Award Winning Horror Novels

The Bram Stoker Award is voted by the Horror Writers Association and named for the author of Dracula, which is the rare case of a prize named after a book good enough to have won it. Every winner is here, along with the hauntings and gothic novels that took prizes never meant for horror at all.

65 books drawn from 6 prize lists, newest first.

• 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
• 2025 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
• 2024 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
• 2024 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
• 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
• 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
• 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
• 2020 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• 2020 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback
• 2018 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
• 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Ararat by Christopher Golden
• 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Fisherman by John Langan
• 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
• 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel
  Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• 2014 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
• 2012 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney
• 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
• 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan
• 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Duma Key by Stephen King
• 2007 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Missing by Sarah Langan
• 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Lisey's Story by Stephen King
• 2005 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Creepers by David Morrell
• 2005 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob
• 2005 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  In the Night Room by Peter Straub
• 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub
• 2002 Hugo Award for Best Novel
  American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• 2002 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli
• 2000 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
• 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Mr. X by Peter Straub
• 1998 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Bag of Bones by Stephen King
• 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Children of the Dusk by Janet Berliner and George Guthridge
• 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Green Mile by Stephen King
• 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
• 1994 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
• 1994 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Insomnia by Stephen King
• 1993 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Throat by Peter Straub
• 1992 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone
• 1991 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• 1991 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
• 1990 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Mine by Robert R. McCammon
• 1989 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
• 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
• 1987 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Misery by Stephen King
• 1987 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
  Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
• 1986 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  It by Stephen King
• 1985 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Perfume by Patrick Süskind
• 1983 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Pet Sematary by Stephen King
• 1982 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Different Seasons by Stephen King
• 1981 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
• 1978 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Stand by Stephen King
• 1977 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Shining by Stephen King
• 1976 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
• 1975 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• 1974 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  Carrie by Stephen King
• 1971 Best Books That Never Won a Prize
  The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
• 1898 Classic Books
  The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• 1897 Classic Books
  Dracula by Bram Stoker
• 1886 Classic Books
  Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 1818 Classic Books
  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley