Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel — Complete Winners List

39 years of winners · Horror Writers Association · Since 1987 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	The Haunting of Velkwood	Gwendolyn Kiste	Saga Press
2024	The Reformatory	Tananarive Due	Saga Press
2023	The Devil Takes You Home	Gabino Iglesias	Mulholland Books
2022	My Heart Is a Chainsaw	Stephen Graham Jones	Saga Press
2021	The Only Good Indians	Stephen Graham Jones	Saga Press
2020	Coyote Rage	Owl Goingback	Crossroad Press
2019	The Cabin at the End of the World	Paul Tremblay	William Morrow
2018	Ararat	Christopher Golden	St. Martin's Press
2017	The Fisherman	John Langan	Word Horde
2016	A Head Full of Ghosts	Paul Tremblay	William Morrow
2015	Blood Kin	Steve Rasnic Tem	Solaris
2014	Doctor Sleep	Stephen King	Scribner
2013	The Drowning Girl	Caitlín R. Kiernan	Roc Books
2012	Flesh Eaters	Joe McKinney	Pinnacle Books
2011	A Dark Matter	Peter Straub	Doubleday
2010	Audrey's Door	Sarah Langan	HarperCollins
2009	Duma Key	Stephen King	Scribner
2008	The Missing	Sarah Langan	HarperCollins
2007	Lisey's Story	Stephen King	Scribner
2006	Lisey's Story	Stephen King	Scribner
2005	Creepers	David Morrell	—
2004	In the Night Room	Peter Straub	—
2003	Lost Boy, Lost Girl	Peter Straub	—
2002	The Night Class	Tom Piccirilli	—
2001	American Gods	Neil Gaiman	—
2000	The Traveling Vampire Show	Richard Laymon	—
1999	Mr. X	Peter Straub	—
1998	Bag of Bones	Stephen King	—
1997	Children of the Dusk	Janet Berliner & George Guthridge	—
1996	The Green Mile	Stephen King	—
1995	Zombie	Joyce Carol Oates	—
1994	Dead in the Water	Nancy Holder	—
1993	The Throat	Peter Straub	—
1992	Blood of the Lamb	Thomas F. Monteleone	—
1991	Boy's Life	Robert R. McCammon	—
1990	Mine	Robert R. McCammon	—
1989	Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons	—
1988	The Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris	—
1987	Misery	Stephen King	—