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| 1987 |
| Win |
Mary Shelley
(variant of Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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Muriel Spark
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| Nomination |
Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In
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Joe Bob Briggs
|
| Nomination |
The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh: The Films of George A. Romero
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Paul R. Gagne
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| 1989 |
| Win |
Harlan Ellison's Watching
|
Harlan Ellison
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| Win |
Horror: 100 Best Books
|
Stephen Jones
and
Kim Newman
|
| Nomination |
American Vampires: Fans, Victims, Practitioners
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Norine Dresser
|
| Nomination |
H. P. Lovecraft
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Peter Cannon
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| Nomination |
Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide to Literature and Film
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Leonard Wolf
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| 1990 |
| Win |
Dark Dreamers: Conversations with the Masters of Horror
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Stanley Wiater
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| Nomination |
Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage and Screen
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David J. Skal
|
| Nomination |
Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide
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Neil Barron
|
| Nomination |
Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In
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Joe Bob Briggs
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| Nomination |
The Weird Tale
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S. T. Joshi
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| 1991 |
| Win |
Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden
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Stephen Jones
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| Nomination |
Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice
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Katherine Ramsland
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| Nomination |
The Shape Under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia
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Stephen J. Spignesi
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| Nomination |
Vampires Among Us
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Rosemary Ellen Guiley
|
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| 1992 |
| Win |
Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film
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Christopher Golden
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| Nomination |
Dark Visions: Conversations with the Masters of the Horror Film
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Stanley Wiater
|
| Nomination |
Men, Women and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
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Carol J. Clover
|
| Nomination |
Presenting Young Adult Horror Fiction
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Cosette Kies
|
| Nomination |
Scare Tactics: The Art, Craft, and Trade Secrets of Writing, Producing, and Directing Chillers and Thrillers
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John Russo
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| 1993 |
| Win |
Once Around the Bloch
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Robert Bloch
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| Nomination |
The Diary of Jack the Ripper
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Michael Barrett
and
Shirley Harrison
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| Nomination |
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
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David J. Skal
|
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| 1994 |
| --- No Award Given This Year ------- |
| * |
No Award Given This Year
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| 1995 |
| Win |
The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies
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Mike Ashley
and
William G. Contento
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| Nomination |
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
|
James Randi
|
| Nomination |
Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984
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Cathal Tohill
and
Pete Tombs
|
| Nomination |
Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller
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Janet Leigh
and
Christopher Nickens
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement in the Occult
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Peter Levenda
|
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| 1996 |
| Win |
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life
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S. T. Joshi
|
| Nomination |
Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula
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Barbara Belford
|
| Nomination |
The Great Pulp Heroes
|
Don Hutchison
|
| Nomination |
The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide
|
Stephen Jones
|
| Nomination |
V Is for Vampire
|
David J. Skal
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
Video Watchdog
|
Tim Lucas
|
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| 1997 |
| Win |
Dark Thoughts: On Writing
|
Stanley Wiater
|
| Nomination |
Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror
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Stephen Jones
|
| Nomination |
Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography
|
Katherine Ramsland
|
| Nomination |
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
|
John Clute
and
John Grant
|
| Nomination |
The Hammer Story
|
Alan Barnes
and
Marcus Hearn
|
| Nomination |
Video Watchdog
|
Tim Lucas
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
Bright Darkness: The Lost Art of the Supernatural Horror Film
|
Jeremy Dyson
|
| * |
Creature Features: The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Guide
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John Stanley
|
| * |
Dracula: The Connoisseur's Guide
|
Leonard Wolf
|
| * |
The Night Stalker Companion: A 25th Anniversary Tribute
|
Mark Dawidziak
|
| |
| 1998 |
| Win |
DarkEcho Newsletter, Vol. 5 #1-50
|
Paula Guran
|
| Nomination |
A Writer's Tale
|
Richard Laymon
|
| Nomination |
Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond
|
Clive Bloom
|
| Nomination |
The Science of the X-Files
|
Jeanne Cavelos
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
Mondo Macabro: Weird and Wonderful Cinema Around the World
|
Pete Tombs
|
| * |
Necrofile
|
Stefan Dziemianowicz
and
S. T. Joshi
and
Michael A. Morrison
|
| * |
St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers
|
David Pringle
|
| * |
The Vampire Gallery: A Who's Who of the Undead
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J. Gordon Melton
|
| * |
Video Watchdog, #s 43-48
|
Tim Lucas
|
| |
| 1999 |
| Win |
DarkEcho Newsletter (all 1999 issues)
|
Paula Guran
|
| Nomination |
Hellnotes (all 1999 issues)
|
David B. Silva
and
Paul F. Olson
|
| Nomination |
The Essential Monster Movie Guide
|
Stephen Jones
|
| Nomination |
Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography
|
Victoria Price
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet
|
Neil Barron
|
| * |
Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin
|
Richard Davenport-Hines
|
| * |
Jobs in Hell (email newsletter)
|
Brian Keene
|
| * |
Nightmares of Mine
|
Kenneth Hite
|
| * |
No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
|
Marina Warner
|
| * |
Video Watchdog
|
Tim Lucas
|
| |
| 2000 |
| Win |
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Stephen King
|
| Nomination |
At the Foot of the Story Tree: An Inquiry into the Fiction of Peter Straub
|
Bill Sheehan
|
| Nomination |
Hellnotes
|
David B. Silva
and
Paul F. Olson
|
| Nomination |
Horror of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History
|
Robert Weinberg
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
Apocalypse Culture 2
|
Adam Parfrey
|
| * |
Jobs in Hell (email newsletter)
|
Brian Keene
|
| * |
Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters
|
H. P. Lovecraft
|
| * |
The Circus Fire: A True Story
|
Stewart O'Nan
|
| * |
The Gila Queen's Guide to Markets
|
Kathryn Ptacek
|
| * |
This Craft of Verse
|
Jorge Luis Borges
|
| * |
Weird N.J.
|
Mark Moran
and
Mark Sceurman
|
| * |
Writing Horror
|
Edo van Belkom
|
| |
| 2001 |
| Win |
Jobs in Hell (email newsletter)
|
Brian Keene
|
| Nomination |
Hellnotes
|
David B. Silva
and
Paul F. Olson
|
| Nomination |
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
|
Bruce Campbell
|
| Nomination |
Personal Demons
|
Brian A. Hopkins
and
Garrett Peck
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
Guilty But Insane
|
Poppy Z. Brite
|
| * |
House Magic: The Good Witch's Guide to Bringing Grace to Your Place
|
|
| * |
The New Jersey Graveline
|
Drew Beebe
and
John Picinich
|
| |
| 2002 |
| Win |
Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies
|
Ramsey Campbell
|
| Nomination |
Hellnotes
|
David B. Silva
and
Paul F. Olson
and
Garrett Peck
|
| Nomination |
Jobs in Hell (email newsletter)
|
Brian Keene
|
| Nomination |
Ralan.com
|
Ralan Conley
|
| Nomination |
Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror
|
Richard Bleiler
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
FeoAmante.Com (http://www.feoamante.com)
|
Edward C. McMullen, Jr.
|
| |
| 2003 |
| Win |
The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association
|
Thomas F. Monteleone
|
| Nomination |
Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman
|
Smoky Man
and
Gary Spencer Millidge
|
| Nomination |
Fear in a Handful of Dust: Horror As a Way of Life
|
Gary A. Braunbeck
|
| Nomination |
Hellnotes
|
Judi Rohrig
|
| Nomination |
Ralan.com
|
Ralan Conley
|
| |
| 2004 |
| Win |
Hellnotes
|
Judi Rohrig
|
| Nomination |
Hanging Out with the Dream King: Interviews with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators
|
Joseph McCabe
|
| Nomination |
Ralan’s SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza
|
Ralan Conley
|
| Nomination |
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel
|
Tom Monteleone
|
| Nomination |
The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus
|
Bev Vincent
|
| |
| 2005 |
| Win |
Horror: Another 100 Best Books
|
Stephen Jones
and
Kim Newman
|
| Nomination |
Morbid Curiosity, #9
|
Loren Rhoads
|
| Nomination |
More Giants of the Genre
|
Michael McCarty
|
| Nomination |
The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury
|
Sam Weller
|
| Nomination |
Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
|
Rhonda V. Wilcox
|
| |
| 2006 |
| Win |
Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die
|
Michael Largo
|
| Win |
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth
|
Kim Paffenroth
|
| Nomination |
Cinema Macabre
|
Mark Morris
|
| Nomination |
Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished
|
Norma Blackburn
and
David Rawsthorne
and
Rocky Wood
|
| |
| 2007 |
| Win |
The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange, and Downright Bizarre
|
David F. Kramer
and
Jonathan Maberry
|
| Nomination |
Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying TRUTH! About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More
|
Joshua Gee
|
| Nomination |
http://storytellersunplugged.com/
|
Joe Nassise
and
David Niall Wilson
|
| Nomination |
The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich & Powerful Really Died
|
Michael Largo
|
| |
| 2008 |
| Win |
A Hallowe'en Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries
|
Lisa Morton
|
| Nomination |
Cheap Scares!: Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets
|
Gregory Lamberson
|
| Nomination |
The Book of Lists: Horror
|
Scott Bradley
and
Del Howison
and
Amy Wallace
|
| Nomination |
Zombie CSU
|
Jonathan Maberry
|
| |
| 2009 |
| Win |
Writers Workshop of Horror
|
Michael Knost
|
| Nomination |
http://cinemaknifefight.com/
|
L. L. Soares
and
Michael Arruda
|
| Nomination |
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction
|
Justin Brooks
and
Rocky Wood
|
| |
| 2010 |
| Win |
To Each Their Darkness
|
Gary A. Braunbeck
|
| Nomination |
Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews
|
Sam Weller
|
| Nomination |
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
|
Thomas Ligotti
|
| Nomination |
Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil
|
Janice Gable Bashman
and
Jonathan Maberry
|
| |
| 2011 |
| Win ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury. |
Stephen King: A Literary Companion
|
Rocky Wood
|
| Nomination ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation. |
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies
|
Matt Mogk
|
| Nomination ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation. |
Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night
|
Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
|
| Nomination ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury. |
Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu
|
Gary William Crawford
and
Jim Rockhill
and
Brian J. Showers
|
| Nomination ⓘPreliminary nomination by recommendation. |
Starve Better
|
Nick Mamatas
|
| Nomination ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury. |
The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media
|
John C. Tibbetts
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury. |
Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the Outer Realms
|
Shade Rupe
|
| * ⓘPreliminary nomination by jury.
The nomination was for the editors, S.T. Joshi and David E. Shultz. |
Letters to James F. Morton
|
H. P. Lovecraft
|
| |
| 2012 |
| Win |
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
|
Lisa Morton
|
| Nomination |
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film
|
Kendall R. Phillips
|
| Nomination |
The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1
|
Leslie S. Klinger
|
| Nomination |
The Undead and Theology
|
John W. Morehead
and
Kim Paffenroth
|
| Nomination |
Writing Darkness
|
Michael R. Collings
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture
|
Dennis R. Perry
and
Carl H. Sederholm
|
| * |
Carrie: Studies in the Horror Film
|
Joe Aisenberg
|
| * |
Conversations with Kreskin
|
The Amazing Kreskin
and
Michael McCarty
|
| * |
Write of the Living Dead: A Writing Guide for Your Dark Side
|
Rachel Lee
and
Araminta Star Matthews
and
Stan Swanson
|
| |
| 2013 |
| Win |
Nolan on Bradbury
|
William F. Nolan
|
| Nomination |
Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic
|
Barbara Brodman
and
James E. Doan
|
| Nomination |
Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors
|
Robert H. Waugh
|
| Nomination |
Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror
|
Gary William Crawford
|
| Nomination |
The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures
|
Jarkko Toikkanen
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream
|
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
|
| |
| 2014 |
| Win |
Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide
|
Lucy A. Snyder
|
| Nomination |
Disorders of Magnitude: A Survey of Dark Fantasy
|
Jason V. Brock
|
| Nomination |
Horror 101: The Way Forward
|
Emma Audsley
and
Joe Mynhardt
|
| Nomination |
Lovecraft and a World in Transition
|
S. T. Joshi
|
| Nomination ⓘThe nomination was for Leslie S. Klinger |
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
|
H. P. Lovecraft
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist and Other Strange-But-True Tales from American History
|
Robert Damon Schneck
|
| * |
The Art of Neil Gaiman
|
Hayley Campbell
|
| * |
The Creature Chronicles: Exploring the Black Lagoon Trilogy
|
Steve Kronenberg
and
David Schecter
and
Tom Weaver
|
| * |
William Hope Hodgson: Voices from the Borderland
|
Massimo Berruti
and
Sam Gafford
and
S. T. Joshi
|
| |
| 2015 |
| Win |
The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History
|
Stephen Jones
|
| Nomination |
Author's Guide to Marketing with Teeth
|
Michael Knost
|
| Nomination |
Horror 201: The Silver Scream
|
Emma Audsley
and
Joe Mynhardt
|
| Nomination |
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film
|
Danel Olson
|
| Nomination |
The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror
|
Justin Everett
and
Jeffrey H. Shanks
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
Haunted by the Abyss: The Otherworldly Experiences of Paranormal
|
Sarah Soderlund
|
| * |
Haunted Plantations of the South
|
Richard Southall
|
| * |
Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siecle to the Millennium: New Essays
|
Rebecca A. Brown
and
Sharla Hutchison
|
| |
| 2016 |
| Win |
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
|
Ruth Franklin
|
| Nomination |
Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds
|
Leo Braudy
|
| Nomination |
In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft
|
W. Scott Poole
|
| Nomination |
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
|
David J. Skal
|
| Nomination |
The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth: Studies in the Horror Film
|
Danel P. Olson
|
| Nomination |
The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
|
John C. Tibbetts
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts
|
J. W. Ocker
|
| * |
The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936
|
Jon Towlson
|
| |
| 2017 |
| Win |
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
|
Will Errickson
and
Grady Hendrix
|
| Nomination |
Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre
|
Michele Brittany
|
| Nomination |
Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror
|
Kinitra D. Brooks
|
| Nomination |
The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History
|
Stephen Jones
|
| Nomination |
Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre
|
Eugene Johnson
and
Joe Mynhardt
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * ⓘA travel guide to notable cemeteries. |
199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die
|
Loren Rhoads
|
| * |
Horror Literature Through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That Speak to Our Deepest Fears
|
Matt Cardin
|
| |
| 2018 |
| Win |
It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life
|
Eugene Johnson
and
Joe Mynhardt
|
| Nomination |
Horror Express (Panico en el Transiberiana)
|
John Connolly
|
| Nomination |
The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film
|
Lee Gambin
|
| Nomination |
Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series
|
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
|
| Nomination |
We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror
|
Howard David Ingham
|
| --- Preliminary Nominees ------- |
| * |
A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema
|
Kendall R. Phillips
|
| * |
Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture
|
Dennis R. Cutchins
and
Dennis R. Perry
|
| * |
Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror
|
Darryl Jones
|
| * |
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
|
W. Scott Poole
|
| * |
Woman at the Devil's Door: The Untold True Story of the Hampstead Murderess
|
Sarah Beth Hopton
|
| |
| 2019 |
| Win |
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction
|
Melanie R. Anderson
and
|
| Nomination ⓘNon-genre work per ISFDB standards. Essays about American Horror Story television series and not written speculative fiction |
Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays
|
Harriet E. H. Earle
|
| Nomination |
Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality (Horror Studies)
|
Eleanor Beal
and
Jonathan Greenaway
|
| Nomination ⓘNon-genre work per ISFDB standards (not about written works) |
Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces
|
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
|
| Nomination |
Shapeshifters: A History
|
John B. Kachuba
|
| |
| 2020 |
| Win |
Writing in the Dark
|
Tim Waggoner
|
| Nomination |
1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018
|
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
|
| Nomination |
End of the Road
|
Brian Keene
|
| Nomination |
The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films
|
Kelly Florence
and
Meg Hafdahl
|
| Nomination |
The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption
|
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
|
| Nomination |
Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
|
Alison Peirse
|
| |
| 2021 |
| Win |
Writers Workshop of Horror 2
|
Michael Knost
|
| Nomination |
9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels
|
Danel Olson
|
| Nomination |
Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
|
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
|
| Nomination |
Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema
|
Regina M. Hansen
and
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
|
| Nomination |
Shirley Jackson: A Companion
|
Kristopher Woofter
|
| |
| 2022 |
| Nomination |
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
|
Leanna Renee Hieber
and
Andrea Janes
|
| Nomination |
Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult
|
Melanie R. Anderson
and
|
| Nomination |
Weird Fiction: A Genre Study
|
Michael Cisco
|
| Nomination |
Writing in the Dark: The Workbook
|
Tim Waggoner
|
| Nomination |
Writing Poetry in the Dark
|
Stephanie M. Wytovich
|
| |
| 2023 |
| Nomination |
101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
|
Sadie Hartmann
|
| Nomination |
A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
|
Claire Fitzpatrick
|
| Nomination |
The Art of the Zombie Movie
|
Lisa Morton
|
| Nomination |
The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
|
Robin R. Means Coleman
and
Mark H. Harris
|
| Nomination |
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
|
Lee Murray
and
Angela Yuriko Smith
|
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