The Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for long fiction.
Winners and nominees[edit]
Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1987 | George R. R. Martin | The Pear-Shaped Man | Winner | [2] |
Alan Rodgers | The Boy Who Came Back From The Dead | |||
David J. Schow | Pamela's Get | Finalist | [2] | |
S. P. Somtow | Resurrec Tech | |||
1988 | David Morrell | Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity | Winner | [3] |
Harlan Ellison | The Function of Dream Sleep | Finalist | [3] | |
John Farris | Horrorshow | |||
Stephen King | The Night Flier | |||
George R. R. Martin | The Skin Trade | |||
Peter Straub | The Juniper Tree | |||
1989 | Joe R. Lansdale | On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks | Winner | [4] |
Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Phantom | Finalist | [4] | |
Karl Edward Wagner | At First Just Ghostly | |||
Chet Williamson | The Confessions of St. James | |||
1990 | Elizabeth Massie | Stephen | Winner | [5] |
Michael Blumleim | Bestseller | Finalist | [5] | |
Stephen King | The Langoliers | |||
Dan Simmons | Entropy's Bed at Midnight | |||
F. Paul Wilson | Pelts | |||
1991 | David Morrell | The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves | Winner | [6] |
Edward Bryant | Fetish | Finalist | [6] | |
Suzy McKee Charnas and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | Advocates | |||
Stephen Gallagher | Magpie | |||
Charles de Lint | Death Leaves an Echo | |||
1992 | Stephen Bissette | Alien: Tribes | Winner | [7] |
Joe R. Lansdale | The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance | |||
David Morrell | Nothing Will Hurt You | Finalist | [7] | |
David Morrell | The Shrine | |||
Wayne Allen Sallee | For You, the Living | |||
1993 (Novelette)[a] | Dan Simmons | Death in Bangkok | Winner | [8] |
Michael Moorcock | Colour | Finalist | [8] | |
S. P. Somtow | Darker Angels | |||
Connie Willis | Death on the Nile | |||
1993 (Novella) | Jack Cady | The Night We Buried Road Dog | Winner | [8] |
Harlan Ellison | Mefisto in Onyx | |||
Dan Simmons | Flashback | Finalist | [8] | |
Richard Gilliam | Caroline and Caleb | |||
1994 | Robert Bloch | The Scent of Vinegar | Winner | [9] |
Charles L. Grant | Sometimes, in the Rain | Finalist | [9] | |
Brian Hodge | The Alchemy of the Throat | |||
Joe R. Lansdale | Bubba Ho-tep | |||
William R. Trotter | The Siren of Swan Quarter | |||
1995 | Stephen King | Lunch at the Gotham Cafe | Winner | [10] |
Adam-Troy Castro | Baby Girl Diamond | Finalist | [10] | |
Thomas F. Monteleone | Looking for Mr. Flip | |||
Wayne Allen Sallee | Lover Doll | |||
1996 | Thomas Ligotti | The Red Tower | Winner | [11] |
Jack Cady | Kilroy Was Here | Finalist | [11] | |
Nancy Collins | The Thing from Lover's Lane | |||
S. P. Somtow | Brimstone and Salt | |||
1997 | Joe R. Lansdale | The Big Blow | Winner | [12] |
Ramsey Campbell | The Word | Finalist | [12] | |
Stephen King | Everything's Eventual | |||
Kim Newman | Coppola's Dracula | |||
Douglas E. Winter | The Zombies of Madison County | |||
1998 | Peter Straub | Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff | Winner | [13] |
P. D. Cacek | Leavings | Finalist | [13] | |
Brian Hodge | As Above, So Below | |||
John Shirley | What Would You Do For Love? | |||
1999 | Brian A. Hopkins | Five Days in April | Winner | [14] |
Joe R. Lansdale | Mad Dog Summer | |||
Charlee Jacob | Dread in the Beast | Finalist | [14] | |
Jack Ketchum | Right to Life | |||
2000 | Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem | The Man on the Ceiling | Winner | [15] |
Stephen King | Riding the Bullet | Finalist | [15] | |
Joyce Carol Oates | In Shock | |||
Lawrence P. Santoto | God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him | |||
2001 | Tim Lebbon | In These Final Days of Sales | Winner | [16] |
Harlan Ellison | From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet | Finalist | [16] | |
Nancy Etchemendy | Demolition | |||
Brian Keene | Earthworm Gods | |||
Nick Mamatas | Northern Gothic | |||
2002 | Brian A. Hopkins | El Dia de Los Muertos | Winner | [17] |
Thomas Ligotti | My Work is Not Yet Done | |||
Paul Finch | Cape Wrath | Finalist | [17] | |
Neil Gaiman | Coraline | |||
David B. Silva | The Origin | |||
2003 | Jack Ketchum | Closing Time | Winner | [18] |
Douglas Clegg | The Necromancer | Finalist | [18] | |
Tom Piccirilli | Fuckin' Lie Down Already | |||
Lucius Shepard | Louisiana Breakdown | |||
David Niall Wilson | Roll Them Bones | |||
2004 | Kealan Patrick Burke | The Turtle Boy | Winner | [19] |
Andy Duncan | Zora and the Zombie | Finalist | [19] | |
Stephen King | Lisey and the Madman | |||
Tim Lebbon | Dead Man's Hand | |||
Barbara Roden | Northwest Passage | |||
2005 | Joe Hill | Best New Horror | Winner | [20] |
Gary A. Braunbeck | In the Midnight Museum | Finalist | [20] | |
Stephen King | The Things They Left Behind | |||
Kelly Link | Some Zombie Contingency Plans | |||
2006 | Norman Partridge | Dark Harvest | Winner | [21] |
Laird Barron | Hallucigenia | Finalist | [21] | |
Fran Friel | Mama's Boy | |||
Christopher Golden and James A. Moore | Bloodstained Oz | |||
Kim Newman | Clubland Heroes | |||
2007 | Gary Braunbeck | Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway | Winner | [22] |
Scott Edelman | Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man | Finalist | [22] | |
Nicholas Kaufmann | General Slocum's Gold | |||
William Browning Spencer | The Tenth Muse | |||
Lee Thomas | An Apiary of White Bees | |||
2008 | John R. Little | Miranda | Winner | [23] |
Adam-Troy Castro | The Shallow End of the Pool | Finalist | [23] | |
Gene O'Neill | The Confessions of St. Zach | |||
Weston Ochse | Redemption Roadshow | |||
2009 | Lisa Morton | The Lucid Dreaming | Winner | [24] |
Mort Castle | Dreaming Robot Monster | Finalist | [24] | |
Scott Edelman | The Hunger of Empty Vessels | |||
Gene O'Neill | Doc Good's Traveling Show | |||
2010 | Norman Prentiss | Invisible Fences | Winner | [25] |
Brian James Freeman | The Painted Darkness | Finalist | [25] | |
Lisa Mannetti | Dissolution | |||
Kirstyn McDermott | Monsters Among Us | |||
Lisa Morton | The Samhanach | |||
2011 | Peter Straub | The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine | Winner | [26][27][28][29] |
Michael Louis Calvillo | 7 Brains | Finalist | [26][27][28] | |
Brian Hodge | Roots and All | |||
Caitlin R. Kiernan | The Colliers' Venus (1893) | |||
John R. Little | Ursa Major | |||
Gene O'Neill | Rusting Chickens | |||
2012 | Gene O'Neill | The Blue Heron | Winner | [30][31][32] |
Kealan Patrick Burke | Thirty Miles South of Dry County | Finalist | [30][31][32] | |
Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee | I'm Not Sam | |||
Joe McKinney and Michael McCarty | Lost Girl of the Lake | |||
Norman Prentiss | The Fleshless Man | |||
2013 | Gary Braunbeck | The Great Pity | Winner | [33][34] |
Dale Bailey | The Bluehole | Finalist | [33][34] | |
Benjamin K. Ethridge | The Slaughter Man | |||
Gregory Frost | No Others Are Genuine | |||
Greg F. Gifune | House of Rain | |||
Rena Mason | East End Girls | |||
2014 | Joe R. Lansdale | Fishing for Dinosaurs | Winner | [35][36][37] |
Taylor Grant | The Infected | Finalist | [35][36][37] | |
Eric J. Guignard | Dreams of a Little Suicide | |||
Jonathan Maberry | Three Guys Walk into a Bar | |||
Joe McKinney | Lost and Found | |||
2015 | Mercedes M. Yardley | Little Dead Red | Winner | [38][39] |
Gary A. Braunbeck | Paper Cuts | Finalist | [38][39] | |
Scott Edelman | Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen | |||
Lisa Mannetti | The Box Jumper | |||
Norman Partridge | Special Collections | |||
2016 | Tim Waggoner | The Winter Box | Winner | [40] |
Nicole Cushing | The Sadist's Bible | Finalist | [40] | |
Scott Edelman | That Perilous Stuff | |||
Victor LaValle | The Ballad of Black Tom | |||
Josh Malerman | The Jupiter Drop | |||
2017 | Stephen Graham Jones | Mapping the Interior | Winner | [41][42][43][44][45] |
Scott Edelman | Faking it Until Forever Comes | Finalist | [46][47][48][49][50] | |
Caitlin R. Kiernan | Agents of Dreamland | |||
Lucy Taylor | Sweetlings | |||
Tim Waggoner | A Kiss of Thorns | |||
2018 | Rena Mason | The Devil's Throat | Winner | [51][52][53][54] |
Michael Bailey | Our Children, Our Teachers | Finalist | [51][52][53][54] | |
Joe Hill | You Are Released | |||
Usman T. Malik | Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung | |||
Angela Yuriko Smith | Bitter Suites | |||
2019 | Victor LaValle | Up from Slavery | Winner | [55][56][57] |
Alessandro Manzetti | The Keeper of Chernobyl | Finalist | [55][56][57] | |
Anna Taborska | The Cat Sitter | |||
Sara Tantlinger | To Be Devoured | |||
Kaaron Warren | Into Bones Like Oil | |||
2020 | Stephen Graham Jones | Night of the Mannequins | Winner | [58][59][60][61] |
Gabino Iglesias | Beyond the Reef | Finalist | [58][59][60][61] | |
Gwendolyn Kiste | The Invention of Ghosts | |||
Jess Landry | I Will Find You, Even in the Dark | |||
Sarah Pinsker | Two Truths and a Lie | |||
2021 | Jeff Strand | Twentieth Anniversary Screening | Winner | [62][63][64][65] |
V. Castro | Goddess of Filth | Finalist | [62][63][64][65] | |
Cassandra Khaw | Nothing But Blackened Teeth | |||
Eric LaRocca | Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke | |||
Hailey Piper | Recitation of the First Feeding | |||
2022 | Alma Katsu | The Wehrwolf | Winner | [66] |
Rebecca J. Allred and Gordon B. White | And in Her Smile, the World | Finalist | [67][68] | |
Christa Carmen | Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell | |||
Laurel Hightower | Below | |||
EV Knight | Three Days in the Pink Tower |
Notes[edit]
- ^ In 1993, the category was split into "best novella" and "best novelette", a distinction that was eliminated a year later.
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