# Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for non-fiction.

## Winners and nominees

Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1987 | Muriel Spark | Mary Shelley | Winner |
| 1987 | Joe Bob Briggs | Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In | Finalist |
| 1987 | Paul A. Gagne | The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh | Finalist |
| 1988 | (no award) | (no award) | (no award) |
| 1989 | Stephen Jones and Kim Newman | Horror: The 100 Best Books | Winner |
| 1989 | Harlan Ellison | Harlan Ellison's Watching | Winner |
| 1989 | Norine Dresser | American Vampires by Fans, Victims, Practitioners | Finalist |
| 1989 | Peter Cannon | H. P. Lovecraft | Finalist |
| 1989 | Leonard Wolf | Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature and Film | Finalist |
| 1990 | Stanley Wiater | Dark Dreamers | Winner |
| 1990 | Joe Bob Briggs | Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In | Finalist |
| 1990 | S. T. Joshi | The Weird Tale | Finalist |
| 1990 | David J. Skal | Hollywood Gothic | Finalist |
| 1990 | Neil Barron | Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide | Finalist |
| 1991 | Stephen Jones | Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden | Winner |
| 1991 | Stephen J. Spignesi | The Shape Under The Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia | Finalist |
| 1991 | Katherine Ramsland | Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice | Finalist |
| 1991 | Rosemary Ellen Guillen | Vampires Among Us | Finalist |
| 1992 | Christopher Golden | Cut! Horror Writers of Horror Film | Winner |
| 1992 | Carol J. Clover | Men, Women, and Chainsaws | Finalist |
| 1992 | Stanley Wiater | Dark Visions | Finalist |
| 1992 | John Russo | Scare Tactics | Finalist |
| 1992 | Cosete Kies | Young Adult Horror Fiction | Finalist |
| 1993 | Robert Bloch | Once Around the Bloch | Winner |
| 1993 | Shirley Harrison and Michael Barrett | The Diary of Jack the Ripper | Finalist |
| 1993 | David J. Skal | The Monster Show | Finalist |
| 1994 | (no award) | (no award) | (no award) |
| 1995 | Michael Ashley and William Contento | The Supernatural Index | Winner |
| 1995 | Janet Leigh and Christopher Nickens | Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller | Finalist |
| 1995 | Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs | Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 | Finalist |
| 1995 | James Randi | An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural | Finalist |
| 1996 | S. T. Joshi | H. P. Lovecraft: A Life | Winner |
| 1996 | Don Hutchison | The Great Pulp Heroes | Finalist |
| 1996 | Stephen Jones | The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide | Finalist |
| 1996 | Barbara Belford | Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula | Finalist |
| 1996 | David Skal | V is for Vampire | Finalist |
| 1997 | Stanley Wiater | Dark Thoughts: On Writing | Winner |
| 1997 | John Clute and John Grant | The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | Finalist |
| 1997 | Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes | The Hammer Story | Finalist |
| 1997 | Tim Lucas, ed. | Video Watchdog | Finalist |
| 1997 | Stephen Jones | Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror | Finalist |
| 1997 | Katherine Ramsland | Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography | Finalist |
| 1998 | Paula Guran, ed. | DarkEcho Newsletter, Vol. 5, #1-50 | Winner |
| 1998 | Clive Bloom, ed. | Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond | Finalist |
| 1998 | Jeanne Cavelos | The Science of the X-Files | Finalist |
| 1998 | Richard Laymon | A Writer's Tale | Finalist |
| 1999 | Paula Guran, ed. | DarkEcho Newsletter | Winner |
| 1999 | David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds. | Hellnotes | Finalist |
| 1999 | Stephen Jones | The Essential Monster Movie Guide | Finalist |
| 1999 | Victoria Price | Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography | Finalist |
| 2000 | Stephen King | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Winner |
| 2000 | David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds. | Hellnotes | Finalist |
| 2000 | Bill Sheehan | At the Foot of the Story Tree | Finalist |
| 2000 | Robert Weinberg | Horror of the 20th Century | Finalist |
| 2001 | Brian Keene, ed. | Jobs in Hell | Winner |
| 2001 | Brian A. Hopkins and Garrett Peck, eds. | Personal Demons | Finalist |
| 2001 | David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds. | Hellnotes | Finalist |
| 2001 | Bruce Campbell | If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor | Finalist |
| 2002 | Ramsey Campbell | Ramsey Campbell, Probably | Winner |
| 2002 | Ralan Conley, ed. | Ralan.com | Finalist |
| 2002 | Brian Keene and Kelly Laymon, eds. | Jobs in Hell | Finalist |
| 2002 | David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson, and Garrett Peck, eds. | Hellnotes | Finalist |
| 2002 | Richard Bleiler | Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition | Finalist |
| 2003 | Thomas F. Monteleone | The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association | Winner |
| 2003 | Gary A. Braunbeck | Fear in a Handful of Dust | Finalist |
| 2003 | Ralan Conley, ed. | Ralan.com | Finalist |
| 2003 | Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man, eds. | Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman | Finalist |
| 2003 | Judi Rohrig, ed. | Hellnotes | Finalist |
| 2004 | Judi Rohrig, ed. | Hellnotes | Winner |
| 2004 | Thomas F. Monteleone | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel | Finalist |
| 2004 | Bev Vincent | The Road to the Dark Tower | Finalist |
| 2004 | Joseph McCabe | Hanging Out with the Dream King | Finalist |
| 2004 | Ralan Conley | Ralan's SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza | Finalist |
| 2005 | Stephen Jones and Kim Newman | Horror: Another 100 Best Books | Winner |
| 2005 | Sam Weller | The Bradbury Chronicles | Finalist |
| 2005 | Loren Rhoads | Morbid Curiosity, #9 | Finalist |
| 2005 | Michael McCarty | More Giants of the Genre | Finalist |
| 2005 | Rhonda Wilcox | Why Buffy Matters: The Art of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' | Finalist |
| 2006 | Michael Largo | Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die | Winner |
| 2006 | Kim Paffenroth | Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth | Winner |
| 2006 | Mark Morris, ed. | Cinema Macabre | Finalist |
| 2006 | Rocky Wood | Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished | Finalist |
| 2007 | Jonathan Maberry and David F. Kramer | The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre | Winner |
| 2007 | Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson | Storytellers Unplugged | Finalist |
| 2007 | Michael Largo | The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich & Powerful Really Died | Finalist |
| 2007 | Joshua Gee | Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying Truth About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More | Finalist |
| 2008 | Lisa Morton | A Hallowe'en Anthology | Winner |
| 2008 | Gregory Lamberson | Cheap Scares | Finalist |
| 2008 | Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley | The Book of Lists: Horror | Finalist |
| 2008 | Jonathan Maberry | Zombie CSU | Finalist |
| 2009 | Michael Knost | Writers Workshop of Horror | Winner |
| 2009 | L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda | Cinema Knife Fight | Finalist |
| 2009 | Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks | Stephen King: The Non-Fiction | Finalist |
| 2009 | Bev Vincent | The Stephen King Illustrated Companion | Finalist |
| 2010 | Gary A. Braunbeck | To Each Their Darkness | Winner |
| 2010 | Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman | Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil | Finalist |
| 2010 | Thomas Ligotti | The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror | Finalist |
| 2010 | Sam Weller | Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews | Finalist |
| 2011 | Rocky Wood | Stephen King: A Literary Companion | Winner |
| 2011 | Lesley Pratt Bannatyne | Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night | Finalist |
| 2011 | Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill, and Brian J. Showers, eds. | Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu | Finalist |
| 2011 | John C. Tibbetts | The Gothic Imagination | Finalist |
| 2011 | Matt Mogk | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies | Finalist |
| 2011 | Nick Mamatas | Starve Better | Finalist |
| 2012 | Lisa Morton | Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween | Winner |
| 2012 | Leslie S. Klinger | The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1 | Finalist |
| 2012 | Kim Paffenroth and John W. Morehead | The Undead and Theology | Finalist |
| 2012 | Kendall R. Phillips | Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film | Finalist |
| 2012 | Michael Collings | Writing Darkness | Finalist |
| 2013 | William F. Nolan | Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction | Winner |
| 2013 | Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, eds. | Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic | Finalist |
| 2013 | Gary William Crawford, ed. | Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror | Finalist |
| 2013 | Robert H. Waugh, ed. | Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors | Finalist |
| 2013 | Jarkko Toikkanen | The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures | Finalist |
| 2014 | Lucy Snyder | Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide | Winner |
| 2014 | Jason V. Brock | Disorders of Magnitude | Finalist |
| 2014 | S. T. Joshi | Lovecraft and a World in Transition | Finalist |
| 2014 | Leslie S. Klinger | The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | Finalist |
| 2014 | Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley | Horror 101: The Way Forward | Finalist |
| 2015 | Stephen Jones | The Art of Horror | Winner |
| 2015 | Justin Everett and Jeffrey H. Shanks, eds. | The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror | Finalist |
| 2015 | Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley, eds. | Horror 201: The Silver Scream | Finalist |
| 2015 | Michael Knost | Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth | Finalist |
| 2015 | Danel Olson | Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (film) | Finalist |
| 2016 | Ruth Franklin | Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | Winner |
| 2016 | W. Scott Poole | In the Mountains of Madness | Finalist |
| 2016 | David J. Skal | Something in the Blood | Finalist |
| 2016 | John Tibbetts | The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub | Finalist |
| 2016 | Danel Olson | Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil's Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth | Finalist |
| 2016 | Leo Braudy | Haunted | Finalist |
| 2017 | Grady Hendrix | Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction | Winner |
| 2017 | Kinitra D. Brooks | Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror | Finalist |
| 2017 | Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson | Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre | Finalist |
| 2017 | Stephen Jones | The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History | Finalist |
| 2017 | Michele Brittany | Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre | Finalist |
| 2018 | Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson | It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life | Winner |
| 2018 | Howard David Ingham | We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror | Finalist |
| 2018 | Kevin. J. Wemore, Jr. | Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series | Finalist |
| 2018 | Lee Gambin | The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film | Finalist |
| 2018 | John Connolly | Horror Express | Finalist |
| 2019 | Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger | Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction | Winner |
| 2019 | Harriet E. H. Earle | Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jonathan Greenaway and Eleanor Beal | Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality | Finalist |
| 2019 | John B. Kachuba | Shapeshifters: A History | Finalist |
| 2019 | Alexandra Heller-Nicholas | Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces | Finalist |
| 2020 | Tim Waggoner | Writing in the Dark | Winner |
| 2020 | Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl | The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films | Finalist |
| 2020 | Alexandra Heller-Nicholas | 1000 Women in Horror | Finalist |
| 2020 | Brian Keene | End of the Road | Finalist |
| 2020 | Alison Peirse, ed. | Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre | Finalist |
| 2020 | Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. | The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption | Finalist |
| 2021 | Michael Knost, ed. | Writers Workshop of Horror 2 | Winner |
| 2021 | Danel Olson | 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels | Finalist |
| 2021 | Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Regina M. Hansen | Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema | Finalist |
| 2021 | Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. | Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters | Finalist |
| 2021 | Kristopher Woofter | Shirley Jackson: A Companion | Finalist |
| 2022 | Michael Cisco | Weird Fiction: A Genre Study | Winner |
| 2022 | Leanna Renee Hieberand Andrea Janes | A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts | Finalist |
| 2022 | Lisa Krögerand Melanie R. Anderson | Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult | Finalist |
| 2022 | Tim Waggoner | Writing in the Dark: The Workbook | Finalist |
| 2022 | Stephanie M. Wytovich | Writing Poetry in the Dark | Finalist |