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
right|thumb|200px|[[Nancy A. Collins with her 1989 Bram Stoker Award]]
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |1987
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|<!-- Title --> Cities of the Dead
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|<!-- Title --> Blood of the Children
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|<!-- Title -->Prodigal
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|<!-- Title --> Winter Scream
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|<!-- Title --> Lost Souls
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|<!-- Title --> Afterage
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|<!-- Title --> Diary of a Vampire
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|<!-- Title --> Flute Song
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|<!-- Title --> Night Prayers
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|<!-- Title --> Widow's Walk
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|<!-- Title --> Nailed by the Heart
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|<!-- Title --> Phantom Feast
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|<!-- Title --> Wolf's Trap
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|<!-- Title -->Stained
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|<!-- Title --> Black Fire
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|<!-- Title --> I Will Rise
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|<!-- Title --> Midnight on Mourn Street
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|<!-- Title --> Breathers
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|<!-- Title --> Southern Gods
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|<!-- Title --> Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling
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|<!-- Title --> Candy House
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|<!-- Title --> Forsaken
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|<!-- Title --> Shutter
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|<!-- Title -->In The Valley of the Sun
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|<!-- Title --> What Do Monsters Fear?
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|<!-- Title --> Kill Creek
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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |2018
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|<!-- Title --> What Should Be Wild
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|<!-- Title --> Dear Laura
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|<!-- Title --> Tome
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|<!-- Title --> True Story
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! rowspan="6" |2021
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|<!-- Title -->Queen of Teeth
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|Jackal
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|Black Tide
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|All the White Spaces
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|The Daughters of Block Island
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|The Spite House
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|Midnight Rooms
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|Moonflow
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|Her Wicked Roots
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|The Faceless Thing We Adore
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|Molting
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|Listen to Your Sister
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|The October Film Haunt
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