Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction

This category was previously titled "best short story". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

Short Story:

• 1987: "The Deep End" by Robert R. McCammon
  • "Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll
  • "This Old Man" by Charles L. Grant
  • "Day-Tay-Vao" by F. Paul Wilson
  • "Traps" by F. Paul Wilson
• 1988: "Night They Missed the Horrow Show" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "The Young Thing at the Top of the Stairs" by Ray Bradbury
  • "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" by Harlan Ellison
  • "The Music of the Dark time" by Chet Williamson
  • "Jack's Decline" by Lucius Shepard
  • "Nobody Lives There Now" by Carol Orlock
• 1989: "Eat Me" by Robert R. McCammon
  • "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" by Edward Bryant
  • "Bodies and Heads" by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • "Each Night, Each Year" by Kathryn Ptacek
  • "'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy' He Said" by Chet Williamson
• 1990: "The Calling" by David B. Silva
  • "Back Windows" by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • "But You'll Never Follow Me" by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "From the Papers of Helmut Hecher" by Chet Williamson
  • "The Loneliest Number" by Edward Bryant
• 1991: "Lady Madonna" by Nancy Holder
  • "The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire" by Poppy Z. Brite
  • "Love Doll: A Fable" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "The Braille Encyclopaedia" by Grant Morrison
  • "Wolf Winter" by Maxine O'Callaghan
  • "Richard's Head" by Al Sarrantonio
• 1992: "This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons
  • "Farm Wife" by Nancy Kilpatrick
  • "Did They Get You to Trade?" by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "Come One, Come All" by Gahan Wilson
  • "Bright Lights, Big Zombie" by Douglas E. Winter
• 1993: "I Hear the Mermaids Singing" by Nancy Holder
  • "Death Fiend Guerrillas" by William S. Burroughs
  • "Distances" by Sherman Alexie
  • "The Dog Park" by [[Dennis Etchison]
  • "Pain Grin" by Wayne Allen Sallee
• 1994: "The Box" by Jack Ketchum (tie)
• 1994: "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" by Nancy Holder (tie)
  • "Mr. Torso" by Edward Lee
  • "Things of Which We Do Not Speak" by Lucy Taylor
• 1995: "Chatting With Anubis" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Becky Lives" by Harry Crews
  • "The Bunglaow House" by Thomas Ligotti
  • "The Death of the Novel" by William Browning Spencer
• 1996: "metalica" by P.D. Cacek
  • "The Slobbering Tounge That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman" by Robert Devereaux
  • "The Secret Shih Tan" by Graham Masterson
  • "The House of Mourning" by Brian Stableford
  • "Plan 10 from Inner Space" by Karl Edward Wagner
• 1997: "Rat Food" by Edo van Belkom & David Nickle
  • "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" by Douglas Clegg
  • "A Plague on Both Your Houses" by Scott Edelman
  • "Madame Babylon" by Brian Hodge

Short Fiction:

• 1998: "The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • "Blues-Born" by Tina L. Jens
  • "Autopsy Room Four" by Stephen King
  • "The Rug" by Edo van Belkom
• 1999: "Aftershock'' by F. Paul Wilson
  • "The Grave" by P.D. Cacek
  • "The Entertainment" by Ramsey Campbell
  • "Halloween Street" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 2000: "Gone" by Jack Ketchum
  • "Dead Cat Bounce" by Gerard Daniel Houarner
  • "Fallen Angel" by Robert J. Sawyer
  • "Mexican Moon" by Karen E. Taylor
• 2001: "Reconstructing Amy" by Tim Lebbon
  • "I Am Your Need" by Mort Castle
  • "The Haunt" by Jack Ketchum
  • "Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" by David B. Silva
• 2002: "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Depair" by Tom Piccirilli
  • "Dissapearances" by Mort Castle
  • "The Green Man" by Christopher Fowler
  • "The Plague Species" by Charlee Jacob
  • "Details" by China Mieville

See also

• Bram Stoker Award