2024 Stoker Awards Final Ballot
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards:
Superior Achievement in a Novel
- House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
- I Was a Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- The Haunting of Velkwood, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
- Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
- Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay (William Morrow)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
- Midnight Rooms, Donyae Coles (Amistad)
- Hollow Girls, Jessica Drake-Thomas (Cemetery Dance)
- This Wretched Valley, Jenny Kiefer (Quirk)
- The Eyes Are the Best Part, Monika Kim (Erewhon)
- Bless Your Heart, Lindy Ryan (Minotaur Books)
Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel
- The Curse of Eelgrass Bog, Mary Averling (Razorbill)
- The Witch in the Woods, Michaelbrent Collings (Shadow Mountain)
- The No-Brainer’s Guide to Decomposition, Adrianna Cuevas (HarperCollins Children’s)
- There’s Something Sinister in Center Field, Robert P. Ottone (Cemetery Gates)
- The Creepening of Dogwood House, Eden Royce (Walden Pond)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
- Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo, Adam Cesare (HarperCollins Children’s)
- A Place for Vanishing, Ann Fraistat (Delacorte)
- Come Out, Come Out, Natalie C. Parker (G.P. Putnam Son’s)
- The Losting Fountain, Lora Senf (Union Square)
- The Blonde Dies First, Joelle Wellington (Simon & Schuster)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
- Coup de Grâce, Sofia Ajram (Titan)
- Rest Stop, Nat Cassidy (Shortwave)
- Kill Your Darling, Clay McLeod Chapman (Bad Hand)
- “All The Parts of You That Won’t Easily Burn”, Eric LaRocca (This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances)
- Hollow Tongue, Eden Royce (Raw Dog Screaming)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
- “Versus Versus”, Laird Barron (Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners)
- “And She Had Been So Reasonable”, Rachel Bolton (Apex , Nov. 2024)
- “To the Wolves”, Sasha Brown (Weird Horror, Fall 2024)
- “Ten Thousand Crawling Children”, R. A. Busby (Nightmare Magazine, January 2024)
- “She Sheds Her Skin”, Raven Jabukowski (Nightmare Magazine November 2024)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
- Not a Speck of Light, Laird Barron (Bad Hand)
- A Sunny Place for Shady People, Mariana Enriquez (Penguin)
- The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls, Angela Sylvaine (Dark Matter Ink)
- Old Monsters Never Die, Tim Waggoner (Winding Road Stories)
- Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales, Mercedes M. Yardley (Cemetery Dance)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
- Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, Sofia Ajram (Ghoulish Books)
- We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures, Rob Costello (Running Press)
- Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point, Carol Gyzander & Anna Taborska (Flame Tree)
- Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse and Bad Manners, Doug Murano & Michael Bailey (Bad Hand)
- Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror: A Women in Horror Anthology, Lindy Ryan (Black Spot)
Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction
- Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us, Anna Bogutskaya (Faber & Faber)
- American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond, Jeremy Dauber (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
- I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies, Heidi Honeycutt (HeadPress)
- Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch, Emily C. Hughes (Quirk)
- No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes, Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar, ed. (Vernon)
Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction
- “Screamin’ in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle’s The Tingler”, Michael Arnzen (What Sleeps Beneath)
- “The Horror of Donna Berzatto and Her Feast of the Seven Fishes”, Vince Liaguno (You’re Not Alone in the Dark)
- “Hidden Histories: The Many Ghosts of Disney’s Haunted Mansion”, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse)
- “Jackson and Haunting of the Stage”, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Journal of Shirley Jackson Studies, Vol. 2 No. 1)
- “Blacks in Film and Cultivated Bias”, Lisa Wood (No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes)
Superior Achievement in Poetry
- The Dark Between the Twilight, Jamal Hodge (Crystal Lake)
- Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future, Pedro Iniguez (Space Cowboy)
- Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud, Lee Murray (The Cuba Press)
- Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry, Sumiko Saulson (Bludgeoned Girls)
- Imitation of Life, L. Marie Wood (Falstaff)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
- The Fox Maidens, Robin Ha (HarperCollins Children’s)
- Tender, Beth Hetland (Fantagraphics)
- Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, Patrick Horvath (Penguin Random House)
- H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu, Gou Tanabe (Dark Horse)
- Chrysanthemum Under The Waves, Maggie Umber (Maggie Umber)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
- Heretic, Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (A24, Shiny Penny, Beck/Woods)
- Nosferatu, Robert Eggers, Henrik Galeen, & Bram Stoker (Focus Features, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Studio 8)
- The Substance, Coralie Fargeat (Working Title Film, Good Story, Blacksmith)
- Longlegs, Osgood Perkins (C2 Motion Picture Group, Creature Features, Oddfellow Entertainment)
- I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun (A24, Fruit Tree, Smudge Films)
Voting for the final ballot closes on March 15 at midnight PT. More information can be found in the full announcement.
Winners will be honored on June 14 at an awards banquet during StokerCon 2025, to be held June 12-15, 2025 in Stamford CT. For more information, see the Stoker Awards website.
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