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The Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for novels.

Winners and nominees

The following are the winners and nominees. Finalists (nominees) are listed under the winner(s) for each year, respectively.

The year of eligibility listed in the table is the year that the work was published; the ceremony when the honor was awarded happening the following year.

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| Unassigned Territory

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| Stinger

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| Geek Love

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| Funland

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| Homecoming

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| Anno Dracula

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| Fear Nothing

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| Darker than Night

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| From the Dust Returned

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| Dread in the Beast

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| Keepers

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| Headstone City

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| Coffin County

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| Patient Zero

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| Horns

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| NOS4A2

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| Suffer the Children

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| Black Tide

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! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |2016

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| Hard Light

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| Sleeping Beauties

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| Dracul

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| Inspection

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|Reluctant Immortals

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|Daphne

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|Sundial

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! rowspan="6" |2023

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| The Reformatory

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|How to Sell a Haunted House

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|Don't Fear the Reaper

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|Lone Women

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|Camp Damascus

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|Black River Orchard

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! rowspan="5" |2024

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|The Haunting of Velkwood

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| House of Bone and Rain

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|I Was a Teenage Slasher

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|Incidents Around the House

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|Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

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|King Sorrow

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|The Bewitching

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|Girl in the Creek

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Multiple winning authors

Ordered first by wins and then by alphabetical order (according to last name).

  • Stephen King (6)
  • Peter Straub (5)
  • Robert R. McCammon (3)
  • Stephen Graham Jones (2)
  • Sarah Langan (2)
  • Paul Tremblay (2)

Multiple nominated authors

Ordered first by nominations, then by at least one win, and finally by alphabetical order (according to last name).

† indicates that the writer also won the award in exactly one occasion (up-to-date as of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards).

  • Stephen King (15)
  • Peter Straub (7)
  • Stephen Graham Jones (6)
  • Tom Piccirilli (6)†
  • Robert R. McCammon (5)
  • Gary A. Braunbeck (4)
  • Joe Hill (4)
  • Jonathan Maberry (4)
  • Josh Malerman (4)
  • Joe McKinney (4)†
  • Dan Simmons (4)†
  • Paul Tremblay (4)
  • Owl Goingback (3)†
  • Grady Hendrix (3)
  • Dean R. Koontz (3)
  • Richard Laymon (3)†
  • Chuck Wendig (3)
  • Poppy Z. Brite (2)
  • Tananarive Due (2)
  • Patrick Freivald (2)
  • Thomas Harris (2)†
  • Gabino Iglesias (2)
  • Gwendolyn Kiste (2)
  • Gregory Lamberson (2)
  • Sarah Langan (2)
  • Joe R. Lansdale (2)
  • Bentley Little (2)
  • S. P. Miskowski (2)
  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2)
  • Chuck Palahniuk (2)
  • Christopher Rice (2)
  • Jeff Strand (2)
  • Steve Rasnic Tem (2)†
  • Lee Thomas (2)
  • Chet Williamson (2)
  • F. Paul Wilson (2)

References

  • Stoker Award on the HWA web page
  • Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees