Bram Stoker Awards 2025 Awards Nominations Announced

Celebrating A Year In Horror Fiction

Established horror awards The Bram Stoker Awards just announced their nominees for the past year and there’s quite a few comic people nominated so here’s that list in full…

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Day, Julie C.; Bissett, Carina; and Gidney, Craig Laurance, eds. — Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology (Essential Dreams Press)

Golden, Christopher and Keene, Brian, eds. — The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand (Gallery Books)

Kulski, Kristy Park, ed. — Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora (Bad Hand Books)

Murray, Lee and Jeffery, Dave, eds. — This Way Lies Madness: Stories from the Edge of Darkness (Flame Tree Publishing)

Ryan, Lindy and Wytovich, Stephanie M., eds. — HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror (Black Spot Books)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Chapman, Clay McLeod — Acquired Taste (Titan Books)

Files, Gemma — Little Horn: Stories (Shortwave)

Langan, John — Lost in The Dark and Other Excursions (Word Horde)

Piper, Hailey — Teenage Girls Can Be Demons (Titan Books)

Tantlinger, Sara — Cyanide Constellations (Dark Matter INK)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Daly, Grace — The Scald-Crow (Creature Publishing)

Karella, Bitter — Moonflow (Run For It)

Pell, Tanya — Her Wicked Roots (Gallery Books)

Steel, Hester — The Faceless Thing We Adore (Page Street Horror)

Tennison, Kathryn — Molting (Uncomfortably Dark Horror)

Viel, Neena — Listen to Your Sister (St. Martin’s Griffin / Titan Books)

Wehunt, Michael — The October Film Haunt (St. Martin’s Press)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Bunn, Cullen (writer) and Luckert, Danny (artist) – Jumpscare (Dark Horse Comics)

King, Sandy (editor) – John Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight, Volume 11 (Storm King Comics)

Kraus, Daniel (writer) and Dani (artist) – Athanasia (VAULT Comics)

Mignola, Mike – Bowling With Corpses and Other Tales from Lands Unknown (Dark Horse Comics)

Tynion IV, James (writer), Foxe, Steve (writer), and Kowalski, Piotr (artist) – Let This One Be a Devil – (Dark Horse Comics & Tiny Onion Studios)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Ballingrud, Nathan — Cathedral of the Drowned (Tor Nightfire  / Titan Books)

Ha, Thomas — “Uncertain Sons” (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Undertow Publications)

Langan, Sarah — “Squid Teeth”(Reactor)

Langan, Sarah — Pam Kowolski is a Monster! (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Wise, A.C. — “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon” (Reactor)

Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction

Borwein, Naomi Simone, ed. — Global Indigenous Horror (University Press of Mississippi)

Grafius, Brandon R. and Morehead, John W., eds. — The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters (Oxford University Press)

Hieber, Leanna Renee and Janes, Andrea — America’s Most Gothic (Kensington Publishing)

Scrivner, Coltan — Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away (Penguin Random House)

Spratford, Becky Siegel, ed. — Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction (Saga Press)

Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel

Dawson, Delilah S. — Ride or Die (Delacorte Press)

Kuyatt, Meg Eden — The Girl in the Walls (Scholastic Press)

Malinenko, Ally — Broken Dolls (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

Oh, Ellen — The House Next Door (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

Russell, Ally — Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave (Delacorte Press)

Superior Achievement in a Novel

Hendrix, Grady — Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (Berkley)

Hill, Joe — King Sorrow (William Morrow)

Jones, Stephen Graham — The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Saga Press / Titan Books)

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia — The Bewitching (Del Rey)

Wagner, Wendy N. — Girl in the Creek (Tor Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in Poetry (Collection and Long Form)

Addison, Linda D. and Hodge, Jamal — Everything Endless (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Gold, Maxwell I. — Songs of Enough: An Inferno All My Own (Hippocampus Press)

Kearns, Shannon — The Uterus is an Impossible Forest (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Peebles, Cate — The Haunting (Tupelo Press)

Raguso, MarieAnn C, PhD — Allegories of Beauty & Violence: a collection of Gothic Romance Poems (Analyze This)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

Coogler, Ryan — Sinners  (Warner Bros. / Domain / Proximity)

Cregger, Zach — Weapons (New Line Cinema / Domain / Subconscious)

Garland, Alex — 28 Years Later (Sony / Columbia Pictures / TSG Entertainment)

Hancock, Drew — Companion (New Line Cinema / BoulderLight Pictures / Vertigo Entertainment)

Philippou, Danny and Hinzman, Bill — Bring Her Back (Causeway Films / Salmira Productions / The South Australian Film Corporation)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

Daniels, L.E. — “Stomata” (Darkness Most Fowl, The Godmother of Horror Press)

Joseph, RJ – “Inheritance” (Full Throttle: A Dark Dozen Anthology, Uncomfortably Dark Publishing)

Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn — “Saint Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls”  (Weird Horror #10, Undertow Publications)

Taborska, Anna — “[Ir]reversible” (Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays, Hippocampus Press)

Wongsatayanont, Champ – “Autogas Ferryman” (Nightmare Magazine #156, Adamant Press)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

Barb, Patrick — “Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monster” (Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press)

Due, Tananarive — “My Long Road to Horror” (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Saga Press)

Jones, Stephen Graham — “Why Horror” (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Saga Press)

Moshaty, Mo — “Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism” (Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre) (1428 Publishing Ltd)

Pelayo, Cynthia — “My Mother Was Margaret White” (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Saga Press)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Chapman, Clay McLeod – Shiny Happy People (Delacorte Press)

Cheng, Linda — Beautiful Brutal Bodies (Roaring Brook Press)

Chupeco, Rin — We’re Not Safe Here (Sourcebooks)

Rodriguez Wallach, Diana — The Silenced (Delacorte Press)

Roux, Madeleine — A Girl Walks Into The Forest (Quill Tree Books)

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it. Founded in the late 1980s, it now has more than 2000 members around the world and is the oldest and most respected professional organization for creators of horror fiction. The HWA encourages public interest in and appreciation of horror and dark fantasy literature and hosts an annual professional conference, StokerCon. HWA is also dedicated to recognizing and promoting diversity in the horror genre, and practices a strict antiharassment policy at all of its events.