Great Horror Stories: 2022 Bram Stoker Awards Nominees

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Written By Chris Well

Horror Writer Association nominations include Novel, First Novel, Fiction Collection, Poetry Collection, Anthology, Graphic Novel, and more!

The Horror Writer’s Association (HWA) has announced the nominees for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards®. The organization presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula.

Any work of Horror first published in the English language may be considered for an award during the year of its publication. The thirteen Bram Stoker Award categories are: Novel, First Novel, Short Fiction, Long Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade (added in 2022), Fiction Collection, Poetry Collection, Anthology, Screenplay, Graphic Novel, Nonfiction, and Short Nonfiction.

The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® winers will be announced June 17 during the Annual Bram Stoker Awards at StokerCon™ 2023 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bookings and information at: http://stokercon.com.

In the next few weeks, we’ll be talking more about several of these nominated books. Meanwhile, check out the the whole list of nominations below.

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Superior Achievement in a Novel

The Devil Takes You Home
Gabino Iglesias
(Mullholland Press)

The Fervor
Alma Katsu
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Reluctant Immortals
Gwendolyn Kiste
(Saga Press)

Daphne
Josh Malerman
(Del Rey)

Sundial
Catriona Ward
(Tor Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Jackal Erin Adams (Bantam Books)

The Hacienda Isabel Cañas (Berkley)

Black Tide KC Jones (Tor Nightfire)

Beulah Christi Nogle (Cemetery Gates Media)

All the White Spaces Ally Wilkes (Emily Bestler Books/Atria/Titan Books)

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Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel

Camp Scare
Delilah S. Dawson
(Delacorte Press)

They Stole Our Hearts
Daniel Kraus
(Henry Holt and Co.)

This Appearing House
Ally Malinenko
(Katherine Tegen Books)

The Clackity
Lora Senf
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

A Comb of Wishes
Lisa Stringfellow
(Quill Tree Books)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary
James Aquilone, editor
(Moonstone Books)

Eat the Rich
Sarah Gailey (author) and Pius Bak (artist)
(Boom! Studios)

Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt
Alessandro Manzetti (author) and Stefano Cardoselli (artist/author)
(Independent Legions Publishing)

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4
James Tynion IV (author) and Werther Dell’Edera (artist)
(Boom! Studios)

The Me You Love in the Dark
Skottie Young (author) and Jorge Corona (artist)
(Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

What We Harvest
Ann Fraistat
(Delacorte Press)

The Weight of Blood
Tiffany D. Jackson
(Katherine Tegen Books)

These Fleeting Shadows
Kate Alice Marshall
(Viking)

The Triangle
Robert P. Ottone
(Raven Tale Publishing)

Gallant
V.E. Schwab
(Greenwillow Books)

Burn Down, Rise Up
Vincent Tirado
(Sourcebooks Fire)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

And in Her Smile, the World
Rebecca J. Allred and Gordon B. White
(Trepidatio Publishing)

“Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” 
Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror
Christa Carmen
(Wicked Run Press)

Below
Laurel Hightower
(Ghoulish Books)

The Wehrwolf: A Short Story
Alma Katsu
(Amazon Original Stories)

Three Days in the Pink Tower
EV Knight
(Creature Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

“Nona Doesn’t Dance”
Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts
Aaron Dries
(IFWG Australia, IFWG International)

“Poppy’s Poppy”
Douglas Gwilym
(Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Vol. V, No. 6)

“The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body”
A Woman Built by Man
J.A.W. McCarthy
(Cemetery Gates Media)

“A Song for Barnaby Jones”
Anna Taborska
(Zagava)

“The Star”
Great British Horror 7: Major Arcane
Anna Taborska
(Black Shuck Books)

“Fracture”
Mother: Tales of Love and Terror
Mercedes M. Yardley
(Weird Little Worlds)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
Paula D. Ashe
(Nictitating Books)

Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted
RJ Joseph
(The Seventh Terrace)

Breakable Things
Cassandra Khaw
(Undertow Publications)

Spontaneous Human Combustion
Richard Thomas
(Keylight Books)

The Black Maybe
Attila Veres
(Valancourt Books)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

The Pale Blue Eye
Scott Cooper
(Cross Creek Pictures, Grisbi Productions, Streamline Global Group)

The Black Phone
Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill
(Blumhouse Productions, Crooked Highway, Universal Pictures)

Stranger Things: Episode 04.01 “Chapter One: The Hellfire Club”
The Duffer Brothers
(21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre, Netflix, Upside Down Pictures)

Men
Alex Garland
(DNA Films)

Pearl
Mia Goth and Ti West
(A24, Bron Creative, Little Lamb, New Zealand Film Commission)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Sifting the Ashes
Michael Bailey and Marge Simon
(Crystal Lake Publishing)

Girls from the County
Donna Lynch
(Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Crime Scene
Cynthia Pelayo
(Raw Dog Screaming Press)

The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry
Sumiko Saulson
(Dooky Zines)

The Gravity of Existence
Christina Sng
(Interstellar Flight Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous
Ellen Datlow
(Tor Nightfire)

Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology
Sadie Hartmann and Ashley Saywers
(Dark Matter Ink)

Mother: Tales of Love and Terror
Christi Nogle and Willow Becker
(Weird Little Worlds)

Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga
Lindy Ryan
(Black Spot Books)

Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror
Sara Tantlinger
(Strangehouse Books)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Weird Fiction: A Genre Study
Michael Cisco
(Palgrave Macmillan)

A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes
(Citadel Press)

Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult
Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
(Quirk Books)

Writing in the Dark: The Workbook
Tim Waggoner
(Guide Dog Books)

Writing Poetry in the Dark
Stephanie M. Wytovich
(Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

“I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” by Lee Murray
(Interstellar Flight Magazine) (Interstellar Flight Press)

“This is Not a Poem” by Cynthia Pelayo
(Writing Poetry in the Dark) (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

“A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television” by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
(The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More) (McFarland and Company)

“African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore” by L. Marie Wood
(Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students) (Conjure World)

“The H Word: The Horror of Hair” by L. Marie Wood
(Nightmare Magazine, No. 118) (Adamant Press)

Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

https://chriswell.substack.com/
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