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
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Muriel Spark | Mary Shelley | Winner | |
| Joe Bob Briggs | Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In | Finalist | ||
| Paul A. Gagne | The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh | Finalist | ||
| 1988 | (no award) | |||
| 1989 | Stephen Jones and Kim Newman | Horror: The 100 Best Books | Winner | |
| Harlan Ellison | Harlan Ellison's Watching | Winner | ||
| Norine Dresser | American Vampires by Fans, Victims, Practitioners | Finalist | ||
| Peter Cannon | H. P. Lovecraft | Finalist | ||
| Leonard Wolf | Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature and Film | Finalist | ||
| 1990 | Stanley Wiater | Dark Dreamers | Winner | |
| Joe Bob Briggs | Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In | Finalist | ||
| S. T. Joshi | The Weird Tale | Finalist | ||
| David J. Skal | Hollywood Gothic | Finalist | ||
| Neil Barron | Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide | Finalist | ||
| 1991 | Stephen Jones | Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden | Winner | |
| Stephen J. Spignesi | The Shape Under The Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia | Finalist | ||
| Katherine Ramsland | Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice | Finalist | ||
| Rosemary Ellen Guillen | Vampires Among Us | Finalist | ||
| 1992 | Christopher Golden | Cut! Horror Writers of Horror Film | Winner | |
| Carol J. Clover | Men, Women, and Chainsaws | Finalist | ||
| Stanley Wiater | Dark Visions | Finalist | ||
| John Russo | Scare Tactics | Finalist | ||
| Cosete Kies | Young Adult Horror Fiction | Finalist | ||
| 1993 | Robert Bloch | Once Around the Bloch | Winner | |
| Shirley Harrison and Michael Barrett | The Diary of Jack the Ripper | Finalist | ||
| David J. Skal | The Monster Show | Finalist | ||
| 1994 | (no award) | |||
| 1995 | Michael Ashley and William Contento | The Supernatural Index | Winner | |
| Janet Leigh and Christopher Nickens | Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller | Finalist | ||
| Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs | Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 | Finalist | ||
| James Randi | An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural | Finalist | ||
| 1996 | S. T. Joshi | H. P. Lovecraft: A Life | Winner | |
| Don Hutchison | The Great Pulp Heroes | Finalist | ||
| Stephen Jones | The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide | Finalist | ||
| Barbara Belford | Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula | Finalist | ||
| David Skal | V is for Vampire | Finalist | ||
| 1997 | Stanley Wiater | Dark Thoughts: On Writing | Winner | |
| John Clute and John Grant | The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | Finalist | ||
| Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes | The Hammer Story | Finalist | ||
| Tim Lucas, ed. | Video Watchdog | Finalist | ||
| Stephen Jones | Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror | Finalist | ||
| Katherine Ramsland | Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography | Finalist | ||
| 1998 | Paula Guran, ed. | DarkEcho Newsletter, Vol. 5, #1-50 | Winner | |
| Clive Bloom, ed. | Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond | Finalist | ||
| Jeanne Cavelos | The Science of the X-Files | Finalist | ||
| Richard Laymon | A Writer's Tale | Finalist | ||
| 1999 | Paula Guran, ed. | DarkEcho Newsletter | Winner | |
| David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds. | Hellnotes | Finalist | ||
| Stephen Jones | The Essential Monster Movie Guide | Finalist | ||
| Victoria Price | Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography | Finalist | ||
| 2000 | Stephen King | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Winner | |
| David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds. | Hellnotes | Finalist | ||
| Bill Sheehan | At the Foot of the Story Tree | Finalist | ||
| Robert Weinberg | Horror of the 20th Century | Finalist | ||
| 2001 | Brian Keene, ed. | Jobs in Hell | Winner | |
| Brian A. Hopkins and Garrett Peck, eds. | Personal Demons | Finalist | ||
| David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds. | Hellnotes | Finalist | ||
| Bruce Campbell | If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor | Finalist | ||
| 2002 | Ramsey Campbell | Ramsey Campbell, Probably | Winner | |
| Ralan Conley, ed. | Ralan.com | Finalist | ||
| Brian Keene and Kelly Laymon, eds. | Jobs in Hell | Finalist | ||
| David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson, and Garrett Peck, eds. | Hellnotes | Finalist | ||
| Richard Bleiler | Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition | Finalist | ||
| 2003 | Thomas F. Monteleone | The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association | Winner | |
| Gary A. Braunbeck | Fear in a Handful of Dust | Finalist | ||
| Ralan Conley, ed. | Ralan.com | Finalist | ||
| Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man, eds. | Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman | Finalist | ||
| Judi Rohrig, ed. | Hellnotes | Finalist | ||
| 2004 | Judi Rohrig, ed. | Hellnotes | Winner | |
| Thomas F. Monteleone | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel | Finalist | ||
| Bev Vincent | The Road to the Dark Tower | Finalist | ||
| Joseph McCabe | Hanging Out with the Dream King | Finalist | ||
| Ralan Conley | Ralan's SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza | Finalist | ||
| 2005 | Stephen Jones and Kim Newman | Horror: Another 100 Best Books | Winner | |
| Sam Weller | The Bradbury Chronicles | Finalist | ||
| Loren Rhoads | Morbid Curiosity, #9 | Finalist | ||
| Michael McCarty | More Giants of the Genre | Finalist | ||
| Rhonda Wilcox | Why Buffy Matters: The Art of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' | Finalist | ||
| 2006 | Michael Largo | Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die | Winner | |
| Kim Paffenroth | Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth | Winner | ||
| Mark Morris, ed. | Cinema Macabre | Finalist | ||
| Rocky Wood | Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished | Finalist | ||
| 2007 | Jonathan Maberry and David F. Kramer | The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre | Winner | |
| Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson | Storytellers Unplugged | Finalist | ||
| Michael Largo | The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich & Powerful Really Died | Finalist | ||
| Joshua Gee | Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying Truth About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More | Finalist | ||
| 2008 | Lisa Morton | A Hallowe'en Anthology | Winner | |
| Gregory Lamberson | Cheap Scares | Finalist | ||
| Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley | The Book of Lists: Horror | Finalist | ||
| Jonathan Maberry | Zombie CSU | Finalist | ||
| 2009 | Michael Knost | Writers Workshop of Horror | Winner | |
| L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda | Cinema Knife Fight | Finalist | ||
| Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks | Stephen King: The Non-Fiction | Finalist | ||
| Bev Vincent | The Stephen King Illustrated Companion | Finalist | ||
| 2010 | Gary A. Braunbeck | To Each Their Darkness | Winner | |
| Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman | Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil | Finalist | ||
| Thomas Ligotti | The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror | Finalist | ||
| Sam Weller | Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews | Finalist | ||
| 2011 | Rocky Wood | Stephen King: A Literary Companion | Winner | |
| Lesley Pratt Bannatyne | Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night | Finalist | ||
| Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill, and Brian J. Showers, eds. | Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu | Finalist | ||
| John C. Tibbetts | The Gothic Imagination | Finalist | ||
| Matt Mogk | Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies | Finalist | ||
| Nick Mamatas | Starve Better | Finalist | ||
| 2012 | Lisa Morton | Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween | Winner | |
| Leslie S. Klinger | The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1 | Finalist | ||
| Kim Paffenroth and John W. Morehead | The Undead and Theology | Finalist | ||
| Kendall R. Phillips | Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film | Finalist | ||
| Michael Collings | Writing Darkness | Finalist | ||
| 2013 | William F. Nolan | Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction | Winner | |
| Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, eds. | Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic | Finalist | ||
| Gary William Crawford, ed. | Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror | Finalist | ||
| Robert H. Waugh, ed. | Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors | Finalist | ||
| Jarkko Toikkanen | The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Lucy Snyder | Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide | Winner | |
| Jason V. Brock | Disorders of Magnitude | Finalist | ||
| S. T. Joshi | Lovecraft and a World in Transition | Finalist | ||
| Leslie S. Klinger | The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | Finalist | ||
| Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley | Horror 101: The Way Forward | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Stephen Jones | The Art of Horror | Winner | |
| Justin Everett and Jeffrey H. Shanks, eds. | The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror | Finalist | ||
| Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley, eds. | Horror 201: The Silver Scream | Finalist | ||
| Michael Knost | Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth | Finalist | ||
| Danel Olson | Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (film) | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | Ruth Franklin | Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | Winner | |
| W. Scott Poole | In the Mountains of Madness | Finalist | ||
| David J. Skal | Something in the Blood | Finalist | ||
| John Tibbetts | The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub | Finalist | ||
| Danel Olson | Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil's Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth | Finalist | ||
| Leo Braudy | Haunted | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Grady Hendrix | Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction | Winner | |
| Kinitra D. Brooks | Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror | Finalist | ||
| Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson | Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre | Finalist | ||
| Stephen Jones | The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History | Finalist | ||
| Michele Brittany | Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson | It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life | Winner | |
| Howard David Ingham | We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror | Finalist | ||
| Kevin. J. Wemore, Jr. | Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series | Finalist | ||
| Lee Gambin | The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film | Finalist | ||
| John Connolly | Horror Express | Finalist | ||
| 2019 | Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger | Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction | Winner | |
| Harriet E. H. Earle | Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays | Finalist | ||
| Jonathan Greenaway and Eleanor Beal | Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality | Finalist | ||
| John B. Kachuba | Shapeshifters: A History | Finalist | ||
| Alexandra Heller-Nicholas | Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces | Finalist | ||
| 2020 | Tim Waggoner | Writing in the Dark | Winner | |
| Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl | The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films | Finalist | ||
| Alexandra Heller-Nicholas | 1000 Women in Horror | Finalist | ||
| Brian Keene | End of the Road | Finalist | ||
| Alison Peirse, ed. | Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre | Finalist | ||
| Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. | The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption | Finalist | ||
| 2021 | Michael Knost, ed. | Writers Workshop of Horror 2 | Winner | |
| Danel Olson | 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels | Finalist | ||
| Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Regina M. Hansen | Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema | Finalist | ||
| Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. | Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters | Finalist | ||
| Kristopher Woofter | Shirley Jackson: A Companion | Finalist | ||
| 2022 | Michael Cisco | Weird Fiction: A Genre Study | Winner | |
| Leanna Renee Hieberand Andrea Janes | A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts | Finalist | ||
| Lisa Krögerand Melanie R. Anderson | Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult | Finalist | ||
| Tim Waggoner | Writing in the Dark: The Workbook | Finalist | ||
| Stephanie M. Wytovich | Writing Poetry in the Dark | Finalist | ||
See also
References
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External links
| Bram Stoker Award | |
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| Horror Writers Association | |
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| Discontinued categories |
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