# Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for novels.

## Winners and nominees

The following are the winners and nominees. Finalists (nominees) are listed under the winner(s) for each year, respectively.
The year of eligibility listed in the table is the year that the work was published; the ceremony when the honor was awarded happening the following year.
Bram Stoker Award for Novel :
| Year | Recipient | Title | Result |
| 1987 | Stephen King | Misery | Co-winners |
| 1987 | Robert R. McCammon | Swan Song | Co-winners |
| 1987 | Ray Garton | Live Girls | Nominee |
| 1987 | Kem Nunn | Unassigned Territory | Nominee |
| 1987 | Chet Williamson | Ash Wednesday | Nominee |
| 1988 | Thomas Harris | The Silence of the Lambs | Winner |
| 1988 | Robert R. McCammon | Stinger | Nominee |
| 1988 | F. Paul Wilson | Black Wind | Nominee |
| 1988 | Joe R. Lansdale | The Drive-In | Nominee |
| 1988 | Anne Rice | The Queen of the Damned | Nominee |
| 1988 | Richard Laymon | Flesh | Nominee |
| 1989 | Dan Simmons | Carrion Comfort | Winner |
| 1989 | Katherine Dunn | Geek Love | Nominee |
| 1989 | Charles L. Grant | In a Dark Dream | Nominee |
| 1989 | Dean R. Koontz | Midnight | Nominee |
| 1989 | Robert R. McCammon | The Wolf's Hour | Nominee |
| 1990 | Robert R. McCammon | Mine | Winner |
| 1990 | Richard Laymon | Funland | Nominee |
| 1990 | Chet Williamson | Reign | Nominee |
| 1990 | Joe R. Lansdale | Savage Season | Nominee |
| 1991 | Robert R. McCammon | Boy's Life | Winner |
| 1991 | Thomas M. Disch | The M.D. | Nominee |
| 1991 | Stephen King | Needful Things | Nominee |
| 1991 | Stephen King | The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands | Nominee |
| 1991 | Dan Simmons | Summer of Night | Nominee |
| 1992 | Thomas F. Monteleone | Blood of the Lamb | Winner |
| 1992 | Matthew Costello | Homecoming | Nominee |
| 1992 | Brian Hodge | Deathgrip | Nominee |
| 1992 | Dean R. Koontz | Hideaway | Nominee |
| 1992 | Dan Simmons | Children of the Night | Nominee |
| 1993 | Peter Straub | The Throat | Winner |
| 1993 | Kim Newman | Anno Dracula | Nominee |
| 1993 | Bradley Denton | Blackburn | Nominee |
| 1993 | Poppy Z. Brite | Drawing Blood | Nominee |
| 1993 | Bentley Little | The Summoning | Nominee |
| 1994 | Nancy Holder | Dead in the Water | Winner |
| 1994 | Caleb Carr | The Alienist | Nominee |
| 1994 | Jonathan Carroll | From the Teeth of Angels | Nominee |
| 1994 | Stephen King | Insomnia | Nominee |
| 1994 | Patrick McCabe | The Butcher Boy | Nominee |
| 1995 | Joyce Carol Oates | Zombie | Winner |
| 1995 | Billie Sue Mosiman | Widow | Nominee |
| 1995 | Yvonne Navarro | Deadrush | Nominee |
| 1995 | Alan Rodgers | Bone Music | Nominee |
| 1996 | Stephen King | The Green Mile | Winner |
| 1996 | Poppy Z. Brite | Exquisite Corpse | Nominee |
| 1996 | Owl Goingback | Crota | Nominee |
| 1996 | Peter Straub | The Hellfire Club | Nominee |
| 1997 | Janet Berliner & George Guthridge | Children of the Dusk | Winner |
| 1997 | Stephen Dobyns | The Church of Dead Girls | Nominee |
| 1997 | Tananarive Due | My Soul to Keep | Nominee |
| 1997 | Tim Powers | Earthquake Weather | Nominee |
| 1998 | Stephen King | Bag of Bones | Winner |
| 1998 | Dean R. Koontz | Fear Nothing | Nominee |
| 1998 | S. P. Somtow | Darker Angels | Nominee |
| 1998 | Thomas Tessier | Fog Heart | Nominee |
| 1999 | Peter Straub | Mr. X | Winner |
| 1999 | Owl Goingback | Darker than Night | Nominee |
| 1999 | Thomas Harris | Hannibal | Nominee |
| 1999 | Stephen King | Low Men in Yellow Coats | Nominee |
| 1999 | Tom Piccirilli | Hexes | Nominee |
| 2000 | Richard Laymon | The Traveling Vampire Show | Winner |
| 2000 | Gary A. Braunbeck | The Indifference of Heaven | Nominee |
| 2000 | Ramsey Campbell | Silent Children | Nominee |
| 2000 | Brian A. Hopkins | The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club | Nominee |
| 2000 | Tom Piccirilli | The Deceased | Nominee |
| 2001 | Neil Gaiman | American Gods | Winner |
| 2001 | Ray Bradbury | From the Dust Returned | Nominee |
| 2001 | Jack Ketchum | The Lost | Nominee |
| 2001 | Stephen King & Peter Straub | Black House | Nominee |
| 2002 | Tom Piccirilli | The Night Class | Winner |
| 2002 | Douglas Clegg | The Hour Before Dark | Nominee |
| 2002 | Stephen King | From a Buick 8 | Nominee |
| 2002 | Chuck Palahniuk | Lullaby | Nominee |
| 2002 | Alice Sebold | The Lovely Bones | Nominee |
| 2003 | Peter Straub | Lost Boy, Lost Girl | Winner |
| 2003 | Stephen King | The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla | Nominee |
| 2003 | James A. Moore | Serenity Falls | Nominee |
| 2003 | Stewart O'Nan | The Night Country | Nominee |
| 2003 | Tom Piccirilli | A Choir of Ill Children | Nominee |
| 2004 | Peter Straub | In the Night Room | Winner |
| 2004 | P. D. Cacek | The Wind Caller | Nominee |
| 2004 | Stephen King | The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower | Nominee |
| 2004 | Michael Laimo | Deep in the Darkness | Nominee |
| 2005 | David Morrell | Creepers | Co-winners |
| 2005 | Charlee Jacob | Dread in the Beast | Co-winners |
| 2005 | Gary A. Braunbeck | Keepers | Nominee |
| 2005 | Tom Piccirilli | November Mourns | Nominee |
| 2006 | Stephen King | Lisey's Story | Winner |
| 2006 | Tom Piccirilli | Headstone City | Nominee |
| 2006 | Jonathan Maberry | Ghost Road Blues | Nominee |
| 2006 | Jeff Strand | Pressure | Nominee |
| 2006 | Gary A. Braunbeck | Prodigal Blues | Nominee |
| 2007 | Sarah Langan | The Missing | Winner |
| 2007 | Bruce Boston | The Guardener's Tale | Nominee |
| 2007 | Joe Hill | Heart-Shaped Box | Nominee |
| 2007 | Erika Mailman | The Witch's Trinity | Nominee |
| 2007 | Dan Simmons | The Terror | Nominee |
| 2008 | Stephen King | Duma Key | Winner |
| 2008 | Gary A. Braunbeck | Coffin County | Nominee |
| 2008 | Nate Kenyon | The Reach | Nominee |
| 2008 | Gregory Lamberson | Johnny Gruesome | Nominee |
| 2009 | Sarah Langan | Audrey's Door | Winner |
| 2009 | Jonathan Maberry | Patient Zero | Nominee |
| 2009 | Joe McKinney | Quarantined | Nominee |
| 2009 | Jeremy Shipp | Cursed | Nominee |
| 2010 | Peter Straub | A Dark Matter | Winner |
| 2010 | Joe Hill | Horns | Nominee |
| 2010 | Jonathan Maberry | Rot & Ruin | Nominee |
| 2010 | Linda Watanabe McFerrin | Dead Love | Nominee |
| 2010 | Joe McKinney | Apocalypse of the Dead | Nominee |
| 2010 | Jeff Strand | Dweller | Nominee |
| 2011 | Joe McKinney | Flesh Eaters | Winner |
| 2011 | Christopher Conlon | A Matrix Of Angels | Nominee |
| 2011 | Gregory Lamberson | Cosmic Forces | Nominee |
| 2011 | Ronald Malfi | Floating Staircase | Nominee |
| 2011 | Gene O'Neill | Not Fade Away | Nominee |
| 2011 | Lee Thomas | The German | Nominee |
| 2012 | Caitlin R. Kiernan | The Drowning Girl | Winner |
| 2012 | Lee Thomas | The German | Nominee |
| 2012 | Benjamin Kane Ethridge | Bottled Abyss | Nominee |
| 2012 | John Everson | Nightwhere | Nominee |
| 2012 | Joe McKinney | Inheritance | Nominee |
| 2012 | Bentley Little | The Haunted | Nominee |
| 2013 | Stephen King | Doctor Sleep | Winner |
| 2013 | Joe Hill | NOS4A2 | Nominee |
| 2013 | Lisa Morton | Malediction | Nominee |
| 2013 | Sarah Pinborough & F. Paul Wilson | A Necessary End | Nominee |
| 2013 | Christopher Rice | The Heavens Rise | Nominee |
| 2014 | Steve Rasnic Tem | Blood Kin | Winner |
| 2014 | Craig DiLouie | Suffer the Children | Nominee |
| 2014 | Patrick Freivald | Jade Sky | Nominee |
| 2014 | Chuck Palahniuk | Beautiful You | Nominee |
| 2014 | Christopher Rice | The Vines | Nominee |
| 2015 | Paul G. Tremblay | A Head Full of Ghosts | Winner |
| 2015 | Clive Barker | The Scarlet Gospels | Nominee |
| 2015 | Michaelbrent Collings | The Deep | Nominee |
| 2015 | JG Faherty | The Cure | Nominee |
| 2015 | Patrick Freivald | Black Tide | Nominee |
| 2016 | John Langan | The Fisherman | Winner |
| 2016 | Elizabeth Hand | Hard Light | Nominee |
| 2016 | Stephen Graham Jones | Mongrels | Nominee |
| 2016 | Bracken MacLeod | Stranded | Nominee |
| 2016 | Paul G. Tremblay | Disappearance at Devil's Rock | Nominee |
| 2017 | Christopher Golden | Ararat | Winner |
| 2017 | Stephen King & Owen King | Sleeping Beauties | Nominee |
| 2017 | Josh Malerman | Black Mad Wheel | Nominee |
| 2017 | S. P. Miskowski | I Wish I Was Like You | Nominee |
| 2017 | Steve Rasnic Tem | Ubo | Nominee |
| 2018 | Paul G. Tremblay | The Cabin at the End of the World | Winner |
| 2018 | J. D. Barker & Dacre Stoker | Dracul | Nominee |
| 2018 | Alma Katsu | The Hunger | Nominee |
| 2018 | Jonathan Maberry | Glimpse | Nominee |
| 2018 | Josh Malerman | Unbury Carol | Nominee |
| 2019 | Owl Goingback | Coyote Rage | Winner |
| 2019 | Josh Malerman | Inspection | Nominee |
| 2019 | S. P. Miskowski | The Worst Is Yet to Come | Nominee |
| 2019 | Lee Murray | Into the Ashes | Nominee |
| 2019 | Chuck Wendig | Wanderers | Nominee |
| 2020 | Stephen Graham Jones | The Only Good Indians | Winner |
| 2020 | Alma Katsu | The Deep | Nominee |
| 2020 | Todd Keisling | Devil's Creek | Nominee |
| 2020 | Josh Malerman | Malorie | Nominee |
| 2020 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Mexican Gothic | Nominee |
| 2021 | Stephen Graham Jones | My Heart Is a Chainsaw | Winner |
| 2021 | V. Castro | The Queen of the Cicadas | Nominee |
| 2021 | Grady Hendrix | The Final Girl Support Group | Nominee |
| 2021 | Cynthia Pelayo | Children of Chicago | Nominee |
| 2021 | Chuck Wendig | The Book of Accidents | Nominee |
| 2022 | Gabino Iglesias | The Devil Takes You Home | Winner |
| 2022 | Alma Katsu | The Fervor | Nominee |
| 2022 | Gwendolyn Kiste | Reluctant Immortals | Nominee |
| 2022 | Josh Malerman | Daphne | Nominee |
| 2022 | Catriona Ward | Sundial | Nominee |
| 2023 | Tananarive Due | The Reformatory | Winner |
| 2023 | Grady Hendrix | How To Sell A Haunted House | Nominee |
| 2023 | Stephen Graham Jones | Don't Fear the Reaper | Nominee |
| 2023 | Victor Lavalle | Lone Women | Nominee |
| 2023 | Chuck Tingle | Camp Damascus | Nominee |
| 2023 | Chuck Wendig | Black River Orchard | Nominee |

## Multiple winners

Ordered first by wins and then by alphabetical order (according to last name).
* Stephen King (6)
* Peter Straub (5)
* Robert R. McCammon (3)
* Stephen Graham Jones (2)
* Sarah Langan (2)
* Paul Tremblay (2)

## Multiple nominees

Ordered first by nominations, then by at least one win, and finally by alphabetical order (according to last name).
† indicates that the writer also won the award in exactly one occasion (up-to-date as of the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards).
* Stephen King (15)
* Peter Straub (7)
* Tom Piccirilli (6)†
* Robert R. McCammon (5)
* Gary A. Braunbeck (4)
* Stephen Graham Jones (4)
* Jonathan Maberry (4)
* Joe McKinney (4)†
* Dan Simmons (4)†
* Owl Goingback (3)†
* Joe Hill (3)
* Dean R. Koontz (3)
* Richard Laymon (3)†
* Josh Malerman (3)
* Paul Tremblay (3)
* Chuck Wendig (3)
* Poppy Z. Brite (2)
* Tananarive Due (2)
* Thomas Harris (2)†
* Grady Hendrix (2)
* Patrick Freivald (2)
* Gregory Lamberson (2)
* Sarah Langan (2)
* Joe R. Lansdale (2)
* Bentley Little (2)
* S. P. Miskowski (2)
* Chuck Palahniuk (2)
* Christopher Rice (2)
* Jeff Strand (2)
* Steve Rasnic Tem (2)†
* Lee Thomas (2)
* Chet Williamson (2)
* F. Paul Wilson (2)