HWA Bram Stoker Award® Reading List

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ANTHOLOGY

Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II Shane Hawk and Theodore Van Alst JrVintage
 
Chambered Wofford Lee JonesDistinguished Skeleton Press
 
The Big Bad Book of Kaiju Henry Herz and Jonathan MaberryTitan
 

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FICTION COLLECTION

Altars in Abandoned Houses John CollinsWinding Road Stories
 
I Know A Place Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours Nat CassidyShortwave
 
I Know a Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours Nat CassidyShortwave
 
Ink Vine and Other Swamp Stories Elizabeth Broadbent Undertaker Books
 
Pandemonium Waltz Jeffrey FordLethe Press
 
The Haunted House She Calls Her Own Gwendolyn KisteRaw Dog Screaming Press
 
The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own Gwendolyn KisteRaw Dog Screaming Press
 
The Spirit Room: A Southern Gothic Collection Nicole Givens KurtzUndertaker 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
 
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah ScholfieldSaga
 
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
 
God's Vengeance Theresa DerwinCrystal Lake Publishing
 
If It's the Birds, We're in Trouble L. Marie WoodUndertaker Books
 
My Suicides Debbie UrbanskiApex Magazine Issue 153Apex Publications
 
Shiva Emily Ruth VeronaDark Matter Ink
 
User Not Found Jules GiraciSelf-Published
 
Will the Last One to Leave Please Turn Out the Lights? Gordon B. WhiteNightmare MagazineAdamant Press
 

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NONFICTION (LONG)

Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World Daniel KrausCounterpoint
 

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NOVEL

Amityville Awakens Robert P. OttoneClash Books
 
Bed Rot Baby Wendy DalrympleQuill and Crow Publishing
 
But Won't I Miss Me Tiffany TsaoHaperVia
 
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep Paul TremblayWilliam Morrow
 
How to Survive Camping: The Lady in Chains Bonnie QuinnS&S/Saga Press
 
It Came From Neverland Cynthia PelayoCrooked Lane Books
 
Japanese Gothic Kylie Lee BakerHanover Square Press
 
Killer Summer Wendy DalrympleMad Axe Media
 
Kiss Slay Replay Rachel HarrisonBerkley
 
Molka Monika KimErewhon Books
 
Off the Reservation Stephen Graham JonesS&S/Saga Press
 
The Bloody Bucket Douglas FordVissaria County Dispatches
 
The Butcher of Nazareth David Scott HayWhiskey Tit
 
The Hive Ronald MalfiTitan Books
 
The Minimalist Kailee PedersenSt. Martin's Press
 
Trad Wife Saratoga SchaeferCrooked Lane Books
 
We Turn Gruesome At Night Eric LaRoccaTItan Books
 
Wolf Worm T. KingfisherTor Nightfire
 
Wretch: Or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw Eric LaRoccaS&S/Saga Press
 

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POETRY

Dance Of Necromance: Poetry Book Of The Dead Sumiko SaulsonMocha Memoirs Press
 
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
 
Widow's Bay S1 E4, "Beach Reads" Mackenzie Dohr, Alberto Roldan, David B. HarrisApple TV
 

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SHORT FICTION

Ghost Hunt Adrian Tchaikovsky The Black Crow Book of Best New Horror: Volume 1Black Crow Books
 
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
 
The Show is in the Basement Keith RossonThree-Lobed Burning Eye Issue 47Three-Lobed Burning Eye
 
The Tailors Kurt FawverNightmare 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

Body Count Codie CrowleyHyperion
 

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