Bram Stoker Award
De Bram Stoker Award is een literatuurprijs voor het genre horror & dark fantasy die jaarlijks wordt uitgereikt door de Horror Writers Association (HWA) tijdens de World Horror Convention.

The Horror Writers Association
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is een wereldwijde organisatie van schrijvers en uitgevers die zich tot doel heeft gesteld het genre horror & dark fantasy te promoten en het schrijven hiervan te stimuleren. Het HWA werd eind jaren 80 opgericht, met behulp van onder meer de schrijvers Dean Koontz, Robert R. McCammon en Joe R. Lansdale. De prijs is vernoemd naar schrijver Bram Stoker, auteur van onder meer Dracula.

Vandaag de dag met meer dan 1.000 leden van over de gehele wereld, is het de meest gerespecteerde literatuurgenre-organisatie onder de horrorschrijvers en -uitgevers. Het HWA organiseert jaarlijks de World Horror Convention, waarbij de Bram Stoker Award wordt uitgereikt. De jury hiervoor wordt voor elke conventie samengesteld uit haar leden.

Categorieën
Novel (1987–)
First Novel (1987–)
Young Adult Novel (2011–)
Graphic Novel (2011–)
Long Fiction (1987–)
Short Fiction (1987–)
Anthology (1998–)
Fiction Collection (1998–)
Poetry Collection (2000–)
Non-Fiction (1987–)
Short Non-Fiction (2019–)
Screenplay (1998–2004, 2011–)
Lifetime Achievement (1987–)

Winnaars

Novel
2022   The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino Iglesias
2021   My Heart is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones
2020   The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
2019   Coyote Rage - Owl Goingback
2018   The Cabin at the End of the World - Paul G. Tremblay
2017   Ararat - Christopher Golden
2016   The Fisherman - John Langan
2015   A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul G. Tremblay
2014   Blood Kin - Steve Rasnic Tem
2013   Dr. Sleep - Stephen King
2012   The Drowning Girl - Caitlin R. Kiernan
2011   Flesh Eaters - Joe McKinney
2010   A Dark Matter - Peter Straub
2009   Audrey's Door - Sarah Langan
2008   Sarah Langan - Stephen King
2007   The Missing - Sarah Langan
2006   Lisey's Story - Stephen King
2005   Dread in the Beast - Charlee Jacob (ex aequo)
2005   Creepers - David Morrell (ex aequo)
2004   In the Night Room - Peter Straub
2003 	Lost Boy, Lost Girl - Peter Straub
2002 	The Night Class - Tom Piccirilli
2001 	American Gods - Neil Gaiman
2000 	The Traveling Vampire Show - Richard Laymon
1999 	Mr. X - Peter Straub
1998 	Bag of Bones - Stephen King
1997 	Children of the Dusk - Janet Berliner en George Guthridge
1996 	The Green Mile - Stephen King
1995 	Zombie - Joyce Carol Oates
1994 	Dead in the Water - Nancy Holder
1993 	The Throat - Peter Straub
1992 	Blood of the Lamb - Thomas F. Monteleone
1991 	Boy's Life - Robert R. McCammon
1990 	Mine - Robert R. McCammon
1989 	Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons
1988 	The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
1987 	Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon (ex aequo)
1987 	Misery - Stephen King (ex aequo)

First Novel
2022   Beulah - Christi Nogle
2021   Queen of Teeth - Hailey Piper
2020   The Fourth Whore - EV Knight
2019   The Bone Weaver's Orchard - Sarah Read
2018   The Rust Maidens - Gwendolyn Kiste
2017   Cold Cuts - Robert Payne Cabeen
2016   Haven - Tom Deady
2015   Mr. Suicide - Nicole Cushing
2014   Mr. Wicker - Maria Alexander
2013   The Evolutionist - Rena Mason
2012   Life Rage - L.L. Soares
2011   Isis Unbound - Allyson Bird
2010   The Castle of Los Angeles - Lisa Morton
2010   Black & Orange - Benjamin Kane Ethridge
2009   Damnable - Hank Schwaeble
2008   The Gentling Box - Lisa Mannetti
2007   Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
2006   Ghost Road Blues - Jonathan Maberry
2005   Scarecrow Gods - Weston Ochse
2004   Stained - Lee Thomas (ex aequo)
2004   Covenant - John Everson (ex aequo)
2003   The Rising - Brian Keene
2002   The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
2001   Deadliest of the Species - Michael Oliveri
2000   The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club - Brian A. Hopkins
1999   Wither - J.G. Passarella
1998   Dawn Song - Michael Marano
1997   Lives of the Monster Dogs - Kirsten Bakis
1996   Crota - Owl Goingback
1995   The Safety of Unknown Cities - Lucy Taylor
1994   Grave Markings - Michael Arnzen
1993   The Thread that Binds the Bones - Nina Kiriki Hoffman
1992   Sineater - Elizabeth Massie
1991   Prodigal - Melanie Tem (ex aequo)
1991   The Cipher - Kathe Koja (ex aequo)
1990   The Revelation - Bentley Little
1989   Sunglasses After Dark - Nancy A. Collins
1988   The Suiting - Kelley Wilde
1987   The Manse - Lisa Cantrell

Young Adult Novel
2022   The Triangle - Robert P. Ottone
2021   The River Has Teeth - Erica Waters
2020   Clown in a Cornfield - Adam Cesare
2019   Oware Mosaic - Nzondi
2018   The Dark Descendent of Elizabeth Frankenstein - Kiersten White
2017   The Last Harvest - Kim Liggett
2016   Snowed - Maria Alexander
2015   Devil's Pocket - John Dixon
2014   Phoenix Island - John Dixon
2013   Dog Days - Joe McKinney
2012   Flesh and Bone - Jonathan Maberry
2011   Dust and Decay''' - Jonathan Maberry
2011   The Screaming Season' - Nancy Holder

Graphic Novel
2022   Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary - James Aquilone
2021   The Inhabitant of the Lake - Stefano Cardoselli en Alessandro Manzetti
2020   Mary Shelley Presents - Chiara Di Francia, Nancy Holder en Amelia Woo
2019   Snow, Glass, Apples - Colleen Doran en Neil Gaiman
2018   Victor LaValle's Destroyer - Joana Lafuente, Victor LaValle en Dietrich Smith
2017   Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Octavia E. Butler en Damian Duffy
2016   Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe - James Chambers
2015   Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury - Mort Castle, Carlos Guzman, Chris Ryall en Sam Weller
2014   Bad Blood - Tyler Crook en Jonathan Maberry
2013   Alabaster: Wolves - Caitlin R. Kiernan
2012   Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times - Lisa Morton en Rocky Wood
2011   Neonomicon - Alan Moore

Long Fiction
2022   And in Her Smile, the World - Rebecca J. Allred en Gordon B. White
2021   Twentieth Anniversary Screening - Jeff Strand
2020   Night of the Mannequins - Stephen Graham Jones
2019   Up from Slavery - Victor LaValle
2018   The Devil's Throat - Rena Mason
2017   Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones
2016   The Winter Box - Tim Waggoner
2015   Little Dead Red - Mercedes M. Yardley
2014   Fishing for Dinosaurs - Joe R. Lansdale
2013   The Great Pity - Gary Braunbeck
2012   The Blue Heron - Gene O'Neill
2011   The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine - Peter Straub
2010   Invisible Fences - Norman Prentiss
2009   The Lucid Dreaming - Lisa Morton
2008   Miranda - John R. Little
2007   Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway - Gary Braunbeck
2006   Dark Harvest - Norman Partridge
2005   Best New Horror - Joe Hill
2004   The Turtle Boy - Kealan Patrick Burke
2003   Closing Time - Jack Ketchum
2002   My Work is Not Yet Done - Thomas Ligotti (ex aequo)
2002   El Dia de Los Muertos - Brian A. Hopkins (ex aequo)
2001   In These Final Days of Sales - Tim Lebbon
2000   The Man on the Ceiling - Melanie Tem  en Steve Rasnic Tem
1999   Mad Dog Summer - Joe R. Lansdale (ex aequo)
1999   Five Days in April - Brian A. Hopkins (ex aequo)
1998   Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff - Peter Straub
1997   The Big Blow - Joe R. Lansdale
1996   The Red Tower - Thomas Ligotti
1995   Lunch at the Gotham Cafe - Stephen King
1994   The Scent of Vinegar - Robert Bloch
1993   The Night We Buried Road Dog - Jack Cady
1993   Mefisto in Onyx - Harlan Ellison
1993   Death in Bangkok - Dan Simmons
1992   The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance - Joe R. Lansdale (ex aequo)
1992   Alien: Tribes - Stephen Bissette (ex aequo)
1991   The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves - David Morrell
1990   Stephen - Elizabeth Massie
1989   On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks - Joe R. Lansdale
1988   Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity - David Morrell
1987   The Boy Who Came Back From The Dead - Alan Rodgers (ex aequo)
1987   The Pear-Shaped Man - George R. R. Martin (ex aequo)

Fiction Collection
2022   Breakable Things - Cassandra Khaw
2021   In That Endlessness, Our End - Gemma Files
2020   Grotesque: Monster Stories - Lee Murray
2019   Growing Things and Other Stories - Paul Tremblay
2018   That Which Grows Wild - Eric J. Guignard
2017   Strange Weather - Joe Hill
2016   The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror - Joyce Carol Oates
2015   While the Black Stars Burn - Lucy A. Snyder
2014   Soft Apocalypses - Lucy A. Snyder
2013   The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories - Laird Barron
2012   Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories - Joyce Carol Oates (ex aequo)
2012   New Moon on the Water - Mort Castle (ex aequo)
2011   The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares - Joyce Carol Oates
2010   Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King
2009   A Taste of Tenderloin - Gene O'Neill
2008   Just After Sunset - Stephen King
2007   5 Stories - Peter Straub (ex aequo)
2007   Proverbs for Monsters - Michael A. Arnzen (ex aequo)
2006   Destinations Unknown - Gary A. Braunbeck
2005   20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill
2004   Fearful Symmetries - Thomas F. Monteleone
2003   Peaceable Kingdom - Jack Ketchum
2002   One More for the Road - Ray Bradbury
2001   The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists - Norman Partridge
2000   Magic Terror - Peter Straub
1999   The Nightmare Chronicles - Douglas Clegg
1998   Black Butterflies - John Shirley
1997   Exorcisms and Ecstasies - Karl Edward Wagner
1996   The Nightmare Factory - Thomas Ligotti
1995   The Panic Hand - Jonathan Carroll
1994   The Early Fears - Robert Bloch
1993   Alone With The Horrors - Ramsey Campbell
1992   Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales - Norman Partridge
1991   Prayers to Broken Stones - Dan Simmons
1990   Four Past Midnight - Stephen King
1989   Richard Matheson: Collected Stories - Richard Matheson
1988   Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories - Charles Beaumont
1987   The Essential Ellison - Harlan Ellison

Screenplay
2022   The Black Phone - Scott Derrickson en C. Robert Cargill (ex aequo)
2022   Chapter One: The Hellfire Club - Matt en Ross Duffer (ex aequo)
2021   Book VI: Acts of the Apostles  - Mike Flanagan, James Flanagan en Jeff Howard
2020   The Invisible Man - Leigh Whannell
2019   Us - Jordan Peele
2018   The Bent-Neck Lady  - Meredith Averill
2017   Get Out - Jordan Peele
2016   The Witch - Robert Eggers
2015   It Follows - David Robert Mitchell
2014   The Babadook - Jennifer Kent
2013   Welcome to the Tombs  - Glen Mazzara
2012   The Cabin in the Woods - Joss Whedon en Drew Goddard
2011   Afterbirth - Jessica Sharzer
2005   Shaun of the Dead - Simon Pegg en Edgar Wright (ex aequo)
2004   Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry en Pierre Bismuth (ex aequo)
2003   Bubba Ho-Tep - Don Coscarelli
2002   Frailty - Brent Hanley
2001   Memento - Christopher en Jonathan Nolan
2000   Shadow of the Vampire - Steven Katz
1999   The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan
1998   Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon (ex aequo)
1998   Dark City - Alex Proyas (ex aequo)

Lifetime Achievement Awards
Een kandidaat voor een Lifetime Achievement Award moet in het jaar van de uitreiking minimaal zestig zijn, nog in leven zijn en minimal 35 jaar daarvoor zijn of haar eerste horrorwerk hebben voortgebracht. Een Lifetime Achievement Award kan ook naar iemand anders dan een schrijver binnen het horrorgenre gaan, zoals een regisseur of acteur. Winnaars hebben niet zelden eerder legio Bram Stoker Awards gewonnen, zoals in het geval van Bloch, Ellison, King, Straub en Lansdale:

Winnaars:
2022 John Saul– Nuzo Onoh
2021 Jo Fletcher – Nancy Holder– Koji Suzuki
2020 Carol J. Clover – Jewelle Gomez– Jewelle Gomez
2019 Owl Goingback – Thomas Ligotti
2018 Graham Masterton
2017 Linda Addison
2016 Dennis Etchison – Thomas Monteleone
2015 Alan Moore – George A. Romero
2014 Jack Ketchum – Tanith Lee 
2013 R. L. Stine - Stephen Jones
2012 Clive Barker - Robert McCammon
2011 Rick Hautala - Joe R. Lansdale
2010 Ellen Datlow - Al Feldstein
2009 Brian Lumley - William F. Nolan
2008 F. Paul Wilson - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
2007 John Carpenter - Robert Weinberg
2006 Thomas Harris
2005 Peter Straub
2004 Michael Moorcock
2003 Anne Rice - Martin H. Greenberg
2002 Stephen King - J.N. Williamson
2001 John Farris
2000 Nigel Kneale
1999 Edward Gorey - Charles L. Grant
1998 Ramsey Campbell - Roger Corman
1997 William Peter Blatty - Jack Williamson
1996 Ira Levin - Forrest J. Ackerman
1995 Harlan Ellison
1994 Christopher Lee
1993 Joyce Carol Oates
1992 Ray Russell
1991 Gahan Wilson
1990 Hugh B. Cave - Richard Matheson
1989 Robert Bloch
1988 Ray Bradbury - Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes
1987 Fritz Leiber - Frank Belknap Long; Clifford D. Simak

Externe links
The Bram Stoker Award
The World Horror Convention

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