Bram Stoker Award For Best Long Fiction

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for long fiction.

Winners and nominees

In 1993, the category was split into "best novella" and "best novelette", a distinction that was eliminated a year later. Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

* 1987: "The Pear-Shaped Man" by George R. R. Martin (tie)
* 1987: "The Boy Who Came Back From the Dead" by Alan Rodgers (tie)
** "Pamela's Get" by David J. Schow
** "Resurrec Tech" by S.P. Somtow
* 1988: "Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity" by David Morrell
** "The Skin Trade" by George R. R. Martin
** " The Function of Dream Sleep" by Harlan Ellison
** "The Juniper Tree" by Peter Straub
** "The Night Flier" by Stephen King
** "Horrorshow" by John Farris
* 1989: " On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks" by Joe R. Lansdale
** "At First Just Ghostly" by Karl Edward Wagner
** "The Confessions of St. James" by Chet Williamson
** "Phantom" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
* 1990: "Stephen" by Elizabeth Massie
** "Bestseller" by Michael Blumleim
** "Entropy's Bed at Midnight" by Dan Simmons
** "Pelts" by F. Paul Wilson
** "The Langoliers" by Stephen King
* 1991: "The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves" by David Morrell
** "Fetish" by Edward Bryant
** "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint
** "Advocates" by Suzy McKee Charnas & Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
** "Magpie" by Stephen Gallagher
* 1992: "Alien: Tribes" by Stephen Bissette (tie)
* 1992: "The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance" by Joe R. Lansdale
** "Nothing Will Hurt You" by David Morrell
** "The Shrine" by David Morrell
** "For You, the Living" by Wayne Allen Sallee

Novella:
* 1993: "The Night We Buried Road Dog" by Jack Cady (tie)
* 1993: "Mefisto in Onyx" by Harlan Ellison (tie)
** "Flashback" by Dan Simmons

Novelette:
* 1993: "Death in Bangkok" by Dan Simmons
** "Colour" by Michael Moorcock
** "Darker Angels" by S.P. Somtow
** "Death on the Nile" by Connie Willis
* 1994: "The Scent of Vinegar" by Robert Bloch
** "Sometimes, in the Rain" by Charles L. Grant
** "The Alchemy of the Throat" by Brian Hodge
** "Bubba Ho-tep" by Joe R. Lansdale
** "The Siren of Swan Quarter" by William R. Trotter
* 1995: " Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" by Stephen King
** "Baby Girl Diamond" by Adam-Troy Castro
** "Looking for Mr. Flip" by Thomas F. Monteleone
** "Lover Doll" by Wayne Allen Sallee
* 1996: "The Red Tower" by Thomas Ligotti
** "Kilroy Was Here" by Jack Cady
** "The Thing from Lover's Lane" by Nancy Collins
** "Brimstone and Salt" by S.P. Somtow
* 1997: " The Big Blow" by Joe R. Lansdale
** "The Word" by Ramsey Campbell
** " Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King
** "Coppola's Dracula" by Kim Newman
** "The Zombies of Madison County" by Douglas E. Winter
* 1998: "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" by Peter Straub
** "Leavings" by P.D. Cacek
** "As Above, So Below" by Brian Hodge
** "What Would You Do For Love?" by John Shirley
* 1999: "Mad Dog Summer" by Joe R. Lansdale (tie)
* 1999: "Five Days in April" by Brian A. Hopkins (tie)
** "Dread in the Beast" by Charlee Jacob
** "Right to Life" by Jack Ketchum
* 2000: "The Man on the Ceiling" by Melanie
** "Riding the Bullet" by Stephen King
** "In Shock" by Joyce Carol Oates
** "God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him" by Lawrence P. Santoto
* 2001: "In These Final Days of Sales" by Tim Lebbon
** "From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet" by Harlan Ellison
** "Demolition" by Nancy Etchemendy
** "Earthworm Gods" by Brian Keene
** "Northern Gothic" by Nick Mamatas
* 2002: "El Dia de Los Muertos" by Brian A. Hopkins (tie)
* 2002: "My Work is Not Yet Done" by Thomas Ligotti
** "Cape Wrath" by Paul Finch
** "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
** "The Origin" by David B. Silva
* 2003: "Closing Time" by Jack Ketchum
** ''The Necromancer'' by Douglas Clegg
** ''Fuckin' Lie Down Already'' by Tom Piccirilli
** ''Louisiana Breakdown'' by Lucius Shepard
** ''Roll Them Bones'' by David Niall Wilson
* 2004: "The Turtle Boy" by Kealan-Patrick Burke
** "Zora and the Zombie" by Andy Duncan
** "Lisey and the Madman" by Stephen King
** ''Dead Man's Hand'' by Tim Lebbon
** "Northwest Passage" by Barbara Roden
* 2005: "Best New Horror" by Joe Hill
** "In the Midnight Museum" by Gary A. Braunbeck
** "The Things They Left Behind" by Stephen King
** "Some Zombie Contingency Plans" by Kelly Link
*2006: '' Dark Harvest'' by Norman Partridge
**''Hallucigenia'' by Laird Barron
**''Mama's Boy'' by Fran Friel
**''Bloodstained Oz'' by Christopher Golden and James A. Moore
**''Clubland Heroes'' by Kim Newman
* 2007: ''Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway'' by Gary Braunbeck
** ''Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man'' by Scott Edelman
** ''General Slocum's Gold'' by Nicholas Kaufmann
** ''The Tenth Muse'' by William Browning Spencer
** ''An Apiary of White Bees'' by Lee Thomas
* 2008: ''Miranda'' by John R. Little
** ''The Shallow End of the Pool'' by Adam-Troy Castro
** ''Redemption Roadshow'' by Weston Ochse
** ''The Confessions of St. Zach'' by Gene O'Neill
* 2009: ''The Lucid Dreaming'' by Lisa Morton
** ''Dreaming Robot Monster'' by Mort Castle
** ''The Hunger of Empty Vessels'' by Scott Edelman
** ''Doc Good's Traveling Show'' by Gene O'Neill
* 2010: ''Invisible Fences'' by Norman Prentiss
** ''The Painted Darkness'' by Brian James Freeman
** ''Dissolution'' by Lisa Mannetti
** ''Monsters Among Us'' by Kirstyn McDermott
** ''The Samhanach'' by Lisa Morton
* 2011: '' The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine'' by Peter Straub
** ''7 Brains'' by Michael Louis Calvillo
** ''Roots and All'' by Brian Hodge
** ''The Colliers' Venus (1893)'' by Caitlin R. Kiernan
** ''Ursa Major'' by John R. Little
** ''Rusting Chickens'' by Gene O'Neill
* 2012: ''The Blue Heron'' by Gene O'Neill
** ''Thirty Miles South of Dry County'' by Kealan Patrick Burke
** ''I'm Not Sam'' by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee
** ''Lost Girl of the Lake'' by Joe McKinney and Michael McCarty
** ''The Fleshless Man'' by Norman Prentiss
* 2013: ''The Great Pity'' by Gary Braunbeck
** ''The Bluehole'' by Dale Bailey
** ''The Slaughter Man'' by Benjamin K. Ethridge
** ''No Others Are Genuine'' by Gregory Frost
** ''House of Rain'' by Greg F. Gifune
** ''East End Girls'' by Rena Mason
* 2014: ''Fishing for Dinosaurs'' by Joe R. Lansdale
** ''The Infected'' by Taylor Grant
** ''Dreams of a Little Suicide'' by Eric J. Guignard
** ''Three Guys Walk into a Bar'' by Jonathan Maberry
** ''Lost and Found'' by Joe McKinney
* 2015: ''Little Dead Red'' by Mercedes M. Yardley
** ''Paper Cuts'' by Gary A. Braunbeck
** ''The Box Jumper'' by Lisa Mannetti
** ''Special Collections'' by Norman Partridge
** ''Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen'' by Scott Edelman
* 2016: ''The Winter Box'' by Tim Waggoner
** ''The Sadist's Bible'' by Nicole Cushing
** ''That Perilous Stuff'' by Scott Edelman
** ''The Ballad of Black Tom'' by Victor LaValle
** ''The Jupiter Drop'' by Josh Malerman
* 2017: ''Mapping the Interior'' by Stephen Graham Jones
** ''Faking it Until Forever Comes'' by Scott Edelman
** ''Agents of Dreamland'' by Caitlín R. Kiernan
** ''Sweetlings'' by Lucy Taylor
** ''A Kiss of Thorns'' by Tim Waggoner
* 2018: ''The Devil's Throat'' by Rena Mason
** ''Our Children, Our Teachers'' by Michael Bailey
** ''You Are Released'' by Joe Hill
** ''Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung'' by Usman T. Malik
** ''Bitter Suites'' by Angela Yuriko Smith
* 2019: ''Up from Slavery'' by Victor LaValle
** ''The Keeper of Chernobyl'' by Alessandro Manzetti
** ''The Cat Sitter'' by Anna Taborska
** ''To Be Devoured'' by Sara Tantlinger
** ''Into Bones Like Oil'' by Kaaron Warren

References

External links

Stoker Award on the HWA web page

Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees
{{Bram Stoker Award

Long Fiction
Novella awards
Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction winners