The Lord Ruthven Award is an annual award presented by the Lord Ruthven Assembly, a group of academic scholars specialising in vampire literature and affiliated with the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA).
The award is presented for the best fiction on vampires and the best academic work on the study of the vampire figure in culture and literature. The award is presented each March at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) in Orlando. The award is named after Lord Ruthven, one of the first vampires in English literature.
Lord Ruthven Award: Non-Fiction
1994: David J. Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror 1995: J. Gordon Melton, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead 1996: Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves 1997: David J. Skal, V is for Vampire: An A to Z Guide to everything Undead 1998: Carol Margaret Davison & Paul Simpson-Housley, Eds., Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century 1999: Carol A. Senf, Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism 2001: Elizabeth Miller, Dracula: Sense and Nonsense 2002: Michael Bell, Food for the Dead: on the Trail of New England's Vampires 2003: William Patrick Day, Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most 2004: James B. South, Ed., Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. 2005: Richard Dalby & William Hughes: Bram Stoker: A Bibliography 2006: Jorg Waltje, Blood Obsession: Vampires, Serial Murder, and the Popular Imagination. 2007: Bruce A. McClelland, Slayers and their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead 2008: David Keyworth, Troublesome Corpses: Vampires and Revenants from Antiquity to the Present 2009: Elizabeth Miller & Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Eds., Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula 2010: Mary Y. Hallab, Vampire God: The Allure of the Undead in Western Culture 2011: John Edgar Browning & Caroline Joan Picart, Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances 2012: Susannah Clements, The Vampire Defanged: How the Embodiment of Evil Became a Romantic Hero 2013: Jeffrey Weinstock, The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema 2014: Maria Lindgren Leavenworth & Malin Isaksson, Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries 2015: Margot Adler, Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side 2016: J. Gordon Melton & Alysa Hornick, The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film, and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography 2017: David J. Skal, Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula 2018: Gary A. Smith, Vampire Films of the 1970s 2019: Amy J. Ransom, I Am Legend as American Myth 2020: Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture. 2021: Cait Coker, The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World. 2022: Simon Bacon, The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead. / Violet Fenn, A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture. Love at First Bite. 2023: Simon Bacon, Contagion and the Vampire: The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in the 21st Century. 2024: Simon Bacon (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire 2025: John Blair (ed.), Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
Lord Ruthven Award: Fiction
1989: Brian Stableford, The Empire of Fear 1990: Nancy A. Collins, Sunglasses After Dark 1993: Kim Newman, Anno Dracula 1996: Barbara Hambly, Traveling with the Dead 1997: Jonathan Nasaw, The World on Blood 1998: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Writ in Blood 1999: P. N. Elrod, The Vampire Files: A Chill in the Blood 2000: Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum 2001: Elaine Bergstrom, Blood to Blood: The Dracula Story Continues 2002: Jean Lorrah, Blood Will Tell 2003: Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas 2004: Andrew Fox, Fat White Vampire Blues 2005: David Sosnowski, Vamped 2006: Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian 2007: Barbara Hambly, Renfield: Slave of Dracula 2008: Joel H. Emerson, The Undead 2009: James Reese, The Dracula Dossier 2010: Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, The Strain 2011: S. M. Stirling, A Taint in the Blood 2012: Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf 2013: Tim Powers, Hide Me Among the Graves 2014: Joe Hill, NOS4A2 2015: Lauren Owen, The Quick 2016: David Gerrold, Jacob 2017: Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis 2018: Charlaine Harris: The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 2019: Theodora Goss, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman 2020: Marge Simon & Bryan D. Dietrich, The Demeter Diaries 2021: Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires 2022: Jessica Lévai, The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse 2023: Jacqueline Holland, The God of Endings 2024: T. Kingfisher, What Feasts at Night 2025: Kat Dunn, Hungerstone
Lord Ruthven Award: Media/Popular Culture
2003: Diary of a Virgin 2004: Dracula 2005: Vampire Dreams 2008: Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations: Romania 2009: True Blood 2011: Being Human 2015: Only Lovers Left Alive 2016: What We Do in the Shadows 2017: Vamped / The Vampire Historian 2018: Midnight, Texas Season 1 2020: What We Do in The Shadows 2022: Midnight Mass 2023: The Last Voyage of the Demeter 2024: Abigail / Nosferatu 2025: Sinners
Lord Ruthven Special Award
1997: Raymond T. McNally 2018: Hans Corneel de Roos for his translation of, and research on Makt Myrkranna (Powers of Darkness)
References
External links The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts