Bram Stoker Awards 2020
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
StokerCon UK,
Scarborough, UK :
April 16, 2020
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April 19, 2020
Eligibility Year: 2019
Eligibility Year: 2019
Novel
- Winner: Coyote Rage, Owl Goingback (Independent Legions)
- Inspection, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
- Into the Ashes, Lee Murray (Severed)
- Wanderers, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey)
- The Worst Is Yet to Come, S. P. Miskowski (Trepidatio)
First Novel
- Winner: The Bone Weaver's Orchard, Sarah Read (Trepidatio)
- Dear Laura, Gemma Amor (self-published)
- Doorways to the Deadeye, Eric J. Guignard (JournalStone)
- Invisible Chains, Michelle Renee Lane (Haverhill House)
- The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling (Harper Voyager)
Young-adult Novel
- Winner: Oware Mosaic, Nzondi (Omnium Gatherum)
- Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds, Peter Adam Salomon (PseudoPsalms)
- Five Midnights, Ann Dávila Cardinal (Tor Teen)
- Here There Are Monsters, Amelinda Bérubé (Sourcebooks Fire)
- Rules for Vanishing, Kate Alice Marshall (Viking)
- Speak No Evil, Liana Gardner (Vesuvian)
Long Fiction
- Winner: “Up from Slavery”, Victor LaValle (Weird Tales #363)
- “The Cat Sitter”, Anna Taborska (Shadowcats)
- Into Bones Like Oil, Kaaron Warren (Meerkat)
- The Keeper of Chernobyl, Alessandro Manzetti (Omnium Gatherum)
- To Be Devoured, Sara Tantlinger (Unnerving)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary)”, Gwendolyn Kiste (Nightmare Nov 2019)
- “The Book of Last Words”, Greg Chapman (This Sublime Darkness and Other Dark Stories)
- “Bury Me in Tar and Twine”, Jess Landry (Tales of the Lost Volume 1: We All Lose Something!)
- “Lydia”, Cindy O'Quinn (The Twisted Book of Shadows)
- “A Touch of Madness”, Tim Waggoner (The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias)
Collection
- Winner: Growing Things and Other Stories, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)
- Exhalation, Ted Chiang (Knopf)
- Lady Bits, Kate Jonez (Trepidatio)
- Out of Water, Sarah Read (Trepidatio)
- Sefira and Other Betrayals, John Langan (Hippocampus)
Anthology
- Winner: Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)
- Nox Pareidolia, Robert S. Wilson, ed. (Nightscape)
- Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror, Eric J. Guignard, ed. (Dark Moon)
- A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods, Jennifer Brozek, ed. (Pulse)
- The Twisted Book of Shadows, Christopher Golden & James A. Moore, eds. (Twisted)
Nonfiction
- Winner: Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction, Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson (Quirk)
- Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays, Harriet E. H. Earle, ed. (McFarland)
- Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality, Eleanor Beal & Jonathan Greenaway, eds. (University of Wales Press)
- Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (University of Wales Press)
- Shapeshifters: A History, John B. Kachuba (Reaktion)
Short Nonfiction
- Winner: “Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman”, Gwendolyn Kiste (Vastarian Spr 2019)
- “The Evil Aging Women of American Horror Story”, Karen J. Renner (Elder Horror: Essays on Film's Frightening Images of Aging)
- “Film's First Lycanthrope”, Kelly Robinson (Scary Monsters Fall 2019)
- “Lord Byron’s Whipping Boy: Dr. John William Polidori and the 200th Anniversary of The Vampyre”, Valerie E. Weich (Famous Monsters of Filmland Oct 2019)
- “Slasher Films Made Me Gay: The Queer Appeal and Subtext of the Genre”, Vince A. Liaguno (Ginger Nuts of Horror 1 Sep 2019)
Graphic Novel
- Winner: Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples, Neil Gaiman & Colleen Doran (Dark Horse)
- Bone Parish Vol. 2, Cullen Bunn, Jonah Scharf & Alex Guimarăes (BOOM!)
- Calcutta Horror, Alessandro Manzetti, Stefano Cardoselli & Poppy Z. Brite (Independent Legions)
- H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, The First Volume, Gou Tanabe (Dark Horse Manga)
- Monstress Volume 4: The Chosen, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)
Screenplay
- Winner: Us, Jordan Peele (Monkeypaw Productions, Perfect World Pictures, Dentsu, Fuji Television Network, Universal Pictures)
- Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan (Warner Bros., Intrepid Pictures/Vertigo Entertainment)
- The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers & Max Eggers (A24, New Regency Pictures, RT Features)
- Midsommar, Ari Aster (B-Reel Films, Square Peg)
- Stranger Things: “The Battle of Starcourt”, Matt Duffer & Ross Duffer (Netflix)
Poetry Collection
- Winner: The Place of Broken Things, Linda D. Addison & Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake)
- The Apocalyptic Mannequin, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)
- Choking Back the Devil, Donna Lynch (Raw Dog Screaming)
- The Demeter Diaries, Marge Simon & Bryan D. Dietrich (Independent Legions)
- Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning, Michelle Scalise (LVP)
- Mary Shelley Makes a Monster, Octavia Cade (Aqueduct)
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