The Horror Books Nominated for This Year’s Bram Stoker Awards
The Bram Stoker Awards recognizes “superior achievement” in horror and dark fiction. They’ve been awarded every year since 1987, and they’re chosen by the Horror Writers Association. The winners will be announced June 14th at StokerCon. Here are some of this year’s nominees.
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror edited by Sofia Ajram
We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures edited by Rob Costello
Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point edited by Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska
Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners edited by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey
Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror edited by Lindy Ryan
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Not a Speck of Light by Laird Barron
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez
The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls by Angela Sylvaine
Old Monsters Never Die by Tim Waggoner
Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales by Mercedes M. Yardley
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles
Hollow Girls by Jessica Drake-Thomas
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram
Rest Stop by Nat Cassidy
Kill Your Darling by Clay McLeod Chapman
“All The Parts of You That Won’t Easily Burn” (This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances) by Eric LaRocca
Hollow Tongue by Eden Royce
Superior Achievement in a Novel
House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones
The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Find the full list of nominees—including in Middle Grade, Nonfiction, Poetry, and more—at the Bram Stoker Awards website.
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