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 Curse of Hester Gardens Tamika ThompsonErewhon/Kensington
 
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
 
Shiva Emily Ruth VeronaDark Matter Ink
 
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

Bed Rot Baby Wendy DalrympleQuill and Crow Publishing
 
Killer Summer Wendy DalrympleMad Axe Media
 
Molka Monika KimErewhon Books
 
The Hive Ronald MalfiTitan Books
 
Trad Wife Saratoga SchaeferCrooked Lane Books
 
Wretch: Or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw Eric LaRoccaS&S/Saga Press
 

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POETRY

Entropy Ravven WhiteCurious Corvid Publishing
 

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SCREENPLAY

Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, S01.E01: "Never Get on One Knee" Haley Z. Boston, Alana B. Lytle & Ben Bolea
 
Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, S01.E04: "The Witness" Kate Trefry, Alana B. Lytle & Ben Bolea
 
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
 
The Final Girl Trap A.C. WiseNightmare Magazine
 
Trespass Ellison HydeCosmic Horror Monthy #67 - January 2026Cosmic Horror Monthly
 
Twelve Facts About the Dermestid Beetle Marisca PichetteNightmare Magazine
 

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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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