Bram Stoker Award

The Bram Stoker Awards are presented annually by the Horror Writers Association for superior achievement in horror writing. Recipients receive a unique trophy…

Horror fiction published in the award year; juried selection by HWA members.

2024

• The Reformatory — winner
• I Was A Teenage Slasher — nominee
• Incidents Around the House — nominee
• House of Bone and Rain — nominee

2023

• The Devil Takes You Home — winner
• Don't Fear the Reaper — nominee
• Black River Orchard — nominee
• How to Sell a Haunted House — nominee
• Camp Damascus — nominee

2022

• My Heart Is a Chainsaw — winner
• Reluctant Immortals — nominee
• Sundial — nominee
• Daphne — nominee

2021

• The Only Good Indians — winner
• Children of Chicago — nominee
• The Book of Accidents — nominee
• The Queen of the Cicadas — nominee
• The Final Girl Support Group — nominee

2020

• Coyote Rage — winner
• Malorie — nominee
• Mexican Gothic — nominee
• Devil's Creek — nominee
• The Deep — nominee

2019

• Wanderers — nominee
• Inspection — nominee
• Into the Ashes — nominee
• The Worst Is Yet to Come — nominee

2018

• Ararat — winner
• The Hunger — nominee
• Unbury Carol — nominee
• Glimpse — nominee

2017

• The Fisherman — winner
• Black Mad Wheel — nominee
• Sleeping Beauties — nominee
• I Wish I Was Like You — nominee
• Ubo — nominee

2016

• Stranded — nominee
• Hard Light — nominee
• Mongrels — nominee

2015

• Blood Kin — winner
• The Scarlet Gospels — nominee
• Black Tide — nominee

2014

• Doctor Sleep — winner
• Beautiful You — nominee
• Jade Sky — nominee
• The Vines — nominee
• Suffer the Children — nominee

2013

• The Heavens Rise — nominee
• NOS4A2 — nominee

2012

• Flesh Eaters — winner
• Inheritance — nominee
• The German — nominee
• Bottled Abyss — nominee
• The Haunted — nominee

2011

• A Dark Matter — winner
• The German — nominee
• Cosmic Forces — nominee
• Floating Staircase — nominee

2010

• Audrey's Door — winner
• Apocalypse of the Dead — nominee
• Rot & Ruin — nominee
• Dead Love — nominee
• Horns — nominee
• Dweller — nominee

2009

• Duma Key — winner
• Patient Zero — nominee

2008

• The Missing — winner
• The Reach — nominee
• Coffin County — nominee
• Johnny Gruesome — nominee

2007

• Lisey's Story — winner
• The Terror — nominee
• Heart-Shaped Box — nominee
• The Witch's Trinity — nominee
• The Guardener's Tale — nominee

2006

• Creepers — winner
• Dread in the Beast — winner
• Pressure — nominee
• Headstone City — nominee
• Ghost Road Blues — nominee
• Prodigal Blues — nominee

2005

• In the Night Room — winner
• Keepers — nominee
• November Mourns — nominee

2004

• Lost Boy Lost Girl — winner
• Deep in the Darkness — nominee

2003

• The Night Class — winner
• A Choir of Ill Children — nominee
• The Night Country — nominee
• Serenity Falls — nominee

2002

• American Gods — winner
• From a Buick 8 — nominee
• Lullaby — nominee
• The Lovely Bones — nominee
• The Hour Before Dark — nominee

2001

• From the Dust Returned — nominee
• Black House — nominee
• The Lost — nominee

2000

• Mr. X — winner
• The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club — nominee
• The Indifference of Heaven — nominee
• The Deceased — nominee
• Silent Children — nominee

1999

• Bag of Bones — winner
• Darker Than Night — nominee
• Hexes — nominee
• Hannibal — nominee

1998

• Children of the Dusk — winner
• Darker Angels — nominee
• Fog Heart — nominee

1997

• The Green Mile — winner
• Earthquake Weather — nominee
• The Church of Dead Girls — nominee
• My Soul to Keep — nominee

1996

• Zombie — winner
• The Hellfire Club — nominee
• Crota — nominee

1995

• Dead in the Water — winner
• Deadrush — nominee
• Widow — nominee
• Bone Music — nominee

1994

• The Throat — winner
• The Alienist — nominee
• The Butcher Boy — nominee
• From The Teeth Of Angels — nominee
• Insomnia — nominee

1993

• Drawing Blood — nominee
• Anno-Dracula — nominee
• Blackburn — nominee
• The Summoning — nominee

1992

• Boy's Life — winner
• Children of the Night — nominee
• Deathgrip — nominee

1991

• Mine — winner
• Needful Things — nominee
• Summer of Night — nominee
• The M.D. — nominee

1990

• Carrion Comfort — winner
• Reign — nominee
• Funland — nominee

1989

• The Silence of the Lambs — winner
• Geek Love — nominee
• The Wolf's Hour — nominee
• In a Dark Dream — nominee

1988

• Misery — winner
• Swan Song — winner
• Flesh — nominee
• The Queen of the Damned — nominee
• Stinger — nominee
• Black Wind — nominee

1987

• Misery — winner
• Swan Song — winner
• Ash Wednesday — nominee
• Unassigned Territory — nominee
• Live Girls — nominee