Bram Stoker Awards 2023
science fiction awards database
Winners announced: June 15, 2023
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June 18, 2023
Convention: StokerCon 2023
Where: Pittsburgh PA
Eligibility Year: 2022
Convention: StokerCon 2023
Where: Pittsburgh PA
Eligibility Year: 2022
Lifetime Achievement
- Winner: Elizabeth Massie
- Winner: Nuzo Onoh
- Winner: John Saul
Novel
- Winner: The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)
- Daphne, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
- The Fervor, Alma Katsu (Putnam)
- Reluctant Immortals, Gwendolyn Kiste (Saga)
- Sundial, Catriona Ward (Nightfire)
First Novel
- Winner: Beulah, Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates)
- All the White Spaces, Ally Wilkes (Emily Bestler/Atria)
- Black Tide, KC Jones (Nightfire)
- The Hacienda, Isabel Cańas (Berkley)
- Jackal, Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
Young Adult Novel
- Winner: The Triangle, Robert P. Ottone (Raven Tale)
- Burn Down, Rise Up, Vincent Tirado (Sourcebooks Fire)
- Gallant, V. E. Schwab (Greenwillow)
- These Fleeting Shadows, Kate Alice Marshall (Viking)
- The Weight of Blood, Tiffany D. Jackson (Katherine Tegen)
- What We Harvest, Ann Fraistat (Delacorte)
Middle Grade Novel
- Winner: They Stole Our Hearts, Daniel Kraus (Holt)
- Camp Scare, Delilah S. Dawson (Delacorte)
- The Clackity, Lora Senf (Atheneum )
- A Comb of Wishes, Lisa Stringfellow (Quill Tree)
- This Appearing House, Ally Malinenko (Katherine Tegen)
Long Fiction
- Winner: The Wehrwolf, Alma Katsu (Amazon Original)
- And in Her Smile, the World, Rebecca J. Allred & Gordon B. White (Trepidatio)
- Below, Laurel Hightower (Ghoulish)
- Three Days in the Pink Tower, EV Knight (Creature)
- Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell, Christa Carmen (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Fracture”, Mercedes M. Yardley (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror)
- “Nona Doesn't Dance”, Aaron Dries (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts)
- “The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body”, J. A. W. McCarthy (A Woman Built by Man)
- “Poppy's Poppy”, Douglas Gwilym (Penumbrice Speculative Fiction Magazine)
- “A Song for Barnaby Jones”, Anna Taborska (Zagava)
- “The Star”, Anna Taborska (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcane)
Collection
- Winner: Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
- The Black Maybe, Attila Veres (Valancourt)
- Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted, RJ Joseph (The Seventh Terrace)
- Spontaneous Human Combustion, Richard Thomas (Keylight)
- We Are Here to Hurt Each Other, Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating)
Anthology
- Winner: Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
- Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology of Women in Horror, Sara Tantlinger, ed. (Strangehouse)
- Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology, Sadie Hartmann & Ashley Saywers, eds. (Dark Matter Ink)
- Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, Lindy Ryan, ed. (Black Spot)
- Mother: Tales of Love and Terror, Christi Nogle & Willow Becker, eds. (Weird Little Words)
Nonfiction
- Winner: Writing in the Dark: The Workbook, Tim Waggoner (Guide Dog)
- A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of American's Ghosts, Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes (Citadel)
- Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult, Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson (Quirk)
- Weird Fiction: A Genre Study, Michael Cisco (Palgrave)
- Writing Poetry in the Dark, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)
Short Nonfiction
- Winner: “I Don't Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)”, Lee Murray (Interstellar Flight Magazine 24 Oct 2022)
- “African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore”, L. Marie Wood (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students)
- “A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television”, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More)
- “The H Word: The Horror of Hair”, L. Marie Wood (Nightmare Magazine Jul 2022)
- “This is Not a Poem”, Cynthia Pelayo (Writing Poetry in the Dark)
Graphic Novel
- Winner: Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary, James Aquilone, ed. (Moonstone)
- Eat the Rich, Sarah Gailey, art by Pius Bak (Boom!)
- Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt, Alessandro Manzetti, art by Stefano Cardoselli (Independent Legions)
- The Me You Love in the Dark, Skottie Young, art by Jorge Corona (Image Comics)
- Something is Killing the Children Vol 4, James IV Tynion, art by Werther Dell'Edera (Boom!)
Screenplay
- Winner (tie): The Black Phone, Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill (Blumhouse Productions, Crooked Highway, Universal Pictures)
- Winner (tie): Stranger Things: “s4e1: Chapter One: The Hellfire Club”, The Duffer Brothers (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre, Netflix, Upside Down Pictures)
- Men, Alex Garland (DNA Films)
- The Pale Blue Eye, Scott Cooper (Cross Creek Pictures, Grisbi Productions, Streamline Global Group)
- Pearl, Mia Goth & Ti West (A24, Bron Creative, Little Lamb, New Zealand Film Commission)
Poetry Collection
- Winner: Crime Scene, Cynthia Pelayo (Raw Dog Screaming)
- Girls from the County, Donna Lynch (Raw Dog Screaming)
- The Gravity of Existence, Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight)
- The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry, Sumiko Saulson (self-published)
- Sifting the Ashes, Michael Bailey & Marge Simon (Crystal Lake)
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