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
+ Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel Year Recipient Title CitationRef.1987 Winner Nominee Slob Excavation1988 Winner Cities of the DeadNominee Resurrection, Inc. Deliver Us From Evil Demon Night Fear Book1989 Sunglasses After Dark Winner Nominee Goat Dance Laying The Music To Rest 1990 Winner Blood of the ChildrenNominee Dark Father Nightblood1991 Winner Prodigal Winter ScreamNominee Wilderness Unearthed1992 Sineater Winner Lost SoulsNominee Beauty Less Than Human 1993 Winner AfterageNominee Created By Suckers Wet Work1994 Grave Markings Winner Nominee Deadweight Near Death 1995 Winner Diary of a VampireNominee Madeleine's Ghost Wyrm Wolf1996 Crota Winner Flute SongNominee Horror Show Dead Heat 1997 Lives of the Monster Dogs Winner Nominee Hungry Eyes Drawn to the Grave 1998 Dawn Song Winner Night PrayersNominee This Symbiotic Fascination Silk1999 Wither Winner Widow's WalkNominee Every Dead Thing King Rat 2000 Winner Nailed by the HeartNominee House of Leaves Run2001 Deadliest of the Species Winner Phantom FeastNominee Skating on the Edge Riverwatch2002 Winner Nominee Atmosphere 2003 Winner Wolf's Trap Nominee Monstrocity Veniss Underground 2004 Covenant Winner Stained Black FireNominee Move Under Ground 2005 Scarecrow Gods Winner Nominee Siren Promised 2006 Ghost Road Blues Winner Nominee Bloodstone 2007 Heart-Shaped Box Winner I Will RiseNominee 2008 Winner Midnight on Mourn Street Nominee Monster Behind the Wheel Frozen Blood2009 Damnable Winner Breathers Nominee Solomon's Grave 2010 Black & Orange Winner Nominee Spellbent 2011 Isis Unbound Winner Southern Gods Nominee That Which Should Not Be 2012 Life Rage Winner Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling Nominee Wide Open Bad Glass2013 Winner Candy House Nominee Redheads Stoker’s Manuscript 2014 Mr. Wicker Winner Forsaken Nominee Consumed Return of the Mothman Bird Box 2015 Mr. Suicide Winner Shutter Nominee We Are Monsters Hannahwhere Riding the Centipede2016 Haven Winner Nominee Hollow House Mayan Blue 2017 Cold Cuts Winner In The Valley of the SunNominee What Do Monsters Fear? Kill Creek 2018 Winner What Should Be WildNominee I Am the River Baby Teeth 2019 Winner Dear LauraNominee Doorways to the Deadeye Invisible Chains 2020 Winner Nominee Tome True Story 2021Queen of TeethWinnerNomineeHelminthRabbitsTidepoolWhen the Reckoning Comes2022BeulahWinnerJackalNomineeBlack TideAll the White Spaces 2023The Daughters of Block Island WinnerThe Spite HouseNomineeEverything the Darkness Eats Maeve Fly Edenville 2024The Eyes Are the Best Part WinnerMidnight RoomsNomineeHollow Girls This Wretched Valley Bless Your Heart 2025 The October Film HauntWinnerThe Scald-Crow Finalist Moonflow Her Wicked Roots The Faceless Thing We Adore Molting Listen to Your Sister
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