Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction

Template:Infobox award The Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for short fiction.

Winners and nominees

This category was previously titled "best short story". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Short story

Year	Recipient	Title	Result	Citation
1987	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Friend's Best Man"	Nominee	<ref name=":2" />
	Template:Sortname	"This Old Man"
	Template:Sortname	"Day-Tay-Vao"
	Template:Sortname	"Traps"
1988	Template:Sortname	"Night They Missed the Horror Show"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":3" />
	Template:Sortname	"She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother"
	Template:Sortname	"Nobody Lives There Now"
	Template:Sortname	"Jack's Decline"
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1989	Template:Sortname	"Eat Me"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":4" />
	Template:Sortname	"Each Night, Each Year"
	Template:Sortname	"Bodies and Heads"
	Template:Sortname	"'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy' He Said"
1990	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":5" />
	Template:Sortname	"Back Windows"
	Template:Sortname	"But You'll Never Follow Me"
	Template:Sortname	"From the Papers of Helmut Hecher"
1991	Template:Sortname	"Lady Madonna"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":6" />
	Template:Sortname	"Love Doll: A Fable"
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	Template:Sortname	"Wolf Winter"
	Template:Sortname	"Richard's Head"
1992	Template:Sortname	"This Year's Class Picture"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Farm Wife"	Nominee	<ref name=":7" />
	Template:Sortname	"Did They Get You to Trade?"
	Template:Sortname	"Come One, Come All"
	Template:Sortname	"Bright Lights, Big Zombie"
1993	Template:Sortname	"I Hear the Mermaids Singing"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Distances"	Nominee	<ref name=":8" />
	Template:Sortname	"Death Fiend Guerrillas"
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	"Pain Grin"
1994	Template:Sortname	"Cafe Endless: Spring Rain"	Co-Winner	<ref name=":9">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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	Template:Sortname	"Mr. Torso"	Nominee	<ref name=":9" />
	Template:Sortname	"Things of Which We Do Not Speak"
1995	Template:Sortname	"Chatting With Anubis"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Becky Lives"	Nominee	<ref name=":10" />
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1996	Template:Sortname	"metalica"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":11" />
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	Template:Sortname	"Plan 10 from Inner Space"
1997	Template:Sortname and David Nickle	"Rat Food"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"I Am Infinite, I Contain Multit	Nominee	<ref name=":12" />
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	Template:Sortname	"Madame Babylon"

Short fiction

Year	Recipient	Title	Result	Citation
1998	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":13" />
	Template:Sortname	"Blues-Born"
	Template:Sortname	"Autopsy Room Four"
1999	Template:Sortname	"Aftershock"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":14" />
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	Template:Sortname	"Halloween Street"
2000	Template:Sortname	"Gone"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Dead Cat Bounce"	Nominee	<ref name=":15" />
	Template:Sortname	"Fallen Angel"
	Template:Sortname	"Mexican Moon"
2001	Template:Sortname	"Reconstructing Amy"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"I Am Your Need"	Nominee	<ref name=":16" />
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	Template:Sortname	"Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?"
2002	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Disappearances"	Nominee	<ref name=":17" />
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	Template:Sortname	"Details"
2003	Template:Sortname	"Duty"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":18" />
	Template:Sortname	"Harvey's Dream"
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2004	Template:Sortname	"Nimitseahpah"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Just Out of Reach"	Nominee	<ref name=":19" />
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	Template:Sortname	"Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland"
	Template:Sortname	"Singing My Sister Down"
	Template:Sortname	"Guts"
2005	Template:Sortname	"We Now Pause for Station Identification"	Co-winners	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Haeckel's Tale"	Nominee	<ref name=":20" />
	Template:Sortname	"As Others See Us"
	Template:Sortname	"Times of Atonement"
	Template:Sortname	"Invisible"
2006	Template:Sortname	"Tested"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"FYI"	Nominee	<ref name=":21" />
	Template:Sortname	"Feeding the Dead Inside"
	Template:Sortname	"Balance"
	Template:Sortname	"31/10"
2007	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":22" />
	Template:Sortname	"Letting Go"
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	"There's No Light Between Floor"
	Template:Sortname	"Closet Dreams"
2008	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Petrified"	Nominee	<ref name=":23" />
	Template:Sortname and Tim Pratt	Template:Sort
	Template:Sortname	"Evidence of Love in A Case of Abandonment"
	Template:Sortname	"Turtle"
2009	Template:Sortname	"In the Porches of My Ears"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Keeping Watch"	Nominee	<ref name=":24" />
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2010	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Return to Mariabronn"	Nominee	<ref name=":25" />
	Template:Sortname	"1925; A Fall River Halloween"
	Template:Sortname	"In the Middle of Poplar Street"
	Template:Sortname	"Final Draft"
2011	Template:Sortname	"Herman Wouk is Still Alive"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Her Husband's Hands"	Nominee	<ref name=":26" />
	Template:Sortname	"Hypergraphia"
	Template:Sortname	"Graffiti Sonata"
	Template:Sortname	"Home"
	Template:Sortname	"All You Can Do Is Breathe"
2012	Template:Sortname	"Magdala Amygdala"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest"	Nominee	<ref name=":27" />
	Template:Sortname	"Bury My Heart at Marvin Gardens"
	Template:Sortname	"Righteous"
	Template:Sortname	"Available Light"
2013	Template:Sortname	"Night Train to Paris"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Primal Tongue"	Nominee	<ref name=":28" />
	Template:Sortname	"Snapshot"
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	Template:Sortname	"Code 666"
2014	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Co-Winner	<ref name=":29">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Ruminations"
	Template:Sortname	"Hot Tub"	Nominee	<ref name=":29" />
	Template:Sortname	"Baby's Breath"
	Template:Sortname	"Splinterette"
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2015	Template:Sortname	"Happy Joe's Rest Stop"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"All the Day You'll Have Good Luck"	Nominee	<ref name=":30" />
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	Template:Sortname	"Sing Me Your Scars"
	Template:Sortname	"Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers"
2016	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Time is a Face on the Water"	Nominee	<ref name=":31" />
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	Template:Sortname	"ArbeitMacht Frei"
2017	Template:Sortname	"Apocalypse Then"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"I Will Be the Reflection Until the End"	Nominee	<ref name=":32" />
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	Template:Sortname	"So Sings the Siren"
	Template:Sortname	"Loving You Darkly"
2018	Template:Sortname	"Mutter"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Dead End Town"	Nominee	<ref name=":33" />
	Template:Sortname	"Glove Box"
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	Template:Sortname	"And in Her Eyes the City Drowned"
2019	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":34" />
	Template:Sortname	"Bury Me in Tar and Twine"
	Template:Sortname	"Lydia"
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2020	Template:Sortname	"One Last Transformation"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Am I Missing the Sunlight?"	Nominee	<ref name=":0" />
	Template:Sortname	"Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1"
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	Template:Sortname	"Should Fire Remember the Fuel?"
2021	Template:Sortname	"Permanent Damage"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Nominee	<ref name=":1" />
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	Template:Sortname	"Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail"
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2022	Template:Sortname	"Nona Doesn’t Dance"	Nominee	<ref name=":35">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	"Poppy’s Poppy"
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	Template:Sortname	"Fracture"	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2023
	Template:Sortname	Quondam	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	Silk	Nominee	<ref name=Stoker23/>
	Template:Sortname	The Sound of Children Screaming
	Template:Sortname	If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak
	Template:Sortname	An Inherited Taste
2024
	Template:Sortname	Versus Versus	Winner	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Template:Sortname	“And She Had Been So Reasonable”	Nominee	<ref name=Stoker24/>
	Template:Sortname	To the Wolves
	Template:Sortname	Ten Thousand Crawling Children
	Template:Sortname	She Sheds Her Skin

External links

• Stoker Award on the HWA web page
• Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees