Bram Stoker Award

Each year, the Horror Writer’s Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula. The Bram Stoker Awards were instituted immediately after the organization’s incorporation in 1987.

Any work of Horror first published in the English language may be considered for an award during the year of its publication. The categories for which a Bram Stoker Award may be presented have varied over the years, reflecting the state of the publishing industry and the horror genre.

The twelve Bram Stoker Award categories are: Novel, First Novel, Short Fiction, Long Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction Collection, Poetry Collection, Anthology, Screenplay, Graphic Novel, Nonfiction, and Short Nonfiction.

2019

Superior Achievement in a Novel Winner: Goingback, Owl – Coyote Rage

Nominees: Malerman, Josh – Inspection Miskowski, S.P. – The Worst is Yet to Come Murray, Lee – Into the Ashes Wendig, Chuck – Wanderers

Superior Achievement in a First Novel Winner: Read, Sarah – The Bone Weaver’s Orchard

Nominees: Amor, Gemma – Dear Laura Guignard, Eric J. – Doorways to the Deadeye Lane, Michelle Renee – Invisible Chains Starling, Caitlin – The Luminous Dead

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel Winner: Doran, Colleen & Gaiman, Neil – Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples

Nominees: Bunn, Cullen – Bone Parish Vol. 2 Liu, Marjorie – Monstress Volume 4: The Chosen Manzetti, Alessandro – Calcutta Horror Tanabe, Gou – H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness Volume 1

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Winner: Tremblay, Paul – Growing Things and Other Stories

Nominees: Chiang, Ted – Exhalation: Stories Jonez, Kate – Lady Bits Langan, John – Sefira and Other Betrayals Read, Sarah – Out of Water

Superior Achievement in an Anthology Winner: Datlow, Ellen – Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

Nominees: Brozek, Jennifer – A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods Golden, Christopher and Moore, James A. – The Twisted Book of Shadows Guignard, Eric J. – Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror Wilson, Robert S. – Nox Pareidolia

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Winner: Kröger, Lisa and Anderson, Melanie R. – Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Nominees: Beal, Eleanor and Greenaway, Jonathan – Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality Earle, Harriet E.H. – Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra – Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces Kachuba, John B. – Shapeshifters: A History

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection Winner: Addison, Linda D. and Manzetti, Alessandro – The Place of Broken Things

Nominees: Cade, Octavia – Mary Shelley Makes a Monster Lynch, Donna – Choking Back the Devil Scalise, Michelle – Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning Simon, Marge and Dietrich, Bryan D. – The Demeter Diaries Wytovich, Stephanie M. – The Apocalyptic Mannequin

2018

Superior Achievement in a Novel Winner: Tremblay, Paul – The Cabin at the End of the World

Nominees: Katsu, Alma – The Hunger Maberry, Jonathan – Glimpse Malerman, Josh – Unbury Carol Stoker, Dacre and Barker, J. D. – Dracul

Superior Achievement in a First Novel Winner: Kiste, Gwendolyn – The Rust Maidens

Nominees: Fine, Julia – What Should Be Wild Grau, T. E. – I Am the River Stage, Zoje – Baby Teeth Tremblay, Tony – The Moore House

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel Winner: LaValle, Victor – Victor LaValle’s Destroyer

Nominees: Ahmed, Saladin – Abbott Azzarello, Brian – Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train Bunn, Cullen – Bone Parish Liu, Marjorie – Monstress Volume 3: Haven

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Winner: Guignard, Eric J. – That Which Grows Wild (Cemetery Dance Publications)

Nominees: Files, Gemma – Spectral Evidence (Trepidatio Publishing) Iglesias, Gabino – Coyote Songs (Broken River Books) Snyder, Lucy A. – Garden of Eldritch Delights (Raw Dog Screaming Press) Waggoner, Tim – Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection (Nightscape Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology Winner: Datlow, Ellen – The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea (Night Shade Books)

Nominees: Chambers, James, Grey, April, and Masterson, Robert – A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (Hippocampus Press) Guignard, Eric J. – A World of Horror (Dark Moon Books) Murray, Lee – Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press) Ward, D. Alexander – Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Winner: Mynhardt, Joe and Johnson, Eugene – It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Nominees: Connolly, John – Horror Express (PS Publishing) Gambin, Lee – The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film (Centipede Press) Ingham, Howard David – We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror (Room 207 Press) Wetmore Jr., Kevin J. – Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection Winner: Tantlinger, Sara – The Devil’s Dreamland

Nominees: Boston, Bruce – Artifacts Cowen, David E. – Bleeding Saffron Lynch, Donna – Witches Simon, Marge and Manzetti, Alessandro – War