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Stoker Awards

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The Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement is named in honor of the author of the seminal horror novel Dracula. The award is given annually by the Horror Writers Association to superior quality work in horror fiction and nonfiction produced during the previous calendar year. The first Stoker was awarded in 1988.

Each year, the awards - an eight-inch replica of a fanciful haunted house - are presented at the Horror Writers Association's annual conference. The next conference is to be held in June 2006.

Listed below are winners, with catalog links provided to those titles owned by Jacksonville Public Library. Titles which are greyed out may be requested through InterLibrary Loan, or recommended for purchase.


2006 NOVEL Lisey's Story by Stephen King
FIRST NOVEL Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
2005 NOVEL (tie) Creepers by David Morrell
Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob
FIRST NOVEL Scarecrow Gods by Weston Ochse
2004 NOVEL In the Night Room by Peter Straub
FIRST NOVEL (tie) Covenant by John Everson
Stained by Lee Thomas
2003 NOVEL lost boy, lost girl by Peter Straub
FIRST NOVEL The Rising by Brian Keene
2002 NOVEL The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli
FIRST NOVEL The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2001 NOVEL American Gods by Neil Gaiman
FIRST NOVEL Deadliest of the Species by Michael Oliveri
2000 NOVEL Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
FIRST NOVEL The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club by Brian A. Hopkins

1990s

1999 NOVEL Mr. X by Peter Straub
FIRST NOVEL Wither by J.G. Passarella
FICTION COLLECTION The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg
NONFICTION Dark Echo edited by Paula Guran
ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman
SCREENPLAY Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan
YOUNG READERS Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
1998 NOVEL Bag of Bones by Stephen King
FIRST NOVEL Dawn Song by Michael Marano
FICTION COLLECTION Black Butterflies by John Shirley
NONFICTION Dark Echo, vol. 5 edited by Paula Guran
SCREENPLAY (tie) Gods and Monsters by Bill Condon
Dark City by Alex Proyas, David Goyer, & Lem Dobbs
YOUNG READERS "Bigger than Death" by Nancy Etchemendy
1997 NOVEL Children of the Dusk by Janet Berliner
FIRST NOVEL Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
FICTION COLLECTION Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner
NONFICTION Dark Thoughts: On Writing by Stanley Wiater
1996 NOVEL The Green Mile by Stephen King
FIRST NOVEL Crota by Owl Goingback
FICTION COLLECTION The Nightmare Factory by Thomas Ligotti
NONFICTION H.P. Lovecraft: A Life by S.T. Joshi
1995 NOVEL Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
FIRST NOVEL The Safety of Unknown Cities by Lucy Taylor
FICTION COLLECTION The Panic Hand by Jonathan Carroll
NONFICTION The Supernatural Index by Michael Ashley
1994 NOVEL Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
FIRST NOVEL Grave Markings by Michael A. Arnzen
FICTION COLLECTION The Early Fears by Robert Bloch
1993 NOVEL The Throat by Peter Straub
FIRST NOVEL The Thread that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
FICTION COLLECTION Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell
1992 NOVEL The Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone
FIRST NOVEL Sineater by Elizabeth Massie
FICTION COLLECTION Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales by Norman Partridge
1991 NOVEL Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
FIRST NOVEL The Cipher by Kathe Koja
FICTION COLLECTION Prayers to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons
NONFICTION Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden by Stephen Jones
1990 NOVEL Mine by Robert R. McCammon
FIRST NOVEL The Revelation by Bentley Little
FICTION COLLECTION Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
NONFICTION Dark Dreamers by Stanley Wiater

1980s

1989 NOVEL Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
FIRST NOVEL Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins
FICTION COLLECTION Collected Stories by Richard Matheson
NONFICTION (tie) Horror: The 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison
1988 NOVEL Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
FIRST NOVEL The Suiting by Kelley Wilde
FICTION COLLECTION Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont
1987 NOVEL (tie) Misery by Stephen King
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
FIRST NOVEL The Manse by Lisa Cantrell
FICTION COLLECTION The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
NONFICTION Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark
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