HWA Bram Stoker Award® Reading List

for Works Published in 2026


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ANTHOLOGY


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FICTION COLLECTION

I Know A Place Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours Nat CassidyShortwave
 
Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories Elizabeth Broadbent Undertaker Books
 

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FIRST NOVEL

For Human Use Sarah G. PierceRun For It
 
Not Your Final Girl Mikayla RandolphCLASH Books
 
Odessa Gabrielle SherLittle, Brown, & Company
 
The Flayed Man Chloe LauterSoft Skull
 
The Red Winter Cameron SullivanTor
 

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GRAPHIC NOVEL


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LONG FICTION

Bodies of Work Clay McLeod ChapmanTitan Books
 
Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights? Gordon B. WhiteNightmare MagazineAdamant Press
 

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MIDDLE-GRADE NOVEL


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NONFICTION (LONG)


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NOVEL

Molka Monika KimErewhon Books
 
Trad Wife Saratoga SchaeferCrooked Lane Books
 

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POETRY


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SCREENPLAY

The Bride! Maggie Gyllenhaal
 

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SHORT FICTION

Nameless Aliya WhiteleyThe Dark Magazine, March 2026The Dark Magazine
 
Some Fall Elizabeth BroadbentInk Vine and Other Swamp Stories Undertaker Books
 

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NONFICTION (SHORT)

Introduction. "Won't Someone Please Think of the Children?!": Thinking Horror Through the Lens of Moral Panic Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockThe Horror Theory ReaderUniversity of Minnesota Press
 

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YOUNG-ADULT NOVEL


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