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.