2015 Bram Stoker Award Winners Announced

At this year’s StokerCon convention, in the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas, the Horror Writers Association – the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy – announced the winners of the 2015 Bram Stoker Awards (named in honor of the author of the seminal horror novel, Dracula).

The winners and finalists included:

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL

• WINNER: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
• The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
• The Deep by Michaelbrent Collings
• The Cure by JG Faherty
• Black Tide by Patrick Freivald

 SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL

• WINNER: Suicide by Nicole Cushing
• Shutter by Courtney Alameda
• We Are Monsters by Brian Kirk
• Hannahwhere by John McIlveen
• Riding the Centipede by John Claude Smith

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

• WINNER: Devil’s Pocket by John Dixon
• Never Let Me Sleep by Jennifer Brozek
• The Ridealong by Michaelbrent Collings
• Hallowed by Tonya Hurley
• The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson
• End Times at Ridgemont High by Ian Welke

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A GRAPHIC NOVELl

• WINNER: Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, edited by Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Chris Ryall and Carlos Guzman
• Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints by Cullen Bunn
• Hellbound by Victor Gischler
• Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him by Robert Kirkman
• Wytches, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder

 SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION

• WINNER: “Little Dead Red” by Mercedes M. Yardley  (Grimm Mistresses)
• “Paper Cuts” by Gary A. Braunbeck (Seize the Night)
• The Box Jumper by Lisa Mannetti
• “Special Collections” by Norman Partridge (The Library of the Dead)
• “Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen” by Scott Edelman (Dark Discoveries #30)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION

• WINNER: “Happy Joe’s Rest Stop” by John Palisano (18 Wheels of Horror)
• “All the Day You’ll Have Good Luck” by Kate Jonez (Black Static #47)
• The Algernon Effect by Gene O’Neill
• “Sing Me Your Scars” by Damien Angelica Walters (Sing Me Your Scars)
• “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” by Alyssa Wong (Nightmare Magazine #37)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A SCREENPLAY

• WINNER: It Follows by David Robert Mitchell
• Crimson Peak by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins
• Penny Dreadful: “And Hell Itself My Only Foe” by John Logan
• Penny Dreadful: “Nightcomers” by John Logan
• What We Do in the Shadows by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY

• WINNER: The Library of the Dead, edited by Michael Bailey
• The Doll Collection: Seventeen Brand-New Tales of Dolls, edited by Ellen Datlow
• Seize the Night, edited by Christopher Golden
• nEvermore!, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles
• The X-Files: Trust No One, edited by Jonathan Maberry
• Midian Unmade, edited by Joseph Nassise and Del Howison

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FICTION COLLECTION

• WINNER: While the Black Stars Burn by Lucy A. Snyder
• Halfway Down the Stairs by Gary A. Braunbeck
• The Mirrors by Nicole Cushing
• The Dark at the End of the Tunnel by Taylor Grant
• The Hitchhiking Effect by Gene O’Neill

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NON-FICTION

• WINNER: The Art of Horror by Stephen Jones
• The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror, edited by Justin Everett and Jeffrey H. Shanks
• Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth by Michael Knost
• Horror 201: The Silver Scream, edited by Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley
• Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining by Danel Olson

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A POETRY COLLECTION

• WINNER: Eden Underground by Alessandro Manzetti
• Resonance Dark and Light by Bruce Boston
• Dark Energies by Ann Schwader
• Naughty Ladies by Marge Simon
• An Exorcism of Angels by Stephanie M. Wytovich

Additionally, the following awards (which had been announced earlier) were presented to their respective recipients:

• Lifetime Achievement Award– Alan Moore and George A. Romero
• Silver Hammer Award– Michael Knost
• Specialty Press Award– Borderlands Press
• Mentor of the Year Award– Tim Waggoner
• Richard Laymon President’s Award– Patrick Freivald and Andrew Wolter

Congratulations to all!