Bram Stoker Awards 2025
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
StokerCon 2025,
Stamford CT :
June 14, 2025
Eligibility Year: 2024
Eligibility Year: 2024
Lifetime Achievement
- Winner: David Cronenberg
- Winner: Del Howison & Sue Howison
Novel
- Winner: The Haunting of Velkwood, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
- Horror Movie, Paul Tremblay (William Morrow)
- House of Bone and Rain, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
- I Was a Teenage Slasher, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- Incidents Around the House, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
First Novel
- Winner: The Eyes Are the Best Part, Monika Kim (Erewhom)
- Bless Your Heart, Lindy Ryan (Minotaur Books)
- Hollow Girls, Jessica Drake-Thomas (Cemetery Dance)
- Midnight Rooms, Donyae Coles (Amistad)
- This Wretched Valley, Jenny Kiefer (Quirk)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo, Adam Cesare (HarperCollins Children's)
- The Blonde Dies First, Joelle Wellington (Simon & Schuster)
- Come Out, Come Out, Natalie C. Parker (Putnam's)
- The Losting Fountain, Lora Senf (Union Square)
- A Place for Vanishing, Ann Fraistat (Delacorte)
Middle Grade Novel
- Winner (tie): The Creeping of Dogwood House, Eden Royce (Walden Pond)
- Winner (tie): There's Something Sinister in Center Field, Robert P. Ottone (Cemetary Gates)
- The Curse of Eelgrass Bog, Mary Averling (Razorbill)
- The No-Brainer's Guide to Decomposition, Adrianna Cuevas (HarperCollins Children's)
- The Witch in the Woods, Michaelbrent Collings (Shadow Mountain)
Long Fiction
- Winner: Coup de Grâce, Sofia Ajram (Titan)
- “All the Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn”, Eric LaRocca (This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances)
- Hollow Tongue, Eden Royce (Raw Dog Screaming)
- Kill Your Darling, Clay McLeod Chapman (Bad Hand)
- Rest Stop, Nat Cassidy (Shortwave)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Versus Versus”, Laird Barron (Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners)
- “And She Had Been So Reasonable”, Rachel Bolton (Apex Nov 2024)
- “She Sheds Her Skin”, Raven Jabukowski (Nightmare Nov 2024)
- “Ten Thousand Crawling Children”, R. A. Busby (Nightmare Jan 2024)
- “To the Wolves”, Sasha Brown (Weird Horror Fall 2024)
Fiction Collection
- Winner: Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales, Mercedes M. Yardley (Cemetery Dance)
- The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls, Angela Sylvaine (Dark Matter Ink)
- Not a Speck of Light, Laird Barron (Bad Hand)
- Old Monsters Never Die, Tim Waggoner (Winding Road Stories)
- A Sunny Place for Shady People, Mariana Enriquez (Penguin)
Anthology
- Winner: Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point, Carol Gyzander & Anna Taborska, eds. (Flame Tree)
- Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, Sofia Ajram, ed. (Ghoulish Books)
- Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse and Bad Manners, Doug Murano & Michael Bailey, eds. (Bad Hand)
- Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror: A Women in Horror Anthology, Lindy Ryan, ed. (Black Spot)
- We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures, Rob Costello, ed. (Running Press)
Long Non-fiction
- Winner: Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch, Emily C. Hughes (Quirk)
- American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond, Jeremy Dauber (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
- Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us, Anna Bogutskaya (Faber & Faber)
- I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies, Heidi Honeycutt (HeadPress)
- No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes, Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar (Vernon)
Short Non-fiction
- Winner: “Blacks in Film and Cultivated Bias”, Lisa Wood (No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes)
- “Hidden Histories: The Many Ghosts of Disney's Haunted Mansion”, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse)
- “The Horror of Donna Berzatto and Her Feast of the Seven Fishes”, Vince A. Liaguno (You're Not Alone in the Dark)
- “Jackson and Haunting of the Stage”, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Journal of Shirley Jackson Studies Vol. 2 No. 1)
- “Screamin’ in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle’s The Tingler”, Michael Arnzen (What Sleeps Beneath)
Graphic Novel
- Winner: H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, Gou Tanabe (Dark Horse)
- Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, Patrick Horvath (Penguin Random House)
- Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, Maggie Umber (Maggie Umber)
- The Fox Maidens, Robin Ha (HarperCollins Children's)
- Tender, Beth Hetland (Fantagraphics)
Screenplay
- Winner: The Substance, Coralie Fargeat (Working Title Film, Good Story, Blacksmith)
- Heretic, Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (A24, Shiny Penny, Beck/Woods)
- I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun (A24, Fruit Tree, Smudge Films)
- Longlegs, Osgood Perkins (C2 Motion Picture Group, Creature Features, Oddfellow Entertainment)
- Nosferatu, Robert Eggers, Henrik Galeen & Bram Stoker (Focus Features, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Studio 8)
Poetry
- Winner: Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future, Pedro Iniguez (Space Cowboy)
- The Dark Between the Twilight, Jamal Hodge (Crystal Lake)
- Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud, Lee Murray (The Cuba Press)
- Imitation of Life, L. Marie Wood (Falstaff)
- Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry, Sumiko Saulson (Bludgeoned Girls)
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