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# Here are the winners of the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards
- URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/2022-bram-stoker-award/
- Published: 2022-05-16T13:06:47.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-16T13:06:47.000Z
- Description: Congratulations to all of the winners!
- Author: Andrew Liptak
- Tags: Horror, News

Over the weekend, members of the Horror Writer's Association gathered in Denver, Colorado for the annual [StokerCon](https://www.stokercon.com/?ref=andrewliptak.com). The event also brings with it the winners of the genre's biggest award, the Bram Stoker Awards, which honor's the best writing within the horror / dark fiction genres. 

Here are the winners (listed in bold)

### Superior Achievement in a Novel

- **The Queen of the Cicadas* by V. Castro
- **The Final Girl Support Group* by Grady Hendrix
- ****My Heart is a Chainsaw* by Stephen Graham Jones**
- **Children of Chicago* by Cynthia Pelayo
- **The Book of Accidents* by Chuck Wendig

### Superior Achievement in a First Novel\*

- **Helminth by* S. Alessandro Martinez
- **When the Reckoning Comes by* LaTanya McQueen
- **Rabbits by* Terry Miles
- ***Queen of Teeth** **, by Hailey Piper**
- **The Forest by Lisa* Quigley
- **Tidepool by Nicole* Willson

\*Due to a tie in fifth place, there are six nominees in this category.

### Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

- **Abbott 1973* by SaladinAhmed and Sami Kivelä
- **Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity* byKamiGarcia, Mico Suayan, Jason Badower and Mike Mayhew
- ****The Inhabitant of the Lake* byAlessandro Manzetti and Stefano Cardoselli**
- **Proctor Valley Road* by GrantMorrison, Alex Child, and Naomi Franquiz
- **An Unkindness of* by DanPanosian and Marianna Ignazzi

### Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

- **All These Bodies* by KendareBlake
- **The Book of the Baku* by R.L. Boyle
- **Bad Witch Burning* *by* Jessica Lewis
- **House of Hollow* by KrystalSutherland
- ****The River Has Teeth* by EricaWaters**

### Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

- **Goddess of Filth* by V. Castro
- **Nothing But Blackened Teeth* by CassandraKhaw
- **Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke* by EricLaRocca
- “Recitation of the First Feeding” (collected in **Unfortunate Elements of My Anatom*y) by Hailey Piper
- **“Twentieth Anniversary Screening” (Slice and Dice*) by Jeff Strand**

### Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

- “The Yellow Crown” (**Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign*) by Carol Gyzander
- **“Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s*) by Lee Murray**
- “A Gathering at the Mountain” (**The Bad Book*) by Cindy O’Quinn
- “Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail” (**Terror Tales of the Scottish Lowlands*) by Anna Taborska
- “A Whisper in the Death Pit” (*Weirdbook* #44) by Kyla Lee Ward

### Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

- ****In That Endlessness, Our End* by GemmaFiles**
- **Beneath a Pale Sky* by PhilipFracassi
- **Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead* by JonathanMaberry
- **The Dead Hours of Night* by LisaTuttle
- **The Ghost Sequences* by A.C. Wise

### Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

- **Antlers by* C. Henry Chaisson; Nick Antosca, Nick; and Scott Cooper
- **Squid Game*, Season 1, Episode 1: “Red Light, Green Light” by Hwang Dong-hyuk
- ****Midnight Mass*, Season 1, Episode 6: “Book VI: Acts of the Apostles” by Mike Flanagan, James Flanagan, and Jeff Howard**
- **Fear Street: Part One – 1994 by Phil* Graziadei, Phil and Leigh Janiak
- **Candyman by Jordan* Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and Nia DaCosta

### Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

- **Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations* by Joe R. Lansdale
- **Strange Nests* by Jessica McHugh
- **Victims* by MargeSimon and Mary Turzillo
- ****Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken* by ChristinaSng, Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray, and Geneve Flynn**
- **Exposed Nerves* by Lucy A.Snyder

### Superior Achievement in an Anthology

- **Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign* by JamesChambers
- ****When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson* by Ellen Datlow**
- **There is No Death, There are No Dead by Aaron J.* French and Jess Landry
- **Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World* by Eric J. Guignard
- **Attack From the 80’s by Eugene* Johnson

### Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

- ****Writers Workshop of Horror 2* by Michael Knost**
- **9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels* by Danel Olson
- **Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema* byJeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Regina M. Hansen
- **Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters* by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
- **Shirley Jackson: A Companion* by Kristopher Woofter

### Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

- “The Three Paradigms of Horror” (Vastarien Vol. 4, Issue 2) by Dejan Ognjanović
- “One and Done” (**Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology*) by Cindy O’Quinn
- “A Horror Fan’s Guide to Surviving Womanhood” by Emily Ruth Verona,
- “Devil’s Advocates: The Conjuring” by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
- **“Horror Writers: Architects of Hope” (*The Sirens Call*, Halloween 2021, Issue 55) by Angela Yuriko Smith**