Bram Stoker Awards
Each year, the Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for superior achievement in the genre of horror writing.  (Screenplays, "lifetime achievement", "alternative forms/other media" and other non-literary works have been omitted from this list).

2003
[presented in 2004]

Novel
Winner:  lost boy lost girl by Peter Straub
Nominees:
  • The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
  • Serenity Falls by James A. Moore
  • The Night Country by Stewart O'Nan
  • A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
First Novel
Winner:  The Rising by Brian Keene
Nominees:
  • Wolf's Trap by William D. Gagliani
  • Monstrocity by Jeffrey Thomas
  • Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer
Long Fiction
Winner:  "Closing Time" by Jack Ketchum,  in: Peaceable Kingdom
Nominees:
  • The Necromancer: being the diary of Justin Gravesend on the year of his rebirth, and his forced initiation into the Chymera magick, including his early visionaries by Douglas Clegg
  • Fuckin' Lie Down Already by Tom Piccirilli
  • Louisiana Breakdown by Lucius Shepard
  • Roll Them Bones by David Niall Wilson
Short Fiction
Winner:  "Duty" by Gary A. Braunbeck.  Available at: http://www.garybraunbeck.com/html/duty.html
Nominees:
  • "The Last Supper" by Scott Edelman, in The Book of Final Flesh, James Lowder, ed.  Also available at: http://www.scottedelman.com/LastSupper.pdf
  • "Harvey's Dream" by Stephen King, in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror : Seventeenth Annual Collection
  • "The Haunting" by Joyce Carol Oates, in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Fifteen
  • "The Red Bow" by George Saunders, in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror : Seventeenth Annual Collection
Fiction Collection
Winner:  Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum
Nominees:
  • Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Vol 1 by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • Told by the Dead by Ramsey Campbell
  • Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand
  • Fangs and Angel Wings by Karen Taylor
Anthology
Winner:  Borderlands 5 edited by Elizabeth and Thomas Monteleone
Nominees:
  • Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural edited by Bill Congreve
  • Gathering The Bones edited by Jack Dann, Ramsey Campbell and Dennis Etchison
  • The Dark edited by Ellen Datlow
  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 16th Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
Nonfiction
Winner:  The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association by Thomas F. Monteleone
Nominees:
  • Fear in a Handful of Dust: horror as a way of life by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • Ralan.com edited by Ralan Conley
  • Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman, edited by Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man
  • Hellnotes edited by Judi Rohrig
Illustrated Narrative
Winner:  The Sandman: Endless Nights (collection) by Neil Gaiman
Nominees:
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume Two by Alan Moore
  • Kolchak: "Devil in the Details" by Stefan Petrucha
  • Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce edited by Tom Pomplun
  • Vampire the Masqerade Giovanni -- The Machiavelli Conundrum by Robert Weinberg
Work for Young Readers
Winner:  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
Nominees:
  • Even Odder: More Stories To Chill The Heart by Steve Burt
  • The Oracle by Catherine Fisher
  • The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
  • A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Poetry Collection
Winner:  Pitchblende by Bruce Boston
Nominees:
  • Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems by Michael Arnzen
  • Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb
  • Cardinal Sins by Charlee Jacob
  • Professor LaGungo's Exotic Artifacts & Assorted Mystic Collectibles by Mark McLaughlin
  • Artist of Antithesis by Marge Simon

2002
[presented in 2003]

Novel
Winner:  The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli
Nominees:
  • The Hour Before Dark by Douglas Clegg
  • From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
  • Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
First Novel
Winner:  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Nominees:
  • The Blues Ain't Nothin' by Tina Jens
  • Atmosphere by Michael Laimo
  • The Red Church by Scott Nicholson
Long Fiction
Winners:  El Dia De Los Muertos by Brian A. Hopkins and "My Work Is Not Yet Done" by Thomas Ligotti, in My Work Is Not Yet Done : three tales of corporate horror
Nominees:
  • Cape Wrath by Paul Finch
  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  • "The Origin" by David B. Silva, in The Darker Side : Generations of Horror
Short Fiction
Winner:  "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair" by Tom Piccirilli, in The Darker Side : Generations of Horror
Nominees:
  • "Disappearances" by Mort Castle (Chizine)
  • "The Green Man" by Christopher Fowler (The Third Alternative)
  • "The Plague Species" by Charlee Jacob, in The Darker Side : Generations of Horror
  • "Details" by China Miéville, in Children of Cthulhu
Fiction Collection
Winner:  One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury
Nominees:
  • Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead by Mort Castle
  • Knuckles and Tales by Nancy A. Collins
  • Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
  • The Collection by Bentley Little 
Anthology
Winner:  The Darker Side edited by John Pelan
Nominees:
  • Shivers edited by Richard Chizmar
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Fifteenth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
  • The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Volume 13 edited by Stephen Jones
  • Children of Cthulhu edited by John Pelan and Benjamin Adams
Nonfiction
Winner:  Ramsey Campbell, Probably by Ramsey Campbell
Nominees:
  • Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror by Richard Bleiler
  • Ralan.com edited by Ralan Conley
  • Jobs in Hell edited by Brian Keene and Kelly Laymon
  • Hellnotes edited by David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson, and Garrett Peck
Illustrated Narrative
Winner:  Nightside (Issues 1-4) by Robert Weinberg
Nominees:
  • Howard the Duck (Issues 1-6) by Steve Gerber
  • Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (Issues 1-4) by Peter Lenkov
Work for Young Readers
Winner:  Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Nominees:
  • Abarat by Clive Barker
  • Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural by Nancy Etchemendy
  • Abu and the Seven Marvels by Richard Matheson and William Stout
Poetry Collection
Winner:  The Gossamer Eye by Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves, and David Niall Wilson
Nominees:
  • Night Smoke by Bruce Boston and Marge Simon
  • Guises (Poetry Section "Night Unmasked") by Charlee Jacob
  • This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding by Tom Piccirilli 

2001
[presented in 2002]

Novel
Winner:  American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Nominees:

  • From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury
  • The Lost by Jack Ketchum
  • Black House by Stephen King & Peter Straub
First Novel
Winner:  Deadliest of the Species by Michael Oliveri
Nominees:
  • Phantom Feast by Diana Barron
  • Skating on the Edge by d.g.k. goldberg
  • Riverwatch by Joe Nassise
Long Fiction
Winner:  In These Final Days of Sales by Steve Rasnic Tem
Nominees:
  • "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
Short Fiction
Winner:  "Reconstructing Amy" by Tim Lebbon
Nominees:
  • "I Am Your Need" by Mort Castle
  • "The Haunt" by Jack Ketchum
  • "Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" by David B. Silva
Fiction Collection
Winner:  The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists by Norman Partridge
Nominees:
  • The Dark Fantastic by Ed Gorman
  • As the Sun Goes Down by Tim Lebbon
  • The Whisperer and Other Voices by Brian Lumley
Anthology
Winner:  Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth edited by Brian A. Hopkins
Nominees:
  • Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas edited by Richard Chizmar
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourteenth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
  • The Best of Horrorfind edited by Brian Keene
Nonfiction
Winner:  Jobs in Hell edited by Brian Keene
Nominees:
  • If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
  • Personal Demons edited by Brian A. Hopkins & Garrett Peck
  • Hellnotes by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson


Illustrated Narrative
Winner:  no winner
Nominees:

  • "Freezes Over" (Hellblazer 158-161) by Brian Azzarello
  • "The First Adventures of Miss Catterina Poe" (The Dreaming 56) by Caitlin R. Kiernan
  • Desperadoes: Quiet of the Grave by Jeff Mariotte
  • "Quiver" (Green Arrow 1-10) by Kevin Smith
  • Weird Western Tales by Various Authors
Work for Young Readers
Winner:  The Willow Files 2 by Yvonne Navarro
Nominee:
  • Prowlers by Christopher Golden
Poetry Collection
Winner:  Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes by Linda Addison
Nominees:
  • White Space by Bruce Boston
  • What the Cacodaemon Whispered by Chad Hensley
  • Taunting the Minotaur by Charlee Jacob

2000
[presented in 2001]

Novel
Winner:  The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
Nominees:

  • The Indifference of Heaven by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • Silent Children by Ramsey Campbell
  • The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club by Brian A. Hopkins
  • The Deceased by Tom Piccirilli
First Novel
Winner:  The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club by Brian A. Hopkins
Nominees:
  • Nailed by the Heart by Simon Clark
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Run by Douglas E. Winter
Long Fiction
Winner:  The Man on the Ceiling by Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem
Nominees:
  • Riding the Bullet by Stephen King
  • "In Shock" by Joyce Carol Oates
  • "God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him" by Lawrence P. Santoro
Short Fiction
Winner:  "Gone" by Jack Ketchum
Nominees:
  • Dead Cat Bounce by Gerard Daniel Houarner
  • "Fallen Angel" by Robert J. Sawyer
  • "Mexican Moon" by Karen E. Taylor
Fiction Collection
Winner:  Magic Terror by Peter Straub
Nominees:
  • Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold by Charlee Jacob
  • Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • City Fishing by Steve Rasnic Tem
Anthology
Winner:  The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Nominees:
  • Brainbox: The Real Horror edited by Steve Eller
  • Extremes: Fantasy & Horror from the Ends of the Earth edited by Brian A. Hopkins
  • Bad News edited by Richard Laymon
Nonfiction
Winner:  On Writing by Stephen King
Nominees:
  • Hellnotes by David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson
  • At the Foot of the Story Tree by Bill Sheehan
  • Horror of the 20th Century by Robert Weinberg
Illustrated Narrative
Winner:  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (miniseries) by Alan Moore
Nominees:
  • "Red Romance" (Flinch 11) by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Cable 79-84 by Robert Weinberg
  • "Spuds" (Night Terrors #1) by Bernie Wrightson
Work for Young Readers
Winner:  The Power of Un by Nancy Etchemendy
Nominees:
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
  • Be Afraid! edited by Edo van Belkom
  • The Christmas Thingy by F. Paul Wilson
Poetry Collection
Winner:  A Student of Hell by Tom Piccirilli
Nominees:
  • Paratabloids by Michael A. Arnzen
  • The Complete Accursed Wives by Bruce Boston
  • Burial Plot in Sagittarius by Sandy DeLuca

1999
[presented in 2000]

Novel
Winner:  Mr. X by Peter Straub
Nominees:

  • Darker than Night by Owl Goingback
  • Hannibal by Thomas Harris
  • Low Men in Yellow Coats by Stephen King
  • Hexes by Tom Piccirilli
First Novel
Winner:  Wither by J.G. Passarella
Nominees:
  • Widow's Walk by Steve Beai
  • Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
  • King Rat by China Miéville
Long Fiction
Winners:  "Five Days in April" by Brian A. Hopkins and "Mad Dog Summer" by Joe R. Lansdale
Nominees:
  • "Dread in the Beast" by Charlee Jacob
  • Right to Life by Jack Ketchum
Short Fiction
Winner:  "Aftershock" by F. Paul Wilson
Nominees:
  • "The Grave" by P.D. Cacek
  • "The Entertainment" by Ramsey Campbell
  • "Halloween Street" by Steve Rasnic Tem
Fiction Collection
Winner:  The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg
Nominees:
  • Death Drives a Semi by Edo van Belkom
  • Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
  • Deep into that Darkness Peering by Tom Piccirilli
Anthology
Winner:  999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense edited by Al Sarrantonio
Nominees:
  • The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Twelfth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
  • The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 edited by Stephen Jones
  • The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique edited by John Pelan
Nonfiction
Winner:  DarkEcho edited by Paula Guran
Nominees:
  • The Essential Monster Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
  • Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography by Victoria Price
  • Hellnotes edited by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
Illustrated Narrative
Winner:  Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman
Nominees:
  • Jonah Hex: Shadows West #1 by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Hellboy: Box Full of Evil by Mike Mignola
  • Faust: Book of M by David Quinn
Work for Young Readers
Winner:  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by  J.K. Rowling
Nominees:
  • Something Lumber This Way Comes by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children by Angus Oblong

1998
[presented in 1999]

Novel
Winner:  Bag of Bones, by Stephen King
Nominees:

  • Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
  • Darker Angels by S.P. Somtow
  • Fog Heart by Thomas Tessier
First Novel
Winner:  Dawn Song by Michael Marano
Nominees:
  • Night Prayers by P.D. Cacek
  • This Symbiotic Fascination by Charlee Jacob
  • Silk by Caitlin R. Kiernan
Long Fiction
Winner:  "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" by Peter Straub
Nominees:
  • "Leavings" by P.D. Cacek
  • "As Above, So Below" by Brian Hodge
  • "What Would You Do for Love?" by John Shirley
Short Fiction
Winner:  "The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
Nominees:
  • "Blues-Born" by Tina L. Jens
  • "Autopsy Room Four" by Stephen King
  • "The Rug" by Edo van Belkom
Fiction Collection
Winner:  Black Butterflies by John Shirley
Nominees:
  • Leavings by P.D. Cacek
  • Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  • The Cleft and Other Odd Tales by Gahan Wilson
Anthology
Winner:  Horrors!: 365 Scary Stories by Stefan Dziemianowicz, ed., Martin H. Greenberg, ed. & Robert Weinberg, ed.
Nominees:
  • Robert Bloch's Psychos by Robert Bloch, ed.
  • Best of Cemetery Dance by Richard Chizmar, ed.
  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (11th Annual Collection) by Ellen Datlow, ed. & Terri Windling, ed.
Nonfiction
Winner:  DarkEcho Newsletter, Vol. 5, #1-50 by Paula Guran, ed.
Nominees:
  • Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond by Clive Bloom, ed.
  • The Science of the X-Files by Jeanne Cavelos
  • A Writer's Tale by Richard Laymon
Illustrated Narrative
Winner:  no winner
Nominees:
  • Sergio Aragones' Dia de las Muertos (Day of the Dead) by Sergio Aragones & Mark Evanier
  • Preacher by Garth Ennis
  • The Son of Man (Hellblazer #129 -- 133) by Garth Ennis
  • The Dreaming: Trial and Error by Len Wein
Work for Young Readers
Winner:  "Bigger than Death" by Nancy Etchemendy
Nominees:
  • The Dollhouse that Time Forgot (Eerie Indiana #11) by Mike Ford
  • The Angel Chronicles: A Novelization (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol. 1) by Nancy Holder
  • Hungry Ghosts: A Novelization (The X-Files No. 9) by Ellen Steiber

1997
[presented in 1998]

Novel
Winner:  Children of the Dusk by Janet Berliner & George Guthridge
Nominees:

  • The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns
  • My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
  • Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers
First Novel
Winner:  Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
Nominees:
  • The Art of Arrow Cutting by Stephen Dedman
  • Hungry Eyes by Barry Hoffman
  • Drawn to the Grave by Mary Ann Mitchell
  • The Inquisitor by Mary Murrey
Long Fiction
Winner:  "The Big Blow" by Joe R. Lansdale
Nominees:
  • "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
Short Fiction
Winner:  "Rat Food" by Edo van Belkom & David Nickle
Nominees:
  • "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" by Douglas Clegg
  • "A Plague on Both Your Houses" by Scott Edelman
  • "Madame Babylon" by Brian Hodge
Fiction Collection
Winner:  Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner
Nominees:
  • Things Left Behind by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton
  • Painted in Blood by Lucy Taylor
Nonfiction
Winner:  Dark Thoughts: On Writing by Stanley Wiater
Nominees:
  • The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John Clute & John Grant
  • The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes
  • Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror by Stephen Jones
  • Video Watchdog by Tim Lucas, ed.
  • Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography by Katherine Ramsland

1996
[presented in 1997]

Novel
Winner:  The Green Mile by Stephen King
Nominees:

  • Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
  • Crota by Owl Goingback
  • The Hellfire Club by Peter Straub
First Novel
Winner:  Crota by Owl Goingback
Nominees:
  • Flute Song by Donald Burleson
  • Horror Show by Greg Kihn
  • Dead Heat by Del Stone
Long Fiction
Winner:  "The Red Tower" by Thomas Ligotti
Nominees:
  • "Kilroy Was Here" by Jack Cady
  • "The Thing from Lover's Lane" by Nancy Collins
  • "Brimstone and Salt" by S.P. Somtow
Short Fiction
Winner:  "Metalica" by P.D. Cacek
Nominees:
  • "The Slobbering Tongue That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman" by Robert Devereaux
  • "The Secret Shih Tan" by Graham Masterton
  • "The House of Mourning" by Brian Stableford
  • "Plan 10 from Inner Space" by Karl Edward Wagner
Fiction Collection
Winner:  The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti
Nominees:
  • The Convulsion Factory by Brian Hodge
  • Shadow Dreams by Elizabeth Massie
  • With Wounds Still Wet by Wayne Allen Sallee
  • The Pavilion of Frozen Women by S.P. Somtow
Nonfiction
Winner:  H.P. Lovecraft: A Life by S.T. Joshi
Nominees:
  • Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula by Barbara Belford
  • The Great Pulp Heroes by Don Hutchison
  • The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
  • V is for Vampire, by David Skal

1995
[presented in 1996]

Novel
Winner:  Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
Nominees:

  • Widow by Billie Sue Mosiman
  • Deadrush by Yvonne Navarro
  • Bone Music by Alan Rodgers
First Novel
Winner:  The Safety of Unknown Cities by Lucy Taylor
Nominees:
  • Diary of a Vampire by Gary Bowen
  • The Between by Tananarive Due
  • Madeleine's Ghost by Robert Girardi
  • Wyrm Wolf by Edo van Belkom
Long Fiction
Winner:  "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" by Stephen King
Nominees:
  • "Baby Girl Diamond" by Adam-Troy Castro
  • "Looking for Mr Flip" by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • "Lover Doll" by Wayne Allen Sallee
Short Fiction
Winner:  "Chatting With Anubis" by Harlan Ellison
Nominees:
  • "Becky Lives" by Harry Crews
  • "The Bungalow House" by Thomas Ligotti
  • "The Death of the Novel" by William Browning Spencer
Fiction Collection
Winner:  The Panic Hand by Jonathan Carroll
Nominees:
  • Cages by Ed Gorman
  • The Black Carousel by Charles Grant
Nonfiction
Winner:  The Supernatural Index by Michael Ashley & William Contento
Nominees:
  • Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller by Janet Leigh & Christopher Nickens
  • An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural by James Randi
  • Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 by Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs

1994
[presented in 1995]

Novel
Winner:  Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
Nominees:

  • The Alienist by Caleb Carr
  • From the Teeth of Angels by Jonathan Carroll
  • Insomnia by Stephen King
  • The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
First Novel
Winner:  Grave Markings by Michael A. Arnzen
Nominees:
  • The Black Mariah by Jay Bonansinga
  • Deadweight by Robert Devereaux
  • Near Death by Nancy Kilpatrick
Long Fiction
Winner:  "The Scent of Vinegar," by Robert Bloch
Nominees:
  • "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 Trotter
Short Fiction
Winners:  "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" by Nancy Holder and "The Box" by Jack Ketchum
Nominees:
  • "Mr. Torso" by Edward Lee
  • "Things of Which We Do Not Speak" by Lucy Taylor
Fiction Collection
Winner:  The Early Fears by Robert Bloch
Nominees:
  • Writer of the Purple Rage by Joe R. Lansdale
  • The Flesh Artist by Lucy Taylor
  • Born Bad by Andrew Vachss

1993
[presented in 1994]

Novel
Winner:  The Throat by Peter Straub
Nominees:

  • Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
  • Blackburn by Bradley Denton
  • Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
  • The Summoning by Bentley Little
First Novel
Winner:  The Thread that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nominees:
  • Afterage by Yvonne Navarro
  • Created By by Richard Christian Matheson
  • Suckers by Anne Billson
  • Wet Work by Philip Nutman
Novella
Winners:  "Mefisto in Onyx" by Harlan Ellison and "The Night We Buried Road Dog" by Jack Cady
Nominees:
  • "Caroline and Caleb" by Richard Gilliam
  • "Flashback" by Dan Simmons
Novelet
Winner:  "Death in Bangkok" by Dan Simmons
Nominees:
  • "Colour" by Michael Moorcock
  • "Darker Angels" by S.P. Somtow
  • "Death on the Nile" by Connie Willis
Short Fiction
Winner:  "I Hear the Mermaids Singing" by Nancy Holder
Nominees:
  • "Death Fiend Guerrillas" by William S. Burroughs
  • "Distances" by Sherman Alexie
  • "The Dog Park" by Dennis Etchison
  • "Pain Grin" by Wayne Allen Sallee
Fiction Collection
Winner:  Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
Nominees:
  • Close to the Bone by Lucy Taylor
  • A Good and Secret Place by Richard Laymon
  • Lovedeath by Dan Simmons
  • Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King
Nonfiction
Winner:  Once Around the Bloch by Robert Bloch
Nominees:
  • The Diary of Jack the Ripper by Shirley Harrison & Michael Barrett
  • The Monster Show by David J. Skal

1992
[presented in 1993]

Novel
Winner:  Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone
Nominees:

  • Homecoming by Matthew Costello
  • Deathgrip by Brian Hodge
  • Hideaway by Dean R. Koontz
  • Children of the Night by Dan Simmons
First Novel
Winner:  Sineater by Elizabeth Massie
Nominees:
  • Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
  • Beauty by Brian D'Amato
  • Less Than Human by Gary Raisor
  • The Holy Terror by Wayne Allen Sallee
Long Fiction
Winners:  "Aliens: Tribes" by Stephen Bissette and "The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance" by Joe R. Lansdale
Nominees:
  • "Nothing Will Hurt You"" by David Morrell
  • "The Shrine" by David Morrell
  • "For You, the Living" by Wayne Allen Sallee
Short Fiction
Winner:  "This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons
Nominees:
  • "Farm Wife" by Nancy Kilpatrick
  • "Did They Get You to Trade?" by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "Come One, Come All" by Gahan Wilson
  • "Bright Lights, Big Zombie" by Douglas E. Winter
Fiction Collection
Winner:  Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge
Nominees:
  • Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom
  • Fantastic Tales by I.U. Tarchetti
  • Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover
Nonfiction
Winner:  Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film by Christopher Golden
Nominees:
  • Young Adult Horror Fiction by Cosette Kies
  • Scare Tactics by John Russo
  • Dark Visions by Stanley Wiater

1991
[presented in 1992]

Novel
Winner:  Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
Nominees:

  • The M.D. by Thomas M. Disch 
  • Needful Things by Stephen King 
  • Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands by Stephen King
  • Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
First Novel
Winners:  The Cipher by Kathe Koja and Prodigal by Melanie Tem
Nominees:
  • Winter Scream by Chris Curry & L. Dean James 
  • Wilderness by Dennis Danvers 
  • Unearthed by Ashley McConnell 
Long Fiction
Winner:  "The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves" by David Morrell
Nominees:
  • "Fetish" by Edward Bryant 
  • "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint 
  • "Advocates" by Suzy McKee Charnas & Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 
  • "Magpie" by Stephen Gallagher
Short Fiction
Winner:  "Lady Madonna" by Nancy Holder
Nominees:
  • "The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire" by Poppy Z. Brite
  • "Love Doll: A Fable" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "The Braille Encyclopaedia," by Grant Morrison
  • "Wolf Winter" by Maxine O'Callaghan 
  • "Richard's Head" by Al Sarrantonio
Fiction Collection
Winner:  Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
Nominees:
  • Waking Nightmares by Ramsey Campbell 
  • Sex Punks and Savage Sagas by Richard Sutphen 
  • Naked Flesh of Feeling, by J.N. Williamson
Nonfiction
Winner:  Clive Barker's Shadows of Eden by Stephen Jones
Nominees:
  • Vampires Among Us by Rosemary Ellen Guillen 
  • Prism of Night: A Biography of Anne Rice by Katherine Ramsland 
  • The Shape Under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia by Stephen J. Spignesi

1990
[presented in 1991]

Novel
Winner:  Mine by Robert R. McCammon
Nominees:

  • Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Funland by Richard Laymon 
  • Reign by Chet Williamson
First Novel
Winner:  The Revelation by Bentley Little
Nominees:
  • Nightblood by T. Chris Martindale 
  • Dark Father by Tom Piccirilli 
  • Blood of the Children by Alan Rodgers
Long Fiction
Winner:  "Stephen" by Elizabeth Massie
Nominees:
  • "Bestseller" by Michael Blumlein
  • "The Langoliers" by Stephen King
  • "Entropy's Bed at Midnight" by Dan Simmons
  • "Pelts" by F. Paul Wilson
Short Fiction
Winner:  "The Calling" by David B. Silva
Nominees:
  • "The Loneliest Number" by Edward Bryant 
  • "Back Windows" by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • "But You'll Never Follow Me" by Karl Edward Wagner 
  • "From the Papers of Helmut Hecher" by Chet Williamson
Fiction Collection
Winner:  Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
Nominees:
  • The Brains of Rats by Michael Blumlein
  • Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons 
  • Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub
Nonfiction
Winner:  Dark Dreamers by Stanley Wiater
Nominees:
  • Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide by Neil Barron
  • Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs 
  • The Weird Tale by S.T. Joshi 
  • Hollywood Gothic by David J. Skal 

1989
[presented in 1990]

Novel
Winner:  Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
Nominees:

  • Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
  • In A Dark Dream by Charles L. Grant 
  • Midnight by Dean R. Koontz 
  • The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon 
First Novel
Winner:  Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins
Nominees:
  • Goat Dance by Douglas Clegg 
  • The Dwelling by Tom Elliott
  • The Lilith Factor by Jean Paiva
  • Laying the Music to Rest by Dean Wesley Smith
Long Fiction
Winner:  "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks" by Joe R. Lansdale
Nominees:
  • "Phantom" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • "At First Just Ghostly" by Karl Edward Wagner 
  • "The Confessions of St. James" by Chet Williamson
Short Fiction
Winner:  "Eat Me" by Robert R. McCammon
Nominees:
  • "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" by Edward Bryant 
  • "Each Night, Each Year" by Kathryn Ptacek
  • "Bodies and Heads" by Steve Rasnic Tem 
  • "Yore Skin's Jes' So Soft 'n Purdy,' He Said" by Chet Williamson
Fiction Collection
Winner:  Collected Stories by Richard Matheson
Nominees:
  • Patterns by Pat Cadigan 
  • By Bizarre Hands by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Blue World by Robert R. McCammon
  • Soft and Others by F. Paul Wilson
Nonfiction
Winners:  Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison, and  Horror: The 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
Nominees:
  • H.P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon 
  • American Vampires: Fans, Victims, Practitioners by Norine Dresser 
  • Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide to Literature and Film by Leonard Wolf

1988
[presented in 1989]

Novel
Winner:  The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Nominees:

  • The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale 
  • Flesh by Richard Laymon 
  • Stinger by Robert R. McCammon
  • Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
  • Black Wind by F. Paul Wilson
First Novel
Winner:  The Suiting by Kelley Wilde
Nominees:
  • Resurrection, Inc. by Kevin J. Anderson 
  • Fear Book by John L. Byrne 
  • Deliver Us from Evil by Alan Lee Harris
  • Cities of the Dead by Michael Paine 
  • Demon Night by J. Michael Straczynski 
Long Fiction
Winner:  "Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity" by David Morrell
Nominees:
  • "The Function of Dream Sleep" by Harlan Ellison 
  • "Horrorshow" by John Farris 
  • "The Night Flier" by Stephen King 
  • "The Skin Trade" by George R.R. Martin 
  • "The Juniper Tree" by Peter Straub
Short Fiction
Winner:  "The Night They Missed the Horror Show" by Joe R. Lansdale
Nominees:
  • "The Thing at the Top of the Stairs" by Ray Bradbury 
  • "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Nobody Lives There Now" by Carol Orlock 
  • "Jack's Decline" by Lucius Shepard 
  • "The Music of the Dark Time" by Chet Williamson
Fiction Collection
Winner:  Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont
Nominees:
  • The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury 
  • Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison 
  • The Blood Kiss by Dennis Etchison 
  • Scare Tactics by John Farris 
  • Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick McGrath

1987
[presented in 1988]

Novel
Winners:  Misery by Stephen King and  Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
Nominees:

  • Live Girls by Ray Garton 
  • Unassigned Territory by Kem Nunn 
  • Ash Wednesday by Chet Williamson
First Novel
Winner:  The Manse by Lisa Cantrell
Nominees:
  • The Damnation Game by Clive Barker 
  • Slob by Rex Miller 
  • The Harvest Bride by Tony Richards 
  • Excavation by Steve Rasnic Tem
Long Fiction
Winners:  "The Pear-Shaped Man" by George R.R. Martin and "The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead" by Alan Rodgers
Nominees:
  • "Pamela's Get" by David J. Schow 
  • "Resurrec Tech" by S.P. Somtow
Short Fiction
Winner:  "The Deep End" by Robert R. McCammon
Nominees:
  • "Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll 
  • "This Old Man" by Charles L. Grant 
  • "Dat-Tay-Vao" by F. Paul Wilson 
  • "Traps" by F. Paul Wilson
Fiction Collection
Winner:  The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
Nominees:
  • Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch 
  • Scared Stiff by Ramsey Campbell 
  • Why Not You and I? by Karl Edward Wagner 
  • All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past by Howard Waldrop
Nonfiction
Winner:  Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark
Nominees:
  • Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs 
  • The Zombies that Ate Pittsburgh by Paul A. Gagne 

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