Bram Stoker Awards 2026
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
StokerCon 2026,
Pittsburgh PA :
June 4, 2026
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June 7, 2026
Eligibility Year: 2025
Eligibility Year: 2025
Novel
- The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- Girl in the Creek, Wendy N. Wagner (Tor Nightfire)
- King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow)
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
First Novel
- The Faceless Thing We Adore, Hester Steel (Page Street Horror)
- Her Wicked Roots, Tanya Pell (Gallery)
- Listen to Your Sister, Neena Viel (St. Martin's Griffin)
- Molting, Kathryn Tennison (Uncomfortably Dark Horror)
- Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It)
- The October Film Haunt, Michael Wehunt (St. Martin's)
- The Scald-Crow, Grace Daly (Creature)
Young Adult Novel
- Beautiful Brutal Bodies, Linda Cheng (Roaring Brook)
- A Girl Walks into the Forest, Madeleine Roux (Quill Tree)
- Shiny Happy People, Clay McLeod Chapman (Delacorte)
- The Silenced, Diana Rodriguez Wallach (Delacorte)
- We're Not Safe Here, Rin Chupeco (Sourcebooks)
Middle Grade Novel
- Broken Dolls, Ally Malinenko (HarperCollins Children's)
- The Girl in the Walls, Meg Eden Kuyatt (Scholastic)
- The House Next Door, Ellen Oh (HarperCollins Children's)
- Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, Ally Russell (Delacorte)
- Ride or Die, Delilah S. Dawson (Delacorte)
Long Fiction
- Cathedral of the Drowned, Nathan Ballingrud (Tor Nightfire)
- Pam Kowolski is a Monster!, Sarah Langan (Raw Dog Screaming)
- “Squid Teeth”, Sarah Langan (Reactor 7 May 2025)
- “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories)
- “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon”, A. C. Wise (Reactor 13 Jan 2025)
Short Fiction
- “[Ir]reversible”, Anna Taborska (Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthony of Stories, Poems, and Essays)
- “Autogas Ferryman”, Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmare Sep 2025)
- “Inheritance”, R. J. Joseph (Full Throttle: A Dark Dozen Anthony)
- “Saint Dymphna's School for Borderland Girls”, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Weird Horror Apr 2025; Undertow Publicatoins)
- “Stomata”, L. E. Daniels (Darkness Most Fowl)
Fiction Collection
- Acquired Taste, Clay McLeod Chapman (Titan)
- Cyanide Constellations: And Other Stories, Sara Tantlinger (Dark Matter Ink)
- Little Horn: Stories, Gemma Files (Shortwave)
- Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, John Langan (Wood Horde)
- Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, Hailey Piper (Titan)
Anthology
- The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery)
- Howl: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror, Lindy Ryan & Stephanie M. Wytovich, eds. (Black Spot)
- Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
- Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams)
- This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree)
Long Non-fiction
- America's Most Gothic, Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes (Kensington)
- Global Indigenous Horror, Naomi Simone Borwein (University of Mississippi Press)
- Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explain Why We Can't Look Away, Coltan Scrivner (Penguin Books)
- The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters, Brandon R. Grafius & John W. Morehead, eds. (Oxford University Press)
- Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga)
Short Non-fiction
- “Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monster”, Patrick Barb (Interstellar Flight 3 Oct 2025)
- “Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism”, Mo Moshaty (Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre)
- “My Long Road to Horror”, Tananarive Due (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction)
- “My Mother Was Margaret White”, Cynthia Pelayo (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction)
- “Why Horror”, Stephen Graham Jones (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction)
Graphic Novel
- Athanasia, Daniel Kraus, illustrated by Dani (Vault)
- Bowling with Corpses and Other Tales from Lands Unknown, Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)
- John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight Vol. 11, Sandy King, ed. (Storm King)
- Jumpscare, Cullen Bunn, illustrated by Danny Luckert (Dark Horse)
- Let This One Be a Devil, Steve Foxe, James IV Tynion & Piotr Kowalski, illus3 (Dark Horse)
Screenplay
- 28 Years Later, Alex Garland (Sony, Columbia Pictures, TSG Entertainment)
- Bring Her Back, Bill Hinzman & Danny Philippou (Causeway Films, Salmira Productions, The South Australian Film Corporation)
- Companion, Drew Hancock (New Line Cinema, BoulderLight Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment)
- Sinners, Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros., Domain, Proximity)
- Weapons, Zach Cregger (New Line Cinema, Domain, Subconscious)
Poetry
- Allegories of Beauty & Violence: A Collection of Gothic Romance Poems, MarieAnn C. Raguso (Analyze This)
- Everything Endless, Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Raw Dog Screaming)
- The Haunting, Cate Peebles (Tupelo)
- Songs of Enough: An Inferno All My Own, Maxwell I. Gold (Hippocampus)
- The Uterus is an Impossible Forest, Shannon Kearns (Raw Dog Screaming)
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