2024 Stoker Awards Winners

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• WINNER: “Versus Versus”, Laird Barron (Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners)

• “And She Had Been So Reasonable”, Rachel Bolton (Apex , Nov. 2024)
• “To the Wolves”, Sasha Brown (Weird Horror, Fall 2024)
• “Ten Thousand Crawling Children”, R. A. Busby (Nightmare Magazine, January 2024)
• “She Sheds Her Skin”, Raven Jabukowski (Nightmare Magazine November 2024)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• WINNER: Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales, Mercedes M. Yardley (Cemetery Dance)

• Not a Speck of Light, Laird Barron (Bad Hand)
• A Sunny Place for Shady People, Mariana Enriquez (Penguin)
• The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls, Angela Sylvaine (Dark Matter Ink)
• Old Monsters Never Die, Tim Waggoner (Winding Road Stories)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• WINNER: Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point, Carol Gyzander & Anna Taborska (Flame Tree)

• Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, Sofia Ajram (Ghoulish Books)
• We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures, Rob Costello (Running Press)
• Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse and Bad Manners, Doug Murano & Michael Bailey (Bad Hand)
• Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror: A Women in Horror Anthology, Lindy Ryan (Black Spot)

Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction

• WINNER: Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch, Emily C. Hughes (Quirk)

• Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us, Anna Bogutskaya (Faber & Faber)
• American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond, Jeremy Dauber (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
• I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies, Heidi Honeycutt (HeadPress)
• No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes, Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar, ed. (Vernon)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• WINNER: “Blacks in Film and Cultivated Bias”, Lisa Wood (No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes)

• “Screamin’ in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle’s The Tingler”, Michael Arnzen (What Sleeps Beneath)
• “The Horror of Donna Berzatto and Her Feast of the Seven Fishes”, Vince Liaguno (You’re Not Alone in the Dark)
• “Hidden Histories: The Many Ghosts of Disney’s Haunted Mansion”, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse)
• “Jackson and Haunting of the Stage”, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Journal of Shirley Jackson Studies, Vol. 2 No. 1)

Superior Achievement in Poetry

• WINNER: Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future, Pedro Iniguez (Space Cowboy)
• The Dark Between the Twilight, Jamal Hodge (Crystal Lake)
• Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud, Lee Murray (The Cuba Press)
• Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry, Sumiko Saulson (Bludgeoned Girls)
• Imitation of Life, L. Marie Wood (Falstaff)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• WINNER: H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu, Gou Tanabe (Dark Horse)

• The Fox Maidens, Robin Ha (HarperCollins Children’s)
• Tender, Beth Hetland (Fantagraphics)
• Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, Patrick Horvath (Penguin Random House)
• Chrysanthemum Under The Waves, Maggie Umber (Maggie Umber)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• WINNER: The Substance, Coralie Fargeat (Working Title Film, Good Story, Blacksmith)

• Heretic, Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (A24, Shiny Penny, Beck/Woods)
• Nosferatu, Robert Eggers, Henrik Galeen, & Bram Stoker (Focus Features, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Studio 8)
• Longlegs, Osgood Perkins (C2 Motion Picture Group, Creature Features, Oddfellow Entertainment)
• I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun (A24, Fruit Tree, Smudge Films)

As previously announced, Mocha Memoirs is the recipient of the Specialty Press Award, the Richard Laymon President’s Award went to Maxwell I. Gold, Jonathan Lees won the Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award, Gretchen McNeil was named Mentor of the Year Award, and this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winners were David Cronenberg and Del & Sue Howison. All winners were honored on June 14 at the StokerCon 2025 awards banquet.

For more information, see the Stoker Awards website or the awards livestream on YouTube.

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