Bram Stoker Awards Winners! - full rundown of who won what
This past weekend the Bram Stoker Awards occurred during the 4th annual StokerCon. The awards are named in honor of the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker, and presented annually in eleven categories. You can check out past award winners here.
Let’s take a look at this year’s winners and make sure to add all these fine pieces of work to your TBR!
Superior Achievement in a Novel:
WINNER: Paul Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World
Nominees: Alma Katsu, The Hunger
Jonathan Maberry, Glimpse
Josh Malerman, Unbury Carol (check out our Josh Malerman content HERE)
Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker, Dracul
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
WINNER: Gwendolyn Kiste’s The Rust Maidens (Check out a review of one of Kiste’s other novels HERE)
Nominees: Julia Fine, What Should be Wild
T.E. Grau, I Am The River
Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth
Tony Tremblay, The Moore House
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
WINNER: Kiersten White’s The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Nominees: Justina Ireland, Dread Nation
Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls
Jonathan Maberry, Broken Lands
Monique Snyman, The Night Weaver
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
WINNER: Victor LaValle’s Victor LaValle’sDestroyer
Nominees: Saladin Ahmed, Abbott
Brian Azarello, Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train
Cullen Bunn. Bone Parish
Marjorie Liu, Monstress Volume 3: Haven
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
WINNER: Rena Mason’s The Devil’s Throat (Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror)
Nominees: Michael Bailey, Our Children, Our Teachers
Joe Hill, You Are Released (Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales)
Usman T. Malik, Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung
Angela Yuriko Smith, Bitter Suites
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
WINNER: Jess Landry’s “Mutter” (Fantastic Tales of Terror)
Nominees: Lee Murray, “Dead End Town”(Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2)
Annie Neugebauer, “Glove Box” (The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine Volume 3, Issue 4-July 2018)
John F.D. Taff, “A Winter’s Tale” (Little Black Spots)
Kyla Lee Ward, “And in Her Eyes the City Drowned” (Weirdbook #39)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
WINNER: Eric J. Guignard’s That Which Grows Wild
Nominees: Gemma Files, Spectral Evidence
Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs
Lucy A. Snyder, Garden of Eldritch Delights
Tim Waggoner, Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
WINNER: Meredith Averill, The Haunting of Hill House: The Bent-Neck Lady, Episode 01:05
Nominees: Ari Aster, Hereditary (Check out our review HERE)
Alex Garland, Annihilation
Eric Heisserer, Bird Box (Check out our review HERE)
Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski, A Quiet Place
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
WINNER: Ellen Datlow’s The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea
Nominees: James Chambers, April Grey, and Robert Masterson, A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State
Eric J. Guignard, A World of Horror
Lee Murray, Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror
D. Alexander Ward, Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
WINNER: Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson’s It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life
Nominees: John Connolly, Horror Express
Lee Gambin, The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film
Howard David Ingham, We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror
Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
WINNER: Sara Tantlinger’s The Devil’s Dreamland
Bruce Boston, Artifacts
David E. Cowen, Bleeding Saffron
Donna Lynch, Witches
Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti, War
So many excellent books, poetry, graphic novels and more on this list! Go give these authors some love on social media and add all of these to your TBR!
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