Horror Writers Association

Stoker Awards, 1988-2002

Year shown is year of award for work published in the previous year

2002

Best Novel: American Gods, by Neil Gaiman (2001).
Best First Novel: Deadliest of the Species, by Michael Oliveri (2001).
Best Long Fiction: In These Final Days of Sales, by Steve Rasnic Tem (In These Final Days of Sales, 2001).
Best Short Fiction: Reconstructing Amy, by Tim Lebbon (As the Sun Goes Down, 2001).
Collection: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists, by Norman Partridge (2001).
Anthology: Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of the Earth, edited by Brian A. Hopkins (2001).
Non-Fiction: Jobs in Hell, edited by Brian Keene (2001).
Screenplay: Memento, by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan (2001).
Poetry Collection: Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes, by Linda Addison (2001).
Lifetime Achievement: John Farris

2001

Best Novel: The Traveling Vampire Show, by Richard Laymon (2000).
Best First Novel: The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club, by Brian A. Hopkins (2000).
Best Long Fiction: The Man on the Ceiling, by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem.
Best Short Fiction: Gone, by Jack Ketchum (October Dreams, 2000).
Collection: Magic Terror: Seven Tales, by Peter Straub (2000).
Anthology: The Years Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (2000).
Non-Fiction: On Writing, by Stephen King (2000).
Lifetime Achievement: Nigel Kneale

2000

Best Novel: Mr. X, by Peter Straub.
Best First Novel: Wither, by J. G. Passarella.
Best Long Fiction: Five Days in April, by Brian A. Hopkins (Chiaroscuro, July, 1999).
Best Long Fiction: Mad Dog Summer, by Joe R. Lansdale (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, 1999).
Best Short Story: Aftershock, by F. Paul Wilson (Realms of Fantasy, December, 1999).
Collection: The Nightmare Chronicles, by Douglas Clegg.
Anthology: 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, edited by Al Sarrantonio (1999).
Non-Fiction: Darkecho Newletter, edited by Paula Guran.
Screenplay: The Sixth Sense, by M. Night Shyamalan.
Lifetime Achievement: Edward Gorey, Charles L. Grant

1999

Best Novel: Bag of Bones, by Stephen King.
Best First Novel: Dawn Song, by Michael Marano.
Best Long Fiction: Mr. Chubb and Mr. Cuff, by Peter Straub (in Murder for Revenge, 1998).
Best Short Fiction: The Dead Boy at Your Window, by Bruce Holland Rogers (in The North American Review, November-December, 1998).
Collection: Black Butterflies, by John Shirley.
Anthology: Horrors! 365 Scarry Stories, edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, and Robert Weinberg.
Non-Fiction: DarkEcho Newletter, edited by Paula Guran.
Work for Young Readers: Bigger Than Death, by Nancy Etchemendy (in Cricket, March, 1998).
Screenplay: Gods and Monsters, by Bill Condon; Dark City, by Alex Proyas.
Lifetime Achievement: Roger Corman, Ramsey Campbell

1998

Best Novel: Children of the Dusk, by Janet Berliner and George Guthridge.
Best First Novel: Lives of the Monster Dogs, by Kirsten Bakis.
Best Novelette: The Big Blow, by Joe R. Lansdale (in Revelations, 1997).
Best Short Story: Rat Food, by Edo van Belkom and David Nickle (in On Spec, Spring, 1997).
Collection: Exorcisms and Ecstasies, edited by Karl Edward Wagner and Stephen Jones.
Non-Fiction: Sark Thoughts: On Writing, by Stanley Wiater.
Lifetime Achievement: William Peter Blatty and Jack Williamson.

1997

Best Novel: The Green Mile, by Stephen King.
Best First Novel: Crota, by Owl Goingback.
Best Novelette: The Red Tower, by Thomas Ligotti (in The Nightmare Factory 1996).
Best Short Story: Metalicca, by P. D. Cacek (in Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, 1996).
Collection: The Nightmare Factory, by Thomas Ligotti.
Non-Fiction: H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, by S. T. Joshi.
Lifetime Achievement: Ira Levin and Forrest J. Ackerman.

1996

Best Novel: Zombie, by Joyce Carol Oates.
Best First Novel: The Safety of Unknown Cities, by Lucy Taylor.
Best Novelette: Lunch at the Gotham Café, by Stephen King (in Dark Love, 1995).
Best Short Story: Chatting with Anubis, by Harlan Ellison (in Lore #1, 1995).
Collection: The Panic Hand, by Jonathan Carroll.
Non-Fiction: The Supernatural Index, by Mike Ashley and William G. Contento.
Lifetime Achievement: Harlan Ellison.

1995

Best Novel: Dead in the Water, by Nancy Holder.
Best First Novel: Grave Markings, by Michael Arnzen.
Best Novelette: The Scent of Vinegar, by Robert Bloch.
Best Short Story: The Box, by Jack Ketchum.
Best Short Story: Café Endless: Spring Rain, by Nancy Holder.
Collection: The Early Fears, by Robert Bloch.
Lifetime Achievement: Christopher Lee.

1994

Best Novel: The Throat, by Peter Straub.
Best First Novel: The Thread That Binds the Bones, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman.
Best Novella: The Night We Buried Road Dog, by Jack Cady (in F & SF, January, 1993).
Best Novella: Mefisto in Onyx, by Harlan Ellison (in Omni, October, 1993).
Best Novelette: Death in Bangkok, by Dan Simmons (in Playboy, June, 1993).
Best Short Story: I Hear the Mermaids Singing, by Nancy Holder.
Collection: Alone with the Horrors, by Ramsey Campbell.
Non-Fiction: Once Around the Bloch, by Robert Bloch.
Other Media: Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo, by Joe R. Lansdale.
Lifetime Achievement: Joyce Carol Oates.
Special Trustees Award: Vincent Price.

1993

Best Novel: Blood of the Lamb, by Thomas F. Monteleone.
Best First Novel: Sineater, by Elizabeth Massie.
Best Novelette: Aliens: Tribes, by Stephen Bissette.
Best Novelette: The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance, by Joe R. Lansdale.
Best Short Story: This Year's Class Picture, by Dan Simmons.
Collection: Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, by Norman Partridge.
Non-Fiction: Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film, by Christpher Golden.
Lifetime Achievement: Ray Russell.

1992

Best Novel: Boy's Life, by Robert R. McCammon.
Best First Novel: The Cipher, by Kathe Koja.
Best First Novel: Prodigal, by Melanie Tem.
Best Novelette: The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves, by David Morrell.
Best Short Story: Lady Madonna, by Nancy Holder.
Collection: Prayers to Broken Stones, by Dan Simmons.
Non-Fiction: Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden, by Stephen Jones.
Lifetime Achievement: Gahan Wilson.

1991

Best Novel: Mine, by Robert R. McCammon.
Best First Novel: The Revelation, by Bentley Little.
Best Novelette: Stephen, by Elizabeth Massie.
Best Short Story: The Calling, by David B. Silva.
Collection: Four Past Midnight, by Stephen King.
Non-Fiction: Dark Dreamers, by Stanley Wiater.
Lifetime Achievement: Hugh B. Cave and Richard Matheson.

1990

Best Novel: Carrion Comfort, by Dan Simmons.
Best First Novel: Sunglasses After Dark, by Nancy A. Collins.
Best Novelette: On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks, by Joe R. Lansdale.
Best Short Story: Eat Me, by Robert R. McCammon.
Collection: Richard Matheson: Collected Stories, by Richard Matheson (1989).
Non-Fiction: Harlan Ellison's Watching, by Harlan Ellison.
Non-Fiction: Horror: The 100 Best Books, by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman.
Lifetime Achievement: Robert Bloch.

1989

Best Novel: The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris.
Best First Novel: The Suiting, by Kelley Wilde.
Best Novelette: Orange Is for Anguish, Blue Is for Insanity, by David Morrell.
Best Short Story: The Night They Missed the Horror Show, by Joe R. Lansdale (in Silver Scream, 1988.
Collection: Charles Beaumont: Collected Stories, by Charles Beaumont (1988). (aka The Howling Man, 1988.)
Lifetime Achievement: Ray Bradbury and Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.

1988

Best Novel: Misery, by Stephen King.
Best Novel: Swan Song, by Robert R. McCammon.
Best First Novel: The Manse, by Lisa Cantrell.
Best Novelette: The Pear-Shaped Man, by George R. R. Martin.
Best Novelette: The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead, by Alan Rodgers.
Best Short Story: The Deep End, by Robert R. McCammon.
Collection: The Essential Ellison, by Harlan Ellison.
Non-Fiction: Mary Shelley, by Muriel Spark.
Lifetime Achievement: Fritz Leiber, Frank Belknap Long, and Clifford D. Simak.