | "Florrie" | House of Fear | [10] | |
| 2013 | Ray Cluley* | "Shark! Shark!" | Black Static , #29 | [11] |
| Nina Allan | "Sunshine" | Black Static , #29 | [11] | |
| Ralph Robert Moore | "Our Island" | Where Are We Going? | [11] | |
| Sam Sykes | "Wish for a Gun" | A Town Called Pandemonium | [11] | |
| 2014 | Carole Johnstone * | "Signs of the Times" | Black Static , #33 | [12] |
| Pat Cadigan | "Chalk" | This is Horror | [12] | |
| Sophia McDougall | "Golden Apple" | The Lowest Heaven | [12] | |
| Thana Niveau | "Death Walks En Pointe" | The Burning Circus | [12] | |
| Adrian Tchaikovsky | "Family Business" | The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic | [12] | |
| Karin Tidbeck | "Moonstruck" | Shadows & Tall Trees, #5 | [12] | |
| Conrad Williams | "The Fox" | This is Horror | [12] | |
| 2015 | Emma Newman * | "A Woman's Place" | Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets | [13] |
| J. A. Mains | "The Girl on the Suicide Bridge" | Beside the Seaside | [13] | |
| Laura Mauro | "Ptichka" | Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease | [13] | |
| Gaie Sebold | "A Change of Heart" | Wicked Women | [13] | |
| 2016 | Priya Sharma * | "Fabulous Beasts" | Tor.com, July 2015 | [14] |
| Cate Gardner | "When the Moon Man Knocks" | Black Static , October-November 2015 | [14] | |
| Frances Kay | Strange Creation | Tenebris Nyxies | [14] | |
| V. H. Leslie | "The Blue Room" | Skein and Bone | [14] | |
| Ralph Robert Moore | "Dirt Land" | Black Static , November-December 2015 | [14] | |
| Adam Nevill | "Hippocampus" | Terror Tales of the Ocean | [14] | |
| 2017 | Georgina Bruce * | "White Rabbit" | Black Static , January-February 2016 | [15] |
| Simon Avery | "Charmed Life" | Something Remains: Joel Lane and Friends | [15] | |
| Gary Budden | "Greenteeth" | Black Static , January-February 2016 | [15] | |
| Sammy HK Smith | "The Watcher" | The Book of Angels | [15] | |
| Camilla Grudova | "Waxy" | Granta | [15] | |
| Nadine West | "The Women's Song" | — | [15] | |
| 2018 | Laura Mauro* | "Looking for Laika" | Interzone #273 | [16] |
| Ruth EJ Booth | "The Anniversary" | Black Static #61 | [16] | |
| Nina Allan | "Four Abstracts" | New Fears | [16] | |
| Joanne Hall | "Illumination" | Book of Dragons | [16] | |
| Stephen Volk | "The Little Gift" | PS Publishing | [16] | |
| Stephen Gallagher | "Shepherd's Business" | New Fears | [16] | |
| 2019 | G. V. Anderson* | "Down Where Sound Comes Blunt" | F&SF , March-April 2018 | [17] |
| Georgina Bruce | "Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Trees" | The Silent Garden | [17] | |
| Carole Johnstone | "In the Gallery of Silent Screams" | Black Static , September-October 2018 | [17] | |
| Chris Kelso | ||||
| Priya Sharma | "A Son of the Sea" | All the Fabulous Beasts | [17] | |
| Ruth EJ Booth | "Telling Stories" | The Dark, December 2018 | [17] | |
| Robert Shearman | "Thumbsucker" | New Fears 2 | [17] | |
| 2020 | Laura Maura* | "The Pain-Eater's Daughter" | Undertow | [18] |
| Penny Jones | "Dendrochronology" | Hersham Horror | [18] | |
| Robert Shearman | "I Say (I Say, I Say)" | The Shadow Booth | [18] | |
| Julie Travis | "Tomorrow, when I Was Young" | Eibonvale Press | [18] | |
| 2021 | Ida Keogh* | "Infinite Tea in the Demara Café" | London Centric: Tales of Future London | [19] |
| Pete Sutton | "We Do Like to be Beside" | Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2 | [19] | |
| Anna Taborska | "Daylight Robbery" | Bloody Britain | [19] | |
| John Wiswell | 8-Bit Free Will | PodCastle , November 24, 2020 | [19] | |
| 2022 | Lorraine Wilson* | "Bathymetry" | Strange Horizons , March 2021 | [20] |
| T. H. Dray | "Henrietta" | BFS Horizons | [20] | |
| Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki | "O2 Arena" | Galaxy's Edge, November 2021 | [20] | |
| E. M. Faulds | "A Flight of Birds" | Shoreline of Infinity, August 2021 | [20] | |
| Julie Travis | "Sky Eyes" | Dreamland: Other Stories | [20] | |
| C. A. Yates | "Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath" | Dreamland: Other Stories | [20] | |
| 2023 | James Bennett* | "Morta" | The Book of Queer Saints | [21] |
| Eliza Chan | "The Tails That Make You" | Fantasy , August 2022 | [21] | |
| Shona Kinsella | "The Call of El Tunche" | Weird Horror Anthology | [21] | |
| Neil Williamson | "A Moment of Zugzwang" | ParSec #4 | [21] | |
| 2024 | Tim Major* | "The Brazen Head of Westinghouse" | IZ Digital, May 2023 | [22] |
| Shona Kinsella | "Professor Flotsam’s Cabinet of Peculiarities" | Great British Horror 8 | [22] | |
| Rachel Rener | "The Pilfered Quill" | From the Arcane | [22] | |
| David Green | ||||
| C. A. Yates | "The Ripe Fruit in the Garden" | Great British Horror 8 | [22] | |
| C. A. Yates | "Turn Again, O My Sweetness" | At the Lighthouse | [22] | |
| 2025 | Eugenia Triantafyllou* | "Loneliness Universe" | Uncanny Magazine , May-June 2024 | [23] |
| Tiffani Angus | "The Oracle at Dairy" | Trembling with Fear, September 2024 | [23] | |
| CL Hellisen | "Godskin" | Strange Horizons , March 2024 | [23] | |
| Priya Sharma | "The Witch’s Pillowbook" | Bound in Blood | [23] | |
| Carlie St. George | "Jinx" | PseudoPod , February 2024 | [23] |