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

Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1987 George R. R. Martin The Pear-Shaped Man Winner
Alan Rodgers The Boy Who Came Back From The Dead
David J. Schow Pamela's Get Finalist
S. P. Somtow Resurrec Tech
1988 David Morrell Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity Winner
Harlan Ellison The Function of Dream Sleep Finalist
John Farris Horrorshow
Stephen King The Night Flier
George R. R. Martin The Skin Trade
Peter Straub The Juniper Tree
1989 Joe R. Lansdale On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks Winner
Kristine Kathryn Rusch Phantom Finalist
Karl Edward Wagner At First Just Ghostly
Chet Williamson The Confessions of St. James
1990 Elizabeth Massie Stephen Winner
Michael Blumleim Bestseller Finalist
Stephen King The Langoliers
Dan Simmons Entropy's Bed at Midnight
F. Paul Wilson Pelts
1991 David Morrell The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves Winner
Edward Bryant Fetish Finalist
Suzy McKee Charnas and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Advocates
Stephen Gallagher Magpie
Charles de Lint Death Leaves an Echo
1992 Stephen Bissette Alien: Tribes Winner
Joe R. Lansdale The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance
David Morrell Nothing Will Hurt You Finalist
David Morrell The Shrine
Wayne Allen Sallee For You, the Living
1993 (Novelette) Dan Simmons Death in Bangkok Winner
Michael Moorcock Colour Finalist
S. P. Somtow Darker Angels
Connie Willis Death on the Nile
1993 (Novella) Jack Cady The Night We Buried Road Dog Winner
Harlan Ellison Mefisto in Onyx
Dan Simmons Flashback Finalist
Richard Gilliam Caroline and Caleb
1994 Robert Bloch The Scent of Vinegar Winner
Charles L. Grant Sometimes, in the Rain Finalist
Brian Hodge The Alchemy of the Throat
Joe R. Lansdale Bubba Ho-tep
William R. Trotter The Siren of Swan Quarter
1995 Stephen King Lunch at the Gotham Cafe Winner
Adam-Troy Castro Baby Girl Diamond Finalist
Thomas F. Monteleone Looking for Mr. Flip
Wayne Allen Sallee Lover Doll
1996 Thomas Ligotti The Red Tower Winner
Jack Cady Kilroy Was Here Finalist
Nancy Collins The Thing from Lover's Lane
S. P. Somtow Brimstone and Salt
1997 Joe R. Lansdale The Big Blow Winner
Ramsey Campbell The Word Finalist
Stephen King Everything's Eventual
Kim Newman Coppola's Dracula
Douglas E. Winter The Zombies of Madison County
1998 Peter Straub Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff Winner
P. D. Cacek Leavings Finalist
Brian Hodge As Above, So Below
John Shirley What Would You Do For Love?
1999 Brian A. Hopkins Five Days in April Winner
Joe R. Lansdale Mad Dog Summer
Charlee Jacob Dread in the Beast Finalist
Jack Ketchum Right to Life
2000 Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem The Man on the Ceiling Winner
Stephen King Riding the Bullet Finalist
Joyce Carol Oates In Shock
Lawrence P. Santoto God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him
2001 Tim Lebbon In These Final Days of Sales Winner
Harlan Ellison From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet Finalist
Nancy Etchemendy Demolition
Brian Keene Earthworm Gods
Nick Mamatas Northern Gothic
2002 Brian A. Hopkins El Dia de Los Muertos Winner
Thomas Ligotti My Work is Not Yet Done
Paul Finch Cape Wrath Finalist
Neil Gaiman Coraline
David B. Silva The Origin
2003 Jack Ketchum Closing Time Winner
Douglas Clegg The Necromancer Finalist
Tom Piccirilli Fuckin' Lie Down Already
Lucius Shepard Louisiana Breakdown
David Niall Wilson Roll Them Bones
2004 Kealan Patrick Burke The Turtle Boy Winner
Andy Duncan Zora and the Zombie Finalist
Stephen King Lisey and the Madman
Tim Lebbon Dead Man's Hand
Barbara Roden Northwest Passage
2005 Joe Hill Best New Horror Winner
Gary A. Braunbeck In the Midnight Museum Finalist
Stephen King The Things They Left Behind
Kelly Link Some Zombie Contingency Plans
2006 Norman Partridge Dark Harvest Winner
Laird Barron Hallucigenia Finalist
Fran Friel Mama's Boy
Christopher Golden and James A. Moore Bloodstained Oz
Kim Newman Clubland Heroes
2007 Gary Braunbeck Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway Winner
Scott Edelman Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man Finalist
Nicholas Kaufmann General Slocum's Gold
William Browning Spencer The Tenth Muse
Lee Thomas An Apiary of White Bees
2008 John R. Little Miranda Winner
Adam-Troy Castro The Shallow End of the Pool Finalist
Gene O'Neill The Confessions of St. Zach
Weston Ochse Redemption Roadshow
2009 Lisa Morton The Lucid Dreaming Winner
Mort Castle Dreaming Robot Monster Finalist
Scott Edelman The Hunger of Empty Vessels
Gene O'Neill Doc Good's Traveling Show
2010 Norman Prentiss Invisible Fences Winner
Brian James Freeman The Painted Darkness Finalist
Lisa Mannetti Dissolution
Kirstyn McDermott Monsters Among Us
Lisa Morton The Samhanach
2011 Peter Straub The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine Winner
Michael Louis Calvillo 7 Brains Finalist
Brian Hodge Roots and All
Caitlin R. Kiernan The Colliers' Venus (1893)
John R. Little Ursa Major
Gene O'Neill Rusting Chickens
2012 Gene O'Neill The Blue Heron Winner
Kealan Patrick Burke Thirty Miles South of Dry County Finalist
Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee I'm Not Sam
Joe McKinney and Michael McCarty Lost Girl of the Lake
Norman Prentiss The Fleshless Man
2013 Gary Braunbeck The Great Pity Winner
Dale Bailey The Bluehole Finalist
Benjamin K. Ethridge The Slaughter Man
Gregory Frost No Others Are Genuine
Greg F. Gifune House of Rain
Rena Mason East End Girls
2014 Joe R. Lansdale Fishing for Dinosaurs Winner
Taylor Grant The Infected Finalist
Eric J. Guignard Dreams of a Little Suicide
Jonathan Maberry Three Guys Walk into a Bar
Joe McKinney Lost and Found
2015 Mercedes M. Yardley Little Dead Red Winner
Gary A. Braunbeck Paper Cuts Finalist
Scott Edelman Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen
Lisa Mannetti The Box Jumper
Norman Partridge Special Collections
2016 Tim Waggoner The Winter Box Winner
Nicole Cushing The Sadist's Bible Finalist
Scott Edelman That Perilous Stuff
Victor LaValle The Ballad of Black Tom
Josh Malerman The Jupiter Drop
2017 Stephen Graham Jones Mapping the Interior Winner
Scott Edelman Faking it Until Forever Comes Finalist
Caitlin R. Kiernan Agents of Dreamland
Lucy Taylor Sweetlings
Tim Waggoner A Kiss of Thorns
2018 Rena Mason The Devil's Throat Winner
Michael Bailey Our Children, Our Teachers Finalist
Joe Hill You Are Released
Usman T. Malik Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung
Angela Yuriko Smith Bitter Suites
2019 Victor LaValle Up from Slavery Winner
Alessandro Manzetti The Keeper of Chernobyl Finalist
Anna Taborska The Cat Sitter
Sara Tantlinger To Be Devoured
Kaaron Warren Into Bones Like Oil
2020 Stephen Graham Jones Night of the Mannequins Winner
Gabino Iglesias Beyond the Reef Finalist
Gwendolyn Kiste The Invention of Ghosts
Jess Landry I Will Find You, Even in the Dark
Sarah Pinsker Two Truths and a Lie
2021 Jeff Strand Twentieth Anniversary Screening Winner
V. Castro Goddess of Filth Finalist
Cassandra Khaw Nothing But Blackened Teet
Eric LaRocca Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Hailey Piper Recitation of the First Feeding
2022 Rebecca J. Allred and Gordon B. White And in Her Smile, the World Finalist
Christa Carmen Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell
Laurel Hightower Below
Alma Katsu The Wehrwolf
EV Knight Three Days in the Pink Tower

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