2020 Stoker Awards Winners

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• WINNER: “One Last Transformation”, Josh Malerman (Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors)

• “Am I Missing the Sunlight?”, Meghan Arcuri (Borderlands 7)
• “Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1”, Kurt Fawver (Nightmare 11/20)
• “The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road”, Cindy O’Quinn (Shotgun Honey Presents Volume 4: Recoil)
• “Should Fire Remember the Fuel?”, Kyla Lee Ward (Oz is Burning)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• WINNER: Grotesque: Monster Stories, Lee Murray (Things in the Well)

• Velocities: Stories, Kathe Koja (Meerkat)
• Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies, John Langan (Word Horde)
• The Cuckoo Girls, Patricia Lillie (Trepidatio)
• Bloody Britain, Anna Taborska (Shadow)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• WINNER: Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Geneve Flynn & Lee Murray, eds. (Omnium Gatherum)

• Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, Michael Bailey & Doug Murano, eds. (Written Backwards)
• Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror, Samantha Kolesnik, ed. (Grindhouse)
• Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror, Sara Tantlinger, ed. (Rooster Republic)
• Arterial Bloom, Mercedes M. Yardley, ed. (Crystal Lake)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• WINNER: Writing in the Dark, Tim Waggoner (Guide Dog)

• The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films, Kelly Florence & Meg Hafdahl (Skyhorse)
• 1000 Women in Horror, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (BearManor)
• End of the Road, Brian Keene (Cemetery Dance)
• Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, Alison Peirse, ed. (Rutgers University Press)
• The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., ed.  (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• WINNER: “Speaking of Horror”, Tim Waggoner (The Writer 11/20)

• “The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination of Monstrous Motherhood”, Rhonda Jackson Joseph (The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation)
• “I Need to Believe”, Cynthia Pelayo (Southwest Review 105.3)
• “Lost, Found, and Finally Unbound: The Strange History of the 1910 Edison Frankenstein”, Kelly Robinson (Rue Morgue 6/20)
• “Final Girl: A Life in Horror”, Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight 10/20)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• WINNER: A Collection of Dreamscapes, Christina Sng (Raw Dog Screaming)

• Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems, Alessandro Manzetti (Independent Legions)
• A Complex Accident of Life, Jessica McHugh (Apokrupha)
• Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Cynthia Pelayo (Burial Day)
• Cradleland of Parasites, Sara Tantlinger (Rooster Republic)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• WINNER: Mary Shelley Presents, Nancy Holder, Chiara Di Francia & Amelia Woo (Kymera)

• The Masque of the Red Death, Steven Archer (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Spectre Deep 6, Jennifer Brody & Jules Rivera (Turner)
• Road of Bones, Rich Douek & Alex Cormack (IDW)
• Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein), Alessandro Manzetti & Stefano Cardoselli (Independent Legions)
• Lonesome Days, Savage Nights, Steve Niles, Salvatore Simeone & Szymon Kudranski (TKO Studios)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• WINNER: The Invisible Man

• Color Out of Space
• The Haunting of Bly Manor, “The Altar of the Dead”
• Lovecraft Country, “Jig-a-Bobo”
• Lovecraft Country, “Sundown”

Several additional awards were presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA):

Specialty Press Award

• Crystal Lake

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Carol J. Clover
• Jewelle Gomez
• Marge Simon

Silver Hammer Award

• Carina Bissett
• Brian W. Matthews

Richard Laymon President’s Award for Service

• Becky Spratford

Mentor of the Year Award

• Angela Yuriko Smith

For more information, see the Stoker Awards website.