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 ^[1]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1987	Muriel Spark	Mary Shelley	Winner	[2]
	Joe Bob Briggs	Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In	Finalist	[2]
	Paul A. Gagne	The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh	Finalist	[2]
1988	(no award)
1989	Stephen Jones and Kim Newman	Horror: The 100 Best Books	Winner	[3]
	Harlan Ellison	Harlan Ellison's Watching	Winner	[3]
	Norine Dresser	American Vampires by Fans, Victims, Practitioners	Finalist	[3]
	Peter Cannon	H. P. Lovecraft	Finalist	[3]
	Leonard Wolf	Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature and Film	Finalist	[3]
1990	Stanley Wiater	Dark Dreamers	Winner	[4]
	Joe Bob Briggs	Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In	Finalist	[4]
	S. T. Joshi	The Weird Tale	Finalist	[4]
	David J. Skal	Hollywood Gothic	Finalist	[4]
	Neil Barron	Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide	Finalist	[4]
1991	Stephen Jones	Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden	Winner	[5]
	Stephen J. Spignesi	The Shape Under The Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia	Finalist	[5]
	Katherine Ramsland	Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice	Finalist	[5]
	Rosemary Ellen Guillen	Vampires Among Us	Finalist	[5]
1992	Christopher Golden	Cut! Horror Writers of Horror Film	Winner	[6]
	Carol J. Clover	Men, Women, and Chainsaws	Finalist	[6]
	Stanley Wiater	Dark Visions	Finalist	[6]
	John Russo	Scare Tactics	Finalist	[6]
	Cosete Kies	Young Adult Horror Fiction	Finalist	[6]
1993	Robert Bloch	Once Around the Bloch	Winner	[7]
	Shirley Harrison and Michael Barrett	The Diary of Jack the Ripper	Finalist	[7]
	David J. Skal	The Monster Show	Finalist	[7]
1994	(no award)
1995	Michael Ashley and William Contento	The Supernatural Index	Winner	[8]
	Janet Leigh and Christopher Nickens	Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller	Finalist	[8]
	Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs	Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984	Finalist	[8]
	James Randi	An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural	Finalist	[8]
1996	S. T. Joshi	H. P. Lovecraft: A Life	Winner	[9]
	Don Hutchison	The Great Pulp Heroes	Finalist	[9]
	Stephen Jones	The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide	Finalist	[9]
	Barbara Belford	Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula	Finalist	[9]
	David Skal	V is for Vampire	Finalist	[9]
1997	Stanley Wiater	Dark Thoughts: On Writing	Winner	[10]
	John Clute and John Grant	The Encyclopedia of Fantasy	Finalist	[10]
	Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes	The Hammer Story	Finalist	[10]
	Tim Lucas , ed.	Video Watchdog	Finalist	[10]
	Stephen Jones	Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror	Finalist	[10]
	Katherine Ramsland	Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography	Finalist	[10]
1998	Paula Guran , ed.	DarkEcho Newsletter, Vol. 5, #1-50	Winner	[11]
	Clive Bloom , ed.	Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond	Finalist	[11]
	Jeanne Cavelos	The Science of the X-Files	Finalist	[11]
	Richard Laymon	A Writer's Tale	Finalist	[11]
1999	Paula Guran , ed.	DarkEcho Newsletter	Winner	[12]
	David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds.	Hellnotes	Finalist	[12]
	Stephen Jones	The Essential Monster Movie Guide	Finalist	[12]
	Victoria Price	Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography	Finalist	[12]
2000	Stephen King	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft	Winner	[13]
	David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds.	Hellnotes	Finalist	[13]
	Bill Sheehan	At the Foot of the Story Tree	Finalist	[13]
	Robert Weinberg	Horror of the 20th Century	Finalist	[13]
2001	Brian Keene , ed.	Jobs in Hell	Winner	[14]
	Brian A. Hopkins and Garrett Peck, eds.	Personal Demons	Finalist	[14]
	David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds.	Hellnotes	Finalist	[14]
	Bruce Campbell	If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor	Finalist	[14]
2002	Ramsey Campbell	Ramsey Campbell, Probably	Winner	[15]
	Ralan Conley , ed.	Ralan.com	Finalist	[15]
	Brian Keene and Kelly Laymon, eds.	Jobs in Hell	Finalist	[15]
	David B. Silva , Paul F. Olson, and Garrett Peck, eds.	Hellnotes	Finalist	[15]
	Richard Bleiler	Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition	Finalist	[15]
2003	Thomas F. Monteleone	The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association	Winner	[16]
	Gary A. Braunbeck	Fear in a Handful of Dust	Finalist	[16]
	Ralan Conley , ed.	Ralan.com	Finalist	[16]
	Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man, eds.	Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman	Finalist	[16]
	Judi Rohrig , ed.	Hellnotes	Finalist	[16]
2004	Judi Rohrig , ed.	Hellnotes	Winner	[17]
	Thomas F. Monteleone	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel	Finalist	[17]
	Bev Vincent	The Road to the Dark Tower	Finalist	[17]
	Joseph McCabe	Hanging Out with the Dream King	Finalist	[17]
	Ralan Conley	Ralan's SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza	Finalist	[17]
2005	Stephen Jones and Kim Newman	Horror: Another 100 Best Books	Winner	[18]
	Sam Weller	The Bradbury Chronicles	Finalist	[18]
	Loren Rhoads	Morbid Curiosity , #9	Finalist	[18]
	Michael McCarty	More Giants of the Genre	Finalist	[18]
	Rhonda Wilcox	Why Buffy Matters: The Art of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'	Finalist	[18]
2006	Michael Largo	Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die	Winner	[19]
	Kim Paffenroth	Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth	Winner	[19]
	Mark Morris , ed.	Cinema Macabre	Finalist	[19]
	Rocky Wood	Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished	Finalist	[19]
2007	Jonathan Maberry and David F. Kramer	The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre	Winner	[20]
	Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson	Storytellers Unplugged	Finalist	[20]
	Michael Largo	The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich & Powerful Really Died	Finalist	[20]
	Joshua Gee	Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying Truth About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More	Finalist	[20]
2008	Lisa Morton	A Hallowe'en Anthology	Winner	[21]
	Gregory Lamberson	Cheap Scares	Finalist	[21]
	Amy Wallace , Del Howison, and Scott Bradley	The Book of Lists: Horror	Finalist	[21]
	Jonathan Maberry	Zombie CSU	Finalist	[21]
2009	Michael Knost	Writers Workshop of Horror	Winner	[22]
	L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda	Cinema Knife Fight	Finalist	[22]
	Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks	Stephen King: The Non-Fiction	Finalist	[22]
	Bev Vincent	The Stephen King Illustrated Companion	Finalist	[22]
2010	Gary A. Braunbeck	To Each Their Darkness	Winner	[23]
	Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman	Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil	Finalist	[23]
	Thomas Ligotti	The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror	Finalist	[23]
	Sam Weller	Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews	Finalist	[23]
2011	Rocky Wood	Stephen King: A Literary Companion	Winner	[24] [25] [26] [27]
	Lesley Pratt Bannatyne	Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night	Finalist	[24] [25] [26]
	Gary William Crawford , Jim Rockhill, and Brian J. Showers, eds.	Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu	Finalist	[24] [25] [26]
	John C. Tibbetts	The Gothic Imagination	Finalist	[24] [25] [26]
	Matt Mogk	Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies	Finalist	[24] [25] [26]
	Nick Mamatas	Starve Better	Finalist	[24] [25] [26]
2012	Lisa Morton	Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween	Winner	[28] [29] [30]
	Leslie S. Klinger	The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1	Finalist	[28] [29] [30]
	Kim Paffenroth and John W. Morehead	The Undead and Theology	Finalist	[28] [29] [30]
	Kendall R. Phillips	Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film	Finalist	[28] [29] [30]
	Michael Collings	Writing Darkness	Finalist	[28] [29] [30]
2013	William F. Nolan	Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction	Winner	[31] [32]
	Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, eds.	Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic	Finalist	[31] [32]
	Gary William Crawford , ed.	Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror	Finalist	[31] [32]
	Robert H. Waugh , ed.	Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors	Finalist	[31] [32]
	Jarkko Toikkanen	The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures	Finalist	[31] [32]
2014	Lucy Snyder	Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide	Winner	[33] [34] [35]
	Jason V. Brock	Disorders of Magnitude	Finalist	[33] [34] [35]
	S. T. Joshi	Lovecraft and a World in Transition	Finalist	[33] [34] [35]
	Leslie S. Klinger	The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft	Finalist	[33] [34] [35]
	Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley	Horror 101: The Way Forward	Finalist	[33] [34] [35]
2015	Stephen Jones	The Art of Horror	Winner	[36] [37]
	Justin Everett and Jeffrey H. Shanks, eds.	The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror	Finalist	[36] [37]
	Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley, eds.	Horror 201: The Silver Scream	Finalist	[36] [37]
	Michael Knost	Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth	Finalist	[36] [37]
	Danel Olson	Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (film)	Finalist	[36] [37]
2016	Ruth Franklin	Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life	Winner	[38]
	W. Scott Poole	In the Mountains of Madness	Finalist	[38]
	David J. Skal	Something in the Blood	Finalist	[38]
	John Tibbetts	The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub	Finalist	[38]
	Danel Olson	Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil's Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth	Finalist	[38]
	Leo Braudy	Haunted	Finalist	[38]
2017	Grady Hendrix	Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction	Winner	[39] [40] [41]
	Kinitra D. Brooks	Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror	Finalist	[39] [40] [41]
	Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson	Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre	Finalist	[39] [40] [41]
	Stephen Jones	The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History	Finalist	[39] [40] [41]
	Michele Brittany	Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre	Finalist	[39] [40] [41]
2018	Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson	It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life	Winner	[42]
	Howard David Ingham	We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror	Finalist	[42]
	Kevin. J. Wemore, Jr.	Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series	Finalist	[42]
	Lee Gambin	The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film	Finalist	[42]
	John Connolly	Horror Express	Finalist	[42]
2019	Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger	Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction	Winner	[43] [44]
	Harriet E. H. Earle	Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays	Finalist	[43] [44]
	Jonathan Greenaway and Eleanor Beal	Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality	Finalist	[43] [44]
	John B. Kachuba	Shapeshifters: A History	Finalist	[43] [44]
	Alexandra Heller-Nicholas	Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces	Finalist	[43] [44]
2020	Tim Waggoner	Writing in the Dark	Winner	[45] [46]
	Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl	The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films	Finalist	[45] [46]
	Alexandra Heller-Nicholas	1000 Women in Horror	Finalist	[45] [46]
	Brian Keene	End of the Road	Finalist	[45] [46]
	Alison Peirse , ed.	Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre	Finalist	[45] [46]
	Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.	The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption	Finalist	[45] [46]
2021	Michael Knost , ed.	Writers Workshop of Horror 2	Winner	[47] [48]
	Danel Olson	9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels	Finalist	[47] [48]
	Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Regina M. Hansen	Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema	Finalist	[47] [48]
	Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.	Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters	Finalist	[47] [48]
	Kristopher Woofter	Shirley Jackson: A Companion	Finalist	[47] [48]
2022	Michael Cisco	Weird Fiction: A Genre Study	Winner	[49] [50]
	Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes	A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts	Finalist	[49] [50]
	Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson	Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult	Finalist	[49] [50]
	Tim Waggoner	Writing in the Dark: The Workbook	Finalist	[49] [50]
	Stephanie M. Wytovich	Writing Poetry in the Dark	Finalist	[49] [50]

See also

• Bibliography of works on Dracula

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External links

• Stoker Award on the HWA web page
• Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees