Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel

Winners and nominees

• 1987: The Manse by Lisa Cantrell
• * The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
• * Slob by Rex Miller
• * The Harvest Bride by Tony Richards
• * Excavation by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 1988: The Suiting by Kelley Wilde
• * Cities of the Dead by Michael Paine
• * Resurrection, Inc. by Kevin J. Anderson
• * Deliver Us From Evil by Allen Lee Harris
• * Demon Night by J. Michael Straczynski
• * Fear Book by John L. Byrne
• 1989: Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins
• * The Dwelling by Tom Elliott
• * Goat Dance by Douglas Clegg
• * Laying The Music To Rest by Dean Wesley Smith
• * The Lilith Factor by Jean Paiva
• 1990: The Revelation by Bentley Little
• * Blood of the Children by Alan Rodgers
• * Dark Father by Tom Piccirilli
• * Nightblood by T. Chris Martindale
• 1991: The Cipher by Kathe Koja
• 1991: Prodigal by Melanie Tem
• * Winter Scream by Chris Curry & L. Dean James
• * Wilderness by Dennis Danvers
• * Unearthed by Ashley McConnell
• 1992: Sineater by Elizabeth Massie
• * Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
• * Beauty by Brian D'Amato
• * Less Than Human by Gary Raisor
• * The Holy Terror by Wayne Allen Salee
• 1993: The Thread that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• * Afterage by Yvonne Navarro
• * Created By from Richard Christian Matheson
• * Suckers by Anne Billson
• * Wet Work by Philip Nutman
• 1994: Grave Markings by Michael Arnzen
• * The Black Mariah by Jay R. Bonansinga
• * Deadweight by Robert Devereaux
• * Near Death by Nancy Kilpatrick
• 1995: The Safety of Unknown Cities by Lucy Taylor
• * Diary of a Vampire by Gary Bowen
• * The Between by Tananarive Due
• * Madeleine's Ghost by Robert Girardi
• * Wyrm Wolf by Edo van Belkom
• 1996: Crota by Owl Goingback
• * Flute Song by Donald R. Burleson
• * Horror Show by Greg Kihn
• * Dead Heat by Del Stone
• 1997: Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis
• * The Art of Arrow Cutting by Stephen Dedman
• * Hungry Eyes by Barry Hoffman
• * Drawn to the Grave by Mary Ann Mitchell
• * The Inquisitor by Mary Murrey
• 1998: Dawn Song by Michael Marano
• * Night Prayers by P.D. Cacek
• * This Symbiotic Fascination by Charlee Jacob
• * Silk by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• 1999: Wither by J.G. Passarella
• * Widow's Walk by Steve Beai
• * Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
• * King Rat by China Miéville
• 2000: The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club by Brian A. Hopkins
• * Nailed by the Heart by Simon Clark
• * House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• * Run by Douglas E. Winter
• 2001: Deadliest of the Species by Michael Oliveri
• * Phantom Feast by Diana Barron
• * Skating on the Edge by d.g.k. goldberg
• * Riverwatch by Joe Nassise
• 2002: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• * The Blues Ain't Nothing by Tina Jens
• * Atmosphere by Michael Laimo
• * The Red Church by Scott Nicholson
• 2003: The Rising by Brian Keene
• * Wolf's Trap by William D. Gagliani
• * Monstrocity by Jeffrey Thomas
• * Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer
• 2004: Covenant by John Everson
• 2004: Stained by Lee Thomas
• * Black Fire by James Kidman
• * Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas
• 2005: Scarecrow Gods by Weston Ochse
• * The Hides by Kealan Patrick Burke
• * Siren Promised by Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson
• 2006: Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
• * The Keeper by Sarah Langan
• * Bloodstone by Nate Kenyon
• * The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff
• 2007: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• * I Will Rise by Michael Louis Calvillo
• * The Memory Tree by John R. Little
• * The Hollower by Mary SanGiovanni
• 2008: The Gentling Box by Lisa Mannetti
• * Midnight on Mourn Street by Christopher Conlon
• * Monster Behind the Wheel by Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin
• * The Suicide Collectors by David Oppegaard
• * Frozen Blood by Joel A. Sutherland
• 2009: Damnable by Hank Schwaeble
• * by S. G. Browne
• * Solomon's Grave by Daniel G. Keohane
• * The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay
• 2010: Black & Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
• 2010: The Castle of Los Angeles by Lisa Morton
• * A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files
• * Spellbent by Lucy A. Snyder
• 2011: Isis Unbound by Allyson Bird
• * Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs
• * The Lamplighters by Frazer Lee
• * The Panama Laugh by Thomas Roche
• * That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley
• 2012: Life Rage by L. L. Soares
• * Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling by Michael Boccacino
• * Wide Open by Deborah Coates
• * The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief by Charles Day
• * A Requiem for Dead Flies by Peter Dudar
• * Bad Glass by Richard Gropp
• 2013: The Evolutionist by Rena Mason
• * Candy House by Kate Jonez
• * The Year of the Storm by John Mantooth
• * Redheads by Jonathan Moore
• * Stoker’s Manuscript by Royce Prouty
• 2014: Mr. Wicker by Maria Alexander
• * Forsaken by J. D. Barker
• * Consumed by David Cronenberg
• * Return of the Mothman by Michael Knost
• * Bird Box by Josh Malerman
• 2015: Mr. Suicide by Nicole Cushing
• * Shutter by Courtney Alameda
• * We Are Monsters by Brian Kirk
• * Hannahwhere by John McIlveen
• * Riding the Centipede by John Claude Smith
• 2016: Haven by Tom Deady
• * The Apothecary’s Curse by Barbara Barnett
• * Hollow House by Greg Chapman
• * Mayan Blue by Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason
• * The Eighth by Stephanie M. Wytovich
• 2017: Cold Cuts by Robert Payne Cabeen
• * In The Valley Of the Sun by Andy Davidson
• * What Do Monsters Fear? by Matt Hayward
• * The Boulevard Monster by Jeremy Hepler
• * Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
• 2018: The Rust Maidens by Gwendolyn Kiste
• * What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
• * I Am the River by T.E. Grau
• * Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
• * The Moore House by Tony Tremblay
• 2019: The Bone Weaver's Orchard by Sarah Read
• * Dear Laura by Gemma Amor
• * Doorways to the Deadeye by Eric J. Guignard
• * Invisible Chains by Michelle Renee Lane
• * The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling