Bram Stoker Awards

Awarded each year at StokerCon, the Bram Stoker Awards celebrate the best in horror fiction, graphic novels, and nonfiction for youth and adults.

Winners for 2025 include:

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection: Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan

Superior Achievement in a First Novel: The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel: Bowling with Corpses and Other Tales from Lands Unknown  by Mike Mignola

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction: Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, edited by Becky Siegel Spratford

Superior Achievement in a Novel: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Superior Achievement in a Film Screenplay: Sinners, written and directed by Ryan Coogler

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction: "My Long Road to Horror" by Tananarive Due, in Why I love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel: Shiny Happy People by Clay McLeod Chapman

Lifetime Achievement Award Winners: Lisa Morton, Jonathan Maberry