Book Awards

2016 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerA Head Full of GhostsPaul TremblayThe lives of the Barretts, a suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to halt Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stabl...Amazon2016 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistBlack TidePatrick FreivaldAmazonThe CureJ. G. FahertyAmazonThe DeepMichaelbrent CollingsAmazonThe Scarlet GospelsClive BarkerAmazon

2015 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerBlood KinSteve Rasnic Tem...Amazon2015 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistBeautiful YouChuck PalahniukAmazonJade SkyPatrick FrievaldAmazonSuffer the ChildrenCraig DiLouieAmazonThe VinesChristopher RiceAmazon

2014 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerDoctor SleepStephen KingAfter decades as an itinerant alcoholic, middle-aged Dan Torrance uses his remnant powers to assist the dying before coming to the aid of a twelve-year-old girl being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals....Amazon2014 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistA Necessary EndSarah Pinborough & F. Paul WilsonAmazonMaledictionLisa MortonAmazonNOS4A2Joe HillAmazonThe Heavens RiseChristopher RiceAmazon

2013 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerThe Drowning GirlCaitlín R. KiernanIndia Morgan Phelps-Imp to her friends-is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about her encounters with creatures out of myth-or from something far, far stranger......Amazon2013 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistBottled AbyssBenjamin Kane EthridgeAmazonInheritanceJoe McKinneyAmazonNightWhereJohn EversonAmazonThe HauntedBentley LittleAmazon

2012 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerFlesh EatersJoe McKinneyBattered by three devastating hurricanes in a row, the Texas coast is flattened. But for the people of Houston--and soon all of America--the most terrifying events are just beginning. . . They Rise. . . Out of the flooded streets of Houston, they emerge fr...Amazon2012 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistA Matrix of AngelsChristopher ConlonAmazonCosmic ForcesGregory LambersonAmazonFloating StaircaseRonald MalfiAmazonNot Fade AwayGene O'NeillAmazonThe GermanLee ThomasAmazon

2011 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerA Dark MatterPeter StraubForty years ago, Spenser Mallon led a group of young students to witness a brutal, ritual murder. The survivors never recovered. Now, it seems, he's back... It is the 1960s and the charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru, attracting the dev...Amazon2011 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistApocalypse of the DeadJoe McKinneyAmazonDead LoveLinda Watanabe McFerrinAmazonDwellerJeff StrandAmazonHornsJoe HillAmazonRot & RuinJonathan MaberryAmazon

2009 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerDuma KeyStephen KingRenting a house on the Florida coast after suffering a crippling accident and ending his marriage, construction millionaire Edgar Freemantle creates works of art that lead him to discover unsettling elements from his landlady's enigmatic family history....Amazon2009 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistCoffin CountyGary BraunbeckAmazonJohnny GruesomeGregory LambersonAmazonThe ReachNate KenyonAmazon

2008 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerThe MissingSarah LanganA remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change in a heartbeat . . . The nightmare is awakened when third-grade school...Amazon2008 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistHeart-Shaped BoxJoe HillAmazonThe Guardener's TaleBruce BostonAmazonThe TerrorDan SimmonsAmazonThe Witch's TrinityErika MailmanAmazon

2007 Bram Stoker - Novel WinnerLisey's StoryStephen KingTwo years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as an award-winning novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural...Amazon2007 Bram Stoker - Novel ShortlistGhost Road BluesJonathan MaberryAmazonHeadstone CityTom PiccirilliAmazonPressureJeff StrandAmazonProdigal BluesGary A. BraunbeckAmazon