Bram Stoker Award Winners
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The Bram Stoker Awards for
Superior Achievement are given annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA).
The winners are determined by vote of the Active members of HWA, and the awards
themselves are presented at HWA's Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet.
The following is a list of
winners in four of the most important categories for the last 12 years. All the
listed works were published the year before they received the award.
Presented in 1988
Novel: (tie) MISERY Stephen
King
SWAN
SONG Robert McCammon
First Novel: THE MANSE Lisa Cantrell
Short Story: THE DEEP END Robert McCammon
Collection: THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON Harlan Ellison
Presented in 1989
Novel: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS Thomas Harris
First Novel: THE SUITING Kelley Wild
Short Story: THE NIGHT THEY MISSED
THE HORROR SHOW Joe
R. Lansdale
Collection: CHARLES BEAUMONT:
SELECTED STORIES Charles
Beaumont
Presented in 1990
Novel: CARRION COMFORT Dan
Simmons
First Novel: SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK Nancy Collins
Short Story: EAT ME Robert
McCammon
Collection: RICHARD MATHESON:
COLLECTED
STORIES Richard Matheson
Presented in 1991
Novel: MINE Robert
McCammon
First Novel: THE REVELATION Bentley little
Short Story: THE CALLING David B. Silva
Collection: FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT Stephen King
Presented in 1992
Novel: BOY'S LIFE Robert
McCammon
First Novel: (tie) THE CIPHER Kathe
Koja
PRODIGAL Melanie Tem
Short Story: LADY MADONNA Nancy Holder
Collection: PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONES Dan Simmons
Presented in 1993
Novel: BLOOD OF THE LAMB Thomas
Monteleone
First Novel: SIN EATER Elizabeth Massie
Short Story: THIS YEAR'S CLASS PICTURE Dan Simmons
Collection: MR FOX AND OTHER
FERAL TALES Norman
Partridge
Presented in 1994
Novel: THE THROAT Peter
Straub
First Novel: THE THREAD THAT
BINDS
THE BONES Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Short Story: I HEAR THE MERMAIDS SINGING Nancy Holder
Collection: ALONE WITH THE HORRORS Ramsey Campbell
Presented in 1995
Novel: DEAD IN THE WATER Nancy
Holder
First Novel: GRAVE MARKINGS Michael Arnzin
Short Story: (tie) THE BOX Jack
Ketchum
CAFE
ENDLESS: SPRING RAIN Nancy
Holder
Collection: THE EARLY FEARS Robert Bloch
Presented in 1996
Novel: ZOMBIE Joyce
Carol Oates
First Novel: THE SAFETY OF UNKNOWN CITIES Lucy Taylor
Short Story: CHATTING WITH ANUBIS Harlan Ellison
Collection: THE PANIC HAND Jonathan Carroll
Presented in 1997
Novel: THE GREEN MILE Stephen King
First Novel: CROTA Owl
Goingback
Short Story: METALICA P. D. Cacek
Collection: THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY Thomas Ligotti
Presented in 1998
Novel: CHILDREN OF THE DUSK J.Berliner
& G.Guthridge
First Novel: LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS Kirsten Bakis
Short Story: RAT FOOD Edo Van Belkom & David Nickle
Collection: EXORCISMS AND ECSTASIES K.E.Wagner & S.Jones
Presented in 1999
Novel: BAG OF BONES Stephen
King
First Novel: DAWN SONG Michael Marano
Short Story: THE DEAD BOY
AT YOUR WINDOW B.
Holland Rogers
Collection: BLACK BUTTERFLIES John Shirley