Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for long fiction.

Winners and nominees[]

In 1993, the category was split into "best novella" and "best novelette", a distinction that was eliminated a year later. Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.^[1]

• 1987: "The Pear-Shaped Man" by George R. R. Martin (tie)
• 1987: "The Boy Who Came Back From the Dead" by Alan Rodgers (tie)
  • "Pamela's Get" by David J. Schow
  • "Resurrec Tech" by S.P. Somtow
• 1988: "Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity" by David Morrell
  • "The Skin Trade" by George R. R. Martin
  • "The Function of Dream Sleep" by Harlan Ellison
  • "The Juniper Tree" by Peter Straub
  • "The Night Flier" by Stephen King
  • "Horrorshow" by John Farris
• 1989: "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "At First Just Ghostly" by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "The Confessions of St. James" by Chet Williamson
  • "Phantom" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 1990: "Stephen" by Elizabeth Massie
  • "Bestseller" by
  • "Entropy's Bed at Midnight" by Dan Simmons
  • "Pelts" by F. Paul Wilson
  • "The Langoliers" by Stephen King
• 1991: "The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves" by David Morrell
  • "Fetish" by Edward Bryant
  • "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint
  • "Advocates" by Suzy McKee Charnas & Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • "Magpie" by Stephen Gallagher
• 1992: "Alien: Tribes" by Stephen Bissette (tie)
• 1992: "The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "Nothing Will Hurt You" by David Morrell
  • "The Shrine" by David Morrell
  • "For You, the Living" by

Novella:

• 1993: "The Night We Buried Road Dog" by Jack Cady (tie)
• 1993: "Mefisto in Onyx" by Harlan Ellison (tie)
  • "Flashback" by Dan Simmons

Novelette:

• 1993: "Death in Bangkok" by Dan Simmons
  • "Colour" by Michael Moorcock
  • "Darker Angels" by S.P. Somtow
  • "Death on the Nile" by Connie Willis
• 1994: "The Scent of Vinegar" by Robert Bloch
  • "Sometimes, in the Rain" by Charles L. Grant
  • "The Alchemy of the Throat" by Brian Hodge
  • "Bubba Ho-tep" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "The Siren of Swan Quarter" by William R. Trotter
• 1995: "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" by Stephen King
  • "Baby Girl Diamond" by Adam-Troy Castro
  • "Looking for Mr. Flip" by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • "Lover Doll" by
• 1996: "The Red Tower" by Thomas Ligotti
  • "Kilroy Was Here" by Jack Cady
  • "The Thing from Lover's Lane" by Nancy Collins
  • "Brimstone and Salt" by S.P. Somtow
• 1997: "The Big Blow" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "The Word" by Ramsey Campbell
  • "Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King
  • "Coppola's Dracula" by Kim Newman
  • "The Zombies of Madison County" by Douglas E. Winter
• 1998: "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" by Peter Straub
  • "Leavings" by P.D. Cacek
  • "As Above, So Below" by Brian Hodge
  • "What Would You Do For Love?" by John Shirley
• 1999: "Mad Dog Summer" by Joe R. Lansdale (tie)
• 1999: "Five Days in April" by Brian A. Hopkins (tie)
  • "Dread in the Beast" by Charlee Jacob
  • "Right to Life" by Jack Ketchum
• 2000: "The Man on the Ceiling" by Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem
  • "Riding the Bullet" by Stephen King
  • "In Shock" by Joyce Carol Oates
  • "God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him" by
• 2001: "In These Final Days of Sales" by Tim Lebbon
  • "From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Demolition" by Nancy Etchemendy
  • "Earthworm Gods" by Brian Keene
  • "Northern Gothic" by Nick Mamatas
• 2002: "El Dia de Los Muertos" by Brian A. Hopkins (tie)
• 2002: "My Work is Not Yet Done" by Thomas Ligotti
  • "Cape Wrath" by Paul Finch
  • "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
  • "The Origin" by
• 2003: "Closing Time" by Jack Ketchum
  • The Necromancer by Douglas Clegg
  • Fuckin' Lie Down Already by Tom Piccirilli
  • Louisiana Breakdown by Lucius Shepard
  • Roll Them Bones by David Niall Wilson
• 2004: "The Turtle Boy" by Kealan-Patrick Burke
  • "Zora and the Zombie" by Andy Duncan
  • "Lisey and the Madman" by Stephen King
  • Dead Man's Hand by Tim Lebbon
  • "Northwest Passage" by Barbara Roden
• 2005: "Best New Horror" by Joe Hill
  • "In the Midnight Museum" by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • "The Things They Left Behind" by Stephen King
  • "Some Zombie Contingency Plans" by Kelly Link
• 2006: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
  • Hallucigenia by Laird Barron
  • Mama's Boy by Fran Friel
  • Bloodstained Oz by Christopher Golden and James A. Moore
  • Clubland Heroes by Kim Newman
• 2007: Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway by Gary Braunbeck
  • Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man by Scott Edelman
  • General Slocum's Gold by Nicholas Kaufmann
  • The Tenth Muse by William Browning Spencer
  • An Apiary of White Bees by Lee Thomas
• 2008: Miranda by John R. Little
  • The Shallow End of the Pool by Adam-Troy Castro
  • Redemption Roadshow by Weston Ochse
  • The Confessions of St. Zach by Gene O'Neill
• 2009: The Lucid Dreaming by Lisa Morton
  • Dreaming Robot Monster by Mort Castle
  • The Hunger of Empty Vessels by Scott Edelman
  • Doc Good's Traveling Show by Gene O'Neill
• 2010: Invisible Fences by
  • The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman
  • Dissolution by
  • Monsters Among Us by Kirstyn McDermott
  • The Samhanach by Lisa Morton
• 2011: by Peter Straub
  • 7 Brains by
  • Roots and All by Brian Hodge
  • The Colliers' Venus (1893) by Caitlin R. Kiernan
  • Ursa Major by John R. Little
  • Rusting Chickens by Gene O'Neill
• 2012: The Blue Heron by Gene O'Neill
  • Thirty Miles South of Dry County by Kealan Patrick Burke
  • I'm Not Sam by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee
  • Lost Girl of the Lake by Joe McKinney and Michael McCarty
  • The Fleshless Man by
• 2013:^[2] The Great Pity by Gary Braunbeck
  • The Bluehole by Dale Bailey
  • The Slaughter Man by
  • No Others Are Genuine by Gregory Frost
  • House of Rain by Greg F. Gifune
  • East End Girls by Rena Mason
• 2014: Fishing for Dinosaurs by Joe R. Lansdale
  • The Infected by
  • Dreams of a Little Suicide by Eric J. Guignard
  • Three Guys Walk into a Bar by Jonathan Maberry
  • Lost and Found by Joe McKinney
• 2015: Little Dead Red by ^[3]
  • Paper Cuts by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • The Box Jumper by
  • Special Collections by Norman Partridge
  • Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen by Scott Edelman
• 2016: The Winter Box by Tim Waggoner^[4]
  • The Sadist's Bible by Nicole Cushing
  • That Perilous Stuff by Scott Edelman
  • The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
  • The Jupiter Drop by Josh Malerman
• 2017: Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones^[5]
  • Faking it Until Forever Comes by Scott Edelman
  • Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • Sweetlings by Lucy Taylor
  • A Kiss of Thorns by Tim Waggoner
• 2018: The Devil's Throat by Rena Mason ^[6]
  • Our Children, Our Teachers by Michael Bailey
  • You Are Released by Joe Hill
  • Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung by Usman T. Malik
  • Bitter Suites by
• 2019: Up from Slavery by Victor LaValle ^[7]
  • The Keeper of Chernobyl by
  • The Cat Sitter by
  • To Be Devoured by
  • Into Bones Like Oil by Kaaron Warren

References[]

External links[]

• Stoker Award on the HWA web page
• Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees