Bram Stoker Awards 2021
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
StokerCon 2021,
Denver, CO :
May 20, 2021
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May 23, 2021
Eligibility Year: 2020
Eligibility Year: 2020
Lifetime Achievement
- Winner: Carol J. Clover
- Winner: Jewelle Gomez
- Winner: Marge Simon
Novel
- Winner: The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones (Gallery/Saga)
- The Deep, Alma Katsu (Putnam's)
- Devil's Creek, Todd Keisling (Silver Shamrock)
- Malorie, Josh Malerman (Del Rey)
- Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Jo Fletcher)
First Novel
- Winner: The Fourth Whore, EV Knight (Raw Dog Screaming)
- The Return, Rachel Harrison (Berkley)
- The Taxidermist's Lover, Polly Hall (CamCat)
- Tome, Ross Jeffery (The Writing Collective)
- True Story, Kate Reed Petty (Viking/riverrun)
Young-adult Novel
- Winner: Clown in a Cornfield, Adam Cesare (HarperTeen)
- Bent Heavens, Daniel Kraus (Holt/Macmillan)
- The Bone Carver, Monique Snyman (Vesuvian)
- Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads/Macmillan)
- Ghost Wood Song, Erica Waters (HarperTeen)
Long Fiction
- Winner: Night of the Mannequins, Stephen Graham Jones (Tordotcom)
- “Beyond the Reef”, Gabino Iglesias (Lullabies for Suffering: Tales of Addiction)
- “I Will Find You, Even in the Dark”, Jess Landry (Dim Shores Presents Volume 1)
- The Invention of Ghosts, Gwendolyn Kiste (Nightscape)
- “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker (Tor.com)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “One Last Transformation”, Josh Malerman (Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors)
- “Am I Missing the Sunlight?”, Meghan Arcuri (Borderlands 7)
- “Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1”, Kurt Fawver (Nightmare Nov 2020)
- “Should Fire Remember the Fuel?”, Kyla Lee Ward (Oz Is Burning)
- “The Thing I Found Along a Dirt Patch Road”, Cindy O'Quinn (Shotgun Honey Presents Volume 4: Recoil)
Collection
- Winner: Grotesque: Monster Stories, Lee Murray (Things in the Well)
- Bloody Britain, Anna Taborska (Shadow)
- Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies, John Langan (Word Horde)
- The Cuckoo Girls, Patricia Lillie (Trepidatio)
- Velocities: Stories, Kathe Koja (Meerkat)
Anthology
- Winner: Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Geneve Flynn & Lee Murray, eds. (Omnium Gatherum)
- Arterial Bloom, Mercedes M. Yardley, ed. (Crystal Lake)
- Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, Michael Bailey & Doug Murano, eds. (Written Backwards)
- Not All Monsters: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women of Horror, Sara Tantlinger, ed. (Rooster Republic)
- Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror, Samantha Kolesnik, ed. (Grindhouse)
Nonfiction
- Winner: Writing in the Dark, Tim Waggoner
- 1000 Women in Horror, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- End of the Road, Brian Keene
- The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films, Kelly Florence & Meg Hafdahl
- The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., ed.
- Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, Alison Peirse, ed.
Short Nonfiction
- Winner: “Speaking of Horror”, Tim Waggoner (The Writer Nov 2020)
- “The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination of Monstrous Motherhood”, Rhonda Jackson Joseph (The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation)
- “Final Girl: A Life in Horror”, Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight Oct 2020)
- “I Need to Believe”, Cynthia Pelayo (Southwest Review 105.3)
- “Lost, Found, and Finally Unbound: The Strange History of the 1910 Edison Frankenstein”, Kelly Robinson (Rue Morgue Jun 2020)
Graphic Novel
- Winner: Mary Shelley Presents, Nancy Holder, Chiara Di Francia & Amelia Woo (Kymera)
- Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein), Alessandra Manzetti & Stefano Cardoselli (Independent Legions)
- Lonesome Days, Savage Nights, Steve Niles, Salvatore Simeone & Szymon Kudranski (TKO Studies)
- The Masque of the Red Death, Steven Archer (Raw Dog Screaming)
- Road of Bones, Rich Douek & Alex Cormack (IDW)
- Spectre Deep 6, Jennifer Brody & Jules Rivera (turner)
Screenplay
- Winner: The Invisible Man, Leigh Whannell (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Goalpost Pictures, Nervous Tick Productions)
- Color Out of Space, Scarlett Amaris & Richard Stanley (SpectreVision)
- The Haunting of Bly Manor: “The Altar of the Dead”, Angela LaManna (Intrepid Pictures, Amblin Television, Paramount Television Studios)
- Lovecraft Country: “Jig-a-Bobo”, Misha Green & Ihuoma Ofordire (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
- Lovecraft Country: “Sundown”, Misha Green (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
Poetry Collection
- Winner: A Collection of Dreamscapes, Christina Sng (Raw Dog Screaming)
- A Complex Accident of Life, Jessica McHugh (Apokrupha)
- Cradleland of Parasites, Sara Tantlinger (Rooster Republic)
- Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Cynthia Pelayo (Burial Day)
- Whitechapel Rhapsody: Dark Poems, Alessandro Manzetti (Independent Legions)
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