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Award Winning Horror Novels
69 books from 7 lists, 1818 to 2026
The Bram Stoker Award is voted by the Horror Writers Association and named for the author of Dracula, which is the rare case of a prize named after a book good enough to have won it. Every winner is here, along with the hauntings and gothic novels that took prizes never meant for horror at all.
Books by prize
One shelf per list, newest first on each. The prize name opens its full list.
- 2026 Angel Down
- 2025 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
- 2024 Someone You Can Build a Nest In
- 2014 Annihilation
- 2024 The Haunting of Velkwood
- 2023 The Reformatory
- 2022 The Devil Takes You Home
- 2021 My Heart Is a Chainsaw
- 2020 The Only Good Indians
- 2019 Coyote Rage
- 2018 The Cabin at the End of the World
- 2017 Ararat
- 2016 The Fisherman
- 2015 A Head Full of Ghosts
- 2014 Blood Kin
- 2013 Doctor Sleep
- 2012 The Drowning Girl
- 2011 Flesh Eaters
- 2010 A Dark Matter
- 2009 Audrey's Door
- 2008 Duma Key
- 2007 The Missing
- 2006 Lisey's Story
- 2005 Creepers
- 2005 Dread in the Beast
- 2004 In the Night Room
- 2003 Lost Boy, Lost Girl
- 2002 The Night Class
- 2000 The Traveling Vampire Show
- 1999 Mr. X
- 1998 Bag of Bones
- 1997 Children of the Dusk
- 1996 The Green Mile
- 1995 Zombie
- 1994 Dead in the Water
- 1993 The Throat
- 1992 Blood of the Lamb
- 1991 Boy's Life
- 1990 Mine
- 1989 Carrion Comfort
- 1988 The Silence of the Lambs
- 1987 Misery
- 1987 Swan Song
- 2020 Mexican Gothic
- 2005 The Historian
- 2002 Coraline
- 2000 House of Leaves
- 1994 Insomnia
- 1991 American Psycho
- 1986 It
- 1983 Pet Sematary
- 1982 Different Seasons
- 1981 Red Dragon
- 1978 The Stand
- 1977 The Shining
- 1976 Interview with the Vampire
- 1975 'Salem's Lot
- 1974 Carrie
- 1971 The Exorcist
- 2018 The Changeling
- 1989 Koko
- 1987 Perfume
- 1986 Song of Kali
- 1978 Our Lady of Darkness
- 2002 American Gods
- 1898 The Turn of the Screw
- 1897 Dracula
- 1886 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- 1818 Frankenstein
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