2023 Stoker Awards Winners

Bram Stoker AwardsThe winners of the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards were announced by the Horror Writers Association at a gala during StokerCon 2024, held May 30 – June 2, 2024 at the San Diego Marriott Mission Valley in San Diego CA.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

  • WINNER: The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (Saga)
  • How to Sell a Haunted House, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
  • Don’t Fear the Reaper, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
  • Lone Women, Victor LaValle (One World)
  • Camp Damascus, Chuck Tingle (Nightfire)
  • Black River Orchard, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

  • WINNER: The Daughters of Block Island, Christa Carmen (Thomas & Mercer)
  • The Spite House, Johnny Compton (Nightfire)
  • Everything the Darkness Eats, Eric LaRocca (CLASH)
  • Maeve Fly, CJ Leede (Nightfire)
  • Edenville, Sam Rebelein (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel

  • WINNER: The Nighthouse Keeper, Lora Senf (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
  • Monster Camp, Sarah Henning (Margaret K. McElderry)
  • Los Monstruos: Felice and the Wailing Woman, Diana López (Kokila)
  • Frances and the Werewolves of the Black Forest, Refe Tuma (HarperCollins)
  • What Stays Buried, Suzanne Young (HarperCollins)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

  • WINNER: She Is a Haunting, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury YA)
  • You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury YA)
  • Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Cherie Dimaline (Tundra)
  • Find Him Where You Left Him Dead, Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen)
  • Harvest House, Cynthia Leitich Smith (Candlewick Press)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

  • WINNER: Linghun, Ai Jiang (Dark Matter INK)
  • “Rumpus Room”, Tananarive Due (The Wishing Pool and Other Stories)
  • The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw, (Nightfire)
  • Sleep Alone, J.A.W. McCarthy  (Off Limits)
  • Despatches, Lee Murray (PS)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

  • WINNER: “Quondam”, Cindy O’Quinn (The Nightmare Never Ends)
  • “Silk”, L.E. Daniels (Hush, Don’t Wake the Monster: Stories Inspired by Stephen King)
  • “The Sound of Children Screaming”, Rachael K. Jones (Nightmare 10/23)
  • “If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak”, Sam J. Miller (The Dark 7/23)
  • “An Inherited Taste”, Nadine Aurora Tabing (No Trouble at All)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

  • WINNER: Blood from the Air, Gemma Files (Grimscribe)
  • Cold, Black, & Infinite, Todd Keisling (Cemetery Dance)
  • Spin a Black Yarn, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
  • The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, Christi Nogle (Flame Tree)
  • Root Rot & Other Grim Tales, Sarah Read (Bad Hand)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

  • WINNER: Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House)
  • Shakespeare Unleashed, James Aquilone, ed. (Crystal Lake)
  • The Drive-In: Multiplex, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Pandi)
  • Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., eds. (Vintage)
  • American Cannibal, Rebecca Rowland, ed. (Maenad)

Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction

  • WINNER: 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered, Sadie Hartmann (Page Street)
  • The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar, Robin R. Means Coleman & Mark H. Harris (Saga)
  • A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, Claire Fitzpatrick, ed. (IFWG)
  • The Art of the Zombie Movie, Lisa Morton (Applause)
  • Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Lee Murray & Angela Yuriko Smith, eds. (Black Spot)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

  • WINNER: “Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia”, Nadia Bulkin (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)
  • “Words Wielded by Women”, Carina Bissett (Apex 5/23)
  • “100 Livers”, K.P. Kulski (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)
  • “Displaced Spirits”, Lee Murray (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)
  • “A Theatre of Ghosts, a Haunted Cinema: The Japanese Gothic as Theatrical Tradition in Gurozuka”, Kevin Wetmore, Jr.(Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture: Special Issue on Asian Gothic 6/23)

Superior Achievement in Poetry

  • WINNER: On the Subject of Blackberries, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)
  • Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums, Maxwell Ian Gold (Hex)
  • The Quiet Ways I Destroy You, Jessica McHugh (Apokrupha)
  • Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, Marisca Pichette (Android)
  • Numinous Stones, Holly Lyn Walrath (Aqueduct)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

  • WINNER: Carmilla: The First Vampire, Amy Chu, art by Soo Lee (Dark Horse)
  • Ghostlore, Vol. 1, Cullen Bunn, art by Leomacs (BOOM! Studios)
  • Dead Mall, Adam Cesare, art by David Stoll (Dark Horse)
  • Tombs, Junji Ito (Viz Media)
  • H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Gou Tanabe (Dark Horse)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

  • WINNER: Godzilla Minus One
  • Black Mirror: “Beyond the Sea”
  • Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • No One Will Save You
  • When Evil Lurks

As previously announced, Thunderstorm Books is the recipient of the Specialty Press Award, the Richard Laymon President’s Award went to Brian W. Matthews, Lila Denning won the Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award, Lisa Wood was named Mentor of the Year Award, and this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winners were Mort Castle, Cassandra Peterson, and Steve Rasnic Tem.

For more information, see the Stoker Awards website.


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