Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology

Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology
Awarded for	The best psychological suspense, horror, or dark fantastic anthology of at least 40,000 words, published in English in the same calendar year
Location	Massachusetts
Country	United States
Presented by	Readercon
First award	2007
Most recent winner	Nadia Bulkin and Julia Rios (Why Didn’t You Just Leave)
Website	shirleyjacksonawards.org

The Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology is a literary award given annually at Readercon as part of their Shirley Jackson Awards.

Terminology

In 2007, the inaugural award was given as the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology. ^[1] Beginning in 2010, the award has been entitled the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology. ^[2]

Criteria

To be eligible for the award, an anthology must total at least 40,000 words. The anthology must contain at least 3 separate stories by at least 3 different authors. At least 50% of the anthology must be fiction, and at least 50% of the material must be previously unpublished. ^[3]

Winners and Finalists

  *   Winners

Year	Editor	Novel	Publisher	Ref.
2007	Ellen Datlow *	Inferno	Tor Books	[1]
	Barbara Roden Christopher Roden	At Ease with the Dead	Ash-Tree Press	[1]
	Del Howison Jeff Gelb	Dark Delicacies 2	Running Press	[1]
	John Klima	Logorrhea	Bantam Spectra	[1]
	Jack Dann Gardner Dozois	Wizards	Berkley Books	[1]
2008	Sarah Eyre* Ra Page*	The New Uncanny	Comma Press	[4]
	Tom English	Bound for Evil	Dead Letter	[4]
	Danel Olson	Exotic Gothic 2: New Tales of Taboo	Ash-Tree Press	[4]
	Ann VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer	Fast Ships, Black Sails	Night Shade Books	[4]
	Barbara Roden Christopher Roden	Shades of Darkness	Ash-Tree Press	[4]
2009	Ellen Datlow *	Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe	Solaris Books	[5]
	Ellen Datlow	Lovecraft Unbound	Dark Horse	[5]
	Christopher Golden Tim Lebbon James A. Moore	British Invasion	Cemetery Dance Publications	[5]
	Michael Kelly	Apparitions	Undertow	[5]
	Danel Olson	Exotic Gothic 3	Ash-Tree Press	[5]
2010	Neil Gaiman * Al Sarrantonio *	Stories	Morrow	[2]
	S.T. Joshi	Black Wings	PS Publishing	[2]
	Ellen Datlow Nick Mamatas	Haunted Legends	Tor Books	[2]
	Kate Bernheimer	My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me	Penguin Books	[2]
	Jonathan Strahan Lou Anders	Swords & Dark Magic	HarperCollins	[2]
2011	Jack Dann * Nick Gevers *	Ghosts by Gaslight	Harper Voyager	[6]
	Ellen Datlow	Blood and Other Cravings	Tor Books	[6]
	Ellen Datlow	Supernatural Noir	Dark Horse	[6]
	Ellen Datlow Terri Windling	Teeth	HarperCollins	[6]
	Stephen Jones	A Book of Horrors	Jo Fletcher Books	[6]
	Ann VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer	The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities	Harper Voyager	[6]
2012	Danel Olson *	Exotic Gothic 4: Postscripts #28/29	PS Publishing	[7]
	Greg Herren J.M. Redmann	Night Shadows	Bold Strokes Books	[7]
	Christopher Golden	21st Century Dead	St. Martin's Press	[7]
	S.T. Joshi	Black Wings II	PS Publishing	[7]
	Sam Weller Mort Castle	Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury	Morrow	[7]
2013	Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. *	The Grimscribe's Puppets	Miskatonic River Press	[8]
	Jared Shurin	The Book of the Dead	Jurassic London	[8]
	Jonathan Oliver	End of the Road	Solaris Books	[8]
	Ellen Datlow	Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy	Tor Books	[8]
	Steve Berman	Where thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe	Lethe Press	[8]
2014	Ellen Datlow *	Fearful Symmetries	ChiZine	[9]
	Jesse Bullington	Letters to Lovecraft	Stone Skin	[9]
	Michael Kelly	Shadows & Tall Trees 14	Undertow / ChiZine	[9]
	Ross E. Lockhart Justin Steele	The Children of Old Leech	Word Horde	[9]
	Mark Morris	The Spectral Book of Horror Stories	Spectral	[9]
2015	Simon Strantzas *	Aickman's Heirs	Undertow	[10]
	Ellen Datlow	The Doll Collection	Tor Books	[10]
	Christopher Golden	Seize the Night	Gallery Press	[10]
	S.T. Joshi	Black Wings IV	PS Publishing	[10]
	Richard Thomas	Exigencies	Dark House	[10]
2016	Dominik Parisien* Navah Wolfe *	The Starlit Wood	Saga Press	[11]
	Kit Caless Gary Budden	An Unreliable Guide to London	Influx Press	[11]
	Mike Davis	Autumn Cthulhu	Lovecraft eZine Press	[11]
	Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.	The Madness of Dr. Caligari	Fedogan & Bremer	[11]
	Kelsi Morris Kaitlin Tremblay	Those Who Make Us: Canadian Creature, Myth, and Monster Stories	Exile Editions	[11]
2017	Michael Kelly*	Shadows & Tall Trees 7	Undertow	[12]
	Ellen Datlow	Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales	Pegasus	[12]
	Mahvesh Murad Jared Shurin	The Djinn Falls in Love	Rebellion Developments / Solaris Books	[12]
	Justin Steele Sam Cowan	Looming Low Volume I	Dim Shores	[12]
	Ross E. Lockhart	Tales From a Talking Board	Word Horde	[12]
2018	Dominik Parisien* Navah Wolfe *	Robots vs Fairies	Saga Press	[13]
	Michael Bailey Lucy A. Snyder	Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations	Written Backwards	[13]
	Dan Coxon	This Dreaming Isle	Unsung Stories	[13]
	Lincoln Michel Nadxieli Nieto	Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder	Black Balloon	[13]
	The Silent Garden Collective	The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism	Undertow	[13]
2019	Christopher Golden * James A. Moore *	The Twisted Book of Shadows	Twisted Publishing	[14]
	Ellen Datlow	Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories	Saga Press	[14]
	Dominik Parisien Navah Wolfe	The Mythic Dream	Saga Press	[14]
	Preston Grassmann	The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison	PS Publishing	[14]
	Marie O'Regan Paul Kane	Wonderland: An Anthology of Works Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland	Titan Publishing Group	[14]
2020	Lee Murray * Geneve Flynn*	Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women	Omnium Gatherum	[15]
	Lenore Hart	The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires	Northampton House	[15]
	Michael Kelly	Shadows & Tall Trees 8	Undertow	[15]
	Mark Matthews	Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror	Wicked Run	[15]
	Lincoln Michel Nadxieli Nieto	Tiny Nightmares	Catapult	[15]
	Mark Morris	After Sundown	Flame Tree Publishing	[15]
	Doug Murano Michael Bailey	Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors	Written Backwards	[15]
2021	Eric J. Guignard *	Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World	Dark Moon Books	[16]
	dave ring*	Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness	Neon Hemlock	[16]
	Rebecca Brewer	Giving The Devil His Due: A Charity Anthology	Running Wild	[16]
	Jess Landry Aaron J. French	There Is No Death, There Are No Dead	Crystal Lake	[16]
	Ken MacGregor	Stitched Lips: An Anthology of Horror from Silenced Voices	Dragon's Roost	[16]
2022	Doug Murano*	The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors	Bad Hand	[17]
	Michael Bailey	Chiral Mad 5	Written Backwards	[17]
	Matt Blairstone Alex Woodroe	Your Body is Not Your Body	Tenebrous	[17]
	Ellen Datlow	Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous	Tor Nightfire	[17]
	Vince A. Liaguno Rena Mason	Other Terrors	Morrow	[17]
2023	Jolie Toomajan*	Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic	Cosmic Horror Monthly	[18]
	James Aquilone	Shakespeare Unleashed	Monstrous	[18]
	Shane Hawk Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.	Never Whistle at Night	Vintage Books	[18]
	Jordan Peele John Joseph Adams	Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror	Penguin Random House	[18]
	John WM Thompson	Mooncalves	NO Press	[18]
2024	Nadia Bulkin * Julia Rios *	Why Didn’t You Just Leave	Cursed Morsels	[19]
	Sofia Ajram	Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror	Ghoulish	[19]
	Terry J. Benton-Walker	The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power	Tor Books	[19]
	Christa Carmen L.E. Daniels	Monsters in the Mills	Interactive Publications	[19]
	dave ring	The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread	Neon Hemlock	[19]

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