World Fantasy Award—Anthology

Template:Short description Template:Infobox award The World Fantasy Awards are given each year by the World Fantasy Convention for the best fantasy fiction published in English during the previous calendar year. The awards have been described by book critics such as The Guardian as a "prestigious fantasy prize",<ref name="AwardBust"/> and one of the three most prestigious speculative fiction awards, along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards (which cover both fantasy and science fiction).<ref name="STARquote"/><ref name="CHICquote"/> The World Fantasy Award—Anthology is given each year for anthologies of fantasy stories by multiple authors published in English. An anthology can have any number of editors, and works in the anthology may have been previously published; awards are also given out for collections of works by a single author in the Collection category. The Anthology category has been awarded annually since 1988, though from 1977 through 1987 anthologies were admissible as nominees in the Collection category. During the ten years they were admissible for that category they won the award seven times and represented 38 of the 56 nominations.<ref name="Locusrules"/>

World Fantasy Award nominees and winners are decided by attendees and judges at the annual World Fantasy Convention. A ballot is posted in June for attendees of the current and previous two conferences to determine two of the finalists, and a panel of five judges adds three or more nominees before voting on the overall winner.<ref name="Locusrules"/><ref name="WFArules"/> The panel of judges is typically made up of fantasy authors<ref name="TORstats"/> and is chosen each year by the World Fantasy Awards Administration, which has the power to break ties.<ref name="Locusrules"/> The final results are presented at the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October.<ref name="WFArules"/> Winners were presented with a statue in the form of a bust of H. P. Lovecraft through the 2015 awards; more recent winners receive a statuette of a tree.<ref name="AwardBust2"/>

During the 37 nomination years, 137 editors have had works nominated; 41 of them have won, including co-editors. Only six editors have won more than once. Ellen Datlow has won 8 times out of 39 nominations, the most of any editor; Terri Windling has won 6 times out of 18 nominations, all of the nominations as a co-editor with Datlow; Jeff VanderMeer has two wins each out of seven nominations, with both wins and five nominations shared with Ann VanderMeer; Jack Dann has won twice out of five nominations; Sheree Thomas and Dennis Etchison have won twice out of three nominations, and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki was won both of his nominations. After Datlow and Windling, the editors with the most nominations are Stephen Jones, who has won once out of fifteen nominations, Gardner Dozois, who has won once out of seven nominations, Jonathan Strahan, who has won once out of six nominations, and John Joseph Adams, David Sutton, and Martin H. Greenberg, who each have been nominated six times without winning.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the anthology was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a yellow background and an asterisk (*) next to the editor's name have won the award; the other entries are the other nominees on the shortlist.

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Year	Editor	Anthology	Publisher	Ref.
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Arbor House	<ref name="Loc88"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc88"/>
	Template:Sortname	In the Field of Fire	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc88"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Masques II	Maclay & Associates	<ref name="Loc88"/>
	Anonymous	Night Visions 4	Dark Harvest	<ref name="Loc88"/>
	Template:Sortname	Other Edens	Allen & Unwin	<ref name="Loc88"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	DAW Books	<ref name="Loc88"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc89"/>
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	Anonymous	Night Visions 6	Dark Harvest	<ref name="Loc89"/>
	Template:Sortname	Prime Evil	New American Library	<ref name="Loc89"/>
	Template:Sortname	Silver Scream	Dark Harvest	<ref name="Loc89"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc90"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Blood Is Not Enough	William Morrow and Company	<ref name="Loc90"/>
	Template:Sortname	Book of the Dead	Bantam Books	<ref name="Loc90"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Razored Saddles	Dark Harvest	<ref name="Loc90"/>
	Template:Sortname
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Best New Horror	Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers	<ref name="Loc91"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Alien Sex	Dutton Penguin	<ref name="Loc91"/>
	Template:Sortname	Borderlands	Maclay & Associates, Avon Publications	<ref name="Loc91"/>
	Template:Sortname	Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror	Pan Books	<ref name="Loc91"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Walls of Fear	William Morrow and Company	<ref name="Loc91"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc91"/>
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Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc92"/>
	Template:Sortname*
	Template:Sortname	After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc92"/>
	Template:Sortname	Famous Fantastic Mysteries	Gramercy Books	<ref name="Loc92"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Final Shadows	Doubleday Foundation	<ref name="Loc92"/>
	Template:Sortname	When the Music's Over	Bantam Spectra	<ref name="Loc92"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	William Morrow and Company	<ref name="Loc92"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	MetaHorror	Dell Abyss	<ref name="Loc93"/>
	Template:Sortname	Freak Show	Pocket Books	<ref name="Loc93"/>
	Template:Sortname	Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences	Unnameable Press	<ref name="Loc93"/>
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	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Narrow Houses	Little, Brown and Company	<ref name="Loc93"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Mosaic Press	<ref name="Loc93"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Full Spectrum 4	Bantam Spectra	<ref name="Loc94"/>
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	Template:Sortname*
	Template:Sortname	Christmas Forever	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc94"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Oxford University Press	<ref name="Loc94"/>
	Template:Sortname	Sinistre	Horror's Head Press	<ref name="Loc94"/>
	Template:Sortname	Snow White, Blood Red	Morrow AvoNova	<ref name="Loc94"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc94"/>
	Template:Sortname
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Little Deaths	Millennium	<ref name="Loc95"/>
	Template:Sortname	Black Thorn, White Rose	Morrow AvoNova	<ref name="Loc95"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Love in Vein	HarperPrism	<ref name="Loc95"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Shadows Over Innsmouth	Fedogan & Bremer	<ref name="Loc95"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Viking Press	<ref name="Loc96"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Dark Love	Roc Books	<ref name="Loc96"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Victor Gollancz	<ref name="Loc96"/>
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	Template:Sortname	High Fantastic	Ocean View Books	<ref name="Loc96"/>
	Template:Sortname	She's Fantastical	Sybylla Feminist Press	<ref name="Loc96"/>
	Template:Sortname
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Starlight 1	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc97"/>
	Template:Sortname	Dark Terrors 2	Victor Gollancz	<ref name="Loc97"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	HarperPrism	<ref name="Loc97"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc97"/>
	Template:Sortname
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Bending the Landscape: Fantasy	White Wolf Publishing	<ref name="Loc98"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Dark Terrors 3	Victor Gollancz	<ref name="Loc98"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Modern Classics of Fantasy	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc98"/>
	Template:Sortname	Northern Frights 4	Mosaic Press	<ref name="Loc98"/>
	Template:Sortname	Revelations	HarperPrism	<ref name="Loc98"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Dreaming Down-Under	HarperCollins Voyager	<ref name="Loc99"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc99"/>
	Template:Sortname	Dark Terrors 4	Victor Gollancz	<ref name="Loc99"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Legends	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc99"/>
	Template:Sortname	Starlight 2	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc99"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Silver Birch, Blood Moon	Avon Publications	<ref name="Loc00"/>
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	Template:Sortname	999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense	Avon Publications	<ref name="Loc00"/>
	Template:Sortname	Dark Detectives: Adventures of the Supernatural Sleuths	Fedogan & Bremer	<ref name="Loc00"/>
	Template:Sortname	Northern Frights 5	Mosaic Press	<ref name="Loc00"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc00"/>
	Template:Sortname
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora	Warner Aspect	<ref name="Loc01"/>
	Template:Sortname	Dark Terrors 5	Victor Gollancz	<ref name="Loc01"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Shadows and Silence	Ash-Tree Press	<ref name="Loc01"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Vanishing Acts	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc01"/>
	Template:Sortname	Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction	Invisible Cities Press	<ref name="Loc01"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc01"/>
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Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Leisure Books	<ref name="Loc02"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers	<ref name="Loc02"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Constable & Robinson, Carroll & Graf Publishers	<ref name="Loc02"/>
	Template:Sortname	Stigmata	Cocytus Press	<ref name="Loc02"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc02"/>
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Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Viking Press	<ref name="Loc03"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Leviathan, Volume Three	Template:Sort	<ref name="Loc03"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc03"/>
	Template:Sortname	Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists	Bard College	<ref name="Loc03"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc03"/>
	Template:Sortname
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Strange Tales	Tartarus Press	<ref name="Loc04"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc04"/>
	Template:Sortname	Gathering the Bones	HarperCollins Voyager	<ref name="Loc04"/>
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	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Night Shade Books	<ref name="Loc04"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Trampoline: An Anthology	Small Beer Press	<ref name="Loc04"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Acquainted with the Night	Ash-Tree Press	<ref name="Loc05"/>
	Template:Sortname*
	Template:Sortname	Dark Matter: Reading the Bones	Warner Aspect	<ref name="Loc05"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Viking Press	<ref name="Loc05"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc05"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Wheatland Press	<ref name="Loc05"/>
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Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Science Fiction Book Club	<ref name="Loc06"/>
	Template:Sortname	Adventure, Vol. 1	MonkeyBrain Books	<ref name="Loc06"/>
	Template:Sortname	Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction	Crescent Books	<ref name="Loc06"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Wheatland Press	<ref name="Loc06"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth	Fedogan & Bremer	<ref name="Loc06"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Salon Fantastique	Thunder's Mouth Press	<ref name="Loc07"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard	MonkeyBrain Books	<ref name="Loc07"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Firebirds Rising	Firebird Books	<ref name="Loc07"/>
	Template:Sortname	Retro-Pulp Tales	Subterranean Press	<ref name="Loc07"/>
	Template:Sortname	Twenty Epics	All-Star Stories	<ref name="Loc07"/>
	Template:Sortname
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Inferno	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc08"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Viking Press	<ref name="Loc08"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Five Strokes to Midnight	Haunted Pelican Press	<ref name="Loc08"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Logorrhea	Bantam Spectra	<ref name="Loc08"/>
	Template:Sortname	Wizards	Berkley Books	<ref name="Loc08"/>
	Template:Sortname
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy	Senses Five Press	<ref name="Loc09"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Del Rey Books	<ref name="Loc09"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Night Shade Books	<ref name="Loc09"/>
	Template:Sortname	Steampunk	Tachyon Publications	<ref name="Loc09"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	St. Martin's Press	<ref name="Loc09"/>
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	Template:Sortname
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps/from the 1940s to Now	Library of America	<ref name="Loc10"/>
	Template:Sortname	Eclipse Three	Night Shade Books	<ref name="Loc10"/>
	Template:Sortname	Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations	Ash-Tree Press	<ref name="Loc10"/>
	Template:Sortname	Poe	Solaris Books	<ref name="Loc10"/>
	Template:Sortname	Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance	Subterranean Press, HarperCollins Voyager	<ref name="Loc10"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tachyon Publications	<ref name="Loc10"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me	Penguin Books	<ref name="Loc11"/>
	Template:Sortname	Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror	PS Publishing	<ref name="Loc11"/>
	Template:Sortname	Haunted Legends	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc11"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Stories: All-New Tales	William Morrow and Company, Headline Review	<ref name="Loc11"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Swords & Dark Magic	Eos	<ref name="Loc11"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Prime Books	<ref name="Loc11"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Corvus, Tor Books	<ref name="Loc12"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Blood and Other Cravings	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc12"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Jo Fletcher Books	<ref name="Loc12"/>
	Template:Sortname	Gutshot	PS Publishing	<ref name="Loc12"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Harper Voyager	<ref name="Loc12"/>
	Template:Sortname
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Postscripts #28/#29: Exotic Gothic 4	PS Publishing	<ref name="Loc13"/>
	Template:Sortname	Epic: Legends of Fantasy	Tachyon Publications	<ref name="Loc13"/>
	Template:Sortname	Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane	Solaris Books	<ref name="Loc13"/>
	Template:Sortname	Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic	Small Beer Press	<ref name="Loc13"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron	Random House	<ref name="Loc13"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Dangerous Women	Tor Books, Voyager	<ref name="Loc14"/>
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	Template:Sortname	End of the Road	Solaris Books	<ref name="Loc14"/>
	Template:Sortname	Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy	Solaris Books	<ref name="Loc14"/>
	Template:Sortname	Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013	Smith & Jones, PS Publishing	<ref name="Loc14"/>
	Template:Sortname	Queen Victoria's Book of Spells	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc14"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths	Penguin Books	<ref name="Loc14"/>
2015	Template:Sortname*	Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales	Candlewick Press	<ref name="Loc15"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Fearful Symmetries	ChiZine Publications	<ref name="Loc15"/>
	Template:Sortname	Rogues	Bantam Books	<ref name="Loc15"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History	Crossed Genres	<ref name="Loc15"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Shadows & Tall Trees	Undertow Publications	<ref name="Loc15"/>
2016	Template:Sortname*	She Walks in Shadows	Innsmouth Free Press	<ref name="Loc16"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Aickman's Heirs	Undertow Publications	<ref name="Loc16"/>
	Template:Sortname	Black Wings IV	PS Publishing	<ref name="Loc16"/>
	Template:Sortname	Cassilda's Song	Chaosium	<ref name="Loc16"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc16"/>
2017	Template:Sortname*	Dreaming in the Dark	PS Australia	<ref name="Loc17"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Mariner Books	<ref name="Loc17"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Children of Lovecraft	Dark Horse Comics	<ref name="Loc17"/>
	Template:Sortname	Clockwork Phoenix 5	Mythic Delirium	<ref name="Loc17"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Saga Press	<ref name="Loc17"/>
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2018	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Tachyon Publications	<ref name="Loc18"/>
	Template:Sortname*
	Template:Sortname	Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales	Pegasus Books	<ref name="Loc18"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Bantam Books	<ref name="Loc18"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Solaris Books	<ref name="Loc18"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Subterranean Press	<ref name="Loc18"/>
2019	Template:Sortname*	Worlds Seen in Passing	Tor.com Publishing	<ref name="Loc19"/>
	Template:Sortname	Best New Horror 28	Drugstore Indian	<ref name="Loc19"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Bantam Books	<ref name="Loc19"/>
	Template:Sortname	Robots vs Fairies	Saga Press	<ref name="Loc19"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Sword and Sonnet	Ate Bit Bear	<ref name="Loc19"/>
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2020	Template:Sortname*	New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color	Solaris Books	<ref name="Loc20"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Vintage Books	<ref name="Loc20"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories	Saga Press	<ref name="Loc20"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Saga Press	<ref name="Loc20"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Solaris Books	<ref name="Loc20"/>
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2021	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Vintage Books	<ref name="Loc21"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Harper Voyager	<ref name="Loc21"/>
	Template:Sortname	Edited By	Subterranean Press	<ref name="Loc21"/>
	Template:Sortname	Shadows & Tall Trees 8	Undertow Publications	<ref name="Loc21"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Valancourt Books	<ref name="Loc21"/>
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2022	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Jembefola Press	<ref name="Loc22"/>
	Template:Sortname	Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition)	Dark Moon Books	<ref name="Loc22"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology	Mad Creek Books	<ref name="Loc22"/>
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	Template:Sortname	When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson	Titan Books	<ref name="Loc22"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Pyr	<ref name="Loc22"/>
2023	Template:Sortname*	Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction	Tordotcom	<ref name="Loc23"/>
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	Template:Sortname*
	Template:Sortname	Dark Stars: New Tales of Darkest Horror	Nightfire Books	<ref name="Loc23"/>
	Template:Sortname	Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology	William Morrow and Company	<ref name="Loc23"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous	Nightfire Books	<ref name="Loc23"/>
	Template:Sortname	Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue	Third Man Books	<ref name="Loc23"/>
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2024	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Harper Voyager	<ref name="Loc24"/>
	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort	Mariner Books	<ref name="Loc24"/>
	Template:Sortname
	Template:Sortname	Christmas and Other Horrors	Titan UK	<ref name="Loc24"/>
	Template:Sortname	Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror	Random House/Picador	<ref name="Loc24"/>
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	Template:Sortname	Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume One	Ansible Press	<ref name="Loc24"/>

External links

• World Fantasy Convention official site