Bram Stoker Awards
Program · Horror · Tier 3: Genre and Specialist Trade Awards · Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
Peer awards presented by the Horror Writers Association for superior achievement in horror and dark literature.
2024
16 booksThe Eyes Are the Best Part
WinnerThe Haunting of Velkwood
WinnerA Sunny Place for Shady People
Bless Your Heart
Hollow Girls
Horror Movie
House of Bone and Rain
I Was a Teenage Slasher
Incidents Around the House
Love Is a Crematorium and Other Tales
Midnight Rooms
Not a Speck of Light
Old Monsters Never Die: A Story Collection
The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls
This Wretched Valley
We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures
2023
16 booksBlood from the Air
WinnerThe Daughters of Block Island
WinnerThe Reformatory
WinnerBlack River Orchard
Camp Damascus
Cold, Black, & Infinite: Stories of the Horrific and the Strange
Don't Fear the Reaper
Edenville
Everything the Darkness Eats
How to Sell a Haunted House
Lone Women
Maeve Fly
Root Rot & Other Grim Tales
Spin a Black Yarn
The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future
The Spite House
2022
15 books
2021
18 booksIn That Endlessness, Our End
WinnerMy Heart Is a Chainsaw
WinnerQueen of Teeth
WinnerBeneath a Pale Sky
Children of Chicago
Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead
Helminth
Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 edition)
Rabbits
The Book of Accidents
The Dead Hours of Night
The Final Girl Support Group
The Forest
The Ghost Sequences
The Queen of the Cicadas
There Is No Death, There Are No Dead
Tidepool
When the Reckoning Comes
2020
16 books
2019
16 booksCoyote Rage
WinnerGrowing Things and Other Stories
WinnerThe Bone Weaver's Orchard
WinnerA Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods
Dear Laura
Doorways to the Deadeye
Exhalation: Stories
Inspection
Into the Ashes
Invisible Chains
Lady Bits
Out of Water
Sefira and Other Betrayals
The Luminous Dead
The Worst Is Yet to Come
Wanderers
2018
15 books
2017
16 booksArarat
WinnerCold Cuts
WinnerStrange Weather
WinnerAgents of Dreamland
And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe
Black Mad Wheel
Dans la vallée du soleil
Goblin: A Novel in Six Novellas
I Wish I Was Like You
Kill Creek
Sleeping Beauties
The Boulevard Monster
The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales
Ubo
What Do Monsters Fear?
Writing Madness
2016
15 books
2015
15 books
2014
15 books
2013
16 booksDoctor Sleep
WinnerThe Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories
WinnerThe Evolutionist
WinnerA Necessary End
Bible Stories for Secular Humanists
Candy House
Dance of the Blue Lady
Malediction
NOS4A2
North American Lake Monsters
Redheads
Stoker's Manuscript
The Ape's Wife and Other Stories
The Heavens Rise
The Tears of Isis
The Year of the Storm
2012
17 booksBlack Dahlia & White Rose
WinnerLife Rage
WinnerNew Moon on the Water
WinnerShadow Show
WinnerThe Drowning Girl
WinnerA Requiem for Dead Flies
Bad Glass
Bottled Abyss
Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling
Errantry: Strange Stories
Inheritance
Legend of the Pumpkin Thief
NightWhere
The Haunted
The Janus Tree and Other Stories
The Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories
Wide Open
2011
18 booksFlesh Eaters
WinnerIsis Unbound
WinnerThe Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
WinnerA Matrix of Angels
Cosmic Forces
Floating Staircase
Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense
Monsters of L.A.
Multiplex Fandango
Not Fade Away
Red Gloves, Volume I & II
Southern Gods
That Which Should Not Be
The German
The Lamplighters
The Panama Laugh
Two Worlds and In Between
Voices: Tales of Horror
2010
16 books
2009
12 books
2008
15 booksDuma Key
WinnerJust After Sunset
WinnerThe Gentling Box
WinnerCoffin County
Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account
Frozen Blood
Gleefully Macabre Tales
Johnny Gruesome
Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales
Midnight on Mourn Street
Monster Behind the Wheel
Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others
The Reach
The Suicide Collectors
2007
14 books
2006
15 books
2005
11 books
2004
17 booksCovenant
WinnerFearful Symmetries
WinnerIn the Night Room
WinnerStained
WinnerThe Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
Winner100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories
Acquainted with the Night
Black Fire
Dead Man's Hand
Deep in the Darkness
Demonized: Short Stories
Fears Unnamed
Move Under Ground
Northwest Passage
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
The Machinery of Night
The Wind Caller
2003
15 booksLost Boy, Lost Girl
WinnerThe Rising
WinnerA Choir of Ill Children
Bibliomancy
Fangs and Angel Wings
Graveyard People
Monstrocity
Peaceable Kingdom
Serenity Falls
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Night Country
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection
Told by the Dead
Veniss Underground
Wolf's Trap
2002
18 booksCoraline
WinnerOne More for the Road
WinnerRamsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies
WinnerThe Lovely Bones
WinnerThe Night Class
WinnerAtmosphere
Cape Wrath
Everything's Eventual
From a Buick 8
Knuckles & Tales
Lullaby
Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead
The Blues Ain't Nothin'
The Collection
The Hour Before Dark
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13
The Red Church
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection
2001
13 booksAmerican Gods
WinnerDeadliest of the Species
WinnerThe Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists
WinnerAs the Sun Goes Down
Black House
From the Dust Returned
Phantom Feast
Riverwatch
Skating on the Edge
The Dark Fantastic
The Lost
The Whisperer and Other Voices
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection
2000
14 booksMagic Terror: Seven Tales
WinnerThe Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club
WinnerThe Man on the Ceiling
WinnerThe Traveling Vampire Show
WinnerThe Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection
WinnerCity Fishing
House of Leaves
Nailed by the Heart
Run
Silent Children
The Deceased
The Indifference of Heaven
Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold
Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales
1999
18 booksFive Days in April
WinnerMr. X
WinnerThe Nightmare Chronicles
WinnerWither
WinnerDarker Than Night
Death Drives a Semi
Deep into that Darkness Peering
Every Dead Thing
Hannibal
Hearts in Atlantis
Hexes
King Rat
Low Men in Yellow Coats
The Entertainment
The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume Ten
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection
Widow's Walk
1998
15 booksBag of Bones
WinnerBlack Butterflies: A Flock on the Darkside
WinnerDawn Song
WinnerMr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff
WinnerThe Dead Boy at Your Window
WinnerDarker Angels
Fear Nothing
Fog Heart
Leavings
Night Prayers
Silk
Smoke and Mirrors
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection
This Symbiotic Fascination
1997
15 booksChildren of the Dusk
WinnerExorcisms and Ecstasies
WinnerLives of the Monster Dogs
WinnerDrawn to the Grave
Earthquake Weather
Hungry Eyes
My Soul to Keep
Painted in Blood
The Art of Arrow Cutting
The Church of Dead Girls
The Inquisitor
The Throne of Bones
The Word
The Zombies of Madison County
Things Left Behind
1996
12 books
1995
13 books
1994
14 books
1993
16 books
1992
14 books
1991
13 books
1990
12 books
1989
17 booksCarrion Comfort
WinnerHarlan Ellison's Watching
WinnerOn the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks
WinnerRichard Matheson: Collected Stories
WinnerSunglasses After Dark
WinnerBlue World and Other Stories
By Bizarre Hands
Geek Love
Goat Dance
In a Dark Dream
Laying the Music to Rest
Midnight
Patterns
Soft and Others
The Dwelling
The Lilith Factor
The Wolf's Hour
1988
20 booksCharles Beaumont: Selected Stories
WinnerNight They Missed the Horror Show
WinnerThe Silence of the Lambs
WinnerThe Suiting
WinnerAngry Candy
Black Wind
Blood and Water and Other Tales
Cities of the Dead
Deliver Us from Evil
Demon Night
Fear Book
Flesh
Resurrection, Inc.
Scare Tactics
Stinger
The Blood Kiss
The Drive-In
The Queen of the Damned
The Skin Trade
The Toynbee Convector
1987
17 booksMisery
WinnerSwan Song
WinnerThe Boy Who Came Back from the Dead
WinnerThe Essential Ellison
WinnerThe Manse
WinnerAsh Wednesday
Excavation
Foreword: The Left-Handed Muse
Live Girls
Midnight Pleasures
Pamela's Get
Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death
Slob
The Damnation Game
The Harvest Bride
Unassigned Territory
Why Not You and I?
