Where and When:
StokerCon 2024,
San Diego CA :
June 1, 2024
Eligibility Year:
2023
Middle Grade Novel
- Winner: The Nighthouse Keeper, Lora Senf (Atheneum)
- Frances and the Werewolves of the Black Forest, Refe Tuma (HarperCollins)
- Los Monstruos: Felice and the Wailing Woman, Diana López (Kokila)
- Monster Camp, Sarah Henning (McElderry)
- What Stays Buried, Suzanne Young (HarperCollins)
Anthology
- Winner: Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Random House)
- American Cannibal, Rebecca Rowland, ed. (Maenad)
- The Drive-In: Multiplex, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Pandi)
- Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., eds. (Vintage)
- Shakespeare Unleashed, James Aquilone, ed. (Crystal Lake)
Short Non-fiction
- Winner: “Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia”, Nadia Bulkin (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)
- “100 Livers”, K. P. Kilski (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)
- “Displaced Spirits”, Lee Murray (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)
- “A Theatre of Ghosts, a Haunted Cinema: The Japanese Gothic as Theatrical Tradition in Gurozuka”, Kevin Wetmore, Jr. (Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture: Special Issue on Asian Gothic Jun 2023)
- “Words Wielded by Women”, Carina Bissett (Apex May 2023)
Screenplay
- Winner: Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki (Robot Communications, Toho Studios)
- Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea: “Episode 03:06”, Charlie Brooker (Zeppotron, Babieka, Banijay Entertainment, Broke and Bones, House of Tomorrow)
- Huesera: The Bone Woman, Michelle Garza Cervera & Abia Castillo (Disruptiva Films, Machete Producciones, MalignoGorehouse)
- No One Will Save You, Brian Duffield (20th Century Studios, Star Thrower Entertainment)
- When Evil Lurks, Demián Rugna (Machaco Films, Aramos Cine, Shudder)