Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel

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

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Criteria

Awards are given in each calendar year and books originally published between January 1 and December 31 of that year are eligible. The Horror Writers Association defines a graphic novel as "any trade paperback or hardcover book consisting of work of fiction in comic-book form; the work may be presented in an electronic form as well, provided the total length is equivalent to at least 48 printed pages." [1] The work can be original or a collection of previously published issues, with the publication date of the collection determining eligibility not the individual issues. Only the author or authors of the work receive the award.

Winners and nominees

The following are the winners and nominees. Nominees who were finalists are listed under the winner 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 Best Graphic Novel
YearRecipientTitleResultCitation
2011 Alan Moore Neonomicon Winner [2] [3] [4]
Vera Brosgol Anya's Ghost Nominee [2] [3] [4]
Joe Hill Locke & Key Volume 4
Jeff Jensen Green River Killer
Jonathan Maberry Marvel Universe vs. Wolverine
Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola Baltimore Volume I: The Plague Ships
2012 Lisa Morton and Rocky Wood Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning TimesWinner [5] [3] [6] [7]
Cullen Bunn The Sixth Gun Volume 3: Bound Nominee [5] [3] [6] [7]
Terry Moore Rachel Rising Vol. 1: The Shadow of Death
Ravi Thornton The Tale of Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone
Guy Anthony De Marco and Peter J. Wacks Behind These Eyes
2013 Caitlin R. Kiernan Alabaster: WolvesWinner [8] [3] [9] [10]
Ed Brubaker Fatale Book Three: West of Hell Nominee [8] [3] [9] [10]
Brandon Seifert Witch Doctor, Vol. 2: Mal Practice
Cameron Stewart Sin Titulo
Paul Tobin Colder
2014 Tyler Crook and Jonathan Maberry Bad BloodWinner [11] [3] [12] [13]
Emily Carroll Through the WoodsNominee [11] [3] [12] [13]
Joe Hill and Gabrielle Rodriguez Locke & Key Vol. 6: Alpha and Omega
Joe R. Lansdale an Daniele Serra I Tell You It's Love
Paul Tobin The Witcher
2015 Mort Castle , Carlos Guzman, Chris Ryall, and Sam Weller Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray BradburyWinner [14] [3] [15] [16]
Cullen Bunn Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless HaintsNominee [14] [3] [15] [16]
Victor Gischler Hellbound
Robert Kirkman Outcast Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him
Scott Snyder Wytches Vol. 1
2016 James Chambers Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan PoeWinner [17] [3] [18] [19]
Cullen Bunn Blood FeudNominee [17] [3] [18] [19]
Alex de Campi No Mercy, Vol. 2
Robert Kirkman Outcast Vol. 3: This Little Light
Joe R. Lansdale and Mark Alan Miller The Steam Man
Alan Moore Providence, Act 1
2017 Octavia E. Butler and Damian Duffy Kindred: A Graphic Novel AdaptationWinner [20] [21] [22]
Ethan David Arvind and Mike Carey Darkness VisibleNominee [20] [21] [22]
Emil Ferris My Favourite Thing is Monsters
Jonathan Hickman The Black Monday Murders
Marjorie Liu Monstress, Vol 2: The Blood
2018 Joana Lafuente , Victor LaValle, and Dietrich Smith Victor LaValle's Destroyer Winner [23] [24] [25]
Saladin Ahmed , Sami Kivela & Jason Wordie AbbottNominee [23] [24] [25]
Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso Moonshine Vol. 2 Misery Train
Cullen Bunn Bone Parish
Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda Monstress Vol 3: Haven
2019 Colleen Doran & Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples Winner [26] [27] [28]
Cullen Bunn Bone Parish Vol.2Nominee [26] [27] [28]
Marjorie Liu Monstress Vol.4: The Chosen
Alessandro Mansetti Calcutta Horror
Gou Tanabe H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness Volume I
2020 Chiara Di Francia (artist), Nancy Holder (author), and Amelia Woo (artist)Mary Shelley PresentsWinner [29] [30] [31]
Steven Archer (author; artist)The Masque of the Red DeathNominee [29] [30] [31]
Jennifer Brody (author) & Jules Rivera (artist)Spectre Deep 6
Stefano Cardoselli (author; artist) & Alessandro Manzetti (author)Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein)
Alex Cormack (artist) & Rich Douek (author)Road of Bones
Szymon Kudranski (artist), Steve Niles (author), and Salvatore Simeone (author)Lonesome Days, Savage Nights
2021 Stefano Cardoselli (author; artist) & Alessandro Manzetti (author)The Inhabitant of the LakeWinner [32] [33] [34]
Saladin Ahmed (author) & Sami Kivela (artist)Abbott 1973Nominee [32] [33] [34]
Jason Badower (artist), Kami Garcia (author), Mike Mayher (artist), and Mico Suayan (artist)Joker/Harley: Criminal Insanity
Alex Child (author), Naomi Franquiz (artist), and Grant Morrison (author)Proctor Valley Road
Marianna Ignazzi (artist) & Dan Panosian (author)An Unkindness of Ravens
2022 James Aquilone (editor)Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th AnniversaryWinner [35]
Sarah Gailey (author) and Pius Bak (artist)Eat the RichNominee [35]
Alessandro Manzetti (author) and Stefano Cardoselli (artist/author)Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt
James Tynion IV (author) and Werther Dell’Edera (artist) Something is Killing the Children , Vol. 4
Skottie Young (author) and Jorge Corona (artist)The Me You Love in the Dark

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