Bram Stoker Awards 1998
science fiction awards database
Eligibility Year: 1997
Novel
- Winner: Children of the Dusk, Janet Berliner & George Guthridge (White Wolf)
- The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns (Metropolitan)
- Earthquake Weather, Tim Powers (Legend; Tor)
- My Soul to Keep, Tananarive Due (HarperCollins)
First Novel
- Winner: Lives of the Monster Dogs, Kirsten Bakis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- The Art of Arrow Cutting, Stephen Dedman (Tor)
- Drawn to the Grave, Mary Ann Mitchell (Leisure)
- Hungry Eyes, Barry Hoffman (Gauntlet Press)
- The Inquisitor, Mary Murrey (Lapwing Books)
Long Fiction/novelette
- Winner: “The Big Blow”, Joe R. Lansdale (Revelations)
- “Coppola's Dracula”, Kim Newman (The Mammoth Book of Dracula)
- “Everything's Eventual”, Stephen King (F&SF Oct/Nov 1997)
- “The Word”, Ramsey Campbell (Revelations)
- “The Zombies of Madison County”, Douglas E. Winter (Dark of the Night)
Short Story
- Winner: “Rat Food”, Edo van Belkom & David Nickle (On Spec Spring 1997)
- “I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes”, Douglas Clegg (Palace Corbie 7)
- “Madame Babylon”, Brian Hodge (Hot Blood: Crimes of Passion)
- “A Plague on Both Your Houses”, Scott Edelman (Best New Horror 8)
Collection
- Winner: Exorcisms and Ecstasies, Karl Edward Wagner (Fedogan & Bremer)
- Painted in Blood, Lucy Taylor (Silver Salamander Press)
- Things Left Behind, Gary A. Braunbeck (Cemetery Dance Publications)
- The Throne of Bones, Brian McNaughton (Terminal Fright Press)
Nonfiction
- Winner: Dark Thoughts: On Writing, Stanley Wiater (Underwood Books)
- Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror, Stephen Jones (HarperPrism)
- Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography, Katherine Ramsland (HarperPrism)
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute & John Grant, eds. (Orbit; St. Martin's)
- The Hammer Story, Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes (Titan Books)
- Video Watchdog, Tim Lucas, ed.
Specialty Press Award
- Winner: Cemetery Dance, Richard Chizmar
Life Achievement
- Winner: William Peter Blatty
- Winner: Jack Williamson
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