British Fantasy Awards
Program · Fantasy and horror · Tier 3: Genre and Specialist Trade Awards · Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Awards presented by the British Fantasy Society across numerous categories.
2024
34 booksDon't Fear the Reaper
WinnerJackal, Jackal
WinnerOut There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
WinnerTalonsister
WinnerThe Brazen Head of Westinghouse
WinnerThe Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
WinnerA Curious Cartography
A Day of Fallen Night
A House with Good Bones
At Eternity's Gates
At the Lighthouse
Beyond Sundered Seas
Boys in the Valley
How to Sell a Haunted House
Mirror Bay
Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology
Never Whistle at Night
No Happily Ever After
No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories
One Life Left
Professor Flotsam's Cabinet of Peculiarities
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Something Peculiar
The Darkness in the Pines
The House on the Moon
The Last Day and the First
The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy
The Pilfered Quill
The Ripe Fruit in the Garden
They Shut Me Up
Thornhedge
Turn Again, O My Sweetness
Under My Skin
Untethered Sky
2023
31 booksJust Like Home
WinnerMorta
WinnerSomeone in Time
WinnerThe Queen of the High Fields
WinnerThe Spear Cuts Through Water
WinnerUnder the Moon: Collected Speculative Fiction
WinnerA Moment of Zugzwang
Africa Risen
And Then I Woke Up
Behind a Broken Smile
Breakable Things
Candescent Blooms
Cast Long Shadows
Full Immersion
Glitterati
Interference
Isolation
Major Arcana
Miracle Growth
Ogres
Path of War
Pomegranates
Sky Breaker: Tales of the Wanderer
Sundial
The Bone Orchard
The Book of Queer Saints
The Call of El Tunche
The Entropy of Loss
The Hollows
The Oleander Sword
The Tails That Make You
2022
35 booksBathymetry
WinnerDefekt
WinnerNever Have I Ever
WinnerShe Who Became the Sun
WinnerSinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction
WinnerThe Last House on Needless Street
WinnerA Broken Darkness
A Dowry of Blood
A Flight of Birds
A Spindle Splintered
And This Is How to Stay Alive
Dreamland: Other Stories
Fill the Thickened Lung with Breath
Henrietta
I Spit Myself Out
Matryoshka
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
O2 Arena
Out of the Darkness
Sistersong
Sky Eyes
The Black Coast
The Book of Accidents
The Ghost Sequences
The Jasmine Throne
The Museum for Forgetting
The Unbroken
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021): Volume 1
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead
These Lifeless Things
This Is Our Undoing
Treacle Walker
We All Have Teeth
When Things Get Dark
2021
30 booksDominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Volume One)
WinnerInfinite Tea in the Demara Café
WinnerMexican Gothic
WinnerRing Shout; or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times
WinnerThe Once and Future Witches
WinnerThe Watcher in the Woods
Winner8-Bit Free Will
A Song for the End
After Sundown
Beneath the Rising
Black Cranes
Bloody Britain
By Force Alone
Dark River
Daylight Robbery
Honeybones
Only the Broken Remain
Plain Bad Heroines
Shadows & Tall Trees 8
Survivor Song
The Bone Shard Daughter
The City We Became
The Flame and the Flood
The Hollow Places
The Only Good Indians
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
Threading the Labyrinth
Triggernometry
We All Hear Stories in the Dark
We Do Like to be Beside
2020
30 booksNew Suns
WinnerOrmeshadow
WinnerSing Your Sadness Deep
WinnerThe Bone Ships
WinnerThe Pain-Eater's Daughter
WinnerThe Reddening
WinnerA Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods
Dendrochronology
Growing Things and Other Stories
I Say (I Say, I Say)
Mistletoe
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight
Once Upon a Parsec: The Book of Alien Fairy Tales
Ragged Alice
The Ascent to Godhood
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy
The Boughs Withered: When I Told Them My Dreams
The Butcher's Table
The Deep
The Institute
The Migration
The Plague Stones
The Poison Song
The Survival of Molly Southbourne
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Twisted Ones
The Woods
This House of Wounds
Tomorrow, When I Was Young
Wonderland
2019
33 booksAll the Fabulous Beasts
WinnerDown Where Sound Comes Blunt
WinnerLittle Eve
WinnerThe Bitter Twins
WinnerThe Tea Master and the Detective
WinnerYear's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Five
WinnerA Son of the Sea
Binti: The Night Masquerade
Breakwater
Empire of Sand
Foundryside
Her Blood the Apples, Her Bones the Trees
How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
Humanagerie
In the Gallery of Silent Screams
Lost Objects
New Fears 2
Octoberland
Priest of Bones
Resonance & Revolt
Telling Stories
The Cabin at the End of the World
The Devil and the Deep
The Future Is Blue
The Green Man's Heir
The Land of Somewhere Safe
The Last Temptation of Dr Valentine
The Loosening Skin
The Only Harmless Great Thing
The Way of the Worm
This Dreaming Isle
Thumbsucker
Wolf's Hill
2018
31 booksLooking for Laika
WinnerNew Fears
WinnerPassing Strange
WinnerStrange Weather
WinnerThe Changeling
WinnerThe Ninth Rain
Winner2084
A Pocketful of Crows
Age of Assassins
Behind Her Eyes
Brother's Ruin
Cottingley
Dark Satanic Mills
Four Abstracts
Illumination
Imposter Syndrome
Naming the Bones
Norse Mythology
Pacific Monsters
Relics
Shepherd's Business
Tanith by Choice: The Best of Tanith Lee
Tender
The Anniversary
The Boy on the Bridge
The Court of Broken Knives
The Crow Garden
The Little Gift
The Murders of Molly Southbourne
Under the Pendulum Sun
You Will Grow Into Them
2017
32 booksDisappearance at Devil's Rock
WinnerLightspeed - 2016
WinnerSome Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors
WinnerThe Ballad of Black Tom
WinnerThe Tiger and the Wolf
WinnerWhite Rabbit
Winner13 Minutes
A Tiding of Magpies
Asian Monsters
Bodies of Water
Charmed Life
Dead Letters
Every Heart a Doorway
Fight Like a Girl
Greenteeth
Hammers on Bone
Secret Language
Sharp Ends
Something Remains: Joel Lane and Friends
The Arrival of Missives
The Grieving Stones
The Hidden People
The High King's Vengeance
The Parts We Play
The Searching Dead
The Silver Tide
The Starlit Wood
The Summer Goddess
The Unheimlich Manoeuvre
The Watcher
The Women's Song
Waxy
2016
34 booksFabulous Beasts
WinnerGhost Summer
WinnerRawblood
WinnerThe Doll Collection
WinnerThe Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
WinnerUprooted
WinnerA Cold Silence
African Monsters
Aickman's Heirs
Albion Fay
Best British Horror 2015
Binti
Dirt Land
Guns of the Dawn
Half a War
Hippocampus
Lost Girl
Monsters
Probably Monsters
Scar City
Signal to Noise
Skein and Bone
Sorcerer to the Crown
Strange Creation
The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories
The Blue Room
The Bureau of Them
The Death House
The Iron Ghost
The Silence
The Stars Seem So Far Away
Welcome to Night Vale
When the Moon Man Knocks
Witches of Lychford
2015
31 booksA Woman's Place
WinnerCuckoo Song
WinnerLightspeed - 2014
WinnerNewspaper Heart
WinnerNick Nightmare Investigates
WinnerNo One Gets Out Alive
WinnerThrough the Woods
WinnerA Change of Heart
A Man Lies Dreaming
Black Gods Kiss
Breed
City of Stairs
Cold Turkey
Drive
Gifts for the One Who Comes After
Horror Uncut
Ptichka
Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites
Station Eleven
Terror Tales of Wales
The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2
The Bright Day Is Done
The End
The Girl on the Suicide Bridge
The Girl with All the Gifts
The Last Plague
The Moon King
The Relic Guild
The Spectral Book of Horror Stories
The Unquiet House
Water for Drowning
2014
32 booksA Stranger in Olondria
WinnerBeauty
WinnerEnd of the Road
WinnerMonsters in the Heart
WinnerSigns of the Times
WinnerThe Shining Girls
WinnerBetween Two Thorns
Chalk
Death Walks En Pointe
Dogs with Their Eyes Shut
Family Business
Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome
For Those Who Dream Monsters
Golden Apple
Holes for Faces
House of Small Shadows
Mayhem
Moonstruck
NOS4A2
North American Lake Monsters
Path of Needles
Rebellion
Rustblind and Silverbright
Spin
Tales of Eve
The Fox
The Glass Republic
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Tenth Black Book of Horror
The Year of the Ladybird
Vivian Guppy and the Brighton Belle
Whitstable
2013
25 booksLast Days
WinnerMagic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane
WinnerRemember Why You Fear Me: The Best Dark Fiction of Robert Shearman
WinnerShark! Shark!
WinnerSome Kind of Fairy Tale
WinnerThe Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine
WinnerA Town Called Pandemonium
Blood and Feathers
Curare
Eyepennies
From Hell to Eternity
Our Island
Railsea
Red Country
Sea Hearts
Silent Voices
Sunshine
Terror Tales of the Cotswolds
The Drowning Girl
The Kind Folk
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women
The Respectable Face of Tyranny
The Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories
Where Furnaces Burn
Wish for a Gun
2012
25 booksAmong Others
WinnerEveryone's Just So So Special
WinnerGorel and the Pot-Bellied God
WinnerThe Coffin-Maker's Daughter
WinnerThe Ritual
WinnerThe Weird
Winner11/22/63
A Book of Horrors
A Dance with Dragons
A Glass of Shadow
Alice Through the Plastic Sheet
Cyber Circus
Dermot
Florrie
Ghosts with Teeth
Gutshot
House of Fear
King Death
Mrs Midnight and Other Stories
Near Zennor
Rumours of the Marvellous
Sad, Dark Thing
Terra Damnata
The Heroes
The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer
2011
24 booksBack from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories
WinnerFool's Gold
WinnerFull Dark, No Stars
WinnerHumpty's Bones
Winner1922
Apartment 16
Last Exit for the Lost
Never Again
One Monster Is Not Enough
Otterburn
Ponthe Oldenguine
Pretty Little Dead Things
Something for Nothing
Sparrowhawk: A Victorian Ghost Story
The Beautiful Room
The End of the Line
The Gravedigger's Tale: Fables of Fear
The Leaping
The Lure
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 21
The Mammoth Book of Zombie Apocalypse!
The Silent Land
The Thief of Broken Toys
Walkers in the Dark
2010
24 booksLove Songs for the Shy and Cynical
WinnerOne
WinnerThe Language of Dying
WinnerThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Twenty
WinnerWhat Happens When You Wake Up in the Night
WinnerBest Served Cold
Careful What You Wish For
Cern Zoo
Cyberabad Days
Dragontales: Short Stories of Flame, Tooth, and Scale
Futile Flame
George Clooney's Moustache
Hellbound Hearts
My Brother's Keeper
Old Man Scratch
Once and Future Cities
Roadkill
Songs of the Dying Earth
The Confessor's Tale
The Naming of the Beasts
The Terrible Changes
The Witnesses Are Gone
Under the Dome
Vardøger
2009
30 booksBull Running for Girls
WinnerDo You See?
WinnerMemoirs of a Master Forger
WinnerThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nineteen
WinnerThe Reach of Children
WinnerAll Mouth
Cone Zero
Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes
Gunpowder
Heads
How to Make Monsters
Islington Crocodiles
Just After Sunset
Myth-Understandings
N.
Pinholes in Black Muslin
Rain Dogs
Stone Cold Calling
Subtle Edens: An Anthology of Slipstream Fiction
The Caul Bearer
The Graveyard Book
The Midnight Man
The Narrows
The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories
The Tobacconists' Concession
The Vague
The Victoria Vanishes
Thieving Fear
We Fade to Grey
Winter Journey
2008
28 booksMy Stone Desire
WinnerOld Devil Moon
WinnerThe Grin of the Dark
WinnerThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Eighteen
WinnerThe Scalding Rooms
WinnerAfter the War: Two Tales of Noreela
All Your Gods Are Dead
Black Tide
Digging Deep
Dirty Prayers
Discovering Ghosts
Going Back
Heart-Shaped Box
Midnight Bazaar: A Secret Arcade of Strange and Eerie Tales
New Writings in the Fantastic
Plots and Misadventures
Rain
Stains
Starship Summer
The Black Book of Horror
The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories
The Intruders
The Servants
The Spider Kiss
The Taken
The Terror
Thumbprint
Zencore!
2007
30 booksDusk
WinnerExtended Play: The Elastic Book of Music
WinnerFragile Things
WinnerKid
WinnerWhisper Lane
Winner31/10
Breeding Ground
Bridge of Dreams
Choices
Jack of Ravens
Nova Swing
Puca Muc
Rough Cut
She Loves Monsters
Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror
The Devil You Know
The Disappeared
The Djinn's Wife
The Ephemera
The Face of Twilight
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Little Drummer Boy
The Lost District and Other Stories
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Seventeen
The Man from the Diogenes Club
The Memory of Joy
The Unblemished
The Veteran
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection
Unbecoming and Other Tales of Horror
2006
30 books20th Century Ghosts
WinnerAnansi Boys
WinnerBest New Horror
WinnerThe Elastic Book of Numbers
WinnerThe Mask Behind the Face
WinnerA Feast for Crows
Approaching Zero
Beyond Each Blue Horizon
Can You See Me?
Dark Tales of Time and Space
Deadbeat
Don't Turn Out the Light
Dying in the Arms of Jean Harlow
Fourbodings
Homeland
Hotel Midnight
Just Behind You
Nowhere Near an Angel
Poe's Progeny: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories Inspired by Classic Dark Fiction
Sea Kings of Mars
Secret Stories
Signs of Life
Soft Apocalypse
The Cosmology of the Wider World
The Hounds of Avalon
The Life to Come
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16
The Numberist
Vellum
Voluntary Commital
2005
24 booksBlack Static
WinnerBreathe
WinnerOut of His Mind
WinnerThe Alsiso Project
WinnerThe Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
WinnerAcquainted with the Night
Darker Ages
Days of Magic, Nights of War
Dead Man's Hand
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
My Death
Roads Were Burning
Somnambulists
The Black Phone
The Ice Maiden
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15
The Problem of Susan
The Queen of Sinister
The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor
The Water Room
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
Things That Never Happen
Trujillo and Other Stories
You Will Hear the Locust Sing
2004
21 booksAmerican Waitress
WinnerFull Dark House
WinnerThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Fourteen
WinnerTold by the Dead
WinnerBeneath the Ground
By Moonlight Only
Crimewave 7: The Last Sunset
Demonized: Short Stories
Eternal Love
Exorcising Angels
Fear the Dead
Felaheen
Lost Boy, Lost Girl
More Tomorrow & Other Stories
Nobody True
The Poison Master
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
The White Hands
The White Hands and Other Weird Tales
Vampyrrhic Rites
Wonderland
2003
21 booksKeep Out the Night
WinnerRamsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies
WinnerThe Fairy Feller's Master Stroke
WinnerThe Scar
WinnerArt of Imagination: 20th Century Visions of Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy
Cape Wrath
Dark Terrors 6
Everything's Eventual
Fantasy: The Best of 2001
Firing the Cathedral
Open the Box
Tales from Earthsea
The Darkest Part of the Woods
The Devil in Green
The Emperor of Dreams
The Facts of Life
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13
The Tain
The Virtual Menagerie and Other Stories
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection
White Apples
2002
20 booksAfter Shocks
WinnerGoblin City Lights
WinnerThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Twelve
WinnerThe Night of the Triffids
WinnerAlways Forever
American Gods
As the Sun Goes Down
Black Dust
Bold as Love
Diamond Dogs
Futures
London Bone
Magic Terror: Seven Tales
Nearly People
Phantoms of Venice
Smoking Poppy
Telling the Tale
The Conan Chronicles, 2
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection
2001
20 booksHideous Progeny
WinnerNaming of Parts
WinnerPerdido Street Station
WinnerWhere the Bodies Are Buried
WinnerDark Matters
Dark Terrors 5
F20
Hush
Mr. X
No Story in It
Phantoms and Fiends
Silent Children
Swords Against the Millennium
The Conan Chronicles, 1
The Handover
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 11
The Midnight Man
The Ragchild
The Taking
The Winter Hunt
2000
20 booksIndigo
WinnerLonesome Roads
WinnerThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume Ten
WinnerWhite
Winner999
Hearts in Atlantis
Leningrad Nights
Moonlight and Vines
Shelter
The Amber Citadel
The Collected Strange Stories, Volumes I & II
The Entertainment
The Hand That Feeds
The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique
The Marriage of Sticks
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection
What You Make It
Where Does the Town Go at Night?
White of the Moon
World's End
1999
32 booksBag of Bones
WinnerDark Terrors 4
WinnerGhosts and Grisly Things
WinnerThe Song My Sister Sang
WinnerA Coven of Vampires
Chasm
China Doll
Driving Blind
Démons intimes
Faith in the Flesh
Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn
Jedella Ghost
Kiss Me with Your Jackal Lips
Kissing the Beehive
Legends
Leviathan 2
Lolicia
Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton
Never to Be Heard
One of Us
Redbrick Eden
Shadows of Light and Dark
Someplace to Be Flying
Song of the Dawn
The Avram Davidson Treasury
The Blue Posts
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales
The Granta Book of the American Long Story
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 9
The Paladin Mandates
The Stormwatcher
Vampyrrhic
1998
15 booksDark Terrors 3
WinnerLight Errant
WinnerWage Slaves
WinnerEven Beggars Would Ride
Family, or The Nativity and Flight into Egypt Considered As Episodes of I Love Lucy
Mesmer
Midnight Never Comes
Polgara the Sorceress
Scaremongers
Signs of Life
The Chronicles of the Round Table
The House on Nazareth Hill
The Lost Boy Found
The Wake
The Word
1997
22 booksDancing About Architecture
WinnerThe Nightmare Factory
WinnerThe Tooth Fairy
WinnerAssassin's Apprentice
Blood Waters
Citizen Ed
Dark Terrors 2
Excession
Foreign Bodies
Frères de chair
Hell Hath Enlarged Herself
Hogfather
Sacrament
Scars
Scenting Hallowed Blood
Teatro Grottesco
The Best New Horror: Volume 7
The Bull Leapers
The Hellfire Club
The Lottery and Other Stories / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Red Tower
The Sandman: Book of Dreams
1996
16 booksA suivre
WinnerLast Rites & Resurrections
WinnerRequiem
WinnerAnnabelle Says
Blood Crazy
Chaos and Order
Cold Cuts III
Dark Terrors: The Gollancz Book of Horror
Dead of Light
Famous Monsters
I've Come to Talk with You Again
Last Rites and Resurrections
Little Deaths
The Glad Who Sang a Mermaid in from the Probability Sea
The Time Ships
Worlds' End
