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The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards® winners were announced on June 1st during the Annual Bram Stoker Awards® Banquet at StokerCon 2024 in San Diego. Watch the replay of the awards ceremony here.

The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

  • Peele, Jordan, and Adams, John Joseph – Out There Screaming (Random House)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

  • Files, Gemma – Blood from the Air (Grimscribe Press)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

  • Carmen, Christa – The Daughters of Block Island (Thomas & Mercer)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

  • Chu, Amy (author) and Lee, Soo (artist) – Carmilla: The First Vampire (Dark Horse)  

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

  • Jiang, Ai – Linghun (Dark Matter INK)

Superior Achievement in Long Nonfiction

  • Hartmann, Sadie – 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered (Page Street Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel

  • Senf, Lora – The Nighthouse Keeper (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Superior Achievement in a Novel

  • Due, Tananarive – The Reformatory (Gallery/Saga Press/Titan)

Superior Achievement in Poetry

  • Wytovich, Stephanie M. – On the Subject of Blackberries (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

  • Yamazaki, Takashi – Godzilla Minus One (Robot Communications, Toho Studios)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

  • O’Quinn, Cindy – “Quondam” (The Nightmare Never Ends, Exploding Head Fiction)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

  • Bulkin, Nadia – “Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia,” (Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror, Black Spot Books)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

  • Tran, Trang Thanh – She Is a Haunting (Bloomsbury YA)

The 2024 Bram Stoker Awards® will be held during StokerCon 2025 in Stamford, Connecticut.

Lindy Ryan

Lindy Miller Ryan is a Bram Stoker Awards®-nominated and Silver Falchion Award-winning editor, author, short-film director, and professor whose books have received starred reviews from Booklist and Library Journal. She is the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue, the world’s leading horror culture and entertainment brand, and a columnist at​ BookTrib. Her guest articles and features include NPR, BBC Culture, Irish Times, Daily Mail, and more. Ryan is the founder and president of Black Spot Books, an independent press focused on amplifying underrepresented voices in horror. She served from 2020 to 2022 on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association and was named a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2020. In 2022, Ryan was named one of horror's most masterful anthology curators, alongside Ellen Datlow and Christopher Golden, and has been declared a "champion for women's voices in horror" by Shelf Awareness (2023). Her animated short film, TRICK OR TREAT, ALISTAIR GRAY, based on her children's book of the same name, won the Grand Prix Award at the 2022 ANMTN Awards. Ryan grew up cutting her teeth on Goosebumps and universal monsters. She has published numerous academic texts and also writes clean, seasonal romance under the name​ Lindy Miller, where her books have been adapted for screen.