The Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for novels.
Winners and nominees The following are the winners and nominees. Finalists (nominees) are listed under the winner(s) for each year, respectively.
The year of eligibility listed in the table is the year that the work was published; the ceremony when the honor was awarded happening the following year. + Bram Stoker Award for Novel Year Recipient Title Result .1987 Misery Co-winners Swan Song Live Girls Nominee Unassigned Territory Ash Wednesday1988 Winner Stinger Nominee Black Wind Flesh1989 Carrion Comfort Winner Geek Love Nominee In a Dark Dream Midnight 1990 Mine Winner Funland Nominee Reign Savage Season1991 Boy's Life Winner Nominee Needful Things Summer of Night1992 Blood of the Lamb Winner Homecoming Nominee Deathgrip Hideaway Children of the Night1993 Winner Anno Dracula Nominee Blackburn Drawing Blood 1994 Dead in the Water Winner Nominee From the Teeth of Angels Insomnia 1995 Zombie Winner Widow Nominee Deadrush Bone Music1996 Winner Exquisite Corpse Nominee Crota 1997 Children of the Dusk Winner Nominee My Soul to Keep Earthquake Weather1998 Bag of Bones Winner Fear Nothing Nominee Darker Angels Fog Heart1999 Mr. X Winner Darker than Night Nominee Hannibal Low Men in Yellow Coats Hexes2000 Winner Nominee Silent Children 2001 American Gods Winner From the Dust Returned Nominee Black House2002 Winner Nominee From a Buick 8 Lullaby 2003 Lost Boy, Lost Girl Winner Nominee Serenity Falls 2004 In the Night Room Winner Nominee Deep in the Darkness2005 Creepers Co-winners Dread in the Beast Keepers Nominee November Mourns2006 Lisey's Story Winner Headstone City Nominee Ghost Road Blues Pressure Prodigal Blues2007 Winner Nominee Heart-Shaped Box 2008 Duma Key Winner Coffin County Nominee Johnny Gruesome2009 Audrey's Door Winner Patient Zero Nominee Quarantined Cursed2010 Winner Horns Nominee Rot & Ruin Dead Love Apocalypse of the Dead Dweller2011 Flesh Eaters Winner Nominee Cosmic Forces Floating Staircase Not Fade Away 2012 Winner Nominee Bottled Abyss Nightwhere Inheritance 2013 Doctor Sleep Winner NOS4A2 Nominee Malediction 2014 Blood Kin Winner Suffer the Children Nominee Jade Sky Beautiful You 2015 Winner Nominee Black Tide2016 Winner Hard Light Nominee Mongrels Stranded Disappearance at Devil's Rock2017 Ararat Winner Sleeping Beauties Nominee Black Mad Wheel I Wish I Was Like You Ubo2018 Winner Dracul Nominee Glimpse Unbury Carol2019 Coyote Rage Winner Inspection Nominee Into the Ashes Wanderers2020 Winner Nominee Devil's Creek Malorie Mexican Gothic2021 My Heart Is a Chainsaw Winner Nominee Children of Chicago 2022 The Devil Takes You Home Winner Nominee Reluctant Immortals Daphne Sundial2023 The Reformatory Winner How to Sell a Haunted House Nominee Don't Fear the Reaper Lone Women Camp DamascusCamp Damascus was originally nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Young Adult novel. However, it is "an adult novel in a young adult novel's clothing" according to Tingle. The Horror Writers Association subsequently recategorized it to the Best Novel category, and You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron was included as a new finalist in the Best Young Adult novel category instead. . Black River Orchard2024 Winner House of Bone and Rain Nominee I Was a Teenage Slasher Incidents Around the House Horror Movie2025 Winner Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Nominee King Sorrow The Bewitching Girl in the Creek
Multiple winning authors Ordered first by wins and then by alphabetical order (according to last name). Stephen King (6) Peter Straub (5) Stephen Graham Jones (3) Robert R. McCammon (3) Sarah Langan (2) Paul Tremblay (2)
Multiple nominated authors
Ordered first by nominations, then by at least one win, and finally by alphabetical order (according to last name).
† indicates that the writer also won the award in exactly one occasion (up-to-date as of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards).
Stephen King (15) Peter Straub (7) Stephen Graham Jones (6) Tom Piccirilli (6)† Robert R. McCammon (5) Gary A. Braunbeck (4) Joe Hill (4) Jonathan Maberry (4) Josh Malerman (4) Joe McKinney (4)† Dan Simmons (4)† Paul Tremblay (4) Owl Goingback (3)† Grady Hendrix (3) Dean R. Koontz (3) Richard Laymon (3)† Chuck Wendig (3) Poppy Z. Brite (2) Tananarive Due (2) Patrick Freivald (2) Thomas Harris (2)† Gabino Iglesias (2) Gwendolyn Kiste (2) Gregory Lamberson (2) Sarah Langan (2) Joe R. Lansdale (2) Bentley Little (2) S. P. Miskowski (2) Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2) Chuck Palahniuk (2) Christopher Rice (2) Jeff Strand (2) Steve Rasnic Tem (2)† Lee Thomas (2) Chet Williamson (2) F. Paul Wilson (2)
References
External links Stoker Award on the HWA web page Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees