2022 Stoker Awards Winners

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• WINNER: The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)

• The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
• Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
• Daphne, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
• Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• WINNER: Beulah, Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)

• Jackal, Erin Adams (Bantam)
• The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
• Black Tide, KC Jones (Nightfire)
• All the White Spaces, Ally Wilkes (Emily Bestler/Atria)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• WINNER: The Triangle, Robert P. Ottone (Raven Tale)

• What We Harvest, Ann Fraistat (Delacorte)
• The Weight of Blood, Tiffany D. Jackson (Katherine Tegen)
• These Fleeting Shadows, Kate Alice Marshall (Viking)
• Gallant, V.E. Schwab (Greenwillow)
• Burn Down, Rise Up, Vincent Tirado (Sourcebooks Fire)

Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel

• WINNER: They Stole Our Hearts, Daniel Kraus (Holt)

• This Appearing House, Ally Malinenko (Katherine Tegen)
• Camp Scare, Delilah S. Dawson (Delacorte)
• The Clackity, Lora Senf (Antheneum for Young Readers)
• A Comb of Wishes, Lisa Stringfellow (Quill Tree)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• WINNER: The Wehrwolf, Alma Katsu (Amazon Original)

• And in Her Smile, the World, Rebecca J. Allred & Gordon B. White (Trepidatio)
• “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell”, Christa Carmen (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror)
• Below, Laurel Hightower (Ghoulish)
• Three Days in the Pink Tower, EV Knight (Creature)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Fracture”, Mercedes M. Yardley (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror)

• “Nona Doesn’t Dance”, Aaron Dries (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts)
• “Poppy’s Poppy”, Douglas Gwilym (Penumbrice)
• “The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body”, J. A. W. McCarthy (A Woman Built by Man)
• “A Song for Barnaby Jones”, Anna Taborska (Zagava)
• “The Star”, Anna Taborska (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcane)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• WINNER: Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)

• We Are Here to Hurt Each Other, Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating)
• Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted, RJ Joseph (The Seventh Terrace)
• Spontaneous Human Combustion, Richard Thomas (Keylight)
• The Black Maybe, Attila Veres (Valancourt)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• WINNER: Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)

• Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology, Sadie Hartmann & Ashley Saywers, eds. (Dark Matter Ink)
• Mother: Tales of Love and Terror, Christi Nogle & Willow Becker, eds. (Weird Little Words)
• Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, Lindy Ryan, ed. (Black Spot)
• Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology of Women in Horror, Sara Tantlinger, ed. (Strangehouse)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

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

• Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult, Melanie R. Anderson & Lisa Kröger (Quirk)
• Weird Fiction: A Genre Study, Michael Cisco (Palgrave)
• A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of American’s Ghosts, Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes (Citadel)
• Writing Poetry in the Dark, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• WINNER: “I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)”, Lee Murray (Interstellar Flight 10/22)

• “This is Not a Poem”, Cynthia Pelayo (Writing Poetry in the Dark)
• “African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore”, L. Marie Wood (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students)
• “The H Word: The Horror of Hair”, L. Marie Wood (Nightmare 7/22)
• “A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television”, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• WINNER: Crime Scene, Cynthia Pelayo (Raw Dog Screaming)

• Sifting the Ashes, Michael Bailey & Marge Simon (Crystal Lake)
• Girls from the County, Donna Lynch (Raw Dog Screaming)
• The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry, Sumiko Saulson (self-published)
• The Gravity of Existence, Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• WINNER: Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary, James Aquilone, ed. (Moonstone)

• Eat the Rich, Sarah Gailey, art by Pius Bak (Boom!)
• Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt, Alessandro Manzetti, art by Stefano Cardoselli (Independent Legions)
• Something is Killing the Children Vol 4, James IV Tynion, art by Werther Dell’Edera (Boom!)
• The Me You Love in the Dark, Skottie Young, art by Jorge Corona (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• WINNER (TIE): The Black Phone, Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill (Blumhouse Productions, Crooked Highway, Universal Pictures)
• WINNER (TIE): Stranger Things: “s4e1: Chapter One: The Hellfire Club”, The Duffer Brothers (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre, Netflix, Upside Down Pictures)

• The Pale Blue Eye, Scott Cooper (Cross Creek Pictures, Grisbi Productions, Streamline Global Group)
• Men, Alex Garland (DNA Films)
• Pearl, Mia Goth & Ti West (A24, Bron Creative, Little Lamb, New Zealand Film Commission)