Winners and nominees

• 1987: Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark
  Muriel Spark
  Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:...
  
  
  • Joe Bob Goes To the Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs
    Joe Bob Briggs
    John Irving Bloom , who uses the pseudonym Joe Bob Briggs, is a syndicated American film critic, writer and comic performer.-Early years:...
    
    
  • The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh by Paul A. Gagne
• 1988: (no award)
• 1989: Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Ellison
  Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
  
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• 1989: Horror: The 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones
  Stephen Jones (author)
  Stephen Jones is an editor of horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications....
  
   & Kim Newman
  Kim Newman
  Kim Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history...
  
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  • American Vampires: by Fans, Victims, Practitioners by Norine Dresser
  • Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature and Film by Leonard Wolf
    Leonard Wolf
    Leonard Wolf is a poet, author, teacher, and the father of Naomi Wolf. He is known for his authoritative annotated editions of classic gothic horror novels, including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Phantom of the Opera, and critical works on the topic, as...
    
    
  • H. P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon
    Peter Cannon
    Peter H. Cannon is an H. P. Lovecraft scholar and an author of Cthulhu Mythos fiction.Cannon first made his name in Lovecraft studies with his graduate theses written in the 1970s - A Case for Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Lovecraft's New England...
    
    
• 1990: Dark Dreamers by Stanley Wiater
  • Hollywood Gothic by David J. Skal
    David J. Skal
    David J. Skal is an American cultural historian known for his writings on horror films and horror literature.-Early life:...
    
    
  • Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide by Neil Barron
    Neil Barron
    Richard Neil Barron is a science fiction bibliographer and scholar. His training was as a librarian. He is perhaps best known for his book Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction. He won the Pilgrim Award for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science fiction scholarship in 1982...
    
    
  • Joe Bob Goes Back To The Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs
    Joe Bob Briggs
    John Irving Bloom , who uses the pseudonym Joe Bob Briggs, is a syndicated American film critic, writer and comic performer.-Early years:...
    
    
  • The Weird Tale by S. T. Joshi
    S. T. Joshi
    Sunand Tryambak Joshi — known as S. T. Joshi — is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction...
    
    
• 1991: Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden by Stephen Jones
  Stephen Jones (author)
  Stephen Jones is an editor of horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications....
  
  
  • Vampires Among Us Rosemary by Ellen Guillen
  • Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice by Katherine Ramsland
    Katherine Ramsland
    Katherine Ramsland is an author who has published 37 books and over 900 articles, most of which are in the genres of crime, forensic science, and the supernatural. She holds graduate degrees in forensic psychology, clinical psychology, and philosophy, and teaches forensic psychology at DeSales...
    
    
  • The Shape Under The Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia by Stephen J. Spignesi
• 1992: Cut! Horror Writers of Horror Film by Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden
  Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...
  
  
  • Men, Women, and Chainsaws
    Men, Women, and Chainsaws
    Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film is a 1992 book by American academic Carol J. Clover. In it she investigates the appeal of horror cinema, in particular the slasher, occult, and rape-revenge genres, from a feminist perspective...
    
     by Carol J. Clover
    Carol J. Clover
    Carol J. Clover is an American professor of film studies, rhetoric language and Scandinavian mythology. She has been widely published in her areas of expertise...
    
    
  • Young Adult Horror Fiction by Cosete Kies
  • Scare Tactics by John Russo
  • Dark Visions by Stanley Wiater
• 1993: Once Around the Bloch by Robert Bloch
  Robert Bloch
  Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
  
  
  • The Diary of Jack the Ripper by Shirley Harrison & Michael Barrett
  • The Monster Show by David J. Skal
    David J. Skal
    David J. Skal is an American cultural historian known for his writings on horror films and horror literature.-Early life:...
    
    
• 1994: (no award)
• 1995: The Supernatural Index by Michael Ashley
  Mike Ashley (writer)
  Michael Ashley is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction...
  
   & William Contento
  • Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller by Janet Leigh
    Janet Leigh
    Janet Leigh , born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress. She was the wife of actor Tony Curtis from June 1951 to September 1962 and the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis....
    
     & Christopher Nickens
  • An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural by James Randi
    James Randi
    James Randi is a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation...
    
    
  • Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984
    Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984
    Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 is the title of a 1994 non fiction book by Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs, that won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction....
    
     by Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs
• 1996: H. P. Lovecraft: A Life by S. T. Joshi
  S. T. Joshi
  Sunand Tryambak Joshi — known as S. T. Joshi — is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction...
  
  
  • Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula by Barbara Belford
  • The Great Pulp Heroes by Don Hutchison
    Don Hutchison
    Donald Hutchison is a Scottish ex-footballer who generally played in midfield but sometimes as a forward. He was a much travelled player with spells at both Liverpool and Everton as well as Sheffield United, Sunderland and West Ham United twice...
    
    
  • The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
    Stephen Jones (author)
    Stephen Jones is an editor of horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications....
    
    
  • V is for Vampire by David Skal
• 1997: Dark Thoughts: On Writing by Stanley Wiater
  • The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
    The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
    The Encyclopedia of Fantasy is a 1997 reference work on fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant. Other contributors include Mike Ashley, Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, David Langford, Sam J. Lundwall, Michael Scott Rohan, Brian Stableford and Lisa Tuttle.The book was well-received upon...
    
     by John Clute
    John Clute
    John Frederick Clute is a Canadian born author and critic who has lived in Britain since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history."...
    
     & John Grant
  • The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes
    Alan Barnes (writer)
    Alan Barnes is a British writer and editor, particularly noted for work in the field of cult film and television.-Biography:Barnes served as the editor of Judge Dredd Megazine from 2001 until December 2005, during which time the title saw a considerable increase in the number of new strip pages. ...
    
    
  • Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror by Stephen Jones
    Stephen Jones (author)
    Stephen Jones is an editor of horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications....
    
    
  • Video Watchdog, Tim Lucas
    Tim Lucas
    Tim Lucas is a film critic, biographer, novelist, screenwriter, blogger, and publisher/editor of the video review magazine Video Watchdog.-Biography and early career:...
    
    , ed.
  • Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography by Katherine Ramsland
    Katherine Ramsland
    Katherine Ramsland is an author who has published 37 books and over 900 articles, most of which are in the genres of crime, forensic science, and the supernatural. She holds graduate degrees in forensic psychology, clinical psychology, and philosophy, and teaches forensic psychology at DeSales...
    
    
• 1998: DarkEcho Newsletter Vol. 5, #1-50, edited by Paula Guran
  • Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, edited by Clive Bloom
  • The Science of the X-Files by Jeanne Cavelos
    Jeanne Cavelos
    Jeanne Cavelos is an American writer, editor, and astrophysicist. She is the founder of the Odyssey Writing Workshop.- Bibliography:*Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages – Casting Shadows...
    
    
  • A Writer's Tale by Richard Laymon
    Richard Laymon
    Richard Carl Laymon was an American author of suspense and horror fiction, particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived as a child in California...
    
    
• 1999: DarkEcho Newsletter, edited by Paula Guran
  • The Essential Monster Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
    Stephen Jones (author)
    Stephen Jones is an editor of horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications....
    
    
  • Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography by Victoria Price
  • Hellnotes, edited by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
• 2000: On Writing
  On Writing
  On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is a memoir and writing guide book by Stephen King, published in 2000. It is a book about the prolific author's experiences as a writer. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly listed On Writing 21st on their list of The New Classics: Books - The 100 best reads from 1983 to...
  
   by Stephen King
  Stephen King
  Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
  
  
  • Hellnotes, edited by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
  • At the Foot of the Story Tree by Bill Sheehan
  • Horror of the 20th Century by Robert Weinberg
    Robert Weinberg
    Robert Allan Weinberg is a Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at MIT and American Cancer Society Research Professor; his research is in the area of oncogenes and the genetic basis of human cancer. Weinberg is also affiliated with the Broad Institute and is a founding member of the...
    
    
• 2001: Jobs in Hell, edited 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...
  
  
  • If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
    Bruce Campbell
    Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American film and television actor. As a cult movie actor, Campbell starred as Ashley J. "Ash" Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series of films and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho-tep, Escape From L.A. and Sundown:...
    
    
  • Personal Demons, edited by Brian A. Hopkins & Garrett Peck
  • Hellnotes, edtied by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
• 2002: Ramsey Campbell, Probably by Ramsey Campbell
  Ramsey Campbell
  John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
  
  
  • Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition by Richard Bleiler
    Richard Bleiler
    Richard James Bleiler is a US bibliographer in science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and adventure fiction. He is the son of Everett F. Bleiler and was a nominee for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction in 2002...
    
    
  • Ralan.com, Ralan Conley, ed.
  • Jobs in Hell, 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...
    
     & Kelly Laymon, eds.
  • Hellnotes, David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson & Garrett Peck, eds.
• 2003: The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association by Thomas F. Monteleone
  Thomas F. Monteleone
  Thomas F. Monteleone is an American science fiction author and horror fiction author. His first novel, Seeds of Change was the lead-off title in the critically unsuccessful Laser Books line of science fiction titles , but he went on to become a popular writer of supernatural thrillers...
  
  
  • Fear in a Handful of Dust by Gary A. Braunbeck
    Gary A. Braunbeck
    Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...
    
    
  • Ralan.com edited by Ralan Conley
  • Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman
    Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman
    Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman is a tribute to comics creator Alan Moore edited by Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man and published by Abiogenesis Press in May 2003...
    
    , edited by Gary Spencer Millidge
    Gary Spencer Millidge
    Gary Spencer Millidge is a British comic book creator best known for his series Strangehaven. He has also written and contributed to books about comics.-Biography:...
    
     and Smoky Man
  • Hellnotes edited by Judi Rohrig
• 2004: Hellnotes edited by Judi Rohrig
  • Ralan's SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza by Ralan Conley
  • Hanging Out with the Dream King by Joseph McCabe
    Joseph McCabe (editor)
    Joseph McCabe is a print and online journalist and editor.Much of McCabe's work has been in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror. McCabe is notable for authoring a book of interviews with writer Neil Gaiman and his associates entitled, "Hanging Out With the Dream King: Conversations...
    
    
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel by Thomas F. Monteleone
    Thomas F. Monteleone
    Thomas F. Monteleone is an American science fiction author and horror fiction author. His first novel, Seeds of Change was the lead-off title in the critically unsuccessful Laser Books line of science fiction titles , but he went on to become a popular writer of supernatural thrillers...
    
    
  • The Road to the Dark Tower by Bev Vincent
    Bev Vincent
    Bev Vincent is best known as the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated, authorised companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar award. He has been writing News From the Dead Zone for...
    
    
• 2005: Horror: Another 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones
  Stephen Jones (author)
  Stephen Jones is an editor of horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications....
  
   and Kim Newman
  Kim Newman
  Kim Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history...
  
  
  • More Giants of the Genre by Michael McCarty
  • Morbid Curiosity magazine
    Morbid Curiosity magazine
    For 10 years, San Francisco-based Morbid Curiosity magazine was devoted to first-person nonfiction essays. Helmed by editor and publisher Loren Rhoads, Morbid Curiosity explored "the unsavory, unwise, unorthodox, and unusual: all the dark elements that make life truly worth living."In September...
    
     #9 by Loren Rhoads
  • The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller
    Sam Weller (journalist)
    Sam Weller is an American journalist and author, best known for his 2005 book The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury published by HarperCollins...
    
    
  • Why Buffy Matters: The Art of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rhonda Wilcox
• 2006: Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die by Michael Largo
  Michael Largo
  Michael Largo, born in Staten Island in the fifties, is a writer U.S..- Biography :Born into a family of firefighters and police officers , Largo boasts a maternal line descendants of first families Dutch who founded New Amsterdam .Largo had a childhood and adolescence serene;...
  
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• Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth
  Kim Paffenroth
  Kim Paffenroth is a religious scholar, professor, and contemporary American horror author, best known for his Bram Stoker Award-winning book Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth.- Biography :...
  
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  • Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished by Rocky Wood
    Rocky Wood
    Rocky Wood is an award-nominated writer and researcher best-known for his books about horror author Stephen King. He is the first non-American to hold the position of President of the Horror Writers Association. Wood was born in Wellington New Zealand and lives in Melbourne, Australia with his...
    
    
  • Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris
• 2007: The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre 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...
  
   & David F. Kramer
  • Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying Truth About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More by Joshua Gee
  • The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich & Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo
    Michael Largo
    Michael Largo, born in Staten Island in the fifties, is a writer U.S..- Biography :Born into a family of firefighters and police officers , Largo boasts a maternal line descendants of first families Dutch who founded New Amsterdam .Largo had a childhood and adolescence serene;...
    
    
  • Storytellers Unplugged by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson
    David Niall Wilson
    David Niall Wilson is an American writer primarily known for his works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction.-Background:...
    
    
• 2008: A Hallowe'en Anthology 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...
  
  
  • Cheap Scares by Gregory Lamberson
  • Zombie CSU 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 Book of Lists: Horror by Amy Wallace, Del Howison
    Del Howison
    Del Howison is an American horror author, editor and actor.-Life and career:Howison was born in Detroit, Michigan but moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting; with his distinctive long white hair, he was a natural for low-budget horror films, and has since played the character "Renfield"...
    
    , and Scott Bradley
    Scott Bradley
    Scott Bradley was an American composer, pianist and conductor.Bradley is best remembered for scoring the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer theatrical cartoons, including those starring Tom and Jerry , Droopy , Barney Bear , and the many one-shot cartoons.Bradley was a...
    
    
• 2009: Writers Workshop of Horror by Michael Knost
  • Cinema Knife Fight by L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda
  • The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by Bev Vincent
    Bev Vincent
    Bev Vincent is best known as the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated, authorised companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar award. He has been writing News From the Dead Zone for...
    
    
  • Stephen King: The Non-Fiction by Rocky Wood
    Rocky Wood
    Rocky Wood is an award-nominated writer and researcher best-known for his books about horror author Stephen King. He is the first non-American to hold the position of President of the Horror Writers Association. Wood was born in Wellington New Zealand and lives in Melbourne, Australia with his...
    
     and Justin Brooks
• 2010: To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck
  Gary A. Braunbeck is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.-Biography:Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio . He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror...
  
  
  • The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti
    Thomas Ligotti
    Thomas Ligotti is a contemporary American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. His writings are unique in style, have been noted as major continuations of several literary genres – most prominently Lovecraftian horror – and have overall been variously described as works of...
    
    
  • Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil 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...
    
     and Janice Gable Bashman
  • Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews by Sam Weller
    Sam Weller (journalist)
    Sam Weller is an American journalist and author, best known for his 2005 book The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury published by HarperCollins...