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# Here are the winners of the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards
- URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/2023-bram-stoker-award-horror-books/
- Published: 2024-06-04T17:21:25.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-04T17:21:25.000Z
- Description: The best of last year’s horror fiction
- Author: Andrew Liptak
- Tags: News, Horror

The Horror Writers Association held its annual conference over the weekend in San Diego, and as part of its programming, it [announced](https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/front-page/the-2023-bram-stoker-awards-final-ballot/?ref=transfer-orbit.ghost.io) the winners for this year's Bram Stoker Awards!

The recipients are selected by members of the Horror Writers Association, and recognize "Superior Achievement" in their respective categories. 

Here are the winners: 

### Superior Achievement in a Novel

- ***The Reformatory* by Tananarive Due**
- *How to Sell a Haunted House* by Grady Hendrix
- *Don’t Fear the Reaper* by Stephen Graham Jones
- *Lone Women* by Victor LaValle
- *Camp Damascus* by Chuck Tingle
- *Black River Orchard* by Chuck Wendig

### Superior Achievement in a First Novel

- ***The Daughters of Block Island* by Christa Carmen**
- *The Spite House* by Johnny Compton
- *Everything the Darkness Eats* by Eric LaRocca
- *Maeve Fly* by CJ Leede
- *Edenville* by Sam Rebelein

### Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel

- Monster Camp by Sarah Henning
- Los Monstruos: Felice and the Wailing Woman by Diana López
- **The Nighthouse Keeper by Lora Senf**
- Frances and the Werewolves of the Black Forest by Refe Tuma
- What Stays Buried by Suzanne Young

### Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

- ***She Is a Haunting* by Trang Thanh Tran**
- *You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight* by Kalynn Bayron
- *Funeral Songs for Dying Girls* by Cherie Dimaline
- *Find Him Where You Left Him Dead* by Kristen Simmons
- *Harvest House* by Cynthia Leitich Smith

### Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

- “Rumpus Room” by Tananarive Due
- ***Linghun* by Ai Jiang**
- *The Salt Grows Heavy* by Cassandra Khaw
- *Sleep Alone* by J.A.W. McCarthy
- *Despatches* by Lee Murray

### Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

- “Silk” by L.E. Daniels (*Hush, Don’t Wake the Monster: Stories Inspired by Stephen King*)
- “The Sound of Children Screaming” by Rachael K. Jones (*Nightmare* 10/23)
- “If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak” by Sam J. Miller (*The Dark* 7/23)
- **“Quondam”, Cindy O’Quinn (*The Nightmare Never Ends*)**
- “An Inherited Taste” by Nadine Aurora Tabing (*No Trouble at All*)

### Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

- *Blood from the Air* by Gemma Files
- *Cold, Black, & Infinite* by Todd Keisling
- *Spin a Black Yarn* by Josh Malerman
- *The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future* by Christi Nogle
- *Root Rot & Other Grim Tales* by Sarah Read

### Superior Achievement in an Anthology

- *Shakespeare Unleashed* edited by James Aquilone
- *The Drive-In: Multiplex* edited by Christopher Golden & Brian Keene
- *Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology* edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.
- ***Out There Screaming* edited by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams**
- *American Cannibal* edited by Rebecca Rowland

### Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction

- *The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar* by Robin R. Means Coleman & Mark H. Harris
- ***101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered* by Sadie Hartmann**
- *A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley* edited by Claire Fitzpatrick
- *The Art of the Zombie Movie* by Lisa Morton
- *Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror* edited by Lee Murray & Angela Yuriko Smith

### Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

- “Words Wielded by Women” by Carina Bissett *(Apex* 5/23)
- **“Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia” by Nadia Bulkin (*Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror*)**
- “100 Livers” by K.P. Kulski (*Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror*)
- “Displaced Spirits” by Lee Murray (*Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror*)
- “A Theatre of Ghosts, a Haunted Cinema: The Japanese Gothic as Theatrical Tradition in Gurozuka” by Kevin Wetmore, Jr.(*Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture: Special Issue on Asian Gothic* 6/23)

### Superior Achievement in Poetry

- *Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums* by Maxwell Ian Gold
- *The Quiet Ways I Destroy You* by Jessica McHugh
- *Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair* by Marisca Pichette
- *Numinous Stones* by Holly Lyn Walrath
- ***On the Subject of Blackberries* by Stephanie M. Wytovich**

### Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

- *Ghostlore, Vol. 1* by Cullen Bunn, art by Leomacs
- *Dead Mall* by Adam Cesare, art by David Stoll
- **Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu, art by Soo Lee**
- *Tombs* by Junji Ito
- *H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth* by Gou Tanabe

### Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

- *Black Mirror:* “Beyond the Sea”
- ***Godzilla Minus One***
- *Huesera: The Bone Woman*
- *No One Will Save You*
- *When Evil Lurks*