Winners and nominees

• 1987: The Manse by Lisa Cantrell
  • The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
    Clive Barker
    Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
    
    
  • Slob by Rex Miller
    Rex Miller
    Rex Miller, born Rex Miller Spangberg, wrote novels detailing the investigations of Jack Eichord, a fictional homicide detective who specialized in tracking down serial killers. Slob, the first novel of the series, introduced Daniel Bunkowski, a half-ton killing-machine serial murderer...
    
    
  • The Harvest Bride by Tony Richards
    Tony Richards
    Tony Richards born Anthony Richard Orlando. He is an American musician and drummer. He was the original drummer from the Heavy Metal band W.A.S.P. 1982-1984....
    
    
  • Excavation by Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem
    Steve Rasnic Tem was born in Jonesville, Virginia, which is in the heart of Appalachia. He went to college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and also at Virginia Commonwealth University. He got a B.A. in English education. In 1974, he moved to Colorado and studied creative...
    
    
• 1988: The Suiting by Kelley Wilde
  • Cities of the Dead by Michael Paine
  • Resurrection, Inc. by Kevin J. Anderson
    Kevin J. Anderson
    Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels...
    
    
  • Deliver Us From Evil by Allen Lee Harris
  • Demon Night by J. Michael Straczynski
    J. Michael Straczynski
    Joseph Michael Straczynski , known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer. He works in films, television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is a playwright, a former journalist,...
    
    
  • Fear Book by John L. Byrne
• 1989: Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins
  Nancy A. Collins
  Nancy A. Collins is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has alsowritten for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs...
  
  
  • The Dwelling by Tom Elliott (JW Paine)
  • Goat Dance by Douglas Clegg
    Douglas Clegg
    Douglas Clegg is a horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing. He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website and LiveJournal.-Biography:...
    
    
  • Laying The Music To Rest by Dean Wesley Smith
    Dean Wesley Smith
    Dean Wesley Smith is a science fiction author, known primarily for his Star Trek novels, movie novelizations, and other novels of licensed properties such as Smallville, Spider-Man, X-Men, Aliens, Roswell, Men in Black, and Quantum Leap...
    
    
  • The Lilith Factor by Jean Paiva
• 1990: The Revelation
  The Revelation (1990 book)
  The Revelation is horror author Bentley Little's first published novel. It was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for best novel by a new author in 1990.-Plot:...
  
  by Bentley Little
  Bentley Little
  Bentley Little is an American author of horror novels.-Personal history:Little's first novel, The Revelation, was published with St...
  
  
  • Blood of the Children by Alan Rodgers
    Alan Rodgers
    Alan Rodgers is a science fiction and horror writer, editor, and poet. In the mid-eighties he was the editor for Night Cry. His short stories have been published in a number of venues, including Weird Tales, Twilight Zone and a number of anthologies, such as Darker Masques, Prom Night, and...
    
    
  • Dark Father by Tom Piccirilli
  • Nightblood by T. Chris Martindale
• 1991: The Cipher by Kathe Koja
  Kathe Koja
  Kathe Koja is an American writer. She was initially known for her intense speculative fiction for adults, but over the past few years has turned to writing young adult novels....
  
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• 1991: Prodigal by Melanie Tem
  Melanie Tem
  Melanie Tem is an American Horror/Dark fantasy author. She is married to author Steve Rasnic Tem. The couple have three kids and live in a large house in Colorado.-Novels:* Prodigal * Blood Moon * Wilding...
  
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  • Winter Scream by Chris Curry
    Tamara Thorne
    Tamara Thorne , who also writes under the nom de plume "Chris Curry", is an American horror writer born in Los Angeles, California. Her novel Winter Scream, co-authored with L...
    
     & L. Dean James
    L. Dean James
    L. Dean James is an American fantasy and horror writer. Her novel Winter Scream, co-authored with Chris Curry, was nominated for the 1991 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.-Novels:*Sorcerer's Stone...
    
    
  • Wilderness by Dennis Danvers
    Dennis Danvers
    Dennis Danvers is an American author of science fiction novels. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia. He is the president of the Byrd Park Civic League.-Novels:...
    
    
  • Unearthed by Ashley McConnell
    Ashley McConnell
    Ashley McConnell is an American author. Her first novel, Unearthed, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers of America...
    
    
• 1992: Sineater by Elizabeth Massie
  Elizabeth Massie
  Elizabeth Massie is an American author.Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She won her awards for Sineater and Stephen. She has also written historical fiction for young adults....
  
  
  • Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
    Poppy Z. Brite
    Poppy Z. Brite is an American author. Brite initially achieved notoriety in the gothic horror genre of literature in the early 1990s after publishing a string of successful novels and short story collections...
    
    
  • Beauty by Brian D'Amato
    Brian D'Amato
    Brian D'Amato is an American author and sculptor. He received a BA from Yale University and an MA from the City University of New York.In the 1990s, D’Amato showed sculptures and installations at galleries and museums including the Whitney Museum, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the New Museum...
    
    
  • Less Than Human by Gary Raisor
    Gary Raisor
    Gary Raisor is an American horror author best known for the novels Less Than Human, Graven Images, Sinister Purposes, and his extensive short fiction work. His novels garnered great reviews and sold-out print-runs...
    
    
  • The Holy Terror by Wayne Allen Salee
• 1993: The Thread that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  Nina Kiriki Hoffman is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer.-Profile:Hoffman started publishing short stories in 1975. Her first nationally published short story appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in 1983...
  
  
  • Afterage by Yvonne Navarro
    Yvonne Navarro
    Yvonne Navarro is an American author who has published over twenty books. Of those twenty, the titles AfterAge, deadrush, Final Impact, Red Shadows, DeadTimes, That's Not My Name and Mirror Me were solo novels, or fiction created solely by her...
    
    
  • Created By from Richard Christian Matheson
    Richard Christian Matheson
    Richard Christian Matheson is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of the short story collections Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks and Dystopia; the novel Created By; and the screenplay for the Showtime Masters of Horror installments Dance of the Dead and...
    
    
  • Suckers by Anne Billson
  • Wet Work by Philip Nutman
• 1994: Grave Markings by Michael Arnzen
  Michael Arnzen
  Michael A. Arnzen is a horror author and writer of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, Grave Markings . He won his second Bram Stoker Award for his newsletter and his third for his poetry collection, Freakcidents....
  
  
  • The Black Mariah by Jay R. Bonansinga
  • Deadweight by Robert Devereaux
  • Near Death by Nancy Kilpatrick
• 1995: The Safety of Unknown Cities by Lucy Taylor
  Lucy Taylor
  Lucy Taylor is a horror novel writer. Her novel, The Safety of Unknown Cities was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel in 1995, and the Deathrealm Award for Best Novel in 1996...
  
  
  • Diary of a Vampire by Gary Bowen
  • The Between by Tananarive Due
    Tananarive Due
    Tananarive Due is an American author.-Biography:Tananarive Priscilla Due was born in Tallahassee, Florida, the oldest of three daughters of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights lawyer John D. Due Jr...
    
    
  • Madeleine's Ghost by Robert Girardi
    Robert Girardi
    Robert Girardi is an American author, writing on the themes of mystery or detective fiction, and religion, like an American Graham Greene, and loser narrator, like Sam Lipsyte....
    
    
  • Wyrm Wolf by Edo van Belkom
    Edo van Belkom
    Edo van Belkom is a Canadian author of horror fiction.Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the author of the novels Wyrm Wolf, Teeth, Martyrs, Scream Queen, Army of the Dead, and Wolf Pack, and the Dragonlance setting novel Lord Soth , amongst others...
    
    
• 1996: Crota by Owl Goingback
  Owl Goingback
  Owl Goingback is an American author of horror and children's books, a fiction ghostwriter, and a writer of non-fiction.-Works:Having served as a jet engine mechanic in the Air Force, and the former owner of a restaurant and lounge, Owl Goingback became a full time writer in 1987. He has written...
  
  
  • Flute Song by Donald R. Burleson
  • Horror Show by Greg Kihn
    Greg Kihn
    Greg Kihn is an American rock musician, radio personality and novelist.-Music:Kihn is the front man for The Greg Kihn Band, which released several singles and albums that made the charts in the early 1980s...
    
    
  • Dead Heat by Del Stone
• 1997: Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
  Kirsten Bakis
  -Life:Bakis was raised in Westchester County, New York, and graduated from New York University in 1990. She is a recipient of a Teaching/Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, a grant from the Michener/Copernicus Society of America....
  
  
  • The Art of Arrow Cutting by Stephen Dedman
    Stephen Dedman
    Stephen Dedman is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels.-Biography:...
    
    
  • Hungry Eyes by Barry Hoffman
  • Drawn to the Grave by Mary Ann Mitchell
  • The Inquisitor by Mary Murrey
• 1998: Dawn Song by Michael Marano
  • Night Prayers by P.D. Cacek
  • This Symbiotic Fascination by Charlee Jacob
    Charlee Jacob
    Charlee Jacob is an American author specializing in horror fiction, dark fantasy, and poetry. Her writing career began in 1981 with the publication of several poems under the name Charlee Carter Broach...
    
    
  • Silk by Caitlin R. Kiernan
    Caitlin R. Kiernan
    Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is the author of many science fiction and dark fantasy works, including seven novels, many comic books, more than one hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes, and numerous scientific papers.- Overview :Born in Dublin, Ireland, she moved to the United States...
    
    
• 1999: Wither by J.G. Passarella
  • Widow's Walk by Steve Beai
  • Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
    John Connolly (author)
    John Connolly is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker.-Life and works:...
    
    
  • King Rat
    King Rat (1998 novel)
    King Rat is the debut novel by China Miéville. Unlike his Bas-Lag novels, it is not a New Weird story but an Urban Fantasy, set in London during the late 1990's. It follows the life of Saul Garamond after the death of his father and his meeting with King Rat...
    
    by China Miéville
    China Miéville
    China Tom Miéville is an award-winning English fantasy fiction writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" , and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party...
    
    
• 2000: The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club by Brian A. Hopkins
  • Nailed by the Heart by Simon Clark
    Simon Clark
    Simon Clark is a horror novel writer from Doncaster, England. One of his most notable works is the novel The Night of the Triffids.Clark has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, World Fantasy Award for Best Novella and British Fantasy Award...
    
    
  • House of Leaves
    House of Leaves
    House of Leaves is the debut novel by the American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published by Pantheon Books. The novel quickly became a bestseller following its March 7, 2000 release. It was followed by a companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters...
    
    by Mark Z. Danielewski
    Mark Z. Danielewski
    Mark Z. Danielewski, born March 5, 1966 in New York City, New York, is an American author, best known for his debut novel House of Leaves...
    
    
  • Run by Douglas E. Winter
• 2001: Deadliest of the Species by Michael Oliveri
  Michael Oliveri
  Michael Oliveri is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Deadliest of the Species. His work has appeared in several anthologies and magazines including A Walk on the Darkside, New Dark Voices, The Best of Horrorfind, and the upcoming In Laymon’s Terms. He is one of the collaborators on the...
  
  
  • Phantom Feast by Diana Barron
  • Skating on the Edge by d.g.k. goldberg
  • Riverwatch by Joe Nassise
• 2002: The Lovely Bones
  The Lovely Bones
  The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death. The novel received much critical...
  
  by Alice Sebold
  Alice Sebold
  Alice Sebold is an American novelist. She has published three books: Lucky , The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon .-Early life:...
  
  
  • The Blues Ain't Nothing by Tina Jens
  • Atmosphere by Michael Laimo
    Michael Laimo
    Michael Laimo born in 1966, in Brooklyn, New York, is a popular horror author whose novels include Atmosphere, Dead Souls, Deep in the Darkness, The Demonologist, Fires Rising, and Sleepwalker. He is currently at work on a sequel to his best-selling novel Deep In The Darkness, entitled Return To...
    
    
  • The Red Church by Scott Nicholson
• 2003: The Rising by Brian Keene
  Brian Keene
  Brian Keene is an American author, primarily of horror, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won two Bram Stoker Awards.- Background :Keene was born in 1967. He grew up in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and many of his books take place in these locales. After graduating high school, he...
  
  
  • Wolf's Trap by William D. Gagliani
  • Monstrocity by Jeffrey Thomas
    Jeffrey Thomas
    Jeffrey or Jeff Thomas is the name of:* Jeffrey Thomas , British Labour Member of Parliament* Jeffrey C. Thomas, seven-time candidate for U.S...
    
    
  • Veniss Underground
    Veniss Underground
    Veniss Underground is a 2003 science fiction novel by Jeff VanderMeer, following the adult lives of three different protagonists across a short period of time in the decadent, surreal city of Veniss, which is situated above a vast underground labyrinth of hovels and mines ruled over by the amoral...
    
    by Jeff Vandermeer
    Jeff VanderMeer
    Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer is an American writer, editor and publisher.He is best known for his contributions to the New Weird and his stories about the city of Ambergris, in books like City of Saints and Madmen.-Biography:...
    
    
• 2004: Covenant by John Everson
  John Everson
  John Everson of Naperville, Illinois, is an American author. He is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Covenant, released by Leisure Books in 2008, and Sacrifice, released by Leisure Books in 2009...
  
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• 2004: Stained by Lee Thomas
  Lee Thomas (author)
  Lee Thomas is an author and an Emmy award winning entertainment reporter for WJBK Fox 2 News in Southfield, Michigan. He also suffers from vitiligo, a disease that causes the skin to lose its pigmentation. Lee had various television appearances to discuss his book, Turning White. He appeared on...
  
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  • Black Fire by James Kidman
  • Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas
    Nick Mamatas
    Nick Mamatas is an American horror, science fiction and fantasy author and editor for the Haikasoru line of translated Japanese science fiction novels for Viz Media...
    
    
• 2005: Scarecrow Gods by Weston Ochse
  Weston Ochse
  Weston Ochse is an American author and educator. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for his short fiction.- Biography :Weston Ochse was born in Gillette, Wyoming...
  
  
  • The Hides by Kealan Patrick Burke
    Kealan Patrick Burke
    Kealan Patrick Burke was born and raised in Dungarvan, Ireland. He is best known as an award-winning author described as "a newcomer worth watching" by Publishers Weekly...
    
    
  • Siren Promised by Alan M. Clark
    Alan M. Clark
    Alan Marshall Clark is an author and an artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book Siren Promised .He has won the World Fantasy Award for his illustrations ,...
    
     and Jeremy Robert Johnson
• 2006: Ghost Road Blues
  Pine Deep Trilogy
  The Pine Deep Trilogy is a series of supernatural horror novels by Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker Award winning author. The trilogy is set in the fictional rural Pennsylvania town of Pine Deep, which has the reputation of being the Most Haunted Town in America. Pine Deep’s entire tourism...
  
  by Jonathan Maberry
  Jonathan Maberry
  Jonathan Maberry is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ghost Road Blues, the first of the Pine Deep Trilogy, a series of supernatural horror novels...
  
  
  • The Keeper by Sarah Langan
  • Bloodstone by Nate Kenyon
    Nate Kenyon
    Nate Kenyon is the award-winning author of science fiction, horror and suspense novels and short fiction. Kenyon's first novel, Bloodstone , was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist and was voted the Preditors and Editors Horror Novel of the Year for 2006. His second novel, The Reach, was also a Bram...
    
    
  • The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff
    Alexandra Sokoloff
    Alexandra Sokoloff is an American novelist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The Harrowing, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2006. Her second novel, The Price, was published by St. Martin's in 2007, and her third, The Unseen, in 2009. She is a Bram Stoker and Anthony award nominee and a...
    
    
• 2007: Heart-Shaped Box
  Heart-Shaped Box (novel)
  Heart-Shaped Box is the debut horror novel of author Joe Hill.-Synopsis:Aging rock star Judas Coyne spends his retirement collecting morbid memorabillia such as a witch's confession, a real snuff film and, after being sent an e-mail directly about the item online, a dead man's suit. He is told, by...
  
  by Joe Hill
  Joe Hill (writer)
  Joseph Hillstrom King , better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer. He has published two novels—Heart Shaped Box and Horns—and a collection of short stories entitled 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the author of the graphic novel series Locke & Key...
  
  
  • I Will Rise by Michael Louis Calvillo
  • The Memory Tree by John R. Little
    John R. Little
    John R. Little is best known as a writer of horror and dark fantasy fiction. He was born in London, Ontario, Canada on August 16, 1955, and he currently resides in Coquitlam, BC, Canada. John R. Little has a Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario where his major...
    
    
  • The Hollower by Mary SanGiovanni
• 2008: The Gentling Box by Lisa Mannetti
  • Midnight on Mourn Street by Christopher Conlon
  • Monster Behind the Wheel by Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin
    Mark McLaughlin
    Mark McLaughlin is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Hamilton Academical.-Career:McLaughlin, a defender, began his career at junior club Arthurlie before moving to Clyde in 1999. After five years at Clyde, he joined Hamilton Academical in 2004...
    
    
  • The Suicide Collectors by David Oppegaard
  • Frozen Blood by Joel A. Sutherland
    Joel A. Sutherland
    Joel A. Sutherland is a Canadian author and editor of thriller, horror and fantasy short stories and novels, anthologies and children's books. His notable works include Frozen Blood and Be a Writing Superstar Sutherland's writing has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and the Black Quill Award...
    
    
• 2009: Damnable by Hank Schwaeble
  • Breathers
    Breathers: A Zombie's Lament
    Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament is a romantic zombie comedy novel by first-time author S. G. Browne, published in 2009. The story is told from the point of view of Andy Warner, a newly revived zombie who lives in his parents' basement, attends Undead Anonymous meetings, and is in love with another...
    
    by S. G. Browne
    S. G. Browne
    S.G. “Scott” Browne is an American author of dark comedy and social satire. His debut novel, Breathers: A Zombie's Lament, is a dark rom-zom-com told from the point of view of a zombie. His second novel, Fated, a black comedy about fate and destiny, was released November 2, 2010.- Biography :S.G....
    
    
  • Solomon's Grave by Daniel G. Keohane
  • The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay
    Paul G. Tremblay
    Paul G. Tremblay is an American author and editor of contemporary horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction. Tremblay received two Bram Stoker Award nominations in 2007 and he is a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.- Biography :...
    
    
• 2010: Black & Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
  Benjamin Kane Ethridge
  Benjamin Kane Ethridge is an American author who writes in the Horror and Dark Fantasy genres.Ethridge was born in Riverside, California. He spent the first five years of his life living in Alaska and Texas, before returning to Southern California, where he continues to live today...
  
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• 2010: The Castle of Los Angeles by Lisa Morton
  Lisa Morton
  Lisa Morton is an American horror author and screenwriter.Morton was born in Pasadena, California, and entered the film industry in 1979 as a modelmaker on Star Trek: The Motion Picture...
  
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  • A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files
    Gemma Files
    Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger.- Biography :Gemma Files was born in...
    
    
  • Spellbent by Lucy A. Snyder
    Lucy A. Snyder
    Lucy A. Snyder is an American science fiction, fantasy, humor, and nonfiction writer. Born in South Carolina, she grew up in San Angelo, Texas as a result of her father being stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base and graduated from Angelo State University. She moved to Bloomington, Indiana for...