Bram Stocker Awards
The Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement have been presented annually by the Horror Writer's Association since 1988. The awards were named in honour of Bram Stoker, author of the novel Dracula, and are open to authors of any work of Horror that is first published in the English language.
The award itself was designed for the Horror Writer's Association by the artist Steven Kirk. It is an eight inch sculpture of a fanciful haunted house, with a working door that opens to reveal a brass plaque, engraved with the name of the winning work and author.
Shop the nominees in each category below.
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula by David J. Skal
$57.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as Count Dracula, has remained an enigma. David J. Skal, in a psychological and cultural portrait, exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. Stoker was inexplicably paralysed as a boy and his story ...Show more
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
$20.00 NZD
Category: Novel
In the spirit of John Carpenter's The Thing and Jacob's Ladder comes Stranded -- a terrifying, icebound thriller where nothing is quite what it seems by Bracken MacLeod. Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sai ...Show more
Swift to Chase by Laird Barron
$12.00 NZD
Category: Collection
Introduction by Paul Tremblay Publishers Weekly top ten list for most anticipated horror/Scifi Fall 2016 releases. Laird Barron's fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and giallo-fueled nightmare vistas. All hell breaks lo ...Show more
The Apothecary's Curse by Barbara Barnett
$18.00 NZD
Category: First Novel
In Victorian London, the fates of physician Simon Bell and apothecary Gaelan Erceldoune entwine when Simon gives his wife an elixir created by Gaelan from an ancient manuscript. Meant to cure her cancer, it kills her. Suicidal, Simon swallows the remainder--only to find he cannot die. Five years later, ...Show more
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
$12.99 NZD
Category: Long Fiction
One ofNPR's Best Books of 2016, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, the British Fantasy Award, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year, and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it ...Show more
The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates
$10.00 NZD
Category: Collection
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Including "Big Momma," a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short Story From one of our most important contemporary writers, The Doll-Master and Other Tales ...Show more
The Eighth by Stephanie M. Wytovich
$22.00 NZD
Category: First Novel
Rhea Harmon is a living target for the Devil as she possesses the power to detect one's deadliest sin at first glance. Intended to be used as a weapon of war, the Devil sends Paimon, his right-hand man and top collector, to claim her soul and bring her to him in Hell. But the Devil isn't the only one w ...Show more
The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub by John C. Tibbetts
$60.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
"Straub brings a poet's sensibility to the field, creating a synthesis of horror and beauty. He writes a beautiful prose line that features narrative clarity, sterling characterization, and surprising bursts of humor."--Stephen King "With The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, John Tibbetts makes a major ...Show more
The Jupiter Drop by Josh Malerman
$14.60 NZD
Category: Long Fiction
Bram Stoker Award winning editor Michael Bailey brings sci-fi back to Dark Regions Press with heart in this genre-bending anthology of dark science fiction and poetry: You, Human. With fiction illustrated beautifully throughout by world-renowned artist L.A. Spooner, with poetry and spot illustrations su ...Show more
The Last Days of Salton Academy by Jennifer Brozek
$15.00 NZD
Category: Young-Adult Novel
It's referred to as 'The Outbreak, ' and it happened just over three months ago, casting the world (or at least this part of it) into a state of powerlessness and chaos. The Salton Academy has become a rare sanctuary for those few students who remained behind over fall break. As winter approaches, crack ...Show more
The Steam Man by Joe R. Lansdale
$14.99 NZD
Category: Graphic Novel
On the great plains of the old American west, enormous steam-powered robots march across the countryside. Their mission: to defend the populace against invading Martians and armies of killer albino apes! The Steam Man, a giant metal man operated by a team of monster hunters, seems to have the defence of ...Show more