The Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Non-Fiction, established in 2019, is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for short non-fiction.
Honorees +Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Non-Fiction winners and finalistsYearAuthorTitlePublicationPublisherResultRef.2019Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Vastarien: A Literary Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1WinnerSlasher Films Made Me Gay: The Queer Appeal and Subtext of the Genre LGBTQ+ Horror Month: 9/1/2019, Ginger Nuts of HorrorFinalist Elder Horror: Essays on Film’s Frightening Images of AgingMcFarlandFinalistFilm's First Lycanthrope: 1913's The Werewolf Scary Monsters Magazine #114FinalistLord Byron's Whipping Boy: Dr. John William Polidori and the 200th Anniversary of The Vampyre Famous Monsters of Filmland, Issue #291Finalist 2020Speaking of Horror WinnerMcFarlandFinalistI Need to Believe Southwest Review, Vol. 105.3FinalistLost, Found, and Finally Unbound: The Strange History of the 1910 Edison Frankenstein Rue Morgue, June 2020FinalistFinal Girl: A Life in Horror Interstellar Flight Magazine, October 2020Finalist 2021Horror Writers: Architects of Hope , Halloween 2021, Issue 55Sirens Call PublicationsWinnerOne and Done Were Tales: A Shapeshifter AnthologyBrigids Gate PressFinalistVastarien, Vol. 4, Issue 2Grimscribe PressFinalist thefinalgirls.co.ukFinalist Devil's Advocates: The Conjuring Auteur Publishing/Liverpool University PressFinalist2022Nona Doesn't Dance Cut to Care: A Collection of Little HurtsIFWG Australia, IFWG InternationalFinalistPoppy's Poppy Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Vol. V, No. 6Finalist Cemetery Gates MediaFinalist 2023Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in HorrorBlack Spot BooksWinnerWords Wielded by WomenApex MagazineNomineeEverything the Darkness EatsUnquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in HorrorBlack Spot Books Displaced Spirits Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in HorrorBlack Spot BooksA Theatre of Ghosts, a Haunted Cinema: The Japanese Gothic as Theatrical Tradition in GurozukaSpecial Issue on Asian Gothic 6/23Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture 2024Blacks in Film and Cultivated Bias No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the TropesVernon PressWinnerScreamin’ in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle’s The TinglerWhat Sleeps BeneathNomineeThe Horror of Donna Berzatto and Her Feast of the Seven FishesYou’re Not Alone in the DarkCemetery Dance Publications Hidden Histories: The Many Ghosts of Disney’s Haunted MansionDisney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of MouseLexington Books Jackson and Haunting of the StageJournal of Shirley Jackson Studies, Vol. 2 No. 1Shirley Jackson Studies2025* “My Long Road to Horror”Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror FictionSaga Press Winner“Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monster”Interstellar Flight MagazineInterstellar Flight PressFinalist “Why Horror”Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror FictionSaga Press “Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism”Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre1428 Publishing Ltd “My Mother Was Margaret White”Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror FictionSaga Press
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