World Fantasy Award—Anthology
This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy anthology voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.
Award winners and finalists
2004
WFC 2004 was held in Tempe, Arizona. Judges were John Clute, Sherwood Smith, Michael Stackpole, Alain Nevant, and Scott Wyatt.
- Winner: Strange Tales, edited by Rosalie Parker (Tartarus Press)
- The Dark: New Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
- Gathering the Bones, edited by Jack Dann, Ramsey Campbell & Dennis Etchison (Voyager Australia; Voyager UK; Tor US)
- The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, edited by Jeff VanderMeer & Mark Roberts (Night Shade Books)
- Trampoline: An Anthology, edited by Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
2005
WFC 2005 was held in Madison, Wisconsin, and was chaired by Meg Turville-Heitz. Judges were Alis Rasmussen (Kate Elliott), Jeffrey Ford, Tim Lebbon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
- Winner: Acquainted with the Night, edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)
- Winner: Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, edited by Sheree R. Thomas (Warner Aspect)
- The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Viking)
- Polyphony 4, edited by Deborah Layne & Jay Lake (Wheatland Press)
- The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age, edited by Harry Turtledove & Noreen Doyle (Tor)
2006
WFC 2006 was held in Austin, Texas. Judges were Steve Lockley, Barbara Roden, Victoria Strauss, Jeff VanderMeer, and Andrew Wheeler.
- Winner: The Fair Folk, edited by Marvin Kaye (Science Fiction Book Club)
- Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, edited by Stephen Jones (Fedogan & Bremer)
- Polyphony 5, edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake (Wheatland Press)
- Adventure Vol. 1, edited by Chris Roberson (MonkeyBrain)
- Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson (Crescent Books)
2007
WFC 2007 was held in Saratoga Springs, New York. Judges for the event were Gavin Grant, Ed Greenwood, Jeremy Lassen, Jeff Mariotte, and Carsten Polzin.
- Winner: Salon Fantastique, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Thunder's Mouth)
- Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard, edited by Scott A. Cupp and Joe R. Lansdale (MonkeyBrain and the Fandom Association of Central Texas)
- Retro Pulp Tales, edited by Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean)
- Twenty Epics, edited by David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi (All-Star Stories)
- Firebirds Rising, edited by Sharyn November (Firebird)
2008
WFC 2008 was held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
- Winner: Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, edited by Ellen Datlow, Editor (Tor)
- Five Strokes to Midnight, edited by Gary A. Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble (Haunted Pelican Press)
- Wizards: Magical Tales From The Masters of Modern Fantasy, edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (Berkley)
- The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Viking)
- Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories, edited by John Klima (Bantam Spectra)
2009
WFC 2009 was held in San Jose, California. Judges were Jenny Blackford, Peter Heck, Ellen Klages, Chris Roberson, and Delia Sherman.
- Winner: Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia (Senses Five Press)
- The Living Dead, edited by John Joseph Adams (Night Shade Books)
- The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow (Del Rey)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, & Gavin J. Grant (St. Martin's)
- Steampunk, edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon Publications)
2010
WFC 2010 was held in Columbus, Ohio in October 2010. Judges were Greg Ketter, Kelly Link, James Minz, Jürgen Snoeren, and Gary K. Wolfe.[1]
- Winner: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny: From Poe to the Pulps/From the 1940s to Now, edited by Peter Straub (Library of America)
- Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
- Songs of The Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois (Subterranean/Voyager)
- Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations, edited by Danel Olson (Ash-Tree)
- Eclipse Three, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade)
- The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, edited by Gordon Van Gelder (Tachyon)
2011
WFC 2011 was held in San Diego, California in October 2011. Judges were Andrew Hook, Sacha Mamczak, Mark Rich, Sean Wallace, and Kim Wilkins.[2]
- Winner: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, Kate Bernheimer, ed. (Penguin)
- The Way of the Wizard, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Prime)
- Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor)
- Stories: All-New Tales, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. (Morrow; Headline Review)
- Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, S.T. Joshi, ed. (PS)
- Swords & Dark Magic, Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders, eds. (Eos)
2012
WFC was held in Toronto, Canada in November 2012. The judges were John Berlyne, James P. Blaylock, Stephen Gallagher, Mary Kay Kare and Jacques Post.[3]
- Winner: The Weird, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Corvus; Tor, published May 2012)
- Blood and Other Cravings, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
- A Book of Horrors, Stephen Jones, ed. (Jo Fletcher Books)
- The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Harper Voyager US)
- Gutshot, Conrad Williams, ed. (PS Publishing)
2013
WFC was held in Brighton, UK in November 2013.[4]
- Winner: Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4, Danel Olson, ed. (PS Publishing)
- Epic: Legends of Fantasy, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Tachyon)
- Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris N. Brown, eds. (Small Beer)
- Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver, ed. (Solaris)
- Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Random House)