Best story 2018 (Sweden)

The Best story 2018 vote was held in Fantomen 2-3/2019 and the results were presented in Fantomen 9/2019.

Results

Place	Title	Writer	Artist	Votes
1	"The Ghost at Gallows' Inn"	Reimerthi	Bade	25
2	"Blood Rain"	Eriksson	Velluto, Bade, Saviuk, Boix, Leppänen, Pedrazzini, Spadari, Ruiz	20
3	"The Legend of the Swords, Part 1: Excalibur"	Worker	Vallvé	16
4	"Flame"	Worker	Bess	15
5	"The Golden Eagle"	Madden	Saviuk	13
6	"The Scavengers"	Reimerthi	Ruiz, Martínez	11
7	"The Orient Express, Part 1"	Worker	Vallvé	10
8	"The Forgotten Tribe"	Sol	Ordon	7
9	"The Orient Express, Part 2"	Worker	Vallvé	6
10	"Pirates of the Yellow Snake"	Worker	Vallvé	5
	"The Dark Chalice, Part 1: The Ghost in Glastonbury"	Reimerthi	Leppänen
12	"The Boy Detectives"	Avenell	Bess	4
	"Hero"	Avenell	Vallvé
	"The Legend of the Swords, Part 2: Durandal"	Worker	Vallvé
15	"The Dark Chalice, Part 2: The Tomb of the Sorceress"	Reimerthi	Leppänen	3
	"From Heaven Sent"	Sol	Pedrazzini
	"The Phantom is Everywhere"	DePaul	Beatty, Weigel
18	"The Trap"	Worker	Bess	2
	"Guardian of the Eastern Dark, Part 1: The Man on the Zebra"	Sol	Spadari
	"Guardian of the Eastern Dark, Part 2: The Mountain of Doom"	Sol	Spadari
	"The Bikie Gang"	Avenell	Bess
22	"The Secret of the Stone Plains"	Worker	Bess	1
	"The Messengers of the Jungle"	Avenell	Bess
	"The Leopard Cult"	Worker	Vallvé
25	"The Devil's Smoke"	Darell	Bess	0
	"The Phantom Stamp"	DePaul	Manley
	"Secret of the Satellite"	Worker	Vallvé
	"Deadly Conspiracy"	Worker	Bess
	"Commando 11"	Darell	Bess
Total:				165

Notes

• One Phantom Kids story that was published during 2018 was not eligible to vote for: "Dread of the Poacher".
• Three short The World of the Phantom stories that were published during 2018 were not eligible to vote for.

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Best Story Winners
Finland
1985: "The Prisoner at Capitolium" | 1986: "The Moor of Death"
Norway
1979: "The Heirs" | 1983: "Tale of Rex" | 1984: "Hero" | 1985: "Pirates of the Yellow Snake" | 1986: "The Beanstalk" & "Race Against Death" (tie) | 1987: "Devil's Adventure" | 1988: "Eden" | 1989: "The Last Unicorn" | 1990: "The Last Emperor" | 1991: "Death of a Patrolman, Part 2: Tracking the Killers" | 1992: "The Wolf is Coming" | 1993: "Aron" | 1994: "The Commander is Dead" | 1995: "The Demon's Image" | 1996: "Johnny Hotwire" | 1997: "The Ghost Who Died Twice" | 1998: "The Last Phantom, Part 1: The Eighth Circle" | 1999: "Devil's Story" | 2000: "The Phantom vs Singh 2050" | 2001: "The Invisible Phantom" | 2002: "In A Strange Land, Part 2" | 2003: "My Darling Pirate" | 2004: "Son of the Pirate Queen" | 2005: "The King of Norway" | 2006: "The Singh Brotherhood" | 2007: "Dogai - The Road to Power" & "The Commander is Dead" (best reprint) | 2008: "The Devil of Ravenscar" & "Kingdom of the Amazons" (best reprint) | 2009: "Duel at Deadman's Gulch" | 2010: "The Cabin Boy and the Princess" | 2011: "The Gulf of Aden Pirates" | 2012: "The Pirates' Prisoner" | 2013: "The Slave Ship Zong" | 2014: "Death of a Pirate Queen" | 2015: "A Plague in Venice" | 2016: "John X" & "Patrolman X" | 2017: "The Karabasan League"
Sweden
1978: "The Avenger from the Sea" & "Phantom Wedding" (tie) | 1979: "Devil's Story" | 1980: "The Treasure from Rhodes" | 1981: "The Legend of the Swords, Part 1: Excalibur" | 1982: "The Stone Carving People" | 1983: "The Water of Life" | 1984: "The First Phantom" | 1985: "The Beanstalk" | 1986: "The Battle on Malta" & "Devil's Story" (best reprint) | 1987: "The King is Dead" | 1988: "Eden" | 1989: "The Last Unicorn" | 1990: "The Cathedral Mystery" | 1991: "Devil's Story" | 1992: "Hoogan's Revenge" | 1993: "The Test" | 1994: "The Commander is Dead" | 1995: "The Set Up, Part 1" & Part 2 | 1996: "The Last Viking" | 1997: "The Ghost Who Died Twice" | 1998: "Return of the Zombies" | 1999: "Devil's Story" | 2000: "The Phantom vs Singh 2050" | 2001: "The Prodigal Son" | 2002: "The Long Bow of Little John" | 2003: "My Darling Pirate" | 2004: "Son of the Pirate Queen" | 2005: "The Battle on Malta" | 2006: "The Singh Brotherhood" | 2007: "The Phantom Crusader, Part 1" & "The Commander is Dead" (best reprint) | 2008: "The Castaways" & "Kingdom of the Amazons" (best reprint)" | 2009: "The  Phantom Gladiator, Part 1" | 2010: "The Cabin Boy and the Princess" & "The Dragon Throne" (tie) | 2011: "The Sons of Captain Walker" | 2012: "The Pirates' Prisoner" | 2013: "Year 1349" | 2014: "Death of a Pirate Queen" | 2015: "A Plague in Venice" | 2016: "Nat Turner's Spirit, Part 6: The King of Louisiana" | 2017: "Farewell to the Deep Woods" | 2018: "The Ghost at Gallows' Inn" | 2019: "The Devil in Stockholm" | 2020: "A Reckoning with the Nomad" | 2021: "Devil's Story" | 2022: "Saga of the Vultures Chapter One: The Haunted Castle"