Every winner, newest first

Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel Winners

1987 to 2025

Winners by year

Newest first. The year links to everything published or awarded that year.

Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel Winners, newest first
Year	Book and author
2025	The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
2024	The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
2023	The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
2022	The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
2021	My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
2020	The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
2019	Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback
2018	The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
2017	Ararat by Christopher Golden
2016	The Fisherman by John Langan
2015	A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
2014	Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem
2013	Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
2012	The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan
2011	Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney
2010	A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
2009	Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan
2008	Duma Key by Stephen King
2007	The Missing by Sarah Langan
2006	Lisey's Story by Stephen King
2005	Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob
2005	Creepers by David Morrell
2004	In the Night Room by Peter Straub
2003	Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub
2002	The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli
2001	American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2000	The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
1999	Mr. X by Peter Straub
1998	Bag of Bones by Stephen King
1997	Children of the Dusk by Janet Berliner and George Guthridge
1996	The Green Mile by Stephen King
1995	Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
1994	Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
1993	The Throat by Peter Straub
1992	Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone
1991	Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
1990	Mine by Robert R. McCammon
1989	Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
1988	The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
1987	Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
1987	Misery by Stephen King

About the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel is the leading honor in horror fiction, presented since 1987 by the Horror Writers Association and named for the author of Dracula. Winners include Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Joe Hill, and Stephen Graham Jones.

Awarded by: Horror Writers Association
First awarded: 1987
Country: United States
Winner receives: A trophy shaped like a haunted house

When it is announced

Announced at StokerCon, usually in June, for work published in the previous year. See the full announcement calendar.

How to enter

Works are recommended and then voted on by members of the association, and the award is given for superior achievement rather than for best of year.

Official prize site. Checked August 2026. Dates move year to year, so confirm on the official site before entering.