The Horror Writers Association announced the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot on February 23. “This year’s nominees demonstrate a continued lineup of quality work in the horror genre,” said Lisa Morton, HWA President. “Our members and awards juries have again chosen truly outstanding works of literature, cinema, non-fiction, and poetry.”

The HWA is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.

The presentation of the Bram Stoker Awards® will occur at StokerCon on May 11. The awards presentation will also be live-streamed online via the website.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Katsu, Alma – The Hunger (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Maberry, Jonathan – Glimpse (St. Martin’s Press)
• Malerman, Josh – Unbury Carol (Del Rey)
• Stoker, Dacre and Barker, J.D. – Dracul (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Tremblay, Paul – The Cabin at the End of the World (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Fine, Julia – What Should Be Wild (Harper)
• Grau, T.E. – I Am the River (Lethe Press)
• Kiste, Gwendolyn – The Rust Maidens (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Stage, Zoje – Baby Teeth (St. Martin’s Press)
• Tremblay, Tony – The Moore House (Twisted Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Ireland, Justina – Dread Nation (Balzer + Bray)
• Legrand, Claire – Sawkill Girls (Katherine Tegen Books)
• Maberry, Jonathan – Broken Lands (Simon & Schuster)
• Snyman, Monique – The Night Weaver (Gigi Publishing)
• White, Kiersten – The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein (Delacorte Press)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Ahmed, Saladin – Abbott (BOOM! Studios)
• Azzarello, Brian – Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train (Image Comics)
• Bunn, Cullen – Bone Parish (BOOM! Studios)
• LaValle, Victor – Victor LaValle’s Destroyer (BOOM! Studios)
• Liu, Marjorie – Monstress Volume 3: Haven (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Bailey, Michael – Our Children, Our Teachers (Written Backwards)
• Hill, Joe – You Are Released (Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales) (Scribner)
• Malik, Usman T. – Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung (Nightmare Magazine Issue #74)
• Mason, Rena – The Devil’s Throat (Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror) (Adrenaline Press)
• Smith, Angela Yuriko – Bitter Suites (CreateSpace)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Landry, Jess – “Mutter” (Fantastic Tales of Terror) (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Murray, Lee – “Dead End Town” (Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2) (IFWG Publishing International)
• Neugebauer, Annie – “Glove Box” (The Dark City Crime & Mystery Magazine Volume 3, Issue 4-July 2018)
• Taff, John F.D. – “A Winter’s Tale” (Little Black Spots) (Grey Matter Press)
• Ward, Kyla Lee – “And in Her Eyes the City Drowned” (Weirdbook #39) (Wildside Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Files, Gemma – Spectral Evidence (Trepidatio Publishing)
• Guignard, Eric J. – That Which Grows Wild (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Iglesias, Gabino – Coyote Songs (Broken River Books)
• Snyder, Lucy A. – Garden of Eldritch Delights (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Waggoner, Tim – Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection (Nightscape Press)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Aster, Ari – Hereditary (PalmStar Media)
• Averill, Meredith – The Haunting of Hill House: The Bent-Neck Lady, Episode 01:05 (Amblin Television, FlanaganFilm, Paramount Television)
• Garland, Alex – Annihilation (DNA Films, Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Skydance Media)
• Heisserer, Eric – Bird Box (Bluegrass Films, Chris Morgan Productions, Universal Pictures)
• Woods, Bryan, Beck, Scott, and Krasinski, John – A Quiet Place (Platinum Dunes, Sunday Night)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Chambers, James, Grey, April, and Masterson, Robert – A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State (Hippocampus Press)
• Datlow, Ellen – The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea (Night Shade Books)
• Guignard, Eric J. – A World of Horror (Dark Moon Books)
• Murray, Lee – Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror (Adrenaline Press)
• Ward, D. Alexander – Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Connolly, John – Horror Express (PS Publishing)
• Gambin, Lee – The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film (Centipede Press)
• Ingham, Howard David – We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror (Room 207 Press)
• Mynhardt, Joe and Johnson, Eugene – It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Wetmore Jr., Kevin J. – Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Boston, Bruce – Artifacts (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Cowen, David E. – Bleeding Saffron (Weasel Press)
• Lynch, Donna – Witches (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Simon, Marge and Manzetti, Alessandro – War (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Tantlinger, Sara – The Devil’s Dreamland (Strangehouse Books)