The Lord Ruthven Award is an annual award presented by the Lord Ruthven Assembly, a group of academic scholars specialising in
vampire literature
Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in 18th-century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publicat ...
and affiliated with the
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), founded in 1982 is a nonprofit association of scholars, writers, and publishers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in literature, film, and the other arts. Its principal acti ...
(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
Richard Lawrence Dalby (15 April 1949 – 4 May 2017) was an editor and literary researcher noted for his anthologies of ghost stories.
Early life
Richard Dalby was born in London on 15 April 1949 to Tom, a publishing editor, and Nancy, an amate ...
&
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
Margot Susanna Adler (April 16, 1946 – July 28, 2014) was an American author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess, and New York correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR).
Early life
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Adler grew up mostly ...
, ''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.''
Lord Ruthven Award: Fiction
*1989:
Brian Stableford
Brian Michael Stableford (born 25 July 1948) is a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped ...
, ''The Empire of Fear''
*1990:
Nancy A. Collins, ''Sunglasses After Dark''
*1993:
Kim Newman
Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's ''Dracula'' at ...
, ''
Anno Dracula
''Anno Dracula'' is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman, the first in the ''Anno Dracula'' series. It is an alternate history using 19th-century English historical settings and personalities, along with characters from popular fiction.
...
''
*1996:
Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She is the author of the bestselling Benjamin January mystery series featuring a fre ...
, ''
Traveling with the Dead''
*1997: Jonathan Nasaw, ''The World on Blood''
*1998:
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, ''Writ in Blood''
*1999:
P. N. Elrod
Patricia Nead Elrod (b. 1954) is an American novelist specializing in urban fantasy. She has written in the mystery, romance, paranormal, and historical genres with at least one foray into comedic fantasy. Elrod is also an editor, having worked on ...
, ''The Vampire Files: A Chill in the Blood''
*2000:
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his '' Discworld'' series of 41 novels.
Pratchett's first no ...
, ''
Carpe Jugulum
''Carpe Jugulum'' (; Latatian for "seize the throat", cf. ''Carpe diem'') is a comic fantasy novel by English writer Terry Pratchett, the twenty-third in the ''Discworld'' series. It was first published in 1998.
In ''Carpe Jugulum'', Terry Pra ...
''
*2001:
Elaine Bergstrom, ''Blood to Blood: The Dracula Story Continues''
*2002:
Jean Lorrah, ''Blood Will Tell''
*2003:
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris Schulz (born November 25, 1951) is an American author who specializes in mysteries. She is best known for her book series ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'', which was adapted as the TV series ''True Blood''. The television show ...
, ''
Living Dead in Dallas
''Living Dead in Dallas'' is the second Novel, book in Charlaine Harris's series ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries''. This second novel follows the adventures of telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse of Bon Temps, Louisiana, as she is employed by ...
''
*2004:
Andrew Fox, ''Fat White Vampire Blues''
*2005:
David Sosnowski, ''Vamped''
*2006:
Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel ''The Historian''.
Early life
Elizabeth Johnson Kostova was born Elizabeth Johnson in New London, Connecticut, and raised in Knoxville, Tenne ...
, ''
The Historian''
*2007:
Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She is the author of the bestselling Benjamin January mystery series featuring a fre ...
, ''Renfield: Slave of Dracula''
*2008: Joel H. Emerson, ''The Undead''
*2009:
James Reese, ''The Dracula Dossier''
*2010:
Guillermo del Toro and
Chuck Hogan
Charles Patrick Hogan is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known as the author of ''Prince of Thieves'', and as the co-author of ''The Strain'' trilogy with Guillermo del Toro. Alongside del Toro, Hogan creat ...
, ''
The Strain
''The Strain'' is a 2009 vampire horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. It is the first installment in ''The Strain Trilogy'', and was followed by '' The Fall'' (2010) and ''The Night Eternal'' (2011).
Plot synopsis
A Boeing 77 ...
''
*2011:
S. M. Stirling
Stephen Michael Stirling (born September 30, 1953) is a Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author who was born in France. Stirling is well known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and his later time travel/alternate hi ...
, ''A Taint in the Blood''
*2012:
Glen Duncan
Glen Duncan is a British author born in 1965 in Bolton, Lancashire, England to an Anglo-Indian family. He studied philosophy and literature at the universities of Lancaster and Exeter.
In 1990 Duncan moved to London, where he worked as a boo ...
, ''The Last Werewolf''
*2013:
Tim Powers
Timothy Thomas Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels '' Last Call'' and ''Declare''. His 1987 novel ''On Stranger Tide ...
, ''Hide Me Among the Graves''
*2014:
Joe Hill, ''
NOS4A2''
*2015: Lauren Owen, ''The Quick''
*2016: David Gerrold, ''Jacob''
*2017:
Anne Rice
Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature.
She was best known for her series of novels '' The Vampire Chronicles''. ...
, ''
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis''
*2018:
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris Schulz (born November 25, 1951) is an American author who specializes in mysteries. She is best known for her book series ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'', which was adapted as the TV series ''True Blood''. The television show ...
: ''The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories''
*2019:
Theodora Goss
Theodora Goss (born September 30, 1968) is a Hungarian-American fiction writer and poet. Her writing has been nominated for major awards, including the Nebula, Locus, Mythopoeic, World Fantasy, and Seiun Awards. Her short fiction and poetry ...
, ''European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman''
*2020:
Marge Simon & Bryan D. Dietrich, ''The Demeter Diaries''
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
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
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External links
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
Vampires in written fiction
Horror fiction awards