Bram Stoker Award Winners Novel

Awards List

2021

My Heart Is a Chainsaw (Winner)
Stephen Graham Jones

Jan-2021
/ Horror

Children of Chicago (Nominee)
Cynthia Pelayo

Mar-2021
/ Horror

The Queen of the Cicadas (Nominee)
V. Castro

Jun-2021
/ Horror

The Book of Accidents (Nominee)
Chuck Wendig

Jul-2021
/ Thriller

The Final Girl Support Group (Nominee)
Grady Hendrix

Jul-2021
/ Horror

2020

The Only Good Indians (Winner)
Stephen Graham Jones

Jul-2020
/ Horror

The Deep (Nominee)
Alma Katsu

Mar-2020
/ Horror

Devil's Creek (Nominee)
Todd Keisling

Jun-2020
/ Horror

Malorie (Nominee)
Josh Malerman

Jul-2020
/ Thriller

Mexican Gothic (Nominee)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Jul-2020
/ Fantasy

2019

Coyote Rage (Winner)
Owl Goingback

2019
/ Horror

Into The Ashes (Nominee)
Lee Murray

Feb-2019
/ Horror

The Worst is Yet to Come (Nominee)
S.P. Miskowski

Feb-2019
/ Horror

Inspection (Nominee)
Josh Malerman

Apr-2019
/ Thriller

Wanderers (Nominee)
Chuck Wendig

Jul-2019
/ Horror

2018

The Cabin at the End of the World (Winner)
Paul Tremblay

Jul-2018
/ Horror

The Hunger (Nominee)
Alma Katsu

Mar-2018
/ Thriller

Glimpse (Nominee)
Jonathan Maberry

Apr-2018
/ Thriller

Unbury Carol (Nominee)
Josh Malerman

Apr-2018
/ General Fiction

Dracul (Nominee)
Dacre Stoker; J.D. Barker

Aug-2018
/ Horror

2017

Ararat (Winner)
Christopher Golden

Apr-2017
/ Thriller

The Cure (Nominee)
J.G. Faherty

May-2015
/ Horror

Ubo (Nominee)
Steve Rasnic Tem

Feb-2017
/ Science Fiction

Black Mad Wheel (Nominee)
Josh Malerman

May-2017
/ General Fiction

I Wish I Was Like You (Nominee)
S.P. Miskowski

Jul-2017
/ Horror

Sleeping Beauties (Nominee)
Stephen King

Oct-2017
/ Thriller

2016

The Fisherman (Winner)
John Langan

Jul-2016
/ Horror

Hard Light (Nominee)
Elizabeth Hand

Apr-2016
/ Mystery

Mongrels (Nominee)
Stephen Graham Jones

May-2016
/ Fantasy

Disappearance at Devil's Rock (Nominee)
Paul Tremblay

Jun-2016
/ Horror

Stranded (Nominee)
Bracken MacLeod

Oct-2016
/ Thriller

2015

A Head Full of Ghosts (Winner)
Paul Tremblay

Jun-2015
/ Horror

The Scarlet Gospels (Nominee)
Clive Barker

Aug-2008
/ Horror

Black Tide (Nominee)
Patrick Freivald

Apr-2015
/ Horror

The Cure (Nominee)
J.G. Faherty

May-2015
/ Horror

The Deep (Nominee)
Michaelbrent Collings

Jul-2015
/ Horror

2014

Blood Kin (Winner)
Steve Rasnic Tem

Feb-2014
/ Horror

Blood Kin (Nominee)
Steve Rasnic Tem

Feb-2014
/ Horror

Jade Sky (Nominee)
Patrick Freivald

May-2014
/ Science Fiction

Suffer the Children (Nominee)
Craig Dilouie

May-2014
/ Horror

Beautiful You (Nominee)
Chuck Palahniuk

Oct-2014
/ Fantasy

The Vines (Nominee)
Christopher Rice

Oct-2014
/ Horror

2013

Doctor Sleep (Winner)
Stephen King

Sep-2013
/ Horror

Nos4a2 (Nominee)
Joe Hill

May-2013
/ Thriller

The Heavens Rise (Nominee)
Christopher Rice

Oct-2013
/ Thriller

A Necessary End (Nominee)
F. Paul Wilson; Sarah Pinborough

Jan-2014
/ Science Fiction

2012

The Drowning Girl (Winner)
Caitlin R. Kiernan

Mar-2012
/ Fantasy

Ghost Story (Nominee)
Bentley Little

Apr-2012
/ Horror

Bottled Abyss (Nominee)
Benjamin Kane Ethridge

Jul-2012
/ Horror

Inheritance (Nominee)
Joe McKinney

Oct-2012
/ General Fiction

Nightwhere (Nominee)
John Everson

Oct-2012
/ Erotica

2011

Floating Staircase (Nominee)
Ronald Malfi

Oct-2010
/ Horror

The German (Nominee)
Lee Thomas

Mar-2011
/ General Fiction

A Matrix of Angels (Nominee)
Christopher Conlon

May-2011
/ Psychological Suspense

Cosmic Forces (Nominee)
Gregory Lamberson

Oct-2011
/ Horror

2010

Rot & Ruin (Nominee)
Jonathan Maberry

Sep-2010
/ Horror

2009

Audrey's Door (Winner)
Sarah Langan

Oct-2009
/ Urban Fantasy

Patient Zero (Nominee)
Jonathan Maberry

Mar-2009
/ Horror

2008

Duma Key (Winner)
Stephen King

Jan-2008
/ General Fiction

Johnny Gruesome (Nominee)
Gregory Lamberson

Oct-2008
/ Horror

2007

The Missing (Winner)
Sarah Langan

Sep-2007
/ Horror

The Terror (Nominee)
Dan Simmons

Jan-2007
/ Thriller

Heart-Shaped Box (Nominee)
Joe Hill

Feb-2007
/ Horror

2006

Lisey's Story (Winner)
Stephen King

Nov-2006
/ Horror

Ghost Road Blues (Nominee)
Jonathan Maberry

Jun-2006
/ Horror

2005

In the Night Room (Winner)
Peter Straub

Oct-2004
/ Horror

2004

Lost Boy, Lost Girl (Winner)
Peter Straub

Oct-2003
/ Suspense

2003

The Night Class (Winner)
Tom Piccirilli

Nov-2002
/ Horror

2002

The Lovely Bones (Finalist)
Alice Sebold

Aug-2002
/ Fantasy

2001

The Traveling Vampire Show (Winner)
Richard Laymon

May-2000
/ Horror

American Gods (Winner)
Neil Gaiman

Jun-2001
/ Urban Fantasy

2000

Mr. X (Winner)
Peter Straub

Jul-1999
/ Horror

1999

Bag of Bones (Winner)
Stephen King

Oct-1998
/ Horror

Hexes (Nominee)
Tom Piccirilli

Feb-1999
/ Horror

Hannibal (Nominee)
Thomas Harris

Jun-1999
/ Thriller

Hearts in Atlantis (Nominee)
Stephen King

Sep-1999
/ Suspense

Darker Than Night (Nominee)
Owl Goingback

Nov-1999
/ Horror

1998

Children of the Dusk (Winner)
Janet Berliner

Jul-1997
/ Fantasy

1997

The Mouse on the Mile (Winner)
Stephen King

Apr-1996
/ Horror

1996

Zombie (Winner)
Joyce Carol Oates

Oct-1995
/ Science Fiction / Fantasy

1995

Dead in the Water (Winner)
Nancy Holder

May-1994
/ Horror

1994

The Throat (Winner)
Peter Straub

Apr-1993
/ Thriller

1993

The Blood of the Lamb (Winner)
Thomas F. Monteleone

May-1992
/ Science Fiction / Fantasy

1991

Mine (Winner)
Robert R. McCammon

Apr-1990
/ Horror

Boy's Life (Winner)
Robert R. McCammon

Aug-1991
/ Horror

1990

Carrion Comfort (Winner)
Dan Simmons

Oct-1990
/ Horror

1989

The Silence of the Lambs (Winner)
Thomas Harris

Feb-1991
/ Thriller

1988

Swan Song (Winner)
Robert R. McCammon

Jun-1987
/ Horror

1987

Misery (Winner)
Stephen King

Jun-1987
/ Horror

Award Categories

Vampire Novel of Century

Work for Young People

Young Adult Novel

Young Readers

Award Years