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The Bram Stoker Award for First Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for an author's first horror novel.

Winners and nominees

Nancy A. Collins with her 1989 Bram Stoker Award
Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel
Year Recipient Title Citation Ref.
1987 Lisa Cantrell The Manse Winner
Clive Barker The Damnation Game Nominee
Rex Miller Slob
Tony Richards The Harvest Bride
Steve Rasnic Tem Excavation
1988 Kelley Wilde The Suiting Winner
Michael Paine Cities of the Dead Nominee
Kevin J. Anderson Resurrection, Inc.
Allen Lee Harris Deliver Us From Evil
J. Michael Straczynski Demon Night
John L. Byrne Fear Book
1989 Nancy A. Collins Sunglasses After Dark Winner
Tom Elliott (JW Paine) The Dwelling Nominee
Douglas Clegg Goat Dance
Dean Wesley Smith Laying The Music To Rest
Jean Paiva The Lilith Factor
1990 Bentley Little The Revelation Winner
Alan Rodgers Blood of the Children Nominee
Tom Piccirilli Dark Father
T. Chris Martindale Nightblood
1991 Kathe Koja The Cipher Winner
Melanie Tem Prodigal
Chris Curry & L. Dean James Winter Scream Nominee
Dennis Danvers Wilderness
Ashley McConnell Unearthed
1992 Elizabeth Massie Sineater Winner
Poppy Z. Brite Lost Souls Nominee
Brian D'Amato Beauty
Gary Raisor Less Than Human
Wayne Allen Salee The Holy Terror
1993 Nina Kiriki Hoffman The Thread that Binds the Bones Winner
Yvonne Navarro Afterage Nominee
Richard Christian Matheson Created By
Anne Billson Suckers
Philip Nutman Wet Work
1994 Michael Arnzen Grave Markings Winner
Jay R. Bonansinga The Black Mariah Nominee
Robert Devereaux Deadweight
Nancy Kilpatrick Near Death
1995 Lucy Taylor The Safety of Unknown Cities Winner
Gary Bowen Diary of a Vampire Nominee
Tananarive Due The Between
Robert Girardi Madeleine's Ghost
Edo van Belkom Wyrm Wolf
1996 Owl Goingback Crota Winner
Donald R. Burleson Flute Song Nominee
Greg Kihn Horror Show
Del Stone Dead Heat
1997 Kirsten Bakis Lives of the Monster Dogs Winner
Stephen Dedman The Art of Arrow Cutting Nominee
Barry Hoffman Hungry Eyes
Mary Ann Mitchell Drawn to the Grave
Mary Murrey The Inquisitor
1998 Michael Marano Dawn Song Winner
P.D. Cacek Night Prayers Nominee
Charlee Jacob This Symbiotic Fascination
Caitlin R. Kiernan Silk
1999 J.G. Passarella Wither Winner
Steve Beai Widow's Walk Nominee
John Connolly Every Dead Thing
China Miéville King Rat
2000 Brian A. Hopkins The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club Winner
Simon Clark Nailed by the Heart Nominee
Mark Z. Danielewski House of Leaves
Douglas E. Winter Run
2001 Michael Oliveri Deadliest of the Species Winner
Diana Barron Phantom Feast Nominee
d.g.k. goldberg Skating on the Edge
Joe Nassise Riverwatch
2002 Alice Sebold The Lovely Bones Winner
Tina Jens The Blues Ain't Nothing Nominee
Michael Laimo Atmosphere
Scott Nicholson The Red Church
2003 Brian Keene The Rising Winner
William D. Gagliani Wolf's Trap Nominee
Jeffrey Thomas Monstrocity
Jeff VanderMeer Veniss Underground
2004 John Everson Covenant Winner
Lee Thomas Stained
James Kidman Black Fire Nominee
Nick Mamatas Move Under Ground
2005 Weston Ochse Scarecrow Gods Winner
Kealan Patrick Burke The Hides Nominee
Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson Siren Promised
2006 Jonathan Maberry Ghost Road Blues Winner
Sarah Langan The Keeper Nominee
Nate Kenyon Bloodstone
Alexandra Sokoloff The Harrowing
2007 Joe Hill Heart-Shaped Box Winner
Michael Louis Calvillo I Will Rise Nominee
John R. Little The Memory Tree
Mary SanGiovanni The Hollower
2008 Lisa Mannetti The Gentling Box Winner
Christopher Conlon Midnight on Mourn Street Nominee
Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin Monster Behind the Wheel
David Oppegaard The Suicide Collectors
Joel A. Sutherland Frozen Blood
2009 Hank Schwaeble Damnable Winner
S. G. Browne Breathers Nominee
Daniel G. Keohane Solomon's Grave
Paul Tremblay The Little Sleep
2010 Benjamin Kane Ethridge Black & Orange Winner
Lisa Morton The Castle of Los Angeles
Gemma Files A Book of Tongues Nominee
Lucy A. Snyder Spellbent
2011 Allyson Bird Isis Unbound Winner
John Hornor Jacobs Southern Gods Nominee
Frazer Lee The Lamplighters
Thomas Roche The Panama Laugh
Brett J. Talley That Which Should Not Be
2012 L. L. Soares Life Rage Winner
Michael Boccacino Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling Nominee
Deborah Coates Wide Open
Charles Day The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief
Peter Dudar A Requiem for Dead Flies
Richard Gropp Bad Glass
2013 Rena Mason The Evolutionist Winner
Kate Jonez Candy House Nominee
John Mantooth The Year of the Storm
Jonathan Moore Redheads
Royce Prouty Stoker’s Manuscript
2014 Maria Alexander Mr. Wicker Winner
J. D. Barker Forsaken Nominee
David Cronenberg Consumed
Michael Knost Return of the Mothman
Josh Malerman Bird Box
2015 Nicole Cushing Mr. Suicide Winner
Courtney Alameda Shutter Nominee
Brian Kirk We Are Monsters
John McIlveen Hannahwhere
John Claude Smith Riding the Centipede
2016 Tom Deady Haven Winner
Barbara Barnett The Apothecary’s Curse Nominee
Greg Chapman Hollow House
Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason Mayan Blue
Stephanie M. Wytovich The Eighth
2017 Robert Payne Cabeen Cold Cuts Winner
Andy Davidson In The Valley of the Sun Nominee
Matt Hayward What Do Monsters Fear?
Jeremy Hepler The Boulevard Monster
Scott Thomas Kill Creek
2018 Gwendolyn Kiste The Rust Maidens Winner
Julia Fine What Should Be Wild Nominee
T.E. Grau I Am the River
Zoje Stage Baby Teeth
Tony Tremblay The Moore House
2019 Sarah Read The Bone Weaver's Orchard Winner
Gemma Amor Dear Laura Nominee
Eric J. Guignard Doorways to the Deadeye
Michelle Renee Lane Invisible Chains
Caitlin Starling The Luminous Dead
2020 EV Knight The Fourth Whore Winner
Polly Hall The Taxidermist’s Lover Nominee
Rachel Harrison The Return
Ross Jeffery Tome
Kate Reed Petty True Story
2021 Hailey Piper Queen of Teeth Winner
Lisa Quigley The Forest Nominee
S. Alessandro Martinez Helminth
Terry Miles Rabbits
Nicol Willson Tidepool
LaTanya McQueen When the Reckoning Comes
2022 Christi Nogle Beulah Winner
Erin Adams Jackal Nominee
Isabel Cañas The Hacienda
KC Jones Black Tide
Ally Wilkes All the White Spaces

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