The Bram Stoker Award for First Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for an author's first horror novel.
Year | Recipient | Title | Citation | Ref. |
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1987 | Lisa Cantrell | The Manse | Winner | [4] |
Clive Barker | The Damnation Game | Nominee | [4] | |
Rex Miller | Slob | |||
Tony Richards | The Harvest Bride | |||
Steve Rasnic Tem | Excavation | |||
1988 | Kelley Wilde | The Suiting | Winner | [5] |
Michael Paine | Cities of the Dead | Nominee | [5] | |
Kevin J. Anderson | Resurrection, Inc. | |||
Allen Lee Harris | Deliver Us From Evil | |||
J. Michael Straczynski | Demon Night | |||
John L. Byrne | Fear Book | |||
1989 | Nancy A. Collins | Sunglasses After Dark | Winner | [6] |
Tom Elliott (JW Paine) | The Dwelling | Nominee | [6] | |
Douglas Clegg | Goat Dance | |||
Dean Wesley Smith | Laying The Music To Rest | |||
Jean Paiva | The Lilith Factor | |||
1990 | Bentley Little | The Revelation | Winner | [7] |
Alan Rodgers | Blood of the Children | Nominee | [7] | |
Tom Piccirilli | Dark Father | |||
T. Chris Martindale | Nightblood | |||
1991 | Kathe Koja | The Cipher | Winner | [8] |
Melanie Tem | Prodigal | |||
Chris Curry & L. Dean James | Winter Scream | Nominee | [8] | |
Dennis Danvers | Wilderness | |||
Ashley McConnell | Unearthed | |||
1992 | Elizabeth Massie | Sineater | Winner | [9] |
Poppy Z. Brite | Lost Souls | Nominee | [9] | |
Brian D'Amato | Beauty | |||
Gary Raisor | Less Than Human | |||
Wayne Allen Salee | The Holy Terror | |||
1993 | Nina Kiriki Hoffman | The Thread that Binds the Bones | Winner | [10] |
Yvonne Navarro | Afterage | Nominee | [10] | |
Richard Christian Matheson | Created By | |||
Anne Billson | Suckers | |||
Philip Nutman | Wet Work | |||
1994 | Michael Arnzen | Grave Markings | Winner | [11] |
Jay R. Bonansinga | The Black Mariah | Nominee | [11] | |
Robert Devereaux | Deadweight | |||
Nancy Kilpatrick | Near Death | |||
1995 | Lucy Taylor | The Safety of Unknown Cities | Winner | [12] |
Gary Bowen | Diary of a Vampire | Nominee | [12] | |
Tananarive Due | The Between | |||
Robert Girardi | Madeleine's Ghost | |||
Edo van Belkom | Wyrm Wolf | |||
1996 | Owl Goingback | Crota | Winner | [13] |
Donald R. Burleson | Flute Song | Nominee | [13] | |
Greg Kihn | Horror Show | |||
Del Stone | Dead Heat | |||
1997 | Kirsten Bakis | Lives of the Monster Dogs | Winner | [14] |
Stephen Dedman | The Art of Arrow Cutting | Nominee | [14] | |
Barry Hoffman | Hungry Eyes | |||
Mary Ann Mitchell | Drawn to the Grave | |||
Mary Murrey | The Inquisitor | |||
1998 | Michael Marano | Dawn Song | Winner | [15] |
P.D. Cacek | Night Prayers | Nominee | [15] | |
Charlee Jacob | This Symbiotic Fascination | |||
Caitlin R. Kiernan | Silk | |||
1999 | J.G. Passarella | Wither | Winner | [16] |
Steve Beai | Widow's Walk | Nominee | [16] | |
John Connolly | Every Dead Thing | |||
China Miéville | King Rat | |||
2000 | Brian A. Hopkins | The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club | Winner | [17] |
Simon Clark | Nailed by the Heart | Nominee | [17] | |
Mark Z. Danielewski | House of Leaves | |||
Douglas E. Winter | Run | |||
2001 | Michael Oliveri | Deadliest of the Species | Winner | [18] |
Diana Barron | Phantom Feast | Nominee | [18] | |
d.g.k. goldberg | Skating on the Edge | |||
Joe Nassise | Riverwatch | |||
2002 | Alice Sebold | The Lovely Bones | Winner | [19] |
Tina Jens | The Blues Ain't Nothing | Nominee | [19] | |
Michael Laimo | Atmosphere | |||
Scott Nicholson | The Red Church | |||
2003 | Brian Keene | The Rising | Winner | [20] |
William D. Gagliani | Wolf's Trap | Nominee | [20] | |
Jeffrey Thomas | Monstrocity | |||
Jeff VanderMeer | Veniss Underground | |||
2004 | John Everson | Covenant | Winner | [21] |
Lee Thomas | Stained | |||
James Kidman | Black Fire | Nominee | [21] | |
Nick Mamatas | Move Under Ground | |||
2005 | Weston Ochse | Scarecrow Gods | Winner | [22] |
Kealan Patrick Burke | The Hides | Nominee | [22] | |
Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson | Siren Promised | |||
2006 | Jonathan Maberry | Ghost Road Blues | Winner | [23] |
Sarah Langan | The Keeper | Nominee | [23] | |
Nate Kenyon | Bloodstone | |||
Alexandra Sokoloff | The Harrowing | |||
2007 | Joe Hill | Heart-Shaped Box | Winner | [24] |
Michael Louis Calvillo | I Will Rise | Nominee | [24] | |
John R. Little | The Memory Tree | |||
Mary SanGiovanni | The Hollower | |||
2008 | Lisa Mannetti | The Gentling Box | Winner | [25] |
Christopher Conlon | Midnight on Mourn Street | Nominee | [25] | |
Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin | Monster Behind the Wheel | |||
David Oppegaard | The Suicide Collectors | |||
Joel A. Sutherland | Frozen Blood | |||
2009 | Hank Schwaeble | Damnable | Winner | [26] |
S. G. Browne | Breathers | Nominee | [26] | |
Daniel G. Keohane | Solomon's Grave | |||
Paul Tremblay | The Little Sleep | |||
2010 | Benjamin Kane Ethridge | Black & Orange | Winner | [27] |
Lisa Morton | The Castle of Los Angeles | |||
Gemma Files | A Book of Tongues | Nominee | [27] | |
Lucy A. Snyder | Spellbent | |||
2011 | Allyson Bird | Isis Unbound | Winner | [28][29][30][31] |
John Hornor Jacobs | Southern Gods | Nominee | [28][29][30] | |
Frazer Lee | The Lamplighters | |||
Thomas Roche | The Panama Laugh | |||
Brett J. Talley | That Which Should Not Be | |||
2012 | L. L. Soares | Life Rage | Winner | [32][33][34] |
Michael Boccacino | Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling | Nominee | [32][33][34] | |
Deborah Coates | Wide Open | |||
Charles Day | The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief | |||
Peter Dudar | A Requiem for Dead Flies | |||
Richard Gropp | Bad Glass | |||
2013 | Rena Mason | The Evolutionist | Winner | [35][36] |
Kate Jonez | Candy House | Nominee | [35][36] | |
John Mantooth | The Year of the Storm | |||
Jonathan Moore | Redheads | |||
Royce Prouty | Stoker’s Manuscript | |||
2014 | Maria Alexander | Mr. Wicker | Winner | [37][38][39] |
J. D. Barker | Forsaken | Nominee | [37][38][39] | |
David Cronenberg | Consumed | |||
Michael Knost | Return of the Mothman | |||
Josh Malerman | Bird Box | |||
2015 | Nicole Cushing | Mr. Suicide | Winner | [40][41] |
Courtney Alameda | Shutter | Nominee | [40][41] | |
Brian Kirk | We Are Monsters | |||
John McIlveen | Hannahwhere | |||
John Claude Smith | Riding the Centipede | |||
2016 | Tom Deady | Haven | Winner | [42] |
Barbara Barnett | The Apothecary’s Curse | Nominee | [42] | |
Greg Chapman | Hollow House | |||
Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason | Mayan Blue | |||
Stephanie M. Wytovich | The Eighth | |||
2017 | Robert Payne Cabeen | Cold Cuts | Winner | [43][44][45][46][47] |
Andy Davidson | In The Valley of the Sun | Nominee | [48][49][50][51][52] | |
Matt Hayward | What Do Monsters Fear? | |||
Jeremy Hepler | The Boulevard Monster | |||
Scott Thomas | Kill Creek | |||
2018 | Gwendolyn Kiste | The Rust Maidens | Winner | [53][54][55][56] |
Julia Fine | What Should Be Wild | Nominee | [53][54][55][56] | |
T.E. Grau | I Am the River | |||
Zoje Stage | Baby Teeth | |||
Tony Tremblay | The Moore House | |||
2019 | Sarah Read | The Bone Weaver's Orchard | Winner | [57][58][59] |
Gemma Amor | Dear Laura | Nominee | [57][58][59] | |
Eric J. Guignard | Doorways to the Deadeye | |||
Michelle Renee Lane | Invisible Chains | |||
Caitlin Starling | The Luminous Dead | |||
2020 | EV Knight | The Fourth Whore | Winner | [60][61][62][63] |
Polly Hall | The Taxidermist’s Lover | Nominee | [64][65][66][67] | |
Rachel Harrison | The Return | |||
Ross Jeffery | Tome | |||
Kate Reed Petty | True Story | |||
2021 | Hailey Piper | Queen of Teeth | Winner | [68][69][70][71] |
Lisa Quigley | The Forest | Nominee | [68][69][70][71] | |
S. Alessandro Martinez | Helminth | |||
Terry Miles | Rabbits | |||
Nicol Willson | Tidepool | |||
LaTanya McQueen | When the Reckoning Comes | |||
2022 | Christi Nogle | Beulah | Winner | [72] |
Erin Adams | Jackal | Nominee | [73][74] | |
Isabel Cañas | The Hacienda | |||
KC Jones | Black Tide | |||
Ally Wilkes | All the White Spaces |