2018 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association has announced the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot.

The award will be presented during the StokerCon™ being held at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The gala presentation take place on Saturday night, May 11^th. The awards presentation will also be live-streamed online via the Horror Writers Association website.

2018 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Alma Katsu – The Hunger (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Jonathan Maberry – Glimpse (St. Martin’s Press)
• Josh Malerman – Unbury Carol (Del Rey)
• Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker – Dracul (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Paul Tremblay – The Cabin at the End of the World (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Julie Fine – What Should Be Wild (Harper)
• T.E. Grau – I Am the River (Lethe Press)
• Gwendolyn Kiste  – The Rust Maidens (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Zoje Stage – Baby Teeth (St. Martin’s Press)
• Tony Tremblay – The Moore House (Twisted Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Justina Ireland – Dread Nation (Balzer + Bray)
• Claire Legrand – Sawkill Girls (Katherine Tegen Books)
• Jonathan Maberry – Broken Lands (Simon & Schuster)
• Monique Snyman  – The Night Weaver (Gigi Publishing)
• Kiersten White  – The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Delacorte Press)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Saladin Ahmed  – Abbott (BOOM! Studios)
• Brian Azzarello  – Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train (Image Comics)
• Cullen Bunn  – Bone Parish (BOOM! Studios)
• Victor LaValle  – Victor LaValle’s Destroyer (BOOM! Studios)
• Marjorie Liu  – Monstress Volume 3: Haven (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Michael Bailey – Our Children, Our Teachers (Written Backwards)
• Joe Hill – You Are Released (Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales) (Scribner)
• Usman T. Malik  – Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung (Nightmare Magazine Issue #74)
• Rena Mason – The Devil’s Throat (Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror) (Adrenaline Press)
• Angela Yuriko Smith – Bitter Suites (CreateSpace)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Jess Landry – “Mutter” (Fantastic Tales of Terror) (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Lee Murray – “Dead End Town”(Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing International)
• Annie Neugebauer – “Glove Box” (The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine Volume 3, Issue 4-July 2018)
• John F.D.Taff,  – “A Winter’s Tale” (Little Black Spots) (Grey Matter Press)
• Kyla LeeWard  – “And in Her Eyes the City Drowned” (Weirdbook #39) (Wildside Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Gemma Files – Spectral Evidence (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Eric J. Guignard – That Which Grows Wild (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Gabino Iglesias – Coyote Songs (Broken River Books)
• Lucy A. Snyder – Garden of Eldritch Delights (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Tim Waggoner – Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection (Nightscape Press)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Ari Aster – Hereditary (PalmStar Media)
• Meredith Averill – The Haunting of Hill House: The Bent-Neck Lady, Episode 01:05 (Amblin Television, FlanaganFilm, Paramount Television)
• Alex Garland – Annihilation (DNA Films, Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Skydance Media)
• Eric Heisserer – Bird Box (Bluegrass Films, Chris Morgan Productions, Universal Pictures)
• Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski – A Quiet Place (Platinum Dunes, Sunday Night)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• James Chambers, April Grey, and Robert Masterson – A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (Hippocampus Press)
• Ellen Datlow – The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea (Night Shade Books)
• Eric J. Guignard – A World of Horror (Dark Moon Books)
• Lee Murray – Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press)
• D. Alexander Ward – Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• John Connolly – Horror Express (PS Publishing)
• Lee Gambin – The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film (Centipede Press)
• Howard David Ingham – We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror (Room 207 Press)
• Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson – It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. – Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Bruce Boston – Artifacts (Independent Legions Publishing)
• David E. Cowen – Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press)
• Donna Lynch – Witches (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti – War (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Sara Tantlinger – The Devil’s Dreamland (Strangehouse Books)

HWA is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it. The HWA formed in 1985 with the help of many of the field’s greats, including Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon, and Joe Lansdale. Today, with over 1,500 members around the globe, it is the oldest and most respected professional organization for the much-loved writers who have brought you the most enjoyable sleepless nights of your life. The HWA is the home of the prestigious Bram Stoker Award® and the creator of the annual StokerCon™ convention. - from the Press Release