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Bram Stoker Award for Best Non Fiction

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The Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for non-fiction.

Winners and nominees

Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

  • 1987: Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark
  • Joe Bob Goes To the Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs
  • The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh by Paul A. Gagne
  • 1988: (no award)
  • 1989: (tie)
  • Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison
  • Horror: The 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
  • American Vampires: by Fans, Victims, Practitioners by Norine Dresser
  • Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature and Film by Leonard Wolf
  • H. P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon
  • 1990: Dark Dreamers by Stanley Wiater
  • Hollywood Gothic by David J. Skal
  • Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide by Neil Barron
  • Joe Bob Goes Back To The Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs
  • The Weird Tale by S. T. Joshi
  • 1991: Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden by Stephen Jones
  • Vampires Among Us Rosemary by Ellen Guillen
  • Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice by Katherine Ramsland
  • The Shape Under The Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia by Stephen J. Spignesi
  • 1992: Cut! Horror Writers of Horror Film by Christopher Golden
  • Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover
  • Young Adult Horror Fiction by Cosete Kies
  • Scare Tactics by John Russo
  • Dark Visions by Stanley Wiater
  • 1993: Once Around the Bloch by Robert Bloch
  • The Diary of Jack the Ripper by Shirley Harrison & Michael Barrett
  • The Monster Show by David J. Skal
  • 1994: (no award)
  • 1995: The Supernatural Index by Michael Ashley & William Contento
  • Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller by Janet Leigh & Christopher Nickens
  • An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural by James Randi
  • Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 by Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs
  • 1996: H. P. Lovecraft: A Life by S. T. Joshi
  • Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula by Barbara Belford
  • The Great Pulp Heroes by Don Hutchison
  • The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
  • V is for Vampire by David Skal
  • 1997: Dark Thoughts: On Writing by Stanley Wiater
  • The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John Clute & John Grant
  • The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes
  • Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror by Stephen Jones
  • Video Watchdog, Tim Lucas, ed.
  • Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography by Katherine Ramsland
  • 1998: DarkEcho Newsletter Vol. 5, #1-50, edited by Paula Guran
  • Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, edited by Clive Bloom
  • The Science of the X-Files by Jeanne Cavelos
  • A Writer's Tale by Richard Laymon
  • 1999: DarkEcho Newsletter, edited by Paula Guran
  • The Essential Monster Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
  • Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography by Victoria Price
  • Hellnotes, edited by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
  • 2000: On Writing by Stephen King
  • Hellnotes, edited by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
  • At the Foot of the Story Tree by Bill Sheehan
  • Horror of the 20th Century by Robert Weinberg
  • 2001: Jobs in Hell, edited by Brian Keene
  • If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
  • Personal Demons, edited by Brian A. Hopkins & Garrett Peck
  • Hellnotes, edtied by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
  • 2002: Ramsey Campbell, Probably by Ramsey Campbell
  • Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition by Richard Bleiler
  • Ralan.com, Ralan Conley, ed.
  • Jobs in Hell, Brian Keene & Kelly Laymon, eds.
  • Hellnotes, David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson & Garrett Peck, eds.
  • 2003: The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • Fear in a Handful of Dust by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • Ralan.com edited by Ralan Conley
  • Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman, edited by Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man
  • Hellnotes edited by Judi Rohrig
  • 2004: Hellnotes edited by Judi Rohrig
  • Ralan's SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza by Ralan Conley
  • Hanging Out with the Dream King by Joseph McCabe
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • The Road to the Dark Tower by Bev Vincent
  • 2005: Horror: Another 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
  • More Giants of the Genre by Michael McCarty
  • Morbid Curiosity magazine #9 by Loren Rhoads
  • The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller
  • Why Buffy Matters: The Art of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' by Rhonda Wilcox
  • 2006: (tie)
  • Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die by Michael Largo
  • Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth
  • Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished by Rocky Wood
  • Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris
  • 2007: The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer
  • Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying Truth About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More by Joshua Gee
  • The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich & Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo
  • Storytellers Unplugged by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson
  • 2008: A Hallowe'en Anthology by Lisa Morton
  • Cheap Scares by Gregory Lamberson
  • Zombie CSU by Jonathan Maberry
  • The Book of Lists: Horror by Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley
  • 2009: Writers Workshop of Horror by Michael Knost
  • Cinema Knife Fight by L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda
  • The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by Bev Vincent
  • Stephen King: The Non-Fiction by Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks
  • 2010: To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti
  • Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil by Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman
  • Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews by Sam Weller
  • 2011: Stephen King: A Literary Companion by Rocky Wood
  • Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
  • Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu edited by Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers
  • Starve Better by Nick Mamatas
  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies by Matt Mogk
  • The Gothic Imagination by John C. Tibbetts
  • 2012: Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton
  • Writing Darkness by Michael Collings
  • The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1 by Leslie S. Klinger
  • The Undead and Theology by Kim Paffenroth and John W. Morehead
  • Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film by Kendall R. Phillips
  • 2013: Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction by William F. Nolan
  • Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan
  • Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror edited by Gary William Crawford
  • The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures by Jarkko Toikkanen
  • Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors edited by Robert H. Waugh

    • References

    Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction Wikipedia
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