British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction

British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction
Awarded forWorks under 15,000 words
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Fantasy Society
First award1973 (1973)
Most recent winner"Loneliness Universe" by Eugenia Triantafyllou
Websitebritishfantasysociety.org

The British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction is a literary award given annually as part of the British Fantasy Awards.

History

Prior to 2008, this award was called the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.[1]

Winners and shortlist

  *   Winners

Year Author Work Publisher or Publication Ref.
1973 L. Sprague de Camp* "The Fallible Fiend" Signet [2]
1974 Michael Moorcock* "The Jade Man's Eyes" Flashing Swords #2 [3]
1975 Karl Edward Wagner* "Sticks" Whispers, #3 [4]
John Jakes "Ghoul's Garden" Flashing Swords #2 [4]
Jack Vance "The Seventeen Virgins" F&SF, October 1974 [4]
1976 Fritz Leiber* "The Second Book of Fritz Leiber" DAW Books [5]
Karl Edward Wagner "The Fourth Seal" Whispers, #2 [5]
David Riley "The Satyr's Head" The Satyr's Head and Other Tales of Terror [5]
Michael Moorcock "White Stars" New Worlds 8 [5]
1977 Karl Edward Wagner* "Two Suns Setting" Fantastic, May 1976 [6]
Howard Waldrop "Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen" Chacal [6]
Richard Cowper "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" F&SF, March 1976 [6]
1978 Ramsey Campbell* "In the Bag" Cold Fear [7]
Marvin Kaye "The Flight of the Umbrella" Fantastic Stories, June 1977 [7]
Parke Godwin "The Lady of Finnigan's Hearth" Fantastic Stories, September 1977 [7]
1979 Harlan Ellison* "Jeffty is Five" F&SF, July 1977 [8]
J. Michael Reaves "The Big Spell" Weird Heroes Volume 8 [8]
Ramsey Campbell "The Changer of Names" Swords Against Darkness III [8]
Stephen R. Donaldson "The Lady in White" F&SF, February 1978 [8]
1980 Fritz Leiber* "The Button Molder" Whispers, #13/14 [9]
Adrian Cole "First Make Them Mad" Fantasy Tales, #4 [9]
Tanith Lee "Red as Blood" F&SF, July 1979 [9]
1981 Robert Aickman* "The Stains" New Terrors 1 [10]
Stephen King "Crouch End" New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos [10]
Brian Lumley "The House of the Temple" Kadath, #3 [10]
Dennis Etchison "The Late Shift" Dark Forces [10]
1982 Dennis Etchison* "The Dark Country" Fantasy Tales. #8 [11]
Michael Moorcock "Elric at the End of Time" Elsewhere 1 [11]
Stephen King "The Monkey" Gallery, November 1981 [11]
Ramsey Campbell "Through the Walls" British Fantasy Society Booklet, #5 [11]
1983 Stephen King* "The Breathing Method" Different Seasons [12]
Stephen King "Apt Pupil" Different Seasons [12]
Brian Lumley "Name and Number" Kadath, July 1982 [12]
1984 Karl Edward Wagner* "Neither Brute Nor Human" World Fantasy Con Programme Booklet [13]
1985 Clive Barker* "In the Hills, the Cities" Books of Blood, Volume I [14]
1986 Clive Barker* "The Forbidden" Fantasy Tales, #14 [15]
1987 Dennis Etchison* "The Olympic Runner" Fantasy Tales, #16 [16]
1988 Steve Rasnic Tem* "Leaks" Whispers VI [17]
1989 Brian Lumley* "Fruiting Bodies" Weird Tales, Summer 1988 [18]
1990 Joe R. Lansdale* "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks" Book of the Dead [19]
1991 Michael Marshall Smith* "The Man Who Drew Cats" Dark Voices 2 [20]
1992 Michael Marshall Smith* "The Dark Lands" Darklands [21]
Jack Pavey "The Boo-Hoo Forest" Peeping Tom, #4 [21]
David B. Silva "Slipping" Borderlands 2 [21]
1993 Nicholas Royle* "Night Shift Sister" In Dreams [22]
1994 Dennis Etchison* "The Dog Park" Dark Voices 5 [23]
1995 Paul J. McAuley* "The Temptation of Dr. Stein" The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein [24]
Kim Newman "Out of the Night, When the Full Moon Is Bright..." The Mammoth Book of Werewolves [24]
Michael Marshall Smith "To Receive is Better" The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein [24]
1996 Michael Marshall Smith* "More Tomorrow" Dark Terrors [25]
Simon Clark "Annabelle Says" British Fantasy Society Booklet #20 [25]
Stephen Laws
John Grant "The Glad Who Sang a Mermaid in from the Probability Sea" Interzone, #95 [25]
Karl Edward Wagner "I've Come to Talk with You Again" Dark Terrors [25]
Martin Simpson "Last Rites and Resurrections" The Third Alternative, #8 [25]
1997 Martin Simpson* "Dancing About Architecture" The Third Alternative, #11 [26]
Justina Robson "The Bull Leapers" Visionary Tongue, #4 [26]
Kim Newman "Citizen Ed" Interzone, #113 [26]
Eugene Byrne
Michael Marshall Smith "Foreign Bodies" Lethal Kisses [26]
Michael Marshall Smith "Hell Hath Enlarged Herself" Dark Terrors 2 [26]
Thomas Ligotti "The Red Tower" The Nightmare Factory [26]
Jack Wainer "Scars" Grue, #18 [26]
Thomas Ligotti "Teatro Grottesco" The Nightmare Factory [26]
1998 Christopher Fowler* "Wageslaves" Destination Unknown; Secret City: Strange Tales of London [27]
Peter Crowther "Even Beggars Would Ride" The Third Alternative, #13 [27]
James Lovegrove
Geoff Ryman "Family" Interzone, #127 [27]
Terry Lamsley "The Lost Boy Found" Dark Terrors 3 [27]
Ramsey Campbell "The Word" Millennium [27]
1999 Stephen Laws* "The Song My Sister Sang" Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden [28]
Nicholas Royle "The Blue Posts" The Third Alternative, #18 [28]
Charles de Lint "China Dolls" The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams [28]
Tanith Lee "Jedella Ghost" Interzone, #135 [28]
Jason Gould "Kiss Me with your Jackal Lips" The Third Alternative, #15 [28]
Graham Masterton "Lolicia" Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton [28]
Ramsey Campbell "Nevere to be Heard" Dark Terrors 4 [28]
Mike Chinn "Song of the Dawn" The Paladin Mandates [28]
2000 Tim Lebbon* "White" Masters of Terror Press [29]
Ramsey Campbell "The Entertainment" 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense [29]
Peter Crowther "The Hand that Feeds" Enigmatic Press [29]
James Lovegrove
Graham Joyce "Leningrad Nights" PS Publishing [29]
Tanith Lee "Where Does the Town Go at Night?" Interzone, #147 [29]
2001 Tim Lebbon* "Naming of Parts" PS Publishing [30]
Michael Marshall Smith "The Handover" Dark Terrors 5 [30]
Ramsey Campbell "No Story in It" Dark Terrors 5 [30]
Stan Nicholls "The Taking" Swords Against the Millennium [30]
Steve Lockley "The Winter Hunt" F20: One [30]
Paul Lewis
2002 Simon Clark* "Goblin City Lights" Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips [31]
Graham Joyce "Black Dust" Subterranean Press [31]
Alastair Reynolds "Diamond Dogs" PS Publishing [31]
Conrad Williams "Nearly People" PS Publishing [31]
Steve Lockley "Telling the Tale" Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips [31]
Paul Lewis
2003 Mark Chadbourn* "The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke" PS Publishing [32]
Paul Finch "Cape Wrath" Telos [32]
Michael Moorcock "Firing the Cathedral" PS Publishing [32]
Andrew Humphrey "Open the Box" The Third Alternative, #29 [32]
China Miéville "The Tain" PS Publishing [32]
2004 Christopher Fowler* "American Waitress" Crimewave 7: The Last Sunset [33]
Simon Clark "Exorcising Angels" Exorcising Angels [33]
Tim Lebbon
Ramsey Campbell "Fear the Dead" The Fear Within [33]
Mark Samuels "The White Hands" The White Hands and Other Weird Tales [33]
Mark Chadbourn "Wonderland" Telos [33]
2005 Paul Meloy* "Black Static" The Third Alternative, #40 [34]
Joe Hill "The Black Phone" The Third Alternative, #39 [34]
Neil Gaiman "The Problem of Susan" Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy [34]
Adam Roberts "Roads Were Burning" Postscripts, #1 [34]
Joe Hill "You Will Hear the Locust Sing" The Third Alternative, #37 [34]
2006 Joe Hill* "Best New Horror" Postscripts, #3 [35]
John Lucas "Approaching Zero" The Elastic Book of Numbers [35]
Marie O'Regan "Can You See Me?" Midnight Street, #5 [35]
Paul Kane "Homeland" Assembly of Rogues [35]
Ramsey Campbell "Just Behind You" Poe's Progeny [35]
Sean Wright "The Numberist" New Wave of Speculative Fiction [35]
Will McIntosh "Soft Apocalypse" Interzone, #200 [35]
2007 Mark Chadbourn* "Whisper Lane" BFS: A Celebration [36]
Stephen Volk "31/10" Dark Corners [36]
Sarah Singleton "The Disappeared" Time Pieces [36]
Marion Arnott "The Little Drummer Boy" Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music [36]
Steve Lockley "Puca Muc" Shrouded by Darkness [36]
Paul Lewis
Conrad Williams "The Veteran" Postscripts, #6 [36]
2008 Joel Lane* "My Stone Desire" Black Static, #1 [37]
Ramsey Campbell "Digging Deep" Phobic: Modern Horror Stories [37]
Tim Lebbon "Discovering Ghosts" Postscripts, #10 [37]
Christopher Fowler "The Spider Kiss" The Mammoth Book of Monsters [37]
Joe Hill "Thumbprint" Postscripts, #10 [37]
2009 Sarah Pinborough* "Do You See" Myth-Understandings [38]
Paul Maloy "All Mouth" Black Static, #6 [38]
Stephen King "N." Just After Sunset [38]
Simon Strantzas "Pinholes in Black Muslin" The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror [38]
Allyson Bird "The Caul Bearer" Bull Running for Girls [38]
John Travis "The Tobacconist's Concession" The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror [38]
Paul Meloy "The Vague" Islington Crocodiles [38]
Joel Lane "Winter Journey" Black Static, #5 [38]
2010 Michael Marshall Smith* "What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night" Nightjar [39]
Nina Allan "My Brother's Keeper" Black Static, #12 [39]
Justin Carroll "Careful What You Wish For" Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth and Scale [39]
Sarah Pinborough "The Confessor's Tale" Hellbound Hearts [39]
Rob Shearman "George Clooney's Moustache" The BFS Yearbook 2009 [39]
2011 Sam Stone* "Fool's Gold" The Bitten Word [40]
R. B. Russell "The Beautiful Room" Nightjar [40]
Nicholas Royle "The Lure" The End of the Line [40]
Jan Edwards "Otterburn" Estronomicon, December 2010 [40]
Joe Essid "Something for Nothing" Catastrophia [40]
2012 Angela Slatter* "The Coffin-Maker's Daughter" A Book of Horrors [41]
Simon Bestwick "Dermot" Black Static, August-September 2011 [41]
Paul Finch "King Death" Spectral [41]
Michael Marshall Smith "Sad, Dark Thing" A Book of Horrors [41]
Adam Nevill "Florrie" House of Fear [41]
2013 Ray Cluley* "Shark! Shark!" Black Static, #29 [42]
Nina Allan "Sunshine" Black Static, #29 [42]
Ralph Robert Moore "Our Island" Where Are We Going? [42]
Sam Sykes "Wish for a Gun" A Town Called Pandemonium [42]
2014 Carole Johnstone* "Signs of the Times" Black Static, #33 [43]
Pat Cadigan "Chalk" This is Horror [43]
Sophia McDougall "Golden Apple" The Lowest Heaven [43]
Thana Niveau "Death Walks En Pointe" The Burning Circus [43]
Adrian Tchaikovsky "Family Business" The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic [43]
Karin Tidbeck "Moonstruck" Shadows & Tall Trees, #5 [43]
Conrad Williams "The Fox" This is Horror [43]
2015 Emma Newman* "A Woman's Place" Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets [44]
J. A. Mains "The Girl on the Suicide Bridge" Beside the Seaside [44]
Laura Mauro "Ptichka" Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease [44]
Gaie Sebold "A Change of Heart" Wicked Women [44]
2016 Priya Sharma* "Fabulous Beasts" Tor.com, July 2015 [45]
Cate Gardner "When the Moon Man Knocks" Black Static, October-November 2015 [45]
Frances Kay "Strange Creation" Tenebris Nyxies [45]
V. H. Leslie "The Blue Room" Skein and Bone [45]
Ralph Robert Moore "Dirt Land" Black Static, November-December 2015 [45]
Adam Nevill "Hippocampus" Terror Tales of the Ocean [45]
2017 Georgina Bruce* "White Rabbit" Black Static, January-February 2016 [46]
Simon Avery "Charmed Life" Something Remains: Joel Lane and Friends [46]
Gary Budden "Greenteeth" Black Static, January-February 2016 [46]
Sammy HK Smith "The Watcher" The Book of Angels [46]
Camilla Grudova "Waxy" Granta [46]
Nadine West "The Women's Song" — [46]
2018 Laura Mauro* "Looking for Laika" Interzone #273 [47]
Ruth EJ Booth "The Anniversary" Black Static #61 [47]
Nina Allan "Four Abstracts" New Fears [47]
Joanne Hall "Illumination" Book of Dragons [47]
Stephen Volk "The Little Gift" PS Publishing [47]
Stephen Gallagher "Shepherd's Business" New Fears [47]
2019 G. V. Anderson* "Down Where Sound Comes Blunt" F&SF, March-April 2018 [48]
Georgina Bruce "Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Trees" The Silent Garden [48]
Carole Johnstone "In the Gallery of Silent Screams" Black Static, September-October 2018 [48]
Chris Kelso
Priya Sharma "A Son of the Sea" All the Fabulous Beasts [48]
Ruth EJ Booth "Telling Stories" The Dark, December 2018 [48]
Robert Shearman "Thumbsucker" New Fears 2 [48]
2020 Laura Mauro* "The Pain-Eater's Daughter" Undertow [49]
Penny Jones "Dendrochronology" Hersham Horror [49]
Robert Shearman "I Say (I Say, I Say)" The Shadow Booth [49]
Julie Travis "Tomorrow, when I Was Young" Eibonvale Press [49]
2021 Ida Keogh* "Infinite Tea in the Demara Café" London Centric: Tales of Future London [50]
Pete Sutton "We Do Like to be Beside" Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2 [50]
Anna Taborska "Daylight Robbery" Bloody Britain [50]
John Wiswell "8-Bit Free Will" PodCastle, November 24, 2020 [50]
2022 Lorraine Wilson* "Bathymetry" Strange Horizons, March 2021 [51]
T. H. Dray "Henrietta" BFS Horizons [51]
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki "O2 Arena" Galaxy's Edge, November 2021 [51]
E. M. Faulds "A Flight of Birds" Shoreline of Infinity, August 2021 [51]
Julie Travis "Sky Eyes" Dreamland: Other Stories [51]
C. A. Yates "Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath" Dreamland: Other Stories [51]
2023 James Bennett* "Morta" The Book of Queer Saints [52]
Eliza Chan "The Tails That Make You" Fantasy, August 2022 [52]
Shona Kinsella "The Call of El Tunche" Weird Horror Anthology [52]
Neil Williamson "A Moment of Zugzwang" ParSec #4 [52]
2024 Tim Major* "The Brazen Head of Westinghouse" IZ Digital, May 2023 [53]
Shona Kinsella "Professor Flotsam’s Cabinet of Peculiarities" Great British Horror 8 [53]
Rachel Rener "The Pilfered Quill" From the Arcane [53]
David Green
C. A. Yates "The Ripe Fruit in the Garden" Great British Horror 8 [53]
C. A. Yates "Turn Again, O My Sweetness" At the Lighthouse [53]
2025 Eugenia Triantafyllou* "Loneliness Universe" Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2024 [54]
Tiffani Angus "The Oracle at Dairy" Trembling with Fear, September 2024 [54]
CL Hellisen "Godskin" Strange Horizons, March 2024 [54]
Priya Sharma "The Witch’s Pillowbook" Bound in Blood [54]
Carlie St. George "Jinx" PseudoPod, February 2024 [54]

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