2018 Stoker Awards Final Ballot

• The Hunger, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
• Glimpse, Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s)
• Unbury Carol, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• Dracul, Dacre Stoker & J.D. Barker (Putnam)
• The Cabin at the End of the World, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• What Should Be Wild, Julia Fine (Harper)
• I Am the River, T.E. Grau (Lethe)
• The Rust Maidens, Gwendolyn Kiste (Trepidatio)
• Baby Teeth, Zoje Stage (St. Martin’s)
• The Moore House, Tony Tremblay (Twisted)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Dread Nation, Justina Ireland (Balzer + Bray)
• Sawkill Girls, Claire Legrand (Katherine Tegen)
• Broken Lands, Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• The Night Weaver, Monique Snyman (Gigi)
• The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, Kiersten White (Delacorte)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Our Children, Our Teachers, Michael Bailey (Written Backwards)
• “You Are Released”, Joe Hill (Flight or Fright)
• “Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung”, Usman T. Malik (Nightmare 11/18)
• “The Devil’s Throat”, Rena Mason (Hellhole)
• Bitter Suites, Angela Yuriko Smith (self-published)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “Mutter”, Jess Landry (Fantastic Tales of Terror)
• “Dead End Town”, Lee Murray (Cthulhu Deep Down Under: Volume 2)
• “Glove Box”, Annie Neugebauer (The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine 7/18)
• “A Winter’s Tale”, John F.D. Taff (Little Black Spots)
• “And in Her Eyes the City Drowned”, Kyla Lee Ward (Weirdbook 5/18)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Spectral Evidence, Gemma Files (Trepidatio)
• That Which Grows Wild, Eric J. Guignard (Cemetery Dance)
• Coyote Songs, Gabino Iglesias (Broken River)
• Garden of Eldritch Delights, Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Dark and Distant Voices, Tim Waggoner (Nightscape)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• A New York State of Fright, James Chambers, April Grey & Robert Masterson, eds. (Hippocampus)
• The Devil and the Deep, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Night Shade)
• A World of Horror, Eric J. Guignard, ed. (Dark Moon)
• Hellhole, Lee Murray, ed. (Adrenaline)
• Lost Highways, D. Alexander Ward, ed. (Crystal Lake)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Horror Express, John Connolly (PS)
• The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film, Lee Gambin (Centipede)
• We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror, Howard David Ingham (Room 207)
• It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life, Joe Mynhardt & Eugene Johnson, eds. (Crystal Lake)
• Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., ed. (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Artifacts, Bruce Boston (Independent Legions)
• Bleeding Saffron, David E. Cowen (Weasel)
• Witches, Donna Lynch (Raw Dog Screaming)
• War, Marge Simon & Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake)
• The Devil’s Dreamland, Sara Tantlinger (Strangehouse)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Abbott, Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivela & Jason Wordie (BOOM!)
• Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train, Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso (Image)
• Bone Parish, Cullen Bunn (BOOM!)
• Victor LaValle’s Destroyer, Victor LaValle, Dietrich Smith & Joana Lafuente (BOOM!)
• Monstress Volume 3: Haven, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Annihilation
• Bird Box
• The Haunting of Hill House: “The Bent-Neck Lady”
• Hereditary
• A Quiet Place