Finalists for the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards Announced

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) have announced the finalists for the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards®.

The HWA is the premier writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with over 1,600 members. The Bram Stoker Awards® were first presented in 1987.

The winners will be announced at the 2021 Stokercon, a virtual event being held on May 23 2021.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Stephen Graham Jones – The Only Good Indians (Gallery/Saga Press)
• Alma Katsu – The Deep (GP Putnam’s Sons)
• Todd Keisling – Devil’s Creek (Silver Shamrock Publishing)
• Josh Malerman – Malorie (Del Rey)
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Mexican Gothic (Del Rey)

 

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Polly Hall – The Taxidermist’s Lover (CamCat Publishing, LLC)
• Rachel Harrison – The Return (Berkley)
• Ross Jeffery – Tome (The Writing Collective)
• EV Knight – The Fourth Whore (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Kate Reed Petty – True Story (Viking)

 

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Steven Archer (author/artist) – The Masque of the Red Death (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Jennifer Brody (author) and Jules Rivera (artist) – Spectre Deep 6 (Turner)
• Rich Douek (author) and Alex Cormack (artist) – Road of Bones (IDW Publishing)
• Nancy Holder (author), Chiara Di Francia (artist), and Amelia Woo (artist) – Mary Shelley Presents (Kymera Press)
• Alessandro Manzetti (author) and Stefano Cardoselli (artist/author) – Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein) (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Steve Niles (author), Salvatore Simeone (author), and Szymon Kudranski (artist) – Lonesome Days, Savage Nights (TKO Studios)

 

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Adam Cesare – Clown in a Cornfield (HarperTeen)
• Daniel Kraus – Bent Heavens (Henry Holt and Company/Macmillan)
• Monique Snyman – The Bone Carver (Vesuvian Books)
• Aiden Thomas – Cemetery Boys (Swoon Reads/Macmillan)
• Erica Waters – Ghost Wood Song (HarperTeen)

 

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Meghan Arcuri – “Am I Missing the Sunlight?” (Borderlands 7) (Borderlands Press)
• Kurt Fawver – “Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1” (Nightmare Magazine Nov. 2020 (Issue 98))
• Josh Malerman – “One Last Transformation” (Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors) (Written Backwards)
• Cindy O’Quinn – “The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road” (Shotgun Honey Presents Volume 4: Recoil) (Down and Out Books)
• Kyla Lee Ward – “Should Fire Remember the Fuel?” (Oz is Burning) (B Cubed Press)

 

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Gabino Iglesias – Beyond the Reef (Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction Horror) (Wicked Run Press)
• Stephen Graham Jones – Night of the Mannequins (Tor.com)
• Gwendolyn Kiste – The Invention of Ghosts (Nightscape Press)
• Jess Landry – I Will Find You, Even in the Dark (Dim Shores Presents Volume 1) (Dim Shores)
• Sarah Pinsker – Two Truths and a Lie (Tor.com)

 

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Kathe Koja – Velocities: Stories (Meerkat Press)
• John Langan – Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies (Word Horde)
• Patricia Lillie – The Cuckoo Girls (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Lee Murray – Grotesque: Monster Stories (Things in the Well)
• Anna Taborska – Bloody Britain (Shadow Publishing)

 

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Misha Green – Lovecraft Country, Season 1, Episode 1: “Sundown” (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
• Misha Green and Ihuoma Ofordire – Lovecraft Country, Season 1, Episode 8: “Jig-a-Bobo” (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
• Leigh Whannell – The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Goalpost Pictures, Nervous Tick Productions)
• Angela LaManna – The Haunting of Bly Manor, Season 1, Episode 5: “The Altar of the Dead” (Intrepid Pictures, Amblin Television, Paramount Television Studios)
• Scarlett Amaris and Richard Stanley – Color Out of Space (SpectreVision)

 

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Jessica McHugh – A Complex Accident of Life (Apokrupha)
• Cynthia Pelayo – Into the Forest and All the Way Through (Burial Day Books)
• Christina Sng – A Collection of Dreamscapes (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Sara Tantlinger – Cradleland of Parasites (Rooster Republic Press)
• Alessandro Manzetti – Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems (Independent Legions Publishing)

 

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Michael Bailey and Doug Murano – Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors (Written Backwards)
• Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn – Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• Samantha Kolesnik – Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror (Grindhouse Press)
• Sara Tantlinger – Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror (Rooster Republic Press)
• Mercedes M Yardley – Arterial Bloom (Crystal Lake Publishing)

 

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• Rhonda Jackson Joseph – “The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination of Monstrous Motherhood” (The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption) (McFarland)
• Cynthia Pelayo – “I Need to Believe” (Southwest Review Volume 105.3)
• Kelly Robinson – “Lost, Found, and Finally Unbound: The Strange History of the 1910 Edison Frankenstein” (Rue Morgue Magazine, June 2020)
• Christina Sng – “Final Girl: A Life in Horror” (Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2020)
• Tim Waggoner – “Speaking of Horror” (The Writer)

 

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl – The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films (Skyhorse)
• Alexandra Heller-Nicholas – 1000 Women in Horror (BearManor Media)
• Brian Keene – End of the Road (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Alison Peirse – Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre (Rutgers University Press)
• Tim Waggoner – Writing in the Dark (Guide Dog Books/Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Kevin J Wetmore, Jr – The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption (McFarland)