Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction
Literary award
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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
Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | George R. R. Martin | The Pear-Shaped Man | Winner | [2] |
| Alan Rodgers | The Boy Who Came Back From The Dead | |||
| David J. Schow | Pamela's Get | Finalist | [2] | |
| S. P. Somtow | Resurrec Tech | |||
| 1988 | David Morrell | Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity | Winner | [3] |
| Harlan Ellison | The Function of Dream Sleep | Finalist | [3] | |
| John Farris | Horrorshow | |||
| Stephen King | The Night Flier | |||
| George R. R. Martin | The Skin Trade | |||
| Peter Straub | The Juniper Tree | |||
| 1989 | Joe R. Lansdale | On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks | Winner | [4] |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Phantom | Finalist | [4] | |
| Karl Edward Wagner | At First Just Ghostly | |||
| Chet Williamson | The Confessions of St. James | |||
| 1990 | Elizabeth Massie | Stephen | Winner | [5] |
| Michael Blumleim | Bestseller | Finalist | [5] | |
| Stephen King | The Langoliers | |||
| Dan Simmons | Entropy's Bed at Midnight | |||
| F. Paul Wilson | Pelts | |||
| 1991 | David Morrell | The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves | Winner | [6] |
| Edward Bryant | Fetish | Finalist | [6] | |
| Suzy McKee Charnas and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro | Advocates | |||
| Stephen Gallagher | Magpie | |||
| Charles de Lint | Death Leaves an Echo | |||
| 1992 | Stephen Bissette | Alien: Tribes | Winner | [7] |
| Joe R. Lansdale | The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance | |||
| David Morrell | Nothing Will Hurt You | Finalist | [7] | |
| David Morrell | The Shrine | |||
| Wayne Allen Sallee | For You, the Living | |||
| 1993 (Novelette)[a] | Dan Simmons | Death in Bangkok | Winner | [8] |
| Michael Moorcock | Colour | Finalist | [8] | |
| S. P. Somtow | Darker Angels | |||
| Connie Willis | Death on the Nile | |||
| 1993 (Novella) | Jack Cady | The Night We Buried Road Dog | Winner | [8] |
| Harlan Ellison | Mefisto in Onyx | |||
| Dan Simmons | Flashback | Finalist | [8] | |
| Richard Gilliam | Caroline and Caleb | |||
| 1994 | Robert Bloch | The Scent of Vinegar | Winner | [9] |
| Charles L. Grant | Sometimes, in the Rain | Finalist | [9] | |
| Brian Hodge | The Alchemy of the Throat | |||
| Joe R. Lansdale | Bubba Ho-tep | |||
| William R. Trotter | The Siren of Swan Quarter | |||
| 1995 | Stephen King | Lunch at the Gotham Cafe | Winner | [10] |
| Adam-Troy Castro | Baby Girl Diamond | Finalist | [10] | |
| Thomas F. Monteleone | Looking for Mr. Flip | |||
| Wayne Allen Sallee | Lover Doll | |||
| 1996 | Thomas Ligotti | The Red Tower | Winner | [11] |
| Jack Cady | Kilroy Was Here | Finalist | [11] | |
| Nancy Collins | The Thing from Lover's Lane | |||
| S. P. Somtow | Brimstone and Salt | |||
| 1997 | Joe R. Lansdale | The Big Blow | Winner | [12] |
| Ramsey Campbell | The Word | Finalist | [12] | |
| Stephen King | Everything's Eventual | |||
| Kim Newman | Coppola's Dracula | |||
| Douglas E. Winter | The Zombies of Madison County | |||
| 1998 | Peter Straub | Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff | Winner | [13] |
| P. D. Cacek | Leavings | Finalist | [13] | |
| Brian Hodge | As Above, So Below | |||
| John Shirley | What Would You Do For Love? | |||
| 1999 | Brian A. Hopkins | Five Days in April | Winner | [14] |
| Joe R. Lansdale | Mad Dog Summer | |||
| Charlee Jacob | Dread in the Beast | Finalist | [14] | |
| Jack Ketchum | Right to Life | |||
| 2000 | Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem | The Man on the Ceiling | Winner | [15] |
| Stephen King | Riding the Bullet | Finalist | [15] | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | In Shock | |||
| Lawrence P. Santoto | God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him | |||
| 2001 | Steve Rasnic Tem | In These Final Days of Sales | Winner | [16] |
| Harlan Ellison | From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet | Finalist | [16] | |
| Nancy Etchemendy | Demolition | |||
| Brian Keene | Earthworm Gods | |||
| Nick Mamatas | Northern Gothic | |||
| 2002 | Brian A. Hopkins | El Dia de Los Muertos | Winner | [17] |
| Thomas Ligotti | My Work is Not Yet Done | |||
| Paul Finch | Cape Wrath | Finalist | [17] | |
| Neil Gaiman | Coraline | |||
| David B. Silva | The Origin | |||
| 2003 | Jack Ketchum | Closing Time | Winner | [18] |
| Douglas Clegg | The Necromancer | Finalist | [18] | |
| Tom Piccirilli | Fuckin' Lie Down Already | |||
| Lucius Shepard | Louisiana Breakdown | |||
| David Niall Wilson | Roll Them Bones | |||
| 2004 | Kealan Patrick Burke | The Turtle Boy | Winner | [19] |
| Andy Duncan | Zora and the Zombie | Finalist | [19] | |
| Stephen King | Lisey and the Madman | |||
| Tim Lebbon | Dead Man's Hand | |||
| Barbara Roden | Northwest Passage | |||
| 2005 | Joe Hill | Best New Horror | Winner | [20] |
| Gary A. Braunbeck | In the Midnight Museum | Finalist | [20] | |
| Stephen King | The Things They Left Behind | |||
| Kelly Link | Some Zombie Contingency Plans | |||
| 2006 | Norman Partridge | Dark Harvest | Winner | [21] |
| Laird Barron | Hallucigenia | Finalist | [21] | |
| Fran Friel | Mama's Boy | |||
| Christopher Golden and James A. Moore | Bloodstained Oz | |||
| Kim Newman | Clubland Heroes | |||
| 2007 | Gary Braunbeck | Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway | Winner | [22] |
| Scott Edelman | Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man | Finalist | [22] | |
| Nicholas Kaufmann | General Slocum's Gold | |||
| William Browning Spencer | The Tenth Muse | |||
| Lee Thomas | An Apiary of White Bees | |||
| 2008 | John R. Little | Miranda | Winner | [23] |
| Adam-Troy Castro | The Shallow End of the Pool | Finalist | [23] | |
| Gene O'Neill | The Confessions of St. Zach | |||
| Weston Ochse | Redemption Roadshow | |||
| 2009 | Lisa Morton | The Lucid Dreaming | Winner | [24] |
| Mort Castle | Dreaming Robot Monster | Finalist | [24] | |
| Scott Edelman | The Hunger of Empty Vessels | |||
| Gene O'Neill | Doc Good's Traveling Show | |||
| 2010 | Norman Prentiss | Invisible Fences | Winner | [25] |
| Brian James Freeman | The Painted Darkness | Finalist | [25] | |
| Lisa Mannetti | Dissolution | |||
| Kirstyn McDermott | Monsters Among Us | |||
| Lisa Morton | The Samhanach | |||
| 2011 | Peter Straub | The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine | Winner | [26][27][28][29] |
| Michael Louis Calvillo | 7 Brains | Finalist | [26][27][28] | |
| Brian Hodge | Roots and All | |||
| Caitlin R. Kiernan | The Colliers' Venus (1893) | |||
| John R. Little | Ursa Major | |||
| Gene O'Neill | Rusting Chickens | |||
| 2012 | Gene O'Neill | The Blue Heron | Winner | [30][31][32] |
| Kealan Patrick Burke | Thirty Miles South of Dry County | Finalist | [30][31][32] | |
| Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee | I'm Not Sam | |||
| Joe McKinney and Michael McCarty | Lost Girl of the Lake | |||
| Norman Prentiss | The Fleshless Man | |||
| 2013 | Gary Braunbeck | The Great Pity | Winner | [33][34] |
| Dale Bailey | The Bluehole | Finalist | [33][34] | |
| Benjamin K. Ethridge | The Slaughter Man | |||
| Gregory Frost | No Others Are Genuine | |||
| Greg F. Gifune | House of Rain | |||
| Rena Mason | East End Girls | |||
| 2014 | Joe R. Lansdale | Fishing for Dinosaurs | Winner | [35][36][37] |
| Taylor Grant | The Infected | Finalist | [35][36][37] | |
| Eric J. Guignard | Dreams of a Little Suicide | |||
| Jonathan Maberry | Three Guys Walk into a Bar | |||
| Joe McKinney | Lost and Found | |||
| 2015 | Mercedes M. Yardley | Little Dead Red | Winner | [38][39] |
| Gary A. Braunbeck | Paper Cuts | Finalist | [38][39] | |
| Scott Edelman | Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen | |||
| Lisa Mannetti | The Box Jumper | |||
| Norman Partridge | Special Collections | |||
| 2016 | Tim Waggoner | The Winter Box | Winner | [40] |
| Nicole Cushing | The Sadist's Bible | Finalist | [40] | |
| Scott Edelman | That Perilous Stuff | |||
| Victor LaValle | The Ballad of Black Tom | |||
| Josh Malerman | The Jupiter Drop | |||
| 2017 | Stephen Graham Jones | Mapping the Interior | Winner | [41][42][43][44][45] |
| Scott Edelman | Faking it Until Forever Comes | Finalist | [46][47][48][49][50] | |
| Caitlin R. Kiernan | Agents of Dreamland | |||
| Lucy Taylor | Sweetlings | |||
| Tim Waggoner | A Kiss of Thorns | |||
| 2018 | Rena Mason | The Devil's Throat | Winner | [51][52][53][54] |
| Michael Bailey | Our Children, Our Teachers | Finalist | [51][52][53][54] | |
| Joe Hill | You Are Released | |||
| Usman T. Malik | Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung | |||
| Angela Yuriko Smith | Bitter Suites | |||
| 2019 | Victor LaValle | Up from Slavery | Winner | [55][56][57] |
| Alessandro Manzetti | The Keeper of Chernobyl | Finalist | [55][56][57] | |
| Anna Taborska | The Cat Sitter | |||
| Sara Tantlinger | To Be Devoured | |||
| Kaaron Warren | Into Bones Like Oil | |||
| 2020 | Stephen Graham Jones | Night of the Mannequins | Winner | [58][59][60][61] |
| Gabino Iglesias | Beyond the Reef | Finalist | [58][59][60][61] | |
| Gwendolyn Kiste | The Invention of Ghosts | |||
| Jess Landry | I Will Find You, Even in the Dark | |||
| Sarah Pinsker | Two Truths and a Lie | |||
| 2021 | Jeff Strand | Twentieth Anniversary Screening | Winner | [62][63][64][65] |
| V. Castro | Goddess of Filth | Finalist | [62][63][64][65] | |
| Cassandra Khaw | Nothing But Blackened Teeth | |||
| Eric LaRocca | Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke | |||
| Hailey Piper | Recitation of the First Feeding | |||
| 2022 | Alma Katsu | The Wehrwolf | Winner | [66] |
| Rebecca J. Allred and Gordon B. White | And in Her Smile, the World | Finalist | [67][68] | |
| Christa Carmen | Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell | |||
| Laurel Hightower | Below | |||
| EV Knight | Three Days in the Pink Tower | |||
| 2023 | Ai Jiang | Linghun | Winner | [69] |
| Tananarive Due | Rumpus Room | Finalist | [69] | |
| Cassandra Khaw | The Salt Grows Heavy | |||
| J.A.W. McCarthy | Sleep Alone | |||
| Lee Murray | Despatches | |||
| 2024 | ||||
| Sofia Ajram | Coup de Grâce | Winner | [70] | |
| Nat Cassidy | Rest Stop | Nominee | [70] | |
| Clay McLeod Chapman | Kill Your Darling | |||
| Eric LaRocca | All The Parts of You That Won’t Easily Burn | |||
| Eden Royce | Hollow Tongue | |||
| 2025 | Nathan Ballingrud | Cathedral of the Drowned | Co-Winners | [71] |
| A.C. Wise | “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon” | |||
| Sarah Langan | Squid Teeth | Finalist | [72] | |
| Sarah Langan | Pam Kowolski is a Monster! | |||
| Thomas Ha | Uncertain Sons |
Notes
- In 1993, the category was split into "best novella" and "best novelette", a distinction that was eliminated a year later.