Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel
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The Bram Stoker Award for First Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for an author's first horror novel.
Winners and nominees[]
Nancy A. Collins with her 1988 Bram Stoker Award
| Year | Recipient | Title | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Lisa Cantrell | The Manse | Winner |
| Clive Barker | The Damnation Game | nominee | |
| Rex Miller | Slob | Nominee | |
| Tony Richards | The Harvest Bride | Nominee | |
| Steve Rasnic Tem | Excavation | Nominee | |
| 1988 | Kelley Wilde | The Suiting by Kelley Wilde | Winner |
| Michael Paine | Cities of the Dead | nominee | |
| Kevin J. Anderson | Resurrection, Inc. | Nominee | |
| Allen Lee Harris | Deliver Us From Evil | Nominee | |
| J. Michael Straczynski | Demon Night | Nominee | |
| John L. Byrne | Fear Book | Nominee | |
| 1989 | Nancy A. Collins | Sunglasses After Dark | Winner |
| Tom Elliott () | The Dwelling | nominee | |
| Douglas Clegg | Goat Dance | Nominee | |
| Dean Wesley Smith | Laying The Music To Rest | Nominee | |
| The Lilith Factor | Nominee | ||
| 1990 | Bentley Little | The Revelation | Winner |
| Alan Rodgers | Blood of the Children | nominee | |
| Tom Piccirilli | Dark Father | Nominee | |
| Nightblood | Nominee | ||
| 1991 | Kathe Koja | The Cipher (tie) | Winner |
| Melanie Tem | Prodigal (tie) | Winner | |
| Chris Curry & L. Dean James | Winter Scream | Nominee | |
| Dennis Danvers | Wilderness | Nominee | |
| Ashley McConnell | Unearthed | Nominee | |
| 1992 | Elizabeth Massie | Sineater | Winner |
| Poppy Z. Brite | Lost Souls | Nominee | |
| Brian D'Amato | Beauty | Nominee | |
| Gary Raisor | Less Than Human | Nominee | |
| The Holy Terror | Nominee | ||
| 1993 | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | The Thread that Binds the Bones | Winner |
| Yvonne Navarro | Afterage | Nominee | |
| Richard Christian Matheson | Created By | Nominee | |
| Anne Billson | Suckers | Nominee | |
| Wet Work | Nominee | ||
| 1994 | Michael Arnzen | Grave Markings | Winner |
| The Black Mariah | Nominee | ||
| Deadweight | Nominee | ||
| Nancy Kilpatrick | Near Death | Nominee | |
| 1995 | Lucy Taylor | The Safety of Unknown Cities | Winner |
| Diary of a Vampire | Nominee | ||
| Tananarive Due | The Between | Nominee | |
| Robert Girardi | Madeleine's Ghost | Nominee | |
| Edo van Belkom | Wyrm Wolf | Nominee | |
| 1996 | Owl Goingback | Crota | Winner |
| Flute Song | Nominee | ||
| Greg Kihn | Horror Show | Nominee | |
| Dead Heat | Nominee | ||
| 1997 | Kirsten Bakis | Lives of the Monster Dogs | Winner |
| Stephen Dedman | The Art of Arrow Cutting | Nominee | |
| Hungry Eyes | Nominee | ||
| Drawn to the Grave | Nominee | ||
| The Inquisitor | Nominee | ||
| 1998 | Dawn Song | Winner | |
| P.D. Cacek | Night Prayers | Nominee | |
| Charlee Jacob | This Symbiotic Fascination | Nominee | |
| Caitlin R. Kiernan | Silk | Nominee | |
| 1999 | Wither | Winner | |
| Widow's Walk | Nominee | ||
| John Connolly | Every Dead Thing | Nominee | |
| China Miéville | King Rat | Nominee | |
| 2000 | Brian A. Hopkins | The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club | Winner |
| Simon Clark | Nailed by the Heart | Nominee | |
| Mark Z. Danielewski | House of Leaves | Nominee | |
| Douglas E. Winter | Run | Nominee | |
| 2001 | Michael Oliveri | Deadliest of the Species | Winner |
| Phantom Feast | Nominee | ||
| d.g.k. goldberg | Skating on the Edge | Nominee | |
| Joe Nassise | Riverwatch | Nominee | |
| 2002 | Alice Sebold | The Lovely Bones | Winner |
| The Blues Ain't Nothing | Nominee | ||
| Michael Laimo | Atmosphere | Nominee | |
| Scott Nicholson | The Red Church | Nominee | |
| 2003 | Brian Keene | The Rising | Winner |
| Wolf's Trap | Nominee | ||
| Jeffrey Thomas | Monstrocity | Nominee | |
| Jeff Vandermeer | Veniss Underground | Nominee | |
| 2004 | John Everson | Covenant (tie) | Winner |
| Lee Thomas | Stained (tie) | Winner | |
| James Kidman | Black Fire | Nominee | |
| Nick Mamatas | Move Under Ground | Nominee | |
| 2005 | Weston Ochse | Scarecrow Gods | Winner |
| Kealan Patrick Burke | The Hides | Nominee | |
| Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson | Siren Promised | Nominee | |
| 2006 | Jonathan Maberry | Winner | |
| Sarah Langan | The Keeper | Nominee | |
| Nate Kenyon | Bloodstone | Nominee | |
| Alexandra Sokoloff | The Harrowing | Nominee | |
| 2007 | Joe Hill | Heart-Shaped Box | Winner |
| I Will Rise | Nominee | ||
| John R. Little | The Memory Tree | Nominee | |
| The Hollower | Nominee | ||
| 2008 | Winner | ||
| Midnight on Mourn Street | Nominee | ||
| Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin | Monster Behind the Wheel | Nominee | |
| David Oppegaard | The Suicide Collectors | Nominee | |
| Joel A. Sutherland | Frozen Blood | Nominee | |
| 2009 | Damnable | Winner | |
| S. G. Browne | Breathers | Nominee | |
| Solomon's Grave | Nominee | ||
| Paul Tremblay | The Little Sleep | Nominee | |
| 2010 | Benjamin Kane Ethridge | Black & Orange (tie) | Winner |
| Lisa Morton | The Castle of Los Angeles (tie) | Winner | |
| Gemma Files | A Book of Tongues | Nominee | |
| Lucy A. Snyder | Spellbent | Nominee | |
| 2011 | Isis Unbound | Winner | |
| John Hornor Jacobs | Southern Gods | Nominee | |
| Frazer Lee | The Lamplighters | Nominee | |
| ] | The Panama Laugh | Nominee | |
| Brett J. Talley | That Which Should Not Be | Nominee | |
| 2012 | Life Rage | Winner | |
| Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling | Nominee | ||
| Deborah Coates | Wide Open | Nominee | |
| The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief | Nominee | ||
| A Requiem for Dead Flies | Nominee | ||
| Bad Glass | Nominee | ||
| 2013 | Rena Mason | The Evolutionist | Winner |
| Candy House | Nominee | ||
| The Year of the Storm | Nominee | ||
| Redheads | Nominee | ||
| Stoker’s Manuscript | Nominee | ||
| 2014 | Maria Alexander | Mr. Wicker[4] | Winner |
| J. D. Barker | Forsaken | Nominee | |
| David Cronenberg | Consumed | Nominee | |
| Michael Knost | Return of the Mothman | Nominee | |
| Josh Malerman | Bird Box | Nominee | |
| 2015 | Mr. Suicide[5] | Winner | |
| Shutter | Nominee | ||
| We Are Monsters | Nominee | ||
| Hannahwhere | Nominee | ||
| ] | Riding the Centipede | Nominee | |
| 2016 | Haven | Winner | |
| The Apothecary’s Curse | Nominee | ||
| Hollow House | Nominee | ||
| & | Mayan Blue | Nominee | |
| Stephanie M. Wytovich | The Eighth | Nominee | |
| 2017 | Cold Cuts | Winner | |
| Andy Davidson | In The Valley Of the Sun | Nominee | |
| Matt Hayward | What Do Monsters Fear? | Nominee | |
| Jeremy Hepler | The Boulevard Monster | Nominee | |
| Scott Thomas | Kill Creek | Nominee | |
| 2018 | Gwendolyn Kiste | The Rust Maidens | Winner |
| What Should Be Wild | Nominee | ||
| I Am the River | Nominee | ||
| Zoje Stage | Baby Teeth | Nominee | |
| Tony Tremblay | The Moore House | Nominee | |
| 2019 | The Bone Weaver's Orchard | Winner | |
| Dear Laura | Nominee | ||
| Eric J. Guignard | Doorways to the Deadeye | Nominee | |
| Invisible Chains | Nominee | ||
| The Luminous Dead | Nominee | ||
| 2020 | EV Knight | The Fourth Whore | Winner |
| Polly Hall | The Taxidermist’s Lover | Nominee | |
| Rachel Harrison | The Return | Nominee | |
| Ross Jeffery | Tome | Nominee | |
| Kate Reed Petty | True Story | Nominee |
References[]
- ^ "Past Bram Stoker Nominees & Winners". www.horror.org. Archived from the original on October 9, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ^ "The 2013 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners". www.horror.org. Archived from the original on May 30, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ^ "The Bram Stoker Awards 2020 – The Bram Stoker Awards". Retrieved 2021-05-29.
- ^ "2014 Bram Stoker Award® Winners Announced".
- ^ "2015 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners". horror.org. 15 May 2016. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
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- Bram Stoker Awards
- First book awards
- Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel winners