The Horror Writers Association is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards®. The winners were announced on Saturday, June 6th, 2026 during the gala awards banquet at StokerCon® in Pittsburgh, PA, and were livestreamed on the organization’s YouTube channel.
The 2025 Bram Stoker Awards®
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)
WINNER: 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)
WINNER: 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)
WINNER: 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)
WINNER: 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 (tie)
WINNER: 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)
WINNER: 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)
WINNER: Spratford, Becky Siegel, ed. — Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction (Saga Press)
Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel
WINNER: 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)
WINNER: 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)
WINNER: 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
WINNER: 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)
WINNER: 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)
WINNER: 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
WINNER: 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 IntoThe Forest (Quill Tree Books)
SPECIALTY AWARDS
Specialty Press Award: Bad Hand Books
Richard Laymon President’s Award: Marc L. Abbott
Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award: Sarah Read
Mentor of the Year Award: Eric Guignard
Lifetime Achievement Award Winners: Lisa Morton, Jonathan Maberry
