Récompensant des oeuvres de fantastique et d'horreur depuis sa création en 1987, le prix Bram-Stoker, du nom de l'auteur de Dracula, vient de dévoiler sa première sélection. On y croise des noms connus comme Joe Hill, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Daniel Kraus, Stephen Graham Jones et quelques autres.
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker (Mira; Hodder & Stoughton as Bat Eater)
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Clay McLeod Chapman (Quirk)
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley)
King Sorrow, Joe Hill (William Morrow)
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
Angel Down, Daniel Kraus (Atria)
The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
A Game in Yellow, Hailey Piper (Saga)
Lucky Day, Chuck Tingle (Tor Nightfire)
Girl in the Creek, Wendy N. Wagner (Tor Nightfire)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
The Scald-Crow, Grace Daly (Creature)
You Watched in Silence, H. Lee Justine (Blackstone)
Moonflow, Bitter Karella (Run For It)
My Lips, Her Voice, L.L. Madrid (Creature)
Her Wicked Roots, Tanya Pell (Gallery)
The Witch of Willow Sound, Vanessa F. Penney (ECW)
The Faceless Thing We Adore, Hester Steel (Page Street Horror)
Molting, Kathryn Tennison (Uncomfortably Dark Horror)
Listen to Your Sister, Neena Viel (St. Martin’s Griffin)
The October Film Haunt, Michael Wehunt (St. Martin’s)
Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel
The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay, Mary Averling (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)
Ghost Scout’s Honor, Carey Blankenship-Kramer (Scholastic)
Grimmworld 2: The Big Bad Wolf, Michaelbrent Collings (Shadow Mountain)
Ride or Die, Delilah S. Dawson (Delacorte)
Uncle Zeedie, Colm Field (Fox & Ink)
The Girl in the Walls, Meg Eden Kuyatt (Scholastic)
Broken Dolls, Ally Malinenko (HarperCollins Children’s)
Welcome to the Ghost Show, J.W. Ocker (HarperCollins Children’s)
The House Next Door, Ellen Oh (HarperCollins Children’s)
Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, Ally Russell (Delacorte)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
Shiny Happy People, Clay McLeod Chapman (Delacorte)
Beautiful Brutal Bodies, Linda Cheng (Roaring Brook)
We’re Not Safe Here, Rin Chupeco (Sourcebooks)
Predatory Natures, Amy Goldsmith (Delacorte)
Through Our Teeth, Pamela N. Harris (Quill Tree)
He Burns by the River, Khalia Moreau (Augustine)
The Silenced, Diana Rodriguez Wallach (Delacorte)
A Girl Walks into the Forest, Madeleine Roux (Quill Tree)
When the Bones Sing, Ginny Myers Sain (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Honeysuckle and Bone, Trisha Tobias (Sweet July)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
The Nga’phandileh Whisperer, Eugen Bacon (Stars and Sabers)
Cathedral of the Drowned, Nathan Ballingrud (Tor Nightfire)
Reap, Sow, S.H. Cooper (self-published)
“Uncertain Sons”, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories)
“Squid Teeth”, Sarah Langan (Reactor 5/7/25)
Pam Kowolski is a Monster!, Sarah Langan (Raw Dog Screaming)
Humbug, Luciano Marano (Crystal Lake)
Good Boy, Neil McRobert (Wild Hunt)
“Wolf Moon, Antler Moon”, A.C. Wise (Reactor 1/13/25)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
“Stomata”, L.E. Daniels (Darkness Most Fowl)
“Inheritance”, R.J. Joseph (Full Throttle: A Dark Dozen Anthology)
“The Elevated Table”, Phil Keeling (Red Cedar Review vol. 60)
“Chichilo”, Felicia Lee (Short(b)Reads)
“Because I Am Writing Another Horror Screenplay”, Amy Lynne McKenzie (Out There)
“The Nölmyna”, David Erik Nelson (Reactor)
“Saint Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls”, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Weird Horror Spring ’25, Undertow Publications)
“[Ir]reversible”, Anna Taborska (Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays)
“Who Kills a Spider”, Charlotte Tierney (Extra Teeth 7/23/25)
“Autogas Ferryman”, Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmare 9/25)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
The Pink Agave Motel: & Other Stories, V. Castro (Clash)
Acquired Taste, Clay McLeod Chapman (Titan)
Little Horn: Stories, Gemma Files (Shortwave)
A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts and Dark Matters, Eric J. Guignard (Cemetery Dance)
Lost in The Dark and Other Excursions, John Langan (Word Horde)
Black Friday: Stories from Africa, Cheryl S. Ntumy (Flame Tree)
Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, Hailey Piper (Titan)
stories in the minor key, M. Regan (Sobelo)
InhuMANities, Andrew Robertson (The Great Lakes Horror Company)
Cyanide Constellations: And Other Stories, Sara Tantlinger (Dark Matter Ink)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts, LCW Allingham & River Eno, eds. (Speculation)
One Bad Night & Other Stories, Isabel Armiento, ed. (Aardvark Book Club)
Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon, Carina Bissett, ed. (Storied Imaginarium)
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams)
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery)
Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology, Somto Ihezue & Olivia Kidula, eds. (Shilitza)
This Way Lies Madness, Dave Jeffery & Lee Murray, eds. (Flame Tree)
Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, Kristy Park Kulski, ed. (Bad Hand)
Darkness Most Fowl, Elaine Pascale, ed. (The Godmother of Horror)
Howl: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror, Lindy Ryan & Stephanie M. Wytovich, eds. (Black Spot)
Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction
Global Indigenous Horror, Naomi Simone Borwein, ed. (University Press of Mississippi)
Cracking Spines: Three Decades of Horror, Jason Cavallaro (self-published)
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters, Brandon R. Grafius & John W. Morehead, eds. (Oxford University Press)
America’s Most Gothic, Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes (Kensington)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Johanna Isaacson (DieDieBooks)
Uncanny Valley Girls, Zefyr Lisowski (Harper Perennial)
Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre, Matt Rogerson, ed. (1428)
Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away, Coltan Scrivner (Penguin Random House)
The Weird: A Companion, Carl H. Sederholm & Kristopher Woofter, eds. (Peter Lang)
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga)
Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction
“Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monster”, Patrick Barb (Interstellar Flight 10/3/25)
“Coney Island’s Last Surviving Classic Haunted Ride”, Pat Cassels (Atlas Obscura)
“Why I Am Horror”, Clay McLeod Chapman (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction)
“My Long Road to Horror”, Tananarive Due (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction)
“Why Horror”, Stephen Graham Jones (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction)
“Frank Belknap Long Letters, Written to Michael E. Ambrose, 1976-1979”, Katherine Kerestman (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 10/25)
“Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism”, Mo Moshaty (Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre)
“My Mother Was Margaret White”, Cynthia Pelayo (Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction)
“Author Functions: Stephen King’s Writers”, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Theorizing Stephen King)
“The Victorian American Ghost Story”, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion)
Superior Achievement in Poetry
Everything Endless, Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Raw Dog Screaming)
Strange Flowers, Brian Byrdlong (YesYes)
Nightmuse: Poems of Speculative Darkness, Scott J. Couturier (Jackanapes)
Songs of Enough: An Inferno All My Own, Maxwell I. Gold (Hippocampus)
The Uterus is an Impossible Forest, Shannon Kearns (Raw Dog Screaming)
Slender Bones in Sacred Soil, Fredrick Niles (Blood Moon)
The Haunting, Cate Peebles (Tupelo)
Allegories of Beauty & Violence: A Collection of Gothic Romance Poems, MarieAnn C. Raguso (Analyze This)
listen—a poetic creature, Griffin Rockwell (Interstellar Flight)
Pôëtíque: Dark Poems & Lyric Poetry, K.A. Schultz (Dakeha Taunus)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Jumpscare, Cullen Bunn, illustrated by Danny Luckert (Dark Horse)
The Autumn Kingdom: Through the Blight, Cullen Bunn, illustrated by Christopher Mitten (Oni)
GhostBox, Mike Carey, illustrated by Pablo Raimondi (Mad Cave)
Buried Long, Long Ago, Anthony Cleveland, illustrated by Alex Cormack (Mad Cave)
John Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight Vol. 11, Sandy King, ed. (Storm King)
Athanasia, Daniel Kraus, illustrated by Dani (Vault)
Bowling With Corpses and Other Tales from Lands Unknown, Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)
William of Newbury, Michael Avon Oeming (Dark Horse)
Let This One Be a Devil, Steve Foxe & James Tynion IV, illustrated by Piotr Kowalski (Dark Horse)
Exquisite Corpses, James Tynion IV, illustrated by Michael Walsh (Image)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Parvulos: Children of the Apocalypse, Ricardo Aguado-Fentanes & Isaac Ezban (Corazon Films, MalignoGorehouse, Red Elephant)
Final Destination: Bloodlines, Guy Busick & Lori Evans Taylor (New Line Cinema, Domain Entertainment, Practical Pictures)
Sinners, Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros., Domain, Proximity)
Weapons, Zach Cregger (New Line Cinema, Domain, Subconscious)
28 Years Later, Alex Garland (Sony, Columbia Pictures, TSG Entertainment)
Companion, Drew Hancock (New Line Cinema, BoulderLight Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment)
House of Abraham, Lukas Hassel (Jump Rock Pictures)
Bring Her Back, Bill Hinzman & Danny Philippou (Causeway Films, Salmira Productions, The South Australian Film Corporation)
The Long Walk, JT Mollner (Lionsgate, Media Capital Technologies, Vertigo Entertainment)
Together, Michael Shanks (1.21, 30West, Picturestart, Princess Pictures)
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