> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.andrewliptak.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Here are the winners of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards - URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/bram-stoker-award-stephen-graham-jones-buffalo-hunter-winners-horror/ - Published: 2026-06-08T14:12:14.000Z - Updated: 2026-06-08T14:12:14.000Z - Description: The best writing in horror from 2025 - Author: Andrew Liptak - Tags: News, Awards, Horror, Books Stephen Graham Jones had a good night over the weekend: not only did he earn the [Nebula Award for Best Novel for his novel *The Buffalo Hunter Hunter*](https://www.andrewliptak.com/nebula-award-winners-2026-sfwa-science-fiction-fantasy-books/)*,* he earned the "Superior Achievement in a Novel" for the same. I don't read as much horror as I'd like, but the field is really brimming over with excellence, and to that end, the Horror Writers Association awarded its annual Bram Stoker Awards® over the weekend. Here are the finalists and winners (winners marked in **bold**). I've added links where I can find the online publication: ### Superior Achievement in an Anthology - *Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology* edited by Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett, and Craig Laurance Gidney - *The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand* edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene - ***Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora* edited by Kristy Park Kulski** - *This Way Lies Madness: Stories from the Edge of Darkness* edited by Lee Murray and Dave Jeffery - *HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror* edited by Lindy Ryan and Stephanie M. Wytovich ### Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection - *Acquired Taste* by Clay McLeod Chapman - *Little Horn: Stories* by Gemma Files - ***Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions* by John Langan** - *Teenage Girls Can Be Demons* by Hailey Piper - *Cyanide Constellations* by Sara Tantlinger ### Superior Achievement in a First Novel - *The Scald-Crow* by Grace Daly - *Moonflow* by Bitter Karella - *Her Wicked Roots* by Tanya Pell - *The Faceless Thing We Adore* by Hester Steel - *Molting* by Kathryn Tennison - *Listen to Your Sister* by Neena Viel - ***The October Film Haunt* by Michael Wehunt** ### Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel - *Jumpscare* by Cullen Bunn (writer) and Danny Luckert (artist) - *John Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight,* Volume 11 edited by Sandy King - *Athanasia* by Daniel Kraus (writer) and Dani (artist) - ***Bowling With Corpses and Other Tales from Lands Unknown* by Mike Mignola** - *Let This One Be a Devil* by James Tynion IV (writer), Steve Foxe (writer), and Piotr Kowalski (artist) ### Superior Achievement in Long Fiction - ***Cathedral of the Drowned* by Nathan Ballingrud** - "[Uncertain Sons](https://undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Thomas Ha - "[Squid Teeth](https://reactormag.com/squid-teeth-sarah-langan/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Sarah Langan - *Pam Kowolski Is a Monster!* by Sarah Langan - **"**[**Wolf Moon, Antler Moon**](https://reactormag.com/wolf-moon-antler-moon-a-c-wise/?ref=andrewliptak.com)**" by A.C. Wise** ### Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction - *Global Indigenous Horror* edited by Naomi Simone Borwein - *The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters* edited by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead - *America’s Most Gothic* by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes - *Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away* by Coltan Scrivner - ***Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction* edited by Becky Siegel Spratford** ### Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel - ***Ride or Die* by Delilah S. Dawson** - *The Girl in the Walls* by Meg Eden Kuyatt - *Broken Dolls* by Ally Malinenko - *The House Next Door* by Ellen Oh - *Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave* by Ally Russell ### Superior Achievement in a Novel - *Witchcraft for Wayward Girls* by Grady Hendrix - *King Sorrow* by Joe Hill - ***The Buffalo Hunter Hunter* by Stephen Graham Jones** - *The Bewitching* by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - *Girl in the Creek* by Wendy N. Wagner ### Superior Achievement in Poetry (Collection and Long Form) - ***Everything Endless* by Linda D. Addison and Jamal Hodge** - *Songs of Enough: An Inferno All My Own* by Maxwell I. Gold - *The Uterus Is an Impossible Forest* by Shannon Kearns - *The Haunting* by Cate Peebles - *Allegories of Beauty & Violence: A collection of Gothic Romance Poems* by MarieAnn C. Raguso, PhD ### Superior Achievement in a Screenplay - ***Sinners* by Ryan Coogler** - *Weapons* by Zach Cregger - *28 Years Later* by Alex Garland - *Companion* by Drew Hancock - *Bring Her Back* by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman ### Superior Achievement in Short Fiction - *"*Stomata" by L.E. Daniels (*Darkness Most Fowl*) - ***"*Inheritance" by RJ Joseph (*Full Throttle: A Dark Dozen Anthology*)** - "[Saint Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls](https://www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/st-dymphnas-school-for-borderland-girls?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (*Weird Horror* #10) - "\[Ir\]reversible" by Anna Taborska (*Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays*) - "[Autogas Ferryman](https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/autogas-ferryman/?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Champ Wongsatayanont (*Nightmare Magazine* #156) ### Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction - "[Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monster](https://magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/deathwish-wolf-man-b4a91b9a20aa?ref=andrewliptak.com)" by Patrick Barb (*Interstellar Flight Magazine*) - **"My Long Road to Horror" by Tananarive Due (*Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction*)** - "Why Horror" by Stephen Graham Jones (*Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction*) - "Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism" by Mo Moshaty (*Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre*) - "My Mother Was Margaret White" by Cynthia Pelayo (*Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction*) ### Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel - ***Shiny Happy People* by Clay McLeod Chapman** - *Beautiful Brutal Bodies* by Linda Cheng - *We’re Not Safe Here* by Rin Chupeco - *The Silenced* by Diana Rodriguez Wallach - *A Girl Walks Into the Forest* by Madeleine Roux ## Specialty Awards - The Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award: Sarah Read - The Richard Laymon President’s Award: Marc L Abbott - Mentor of the Year Award: Eric Guignard - Specialty Press Award: Bad Hand Books --- Thanks for reading: what did you like from this list?