Kürzlich hat sich Bram bei mir gemeldet und sich beklagt, dass er sich zurückgesetzt und nicht genug gewürdigt fühlt - vor allem im Vergleich zu Shirley. Äh ... nun ja, wo er recht hat, hat er recht, der Bram. Und deshalb kommen jetzt hier die Siegertitel der diesjährigen Bram Stoker Awards, die die Horror Writers Association bereits während des Stoker Con verkündet hat, der vom 04. bis zum 07. Juni 2026 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stattgefunden hat.
Superior Achievement in a Novel
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WINNER: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
- King Sorrow, Joe Hill (William Morrow)
- The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
- Girl in the Creek, Wendy N. Wagner (Tor Nightfire)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
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WINNER: The October Film Haunt, Michael Wehunt (St. Martin’s)
- The Scald-Crow, Grace Daly (Creature)
- Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It)
- Her Wicked Roots, Tanya Pell (Gallery)
- The Faceless Thing We Adore, Hester Steel (Page Street Horror)
- Molting, Kathryn Tennison (Uncomfortably Dark Horror)
- Listen to Your Sister, Neena Viel (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
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WINNER: Shiny Happy People, Clay McLeod Chapman (Delacorte)
- Beautiful Brutal Bodies, Linda Cheng (Roaring Brook)
- We’re Not Safe Here, Rin Chupeco (Sourcebooks)
- The Silenced, Diana Rodriguez Wallach (Delacorte)
- A Girl Walks into the Forest, Madeleine Roux (Quill Tree)
Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel
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WINNER: Ride or Die, Delilah S. Dawson (Delacorte)
- The Girl in the Walls, Meg Eden Kuyatt (Scholastic)
- Broken Dolls, Ally Malinenko (HarperCollins Children’s)
- The House Next Door, Ellen Oh (HarperCollins Children’s)
- Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, Ally Russell (Delacorte)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
- WINNER (TIE): Cathedral of the Drowned, Nathan Ballingrud (Tor Nightfire)
- WINNER (TIE): “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon”, A.C. Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)
- “Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
- “Squid Teeth”, Sarah Langan (Reactor 5/7/25)
- Pam Kowolski is a Monster!, Sarah Langan (Raw Dog Screaming)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
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WINNER: “Inheritance”, R.J. Joseph (Full Throttle: A Dark Dozen Anthology)
- “Stomata”, L.E. Daniels (Darkness Most Fowl)
- “Saint Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls“, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Weird Horror Spring ’25, Undertow Publications)
- “[Ir]reversible”, Anna Taborska (Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays)
- “Autogas Ferryman“, Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmare 9/25)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
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WINNER: Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, John Langan (Word Horde)
- Acquired Taste, Clay McLeod Chapman (Titan)
- Little Horn: Stories, Gemma Files (Shortwave)
- Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, Hailey Piper (Titan)
- Cyanide Constellations: And Other Stories, Sara Tantlinger (Dark Matter INK)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
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WINNER: Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
- Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams)
- The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery)
- This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree)
- Howl: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror, Lindy Ryan & Stephanie M. Wytovich, eds. (Black Spot)
Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction
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WINNER: Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga)
- Global Indigenous Horror, Naomi Simone Borwein, ed. (University Press of Mississippi)
- The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters, Brandon R. Grafius & John W. Morehead, eds. (Oxford University Press)
- America’s Most Gothic, Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes (Citadel)
- Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away, Coltan Scrivner (Penguin Random House)
Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction
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WINNER: “My Long Road to Horror”, Tananarive Due (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction)
- “Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monsters“, Patrick Barb (Interstellar Flight 10/3/25)
- “Why Horror”, Stephen Graham Jones (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction)
- “Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism”, Mo Moshaty (Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre)
- “My Mother Was Margaret White”, Cynthia Pelayo (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction)
Superior Achievement in Poetry
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WINNER: Everything Endless, Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Raw Dog Screaming)
- Songs of Enough: An Inferno All My Own, Maxwell I. Gold (Hippocampus)
- The Uterus is an Impossible Forest, Shannon Kearns (Raw Dog Screaming)
- The Haunting, Cate Peebles (Tupelo)
- Allegories of Beauty & Violence: A Collection of Gothic Romance Poems, MarieAnn C. Raguso (Analyze This)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
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WINNER: Bowling With Corpses and Other Tales from Lands Unknown, Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)
- Jumpscare, Cullen Bunn, illustrated by Danny Luckert (Dark Horse)
- John Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight Vol. 11, Sandy King, ed. (Storm King)
- Athanasia, Daniel Kraus, illustrated by Dani (Vault)
- Let This One Be a Devil, Steve Foxe & James Tynion IV, illustrated by Piotr Kowalski (Dark Horse)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
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WINNER: Sinners, Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros., Domain, Proximity)
- Weapons, Zach Cregger (New Line Cinema, Domain, Subconscious)
- 28 Years Later, Alex Garland (Sony, Columbia Pictures, TSG Entertainment)
- Companion, Drew Hancock (New Line Cinema, BoulderLight Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment)
- Bring Her Back, Bill Hinzman & Danny Philippou (Causeway Films, Salmira Productions, The South Australian Film Corporation)
Quelle für das Ganze ist wie immer Locus.
