The Haunting of Velkwood

Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel · 2025 · Winner

Saga PressMarch 5, 2024horrorISBN 9781668034248

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel	2025	Winner

About This Book

Twenty years ago, everyone in the town of Velkwood turned to ghosts overnight—except Talitha and two others who fled. Now Talitha is recruited to cross the border back into her ghostly hometown to investigate. Gwendolyn Kiste's Bram Stoker Award winner is an emotionally devastating suburban ghost story.

About the Author

Gwendolyn KisteUS

Gwendolyn Kiste is an American author of dark speculative fiction and horror. She won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for The Haunting of Velkwood (2024). She has also won multiple Bram Stoker Awards in other categories and writes fiction that blends feminist horror with dark fantasy.