Bram Stoker Award Winning Titles

    The Bram Stoker Award is given by the Horror Writer's Association for superior achievement .  The annual award was first given in 1988.  The Bram Stoker Awards are non-juried, the general HWA membership recommends titles for consideration, then two rounds of of voting by active members determine the winners.  For librarians, the Bram Stoker Awards can be used as a list of titles that you will want to consider in collection development and can use to publicize the rest of your horror collection.

2008 Bram Stoker Award Winners

Novel: Duma Key by Stephen King

First Novel: The Gentling Box by Lisa Mannetti

Long Fiction: Miranda by John R. Little

Short Fiction: "The Lost" by Sarah Langan

Anthology: Unspeakable Horror edited by Vince A. Liaguno & Chad Helder

Fiction Collection: Just after Sunset by Stephen King
 

Nonfiction: A Hallowe'en Anthology by Lisa Morton
 

Poetry Collection: The Nightmare Collection by Bruce Boston
 

Lifetime Achievement Award: F. Paul Wilson; Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
 

The Silver Hammer Award: Sephera Giron
 

Richard Laymon President's Award: John R. Little

2007 Stoker Award Winners

Superior Achievement in Poetry
Being Full of Light, Insubstantial by Linda Addison (Space and Time) and
Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Regions Press)

Superior Achievement in Nonfiction
The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press / Kensington)

Superior Achievement in a Collection
Proverbs for Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions Press) and
5 Stories by Peter Straub (Borderlands)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Five Strokes to Midnight edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble (Haunted Pelican Press)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
The Gentle Brush of Wings by David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Afterward, There will be a Hallway by Gary Braunbeck (Five Strokes to Midnight)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a Novel
The Missing by Sarah Langan (Harper)



 

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