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 .