cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16219937

https://bookriot.com/2023-stoker-award-winners-for-best-horror-and-dark-fantasy/

The Bram Stoker Award is a prestigious literary award presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) to recognize “superior achievement” in dark fantasy and horror writing.

Here are the 2023 Stoker Award Winners

  • Superior Achievement in a Novel: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
  • Superior Achievement in a First Novel: The Daughters of Block Island by Christa Carmen
  • Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel: The Nighthouse Keeper by Lora Senf
  • Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel: She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
  • Superior Achievement in Long Fiction: Linghun by Ai Jiang
  • Superior Achievement in Short Fiction: “Quondam” by Cindy O’Quinn
  • Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection: Blood from the Air by Gemma Files
  • Superior Achievement in an Anthology: Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams
  • Superior Achievement in Long Nonfiction: 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann
  • Superior Achievement in Short Nonfiction: “Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia” by Nadia Bulkin (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror)
  • Superior Achievement in Poetry: On the Subject of Blackberries by Stephanie M. Wytovich
  • Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel: Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu, art by Soo Lee
  • Superior Achievement in a Screenplay: Godzilla Minus One