Lord Ruthven Awards Winners By Year
science fiction awards database
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— 2025 — | |
| fiction | What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher |
| nonfiction | The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire, Simon Bacon, ed. |
| media | (tie) Abigail |
| media | (tie) Nosferatu |
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— 2024 — | |
| fiction | The God of Endings, Jacqueline Holland |
| nonfiction | Contagion and the Vampire: The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in the 21st Century, Simon Bacon |
| media | The Last Voyage of the Demeter |
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— 2023 — | |
| fiction | A Dowry of Blood, S. T. Gibson |
| nonfiction | A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture: Love at First Bite, Violet Fenn |
| media | Interview with the Vampire |
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— 2022 — | |
| fiction | The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse, Jessica Levai |
| nonfiction | (tie) A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture: Love at First Bite, Violet Fenn |
| nonfiction | (tie) The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead, Simon Bacon |
| special recognition | Elizabeth Miller, for "her foundational contributions to vampire, specifically Dracula, studies" |
| media | Midnight Mass |
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— 2021 — | |
| fiction | The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix |
| nonfiction | The Global Vampire: Essays on The Undead in Popular Culture Around the World, Cait Coker, ed. |
| special | Journal of Vampire Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, Anthony Hogg & Andrew M. Boylan, eds. |
| media | Dracula |
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— 2020 — | |
| fiction | The Demeter Diaries, Marge Simon & Bryan D. Dietrich |
| nonfiction | Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction and Popular Culture, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn |
| media | What We Do in the Shadows |
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— 2019 — | |
| fiction | European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss |
| nonfiction | I Am Legend as American Myth: Race and Masculinity in the Novel and Its Film Adaptations, Amy J. Ransom |
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— 2018 — | |
| fiction | The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories, Charlaine Harris |
| nonfiction | Vampire Films of the 1970s, Gary A. Smith |
| media | Midnight, Texas |
| special citation | Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula, Bram Stoker & Valdimar Ásmundsson, translated by Hans Corneel de Roos |
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— 2017 — | |
| fiction | Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, Anne Rice |
| nonfiction | Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula, David J. Skal |
| media | (tie) The Vampire Historian Podcast |
| media | (tie) Vamped.org, Anthony Hogg |
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— 2016 — | |
| fiction | Jacob, David Gerrold |
| nonfiction | The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography, J. Gordon Melton & Alysa Hornick |
| media | What We Do in the Shadows |
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— 2015 — | |
| fiction | The Quick, Lauren Owen |
| nonfiction | Vampires Are Us, Margot Adler |
| media | Only Lovers Left Alive |
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— 2014 — | |
| fiction | NOS4A2, Joe Hill |
| nonfiction | Fanged Fan Fiction, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth & Malin Isaksson |
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— 2013 — | |
| fiction | Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers |
| nonfiction | The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema, Jeffrey Weinstock |
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— 2012 — | |
| fiction | The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan |
| nonfiction | The Vampire Defanged, Susannah Clements |
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— 2011 — | |
| fiction | A Taint in the Blood, S. M. Stirling |
| nonfiction | Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010, John Edgar Browning & Caroline Joan Picart, eds. |
| other media | Being Human |
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— 2010 — | |
| fiction | The Strain, Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan |
| nonfiction | Vampire God: The Allure of the Undead in Western Culture, Mary Y. Hallab |
| media/popular culture | Thirst |
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— 2009 — | |
| fiction | The Dracula Dossier, James Reese |
| nonfiction | Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition, Elizabeth Miller & Robert Eighteen-Bisang, eds. |
| media/popular culture | HBO's True Blood |
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— 2008 — | |
| fiction | The Undead, Joel H. Emerson |
| nonfiction | Troublesome Corpses: Vampires and Revenants from Antiquity to the Present, David Keyworth |
| media/popular culture | No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain |
| special citation | Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden |
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— 2007 — | |
| fiction | Renfield: Slave of Dracula, Barbara Hambly |
| nonfiction | Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead, Bruce McClelland |
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— 2006 — | |
| fiction | The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova |
| nonfiction | Blood Obsession: Vampires, Serial Murder, and the Popular Imagination, Jorg Waltje |
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— 2005 — | |
| fiction | Vamped, David Sosnowski |
| nonfiction | Bram Stoker: A Bibliography, Richard Dalby & William Hughes |
| media/popular culture | Vampire Dreams |
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— 2004 — | |
| fiction | Fat White Vampire Blues, Andrew Fox |
| nonfiction | Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale, James B. South, ed. |
| media/popular culture | Dracula |
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— 2003 — | |
| fiction | Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris |
| nonfiction | Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most, William Patrick Day |
| media/popular culture | Diary of a Virgin |
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— 2002 — | |
| fiction | Blood Will Tell, Jean Lorrah |
| nonfiction | Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires, Michael Bell |
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— 2001 — | |
| fiction | Blood to Blood: The Dracula Story Continues, Elaine Bergstrom |
| nonfiction | Dracula: Sense and Nonsense, Elizabeth Miller |
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— 2000 — | |
| fiction | Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett |
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— 1999 — | |
| fiction | The Vampire Files: A Chill in the Blood, P. N. Elrod |
| nonfiction | Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism, Carol A. Senf |
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— 1998 — | |
| fiction | Writ in Blood, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
| nonfiction | Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, Carol Margaret Davison & Paul Simpson-Housley, eds. |
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— 1997 — | |
| fiction | The World on Blood, Jonathan Nasar |
| nonfiction | V is for Vampire: An A to Z Guide to Everything Undead, David J. Skal |
| special award | Raymond McNally |
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— 1996 — | |
| fiction | Travelling with the Dead, Barbara Hambly |
| nonfiction | Our Vampires, Ourselves, Nina Auerbach |
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— 1995 — | |
| nonfiction | The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, J. Gordon Melton |
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— 1994 — | |
| nonfiction | The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, David J. Skal |
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— 1993 — | |
| fiction | Anno Dracula, Kim Newman |
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— 1990 — | |
| fiction | Sunglasses After Dark, Nancy A. Collins |
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— 1989 — | |
| fiction | The Empire of Fear, Brian Stableford |
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