Award Category: Superior Achievement in a First Novel (Bram Stoker Award)

Award Category: Superior Achievement in a First Novel Award Category Record # 497
Award Type: Bram Stoker Award
Display Order: 20

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1987

Win	The Manse	Lisa W. Cantrell
Nomination	Excavation	Steve Rasnic Tem
Nomination	Slob	Rex Miller
Nomination	The Damnation Game	Clive Barker
Nomination	The Harvest Bride	Tony Richards

1988
Win	The Suiting	Kelley Wilde
Nomination	Cities of the Dead	Michael Paine
Nomination	Deliver Us from Evil	Allen Lee Harris
Nomination	Demon Night	J. Michael Straczynski
Nomination	Fear Book	John L. Byrne
Nomination	Resurrection, Inc.	Kevin J. Anderson

1989
Win	Sunglasses After Dark	Nancy A. Collins
Nomination	Goat Dance	Douglas Clegg
Nomination	Laying the Music to Rest	Dean Wesley Smith
Nomination	The Dwelling	Tom Elliott
Nomination	The Lilith Factor	Jean Paiva

1990
Win	The Revelation	Bentley Little
Nomination	Blood of the Children	Alan Rodgers
Nomination	Dark Father	Tom Piccirilli
Nomination	Nightblood	T. Chris Martindale

1991
Win	Prodigal	Melanie Tem
Win	The Cipher	Kathe Koja
Nomination	Unearthed	Ashley McConnell
Nomination	Wilderness	Dennis Danvers
Nomination	Winter Scream	Chris Curry and Lisa Dean

1992
Win	Sineater	Elizabeth Massie
Nomination	Beauty	Brian D'Amato
Nomination	Less Than Human	Gary Raisor
Nomination	Lost Souls	Poppy Z. Brite
Nomination	The Holy Terror	Wayne Allen Sallee

1993
Win	The Thread That Binds the Bones	Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nomination	Afterage	Yvonne Navarro
Nomination	Created By	Richard Christian Matheson
Nomination	Suckers	Anne Billson
Nomination	Wet Work	Philip Nutman

1994
Win	Grave Markings	Michael A. Arnzen
Nomination	Deadweight	Robert Devereaux
Nomination	Near Death	Nancy Kilpatrick
Nomination	The Black Mariah	Jay R. Bonansinga
Nomination	Throat Sprockets	Tim Lucas
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Of Saints and Shadows	Christopher Golden
*	Slippin' into Darkness	Norman Partridge

1995
Win	The Safety of Unknown Cities	Lucy Taylor
Nomination	Diary of a Vampire	Gary Bowen
Nomination	Madeleine's Ghost	Robert Girardi
Nomination	The Between	Tananarive Due
Nomination	Wyrm Wolf	Edo van Belkom

1996
Win	Crota	Owl Goingback
Nomination	Dead Heat	Del Stone, Jr.
Nomination	Flute Song	Donald R. Burleson
Nomination	Horror Show	Greg Kihn
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Acts of Revision	Martyn Bedford
*	Celestial Dogs	Jay Russell

1997
Win	Lives of the Monster Dogs	Kirsten Bakis
Nomination	Drawn to the Grave	Mary Ann Mitchell
Nomination	Hungry Eyes	Barry Hoffman
Nomination	The Art of Arrow Cutting	Stephen Dedman
Nomination	The Inquisitor	Mary Murrey
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	An Exchange of Hostages	Susan R. Matthews
*	The Troika	Stepan Chapman

1998
Win	Dawn Song	Michael Marano
Nomination	Night Prayers	P. D. Cacek
Nomination	Silk	Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
Nomination	This Symbiotic Fascination	Charlee Jacob
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Angelique's Descent	Lara Parker
*	Carmilla: The Return	Kyle Marffin
*	Storytellers	Julie Anne Parks
*	The Queen of Darkness	Miguel Conner

1999
Win	Wither	J. G. Passarella
Nomination	Every Dead Thing	John Connolly
Nomination	King Rat	China Miéville^?China Mieville
Nomination	Widow's Walk	Steve Beai
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Collectors	Paul Griner
*	Fountain Society	Wes Craven
*	Lasombra	Richard E. Dansky
*	Madonna of the Dark	Elaine Moore
*	The Divinity Student	Michael Cisco
*	The Guardian	Beecher Smith
*	The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse	Keith Hartman

2000
Win	The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club	Brian A. Hopkins
Nomination	House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski
Nomination	Nailed by the Heart	Simon Clark
Nomination	Run	Douglas E. Winter
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	A Darkness Inbred	Victor Heck
*	Clickers	J. F. Gonzalez and Mark Williams
*	Cuckoo	Richard Wright
*	Darkers	Lisa DuMond
*	Daughters of the Moon	Joseph Curtin
*	Duet for the Devil	Randy Chandler and T. Winter-Damon
*	Eternal Sunset	Sèphera Girón^?Sephera Giron
*	Immortal: A Linking of Souls	D. E. Davidson
*	Out of the Light	Ralph W. Bieber, II and Holly H. Newstein
*	Raveling	Peter Moore Smith
*	Secret Life of Colors (variant of The Secret Life of Colors)	Steve Savile
*	The Big Punch	Louis Maistros
*	The Doorway	S. M. Korslund
*	The Fox Woman	Kij Johnson

2001
Win	Deadliest of the Species	Michael Oliveri
Nomination	Phantom Feast	Diana Barron
Nomination	Riverwatch	Joseph Nassise
Nomination	Skating on the Edge	D. G. K. Goldberg
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Bound in Blood	David Thomas Lord
*	Keepers of the River	Keith Schulz
*	Night Terrors	Drew Williams
*	Voice of the Blood	Jemiah Jefferson

2002
Win	The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold
Nomination	Atmosphere	Michael Laimo
Nomination	The Blues Ain't Nothin': Tales of the Lonesome Blues Pub	Tina L. Jens
Nomination	The Red Church	Scott Nicholson
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Clownwhite: A Comedy of Horrors	K. K.
*	Crimson	Gord Rollo
*	Night of the Beast	Harry Shannon
*	One Way Ticket to Midnight	Gary Jonas
*	Reflections of a Vampire	Damion Kirk
*	Sins of Blood & Stone	John Urbancik
*	Suffer the Flesh	Monica J. O'Rourke
*	The Burden of Indigo	Gene O'Neill
*	The Fallen	Dale Bailey
*	The Fixer	Jon F. Merz
*	The Organ Donor	Matthew Warner
*	The Void	Teri A. Jacobs

2003
Win	The Rising	Brian Keene
Nomination	Monstrocity	Jeffrey Thomas
Nomination	Veniss Underground	Jeff VanderMeer
Nomination	Wolf's Trap	William D. Gagliani

2004
Win	Covenant	John Everson
Win	Stained	Lee Thomas
Nomination	Black Fire	Brian James Freeman
Nomination	Move Under Ground	Nick Mamatas

2005
Win	Scarecrow Gods	Weston Ochse
Nomination	Siren Promised	Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson
Nomination	The Hides	Kealan Patrick Burke

2006
Win	Ghost Road Blues	Jonathan Maberry
Nomination	Bloodstone	Nate Kenyon
Nomination	The Harrowing	Alexandra Sokoloff
Nomination	The Keeper	Sarah Langan

2007
Win	Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill
Nomination	I Will Rise	Michael Louis Calvillo
Nomination	The Hollower	Mary SanGiovanni
Nomination	The Memory Tree	John R. Little

2008
Win	The Gentling Box	Lisa Mannetti
Nomination	Frozen Blood	Joel A. Sutherland
Nomination	Midnight on Mourn Street	Christopher Conlon
Nomination	Monster Behind the Wheel	Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin
Nomination	The Suicide Collectors	David Oppegaard

2009
Win	Damnable	Hank Schwaeble
Nomination	Breathers: A Zombie's Lament	S. G. Browne
Nomination	Frozen Blood	Joel A. Sutherland
Nomination	Solomon's Grave	Daniel G. Keohane
Nomination	The Little Sleep	Paul Tremblay

2010
Win	Black & Orange	Benjamin Kane Ethridge
Win	The Castle of Los Angeles	Lisa Morton
Nomination	A Book of Tongues	Gemma Files
Nomination	Spellbent	Lucy A. Snyder

2011
Win ^ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation.	Isis Unbound	Allyson Bird
Nomination ^ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury.	Southern Gods	John Hornor Jacobs
Nomination ^ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation.	That Which Should Not Be	Brett J. Talley
Nomination ^ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation.	The Lamplighters	Frazer Lee
Nomination ^ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury.	The Panama Laugh	Thomas S. Roche
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
* ^ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation.	High Moor	Graeme Reynolds
* ^ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation.	The Armageddon Chord	Jeremy Wagner

2012
Win	Life Rage	L. L. Soares
Nomination	A Requiem for Dead Flies	Peter N. Dudar
Nomination	Bad Glass	Richard E. Gropp
Nomination	Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling	Michael Boccacino
Nomination	Legend of the Pumpkin Thief	Charles Day
Nomination	Wide Open	Deborah Coates
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	City Under the Moon	Hugh Sterbakov
*	Dead Harvest	Chris F. Holm
*	Resurrection X: Zombie Evolution	Dane Hatchell
*	The Sinner	K. Trap Jones

2013
Win	The Evolutionist	Rena Mason
Nomination	Candy House	Kate Jonez
Nomination	Redheads	Jonathan Moore
Nomination	Stoker's Manuscript	Royce Prouty
Nomination	The Year of the Storm	John Mantooth
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Cain's Blood	Geoffrey Girard
*	Losing Touch	Christian A. Larsen
*	Pivot	L. C. Barlow
*	Poe	J. Lincoln Fenn
*	Whisper	Michael Bray

2014
Win	Mr. Wicker	Maria Alexander
Nomination	Bird Box	Josh Malerman
Nomination	Consumed	David Cronenberg
Nomination	Forsaken	J. D. Barker
Nomination	Return of the Mothman	Michael Knost
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Angel Manor	Chantal Noordeloos
*	Hyde	Daniel Levine
*	Predator	Janice Gable Bashman
*	Predator X	C. J. Waller
*	The Violet Hour	Whitney A. Miller

2015
Win	Mr. Suicide	Nicole Cushing
Nomination	Hannahwhere	John McIlveen
Nomination	Riding the Centipede	John Claude Smith
Nomination	Shutter	Courtney Alameda
Nomination	We Are Monsters	Brian Kirk
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Consumption	Heather Herrman
*	Heaven, Hell, or Houston: A Zombie Thriller	Thom Erb
*	The Amazing Mr. Howard	Kenneth W. Harmon
*	The Keeper of the Crows	Kyle Alexander Romines
*	The Library at Mount Char	Scott Hawkins

2016
Win	Haven	Tom Deady
Nomination	Hollow House	Greg Chapman
Nomination	Mayan Blue	Michelle Garza and Melissa Lason
Nomination	The Apothecary's Curse	Barbara Barnett
Nomination	The Eighth	Stephanie M. Wytovich
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Blackwater Val	William Gorman
*	The Black Goat Motorcycle Club	Jason Murphy
*	The Monster Underneath	Matthew Franks
*	The Sanguinarian Id	L. M. Labat
*	The Wolf Road	Beth Lewis
*	Until Death	Kari Kilgore
*	Wasteland Gods	Jonathan Woodrow

2017
Win	Cold Cuts	Robert Payne Cabeen
Nomination	In the Valley of the Sun	Andy Davidson
Nomination	Kill Creek	Scott Thomas (I)
Nomination	The Boulevard Monster	Jeremy Hepler
Nomination	What Do Monsters Fear?	Matt Hayward
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	The Mercy of the Tide	Keith Rosson
*	Tip of the Iceberg	Ash Hartwell

2018
Win	The Rust Maidens	Gwendolyn Kiste
Nomination	Baby Teeth	Zoje Stage
Nomination	I Am the River	T. E. Grau
Nomination	The Moore House	Tony Tremblay
Nomination	What Should Be Wild	Julia Fine
--- Preliminary Nominees -------
*	Breaking the World	Jerry Gordon
*	Fiction	Ryan Lieske
*	The Garden of Blue Roses	Michael Barsa
*	The Honey Farm	Harriet Alida Lye
*	The Nightmare Room	Chris Sorensen
*	The War in the Dark	Nick Setchfield

2019
Win	The Bone Weaver's Orchard	Sarah Read
Nomination ^ⓘUnclear if this story contains any speculative elements	Dear Laura	Gemma Amor
Nomination	Doorways to the Deadeye	Eric J. Guignard
Nomination	Invisible Chains	Michelle Renee Lane
Nomination	The Luminous Dead	Caitlin Starling

2020
Win	The Fourth Whore	E. V. Knight
Nomination	The Return	Rachel Harrison (I)
Nomination	The Taxidermist's Lover	Polly Hall
Nomination	Tome	Ross Jeffery
Nomination	True Story	Kate Reed Petty

2021
Win	Queen of Teeth	Hailey Piper
Nomination	Helminth	S. Alessandro Martinez
Nomination	Rabbits	Terry Miles
Nomination	The Forest	Lisa Quigley
Nomination	Tidepool	Nicole Willson
Nomination	When the Reckoning Comes	LaTanya McQueen

2022
Nomination	All the White Spaces	Ally Wilkes
Nomination	Beulah	Christi Nogle
Nomination	Black Tide	KC Jones
Nomination	Jackal	Erin E. Adams
Nomination	The Hacienda	Isabel Cañas^?Isabel Canas

2023
Nomination	Edenville	Sam Rebelein
Nomination	Everything the Darkness Eats	Eric LaRocca
Nomination ^ⓘDoes not appear to have an speculative fiction elements per product description. It is categorized under Psychological Thrillers by Amazon.	Maeve Fly	CJ Leede
Nomination ^ⓘDoes not appear to have an speculative fiction elements per product description. It is categorized under Psychological Thrillers by Amazon.	The Daughters of Block Island	Christa Carmen
Nomination	The Spite House	Johnny Compton

Award Category: Superior Achievement in a First Novel (Bram Stoker Award)

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