Lord Ruthven Awards Winners By Category
science fiction awards database
Category Groups:
fiction | nonfiction | special award | special award | media/popular culture | media/popular culture | special recognition | special citation |
fiction | nonfiction | special award | special award | media/popular culture | media/popular culture | special recognition | special citation |
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— fiction — | |
| 2025 | What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher |
| 2024 | The God of Endings, Jacqueline Holland |
| 2023 | A Dowry of Blood, S. T. Gibson |
| 2022 | The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse, Jessica Levai |
| 2021 | The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix |
| 2020 | The Demeter Diaries, Marge Simon & Bryan D. Dietrich |
| 2019 | European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, Theodora Goss |
| 2018 | The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories, Charlaine Harris |
| 2017 | Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, Anne Rice |
| 2016 | Jacob, David Gerrold |
| 2015 | The Quick, Lauren Owen |
| 2014 | NOS4A2, Joe Hill |
| 2013 | Hide Me Among the Graves, Tim Powers |
| 2012 | The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan |
| 2011 | A Taint in the Blood, S. M. Stirling |
| 2010 | The Strain, Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan |
| 2009 | The Dracula Dossier, James Reese |
| 2008 | The Undead, Joel H. Emerson |
| 2007 | Renfield: Slave of Dracula, Barbara Hambly |
| 2006 | The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova |
| 2005 | Vamped, David Sosnowski |
| 2004 | Fat White Vampire Blues, Andrew Fox |
| 2003 | Living Dead in Dallas, Charlaine Harris |
| 2002 | Blood Will Tell, Jean Lorrah |
| 2001 | Blood to Blood: The Dracula Story Continues, Elaine Bergstrom |
| 2000 | Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett |
| 1999 | The Vampire Files: A Chill in the Blood, P. N. Elrod |
| 1998 | Writ in Blood, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
| 1997 | The World on Blood, Jonathan Nasar |
| 1996 | Travelling with the Dead, Barbara Hambly |
| 1993 | Anno Dracula, Kim Newman |
| 1990 | Sunglasses After Dark, Nancy A. Collins |
| 1989 | The Empire of Fear, Brian Stableford |
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— nonfiction — | |
| 2025 | The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire, Simon Bacon, ed. |
| 2024 | Contagion and the Vampire: The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in the 21st Century, Simon Bacon |
| 2023 | A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture: Love at First Bite, Violet Fenn |
| 2022 | (tie) A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture: Love at First Bite, Violet Fenn |
| 2022 | (tie) The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead, Simon Bacon |
| 2021 | The Global Vampire: Essays on The Undead in Popular Culture Around the World, Cait Coker, ed. |
| 2020 | Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction and Popular Culture, Sorcha Ní Fhlainn |
| 2019 | I Am Legend as American Myth: Race and Masculinity in the Novel and Its Film Adaptations, Amy J. Ransom |
| 2018 | Vampire Films of the 1970s, Gary A. Smith |
| 2017 | Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula, David J. Skal |
| 2016 | The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography, J. Gordon Melton & Alysa Hornick |
| 2015 | Vampires Are Us, Margot Adler |
| 2014 | Fanged Fan Fiction, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth & Malin Isaksson |
| 2013 | The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema, Jeffrey Weinstock |
| 2012 | The Vampire Defanged, Susannah Clements |
| 2011 | Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010, John Edgar Browning & Caroline Joan Picart, eds. |
| 2010 | Vampire God: The Allure of the Undead in Western Culture, Mary Y. Hallab |
| 2009 | Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition, Elizabeth Miller & Robert Eighteen-Bisang, eds. |
| 2008 | Troublesome Corpses: Vampires and Revenants from Antiquity to the Present, David Keyworth |
| 2007 | Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead, Bruce McClelland |
| 2006 | Blood Obsession: Vampires, Serial Murder, and the Popular Imagination, Jorg Waltje |
| 2005 | Bram Stoker: A Bibliography, Richard Dalby & William Hughes |
| 2004 | Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale, James B. South, ed. |
| 2003 | Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most, William Patrick Day |
| 2002 | Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires, Michael Bell |
| 2001 | Dracula: Sense and Nonsense, Elizabeth Miller |
| 1999 | Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism, Carol A. Senf |
| 1998 | Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, Carol Margaret Davison & Paul Simpson-Housley, eds. |
| 1997 | V is for Vampire: An A to Z Guide to Everything Undead, David J. Skal |
| 1996 | Our Vampires, Ourselves, Nina Auerbach |
| 1995 | The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, J. Gordon Melton |
| 1994 | The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, David J. Skal |
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— special award — | |
| 2021 | Journal of Vampire Studies, Volume 1, Number 1, Anthony Hogg & Andrew M. Boylan, eds. |
| 1997 | Raymond McNally |
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— media/popular culture — | |
| 2025 | (tie) Abigail |
| 2025 | (tie) Nosferatu |
| 2024 | The Last Voyage of the Demeter |
| 2023 | Interview with the Vampire |
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— special recognition — | |
| 2022 | Elizabeth Miller, for "her foundational contributions to vampire, specifically Dracula, studies" |
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— media/popular culture — | |
| 2022 | Midnight Mass |
| 2021 | Dracula |
| 2020 | What We Do in the Shadows |
| 2018 | Midnight, Texas |
| 2017 | (tie) Vamped.org, Anthony Hogg |
| 2017 | (tie) The Vampire Historian Podcast |
| 2016 | What We Do in the Shadows |
| 2015 | Only Lovers Left Alive |
| 2011 | Being Human |
| 2010 | Thirst |
| 2009 | HBO's True Blood |
| 2008 | No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain |
| 2005 | Vampire Dreams |
| 2004 | Dracula |
| 2003 | Diary of a Virgin |
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— special citation — | |
| 2018 | Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula, Bram Stoker & Valdimar Ásmundsson, translated by Hans Corneel de Roos |
| 2008 | Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden |
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