The Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for graphic novels.
Criteria Awards are given in each calendar year and books originally published between January 1 and December 31 of that year are eligible. The Horror Writers Association defines a graphic novel as "any trade paperback or hardcover book consisting of work of fiction in comic-book form; the work may be presented in an electronic form as well, provided the total length is equivalent to at least 48 printed pages." The work can be original or a collection of previously published issues, with the publication date of the collection determining eligibility not the individual issues. Only the author or authors of the work receive the award.
Winners and nominees The following are the winners and nominees. Nominees who were finalists are listed under the winner 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 Best Graphic NovelYearRecipientTitleResultCitation2011NeonomiconWinnerAnya's GhostNomineeLocke & Key Volume 4Green River KillerMarvel Universe vs. Wolverine and Mike MignolaBaltimore Volume I: The Plague Ships2012 and Rocky WoodWitch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning TimesWinnerNomineeRachel Rising Vol. 1: The Shadow of Death and Peter J. WacksBehind These Eyes2013Alabaster: WolvesWinnerFatale Book Three: West of HellNomineeWitch Doctor, Vol. 2: Mal PracticeSin TituloColder2014 and Jonathan MaberryBad BloodWinnerThrough the WoodsNominee and Gabriel RodriguezLocke & Key Vol. 6: Alpha and Omega an Daniele SerraI Tell You It's Love2015, Carlos Guzman, Chris Ryall, and Sam Weller Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray BradburyWinnerHarrow County, Vol. 1: Countless HaintsNomineeHellboundOutcast Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds HimWytches Vol. 12016Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan PoeWinnerBlood FeudNomineeNo Mercy, Vol. 2Outcast Vol. 3: This Little Light and Mark Alan MillerProvidence, Act 12017 and Damian DuffyKindred: A Graphic Novel AdaptationWinner and Mike CareyDarkness VisibleNomineeMy Favourite Thing Is MonstersMonstress, Vol 2: The Blood2018, Victor LaValle, and Dietrich SmithVictor LaValle's DestroyerWinner, Sami Kivela & Jason WordieAbbottNominee & Eduardo RissoMoonshine Vol. 2 Misery TrainBone Parish & Sana TakedaMonstress Vol 3: Haven2019 & Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, ApplesWinnerBone Parish Vol.2NomineeMonstress Vol.4: The ChosenCalcutta HorrorH.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness Volume I2020 (artist), Nancy Holder (author), and Amelia Woo (artist)Mary Shelley PresentsWinner (author; artist)Nominee (author) & Jules Rivera (artist)Spectre Deep 6 (author; artist) & Alessandro Manzetti (author)Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) (artist) & Rich Douek (author)Road of Bones (artist), Steve Niles (author), and Salvatore Simeone (author)Lonesome Days, Savage Nights2021 (author; artist) & Alessandro Manzetti (author)Winner (author) & Sami Kivela (artist) Abbott 1973Nominee (artist), Kami Garcia (author), Mike Mayher (artist), and Mico Suayan (artist) Joker/Harley: Criminal Insanity (author), Naomi Franquiz (artist), and Grant Morrison (author)Proctor Valley Road (artist) & Dan Panosian (author)2022 (editor)Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th AnniversaryWinner (author) and Pius Bak (artist) Eat the RichNominee (author) and Stefano Cardoselli (artist/author) Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt (author) and Werther Dell’Edera (artist)Something Is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 (author) and Jorge Corona (artist) 2023 (author) and Soo Lee (artist)Carmilla: The First VampireWinner (author) and Leomacs (artist)Ghostlore, Vol. 1Nominee (author) and David Stoll (artist)Dead MallTombsH. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth2024H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu WinnerThe Fox MaidensNomineeTender Beneath the Trees Where Nobody SeesChrysanthemum Under The Waves2025Bowling With Corpses and Other Tales from Lands UnknownWinnerJumpscareNomineeJohn Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight, Volume 11Athanasia, Let This One Be a Devil
References
External links Stoker Award on the HWA web page Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees