Lord Ruthven Award
Each year at the banquet of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, the Lord Ruthven Assembly announces the winners of two awards: one for best work of vampire fiction in the previous year, and one for the best work of nonfiction.
2003
(announced in 2004)

Fiction:  Fat White Vampire Blues, by Andrew Fox
Nonfiction:  Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale, James B. South, ed.
2002
(announced in 2003)

Fiction:  Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris
Nonfiction:  Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most, by  William Patrick Day
2001
(announced in 2002)

Fiction:  Blood will Tell, by Jean Lorrah
Nonfiction:  Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires, by Michael E. Bell
2000
(announced in 2001)

Fiction:  Blood to Blood: The Dracula Story Continues, by Elaine Bergstrom
Nonfiction:  Dracula: Sense and Nonsense, by Elizabeth Miller

1999
(announced in March 2000)

Fiction:  Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett
Nonfiction:  no award given

1998
(announced in March 1999)

Fiction:  Chill in the Blood by P.N. Elrod
Nonfiction:  Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism by Carol A. Senf
1997
(announced in March 1998)

Fiction: Writ in Blood, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Nonfiction:  Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century 1897-1997, by Carol M. Davison

1996
(announced in 1997)

Fiction:  The World on Blood, by Jonathan Nasar 
Nonfiction:  V is for Vampire: An A to Z Guide to Everything Undead, by David J. Skal

1995
(announced in 1996)

Fiction:  Traveling with the Dead, by Barbara Hambly
Nonfiction:  Our Vampires, Ourselves, by Nina Auerbach

1994
(announced in 1995)

Nonfiction:  The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, by J. Gordon Melton

1993
(announced in 1994)

Nonfiction:  The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, by David Skal

1992
(announced in 1993)

Fiction:  Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman

1989
(announced in 1990)

Fiction:  Sunglasses After Dark, by Nancy A. Collins

1988
(announced in 1989)

Fiction:  The Empire of Fear, Brian Stableford

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