The Bram Stoker Award for Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for novels.
Winners and nominees
| Year | Recipient | Title | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Stephen King | Misery | Winner |
| 1987 | Robert R. McCammon | Swan Song | Winner |
| 1987 | Ray Garton | Live Girls | Nominee |
| 1987 | Kem Nunn | Unassigned Territory | Nominee |
| 1987 | Chet Williamson | Ash Wednesday | Nominee |
| 1988 | Thomas Harris | The Silence of the Lambs | Winner |
| 1988 | Robert R. McCammon | Stinger | Nominee |
| 1988 | F. Paul Wilson | Black Wind | Nominee |
| 1988 | Joe R. Lansdale | The Drive-In | Nominee |
| 1988 | Anne Rice | The Queen of the Damned | Nominee |
| 1988 | Richard Laymon | Flesh | Nominee |
| 1989 | Dan Simmons | Carrion Comfort | Winner |
| 1989 | Katherine Dunn | Geek Love | Nominee |
| 1989 | Charles L. Grant | In a Dark Dream | Nominee |
| 1989 | Dean R. Koontz | Midnight | Nominee |
| 1989 | Robert R. McCammon | The Wolf's Hour | Nominee |
| 1990 | Robert R. McCammon | Mine | Winner |
| 1990 | Richard Laymon | Funland | Nominee |
| 1990 | Chet Williamson | Reign | Nominee |
| 1990 | Joe R. Lansdale | Savage Season | Nominee |
| 1991 | Robert R. McCammon | Boy's Life | Winner |
| 1991 | Thomas M. Disch | The M.D. | Nominee |
| 1991 | Stephen King | Needful Things | Nominee |
| 1991 | Stephen King | The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands | Nominee |
| 1991 | Dan Simmons | Summer of Night | Nominee |
| 1992 | Thomas F. Monteleone | Blood of the Lamb | Winner |
| 1992 | Matthew Costello | Homecoming | Nominee |
| 1992 | Brian Hodge | Deathgrip | Nominee |
| 1992 | Dean R. Koontz | Hideaway | Nominee |
| 1992 | Dan Simmons | Children of the Night | Nominee |
| 1993 | Peter Straub | The Throat | Winner |
| 1993 | Kim Newman | Anno Dracula | Nominee |
| 1993 | Bradley Denton | Blackburn | Nominee |
| 1993 | Poppy Z. Brite | Drawing Blood | Nominee |
| 1993 | Bentley Little | The Summoning | Nominee |
| 1994 | Nancy Holder | Dead in the Water | Winner |
| 1994 | Caleb Carr | The Alienist | Nominee |
| 1994 | Jonathan Carroll | From the Teeth of Angels | Nominee |
| 1994 | Stephen King | Insomnia | Nominee |
| 1994 | Patrick McCabe | The Butcher Boy | Nominee |
| 1995 | Joyce Carol Oates | Zombie | Winner |
| 1995 | Billie Sue Mosiman | Widow | Nominee |
| 1995 | Yvonne Navarro | Deadrush | Nominee |
| 1995 | Alan Rodgers | Bone Music | Nominee |
| 1996 | Stephen King | The Green Mile | Winner |
| 1996 | Poppy Z. Brite | Exquisite Corpse | Nominee |
| 1996 | Owl Goingback | Crota | Nominee |
| 1996 | Peter Straub | The Hellfire Club | Nominee |
| 1997 | Janet Berliner & George Guthridge | Children of the Dusk | Winner |
| 1997 | Stephen Dobyns | The Church of Dead Girls | Nominee |
| 1997 | Tananarive Due | My Soul to Keep | Nominee |
| 1997 | Tim Powers | Earthquake Weather | Nominee |
| 1998 | Stephen King | Bag of Bones | Winner |
| 1998 | Dean R. Koontz | Fear Nothing | Nominee |
| 1998 | S. P. Somtow | Darker Angels | Nominee |
| 1998 | Thomas Tessier | Fog Heart | Nominee |
| 1999 | Peter Straub | Mr. X | Winner |
| 1999 | Owl Goingback | Darker than Night | Nominee |
| 1999 | Thomas Harris | Hannibal | Nominee |
| 1999 | Stephen King | Low Men in Yellow Coats | Nominee |
| 1999 | Tom Piccirilli | Hexes | Nominee |
| 2000 | Richard Laymon | The Traveling Vampire Show | Winner |
| 2000 | Gary A. Braunbeck | The Indifference of Heaven | Nominee |
| 2000 | Ramsey Campbell | Silent Children | Nominee |
| 2000 | Brian A. Hopkins | The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club | Nominee |
| 2000 | Tom Piccirilli | The Deceased | Nominee |
| 2001 | Neil Gaiman | American Gods | Winner |
| 2001 | Ray Bradbury | From the Dust Returned | Nominee |
| 2001 | Jack Ketchum | The Lost | Nominee |
| 2001 | Stephen King & Peter Straub | Black House | Nominee |
| 2002 | Tom Piccirilli | The Night Class | Winner |
| 2002 | Douglas Clegg | The Hour Before Dark | Nominee |
| 2002 | Stephen King | From a Buick 8 | Nominee |
| 2002 | Chuck Palahniuk | Lullaby | Nominee |
| 2002 | Alice Sebold | The Lovely Bones | Nominee |
| 2003 | Peter Straub | Lost Boy, Lost Girl | Winner |
| 2003 | Stephen King | The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla | Nominee |
| 2003 | James A. Moore | Serenity Falls | Nominee |
| 2003 | Stewart O'Nan | The Night Country | Nominee |
| 2003 | Tom Piccirilli | A Choir of Ill Children | Nominee |
| 2004 | Peter Straub | In the Night Room | Winner |
| 2004 | P. D. Cacek | The Wind Caller | Nominee |
| 2004 | Stephen King | The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower | Nominee |
| 2004 | Michael Laimo | Deep in the Darkness | Nominee |
| 2005 | David Morrell | Creepers | Winner |
| 2005 | Charlee Jacob | Dread in the Beast | Winner |
| 2005 | Gary A. Braunbeck | Keepers | Nominee |
| 2005 | Tom Piccirilli | November Mourns | Nominee |
| 2006 | Stephen King | Lisey's Story | Winner |
| 2006 | Tom Piccirilli | Headstone City | Nominee |
| 2006 | Jonathan Maberry | Ghost Road Blues | Nominee |
| 2006 | Jeff Strand | Pressure | Nominee |
| 2006 | Gary A. Braunbeck | Prodigal Blues | Nominee |
| 2007 | Sarah Langan | The Missing | Winner |
| 2007 | Bruce Boston | The Guardener's Tale | Nominee |
| 2007 | Joe Hill | Heart-Shaped Box | Nominee |
| 2007 | Erika Mailman | The Witch's Trinity | Nominee |
| 2007 | Dan Simmons | The Terror | Nominee |
| 2008 | Stephen King | Duma Key | Winner |
| 2008 | Gary A. Braunbeck | Coffin County | Nominee |
| 2008 | Nate Kenyon | The Reach | Nominee |
| 2008 | Gregory Lamberson | Johnny Gruesome | Nominee |
| 2009 | Sarah Langan | Audrey's Door | Winner |
| 2009 | Jonathan Maberry | Patient Zero | Nominee |
| 2009 | Joe McKinney | Quarantined | Nominee |
| 2009 | Jeremy Shipp | Cursed | Nominee |
| 2010 | Peter Straub | A Dark Matter | Winner |
| 2010 | Joe Hill | Horns | Nominee |
| 2010 | Jonathan Maberry | Rot & Ruin | Nominee |
| 2010 | Linda Watanabe McFerrin | Dead Love | Nominee |
| 2010 | Joe McKinney | Apocalypse of the Dead | Nominee |
| 2010 | Jeff Strand | Dweller | Nominee |
| 2011 | Joe McKinney | Flesh Eaters | Winner |
| 2011 | Christopher Conlon | A Matrix Of Angels | Nominee |
| 2011 | Gregory Lamberson | Cosmic Forces | Nominee |
| 2011 | Ronald Malfi | Floating Staircase | Nominee |
| 2011 | Gene O'Neill | Not Fade Away | Nominee |
| 2011 | Lee Thomas | The German | Nominee |
| 2012 | Caitlin R. Kiernan | The Drowning Girl | Winner |
| 2012 | Lee Thomas | The German | Nominee |
| 2012 | Benjamin Kane Ethridge | Bottled Abyss | Nominee |
| 2012 | John Everson | Nightwhere | Nominee |
| 2012 | Joe McKinney | Inheritance | Nominee |
| 2012 | Bentley Little | The Haunted | Nominee |
| 2013 | Stephen King | Doctor Sleep | Winner |
| 2013 | Joe Hill | NOS4A2 | Nominee |
| 2013 | Lisa Morton | Malediction | Nominee |
| 2013 | Sarah Pinborough & F. Paul Wilson | A Necessary End | Nominee |
| 2013 | Christopher Rice | The Heavens Rise | Nominee |
| 2014 | Steve Rasnic Tem | Blood Kin | Winner |
| 2014 | Craig DiLouie | Suffer the Children | Nominee |
| 2014 | Patrick Freivald | Jade Sky | Nominee |
| 2014 | Chuck Palahniuk | Beautiful You | Nominee |
| 2014 | Christopher Rice | The Vines | Nominee |
| 2015 | Paul G. Tremblay | A Head Full of Ghosts | Winner |
| 2015 | Clive Barker | The Scarlet Gospels | Nominee |
| 2015 | Michaelbrent Collings | The Deep | Nominee |
| 2015 | JG Faherty | The Cure | Nominee |
| 2015 | Patrick Freivald | Black Tide | Nominee |
| 2016 | John Langan | The Fisherman | Winner |
| 2016 | Elizabeth Hand | Hard Light | Nominee |
| 2016 | Stephen Graham Jones | Mongrels | Nominee |
| 2016 | Bracken MacLeod | Stranded | Nominee |
| 2016 | Paul G. Tremblay | Disappearance at Devil's Rock | Nominee |
| 2017 | Christopher Golden | Ararat | Winner |
| 2017 | Stephen King & Owen King | Sleeping Beauties | Nominee |
| 2017 | Josh Malerman | Black Mad Wheel | Nominee |
| 2017 | S. P. Miskowski | I Wish I Was Like You | Nominee |
| 2017 | Steve Rasnic Tem | Ubo | Nominee |
| 2018 | Paul G. Tremblay | The Cabin at the End of the World | Winner |
| 2018 | Alma Katsu | The Hunger | Nominee |
| 2018 | Jonathan Maberry | Glimpse | Nominee |
| 2018 | Josh Malerman | Unbury Carol | Nominee |
| 2018 | Dacre Stoker & J. D. Barker | Dracul | Nominee |
| 2019 | Owl Goingback | Coyote Rage | Winner |
| 2019 | Josh Malerman | Inspection | Nominee |
| 2019 | Lee Murray | Into the Ashes | Nominee |
| 2019 | Chuck Wendig | Wanderers | Nominee |
| 2019 | S. P. Miskowski | The Worst Is Yet to Come | Nominee |
Multiple winners
- Stephen King (6)
- Peter Straub (5)
- Robert R. McCammon (3)
- Paul Tremblay (2)
- Sarah Langan (2)
Multiple nominees
† indicates that the writer also won the award in one occasion.
- Stephen King (7)
- Peter Straub (7)
- Tom Piccirilli (6)†
- Robert R. McCammon (5)
- Joe McKinney (4)†
- Dan Simmons (4)†
- Gary A. Braunbeck (4)
- Jonathan Maberry (4)
- Paul Tremblay (3)
- Richard Laymon (3)†
- Joe Hill (3)
- Dean R. Koontz (3)
- Josh Malerman (3)
- Owl Goingback (3)†
- Sarah Langan (2)
- Steve Rasnic Tem (2)†
- Thomas Harris (2)†
- Poppy Z. Brite (2)
- Patrick Freivald (2)
- Gregory Lamberson (2)
- Joe R. Lansdale (2)
- Bentley Little (2)
- Chuck Palahniuk (2)
- Christopher Rice (2)
- Chet Williamson (2)
- F. Paul Wilson (2)
- Lee Thomas (2)
- Jeff Strand (2)
- S. P. Miskowski (2)
References
- ^ "Past Bram Stoker Nominees & Winners". Horror Writer's Association. Retrieved 26 November 2018.