Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction explained
The Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for short fiction.
Winners and nominees
This category was previously titled "best short story". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.[1]
Short story
Year | Recipient | Title | Result | Citation |
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1987 | | | Winner | [2] |
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| "Friend's Best Man" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "This Old Man" |
| "Day-Tay-Vao" |
| "Traps" |
1988 | | "Night They Missed the Horror Show" | Winner | [3] |
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| "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" |
| "Nobody Lives There Now" |
| "Jack's Decline" |
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1989 | | "Eat Me" | Winner | [4] |
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| | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Each Night, Each Year" |
| "Bodies and Heads" |
| "'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy' He Said" |
1990 | | | Winner | [5] |
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| | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Back Windows" |
| "But You'll Never Follow Me" |
| "From the Papers of Helmut Hecher" |
1991 | | "Lady Madonna" | Winner | [6] |
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| "Love Doll: A Fable" |
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| "Wolf Winter" |
| "Richard's Head" |
1992 | | "This Year's Class Picture" | Winner | [7] |
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| "Farm Wife" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Did They Get You to Trade?" |
| "Come One, Come All" |
| "Bright Lights, Big Zombie" |
1993 | | "I Hear the Mermaids Singing" | Winner | [8] |
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| "Distances" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Death Fiend Guerrillas" |
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| "Pain Grin" |
1994 | | "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" | < | --Result-->Co-Winner | < | --Citation-->[9] |
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| "Mr. Torso" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Things of Which We Do Not Speak" |
1995 | | "Chatting With Anubis" | Winner | [10] |
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| "Becky Lives" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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1996 | | "metalica" | Winner | [11] |
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| "Plan 10 from Inner Space" |
1997 | and David Nickle | "Rat Food" | Winner | [12] |
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| "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multit | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Madame Babylon" | |
Short fiction
Year | Recipient | Title | Result | Citation |
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1998 | | | Winner | [13] |
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| | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Blues-Born" |
| "Autopsy Room Four" |
1999 | | "Aftershock" | Winner | [14] |
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| | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Halloween Street" |
2000 | | "Gone" | Winner | [15] |
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| "Dead Cat Bounce" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Fallen Angel" |
| "Mexican Moon" |
2001 | | "Reconstructing Amy" | Winner | [16] |
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| "I Am Your Need" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" |
2002 | | | Winner | [17] |
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| "Disappearances" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Details" |
2003 | | "Duty" | Winner | [18] |
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| "Harvey's Dream" |
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2004 | | "Nimitseahpah" | Winner | [19] |
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| "Just Out of Reach" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland" |
| "Singing My Sister Down" |
| "Guts" |
2005 | | "We Now Pause for Station Identification" | Co-winners | [20] |
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| "Haeckel's Tale" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "As Others See Us" |
| "Times of Atonement" |
| "Invisible" |
2006 | | "Tested" | Winner | [21] |
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| "FYI" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Feeding the Dead Inside" |
| "Balance" |
| "31/10" |
2007 | | | Winner | [22] |
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| "Letting Go" |
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| "There's No Light Between Floor" |
| "Closet Dreams" |
2008 | | | Winner | [23] |
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| "Petrified" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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and Tim Pratt | |
| "Evidence of Love in A Case of Abandonment" |
| "Turtle" |
2009 | | "In the Porches of My Ears" | Winner | [24] |
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| "Keeping Watch" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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2010 | | | Winner | [25] |
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| "Return to Mariabronn" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "1925; A Fall River Halloween" |
| "In the Middle of Poplar Street" |
| "Final Draft" |
2011 | | "Herman Wouk is Still Alive" | Winner | [26] |
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| "Her Husband's Hands" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Hypergraphia" |
| "Graffiti Sonata" |
| "Home" |
| "All You Can Do Is Breathe" |
2012 | | "Magdala Amygdala" | Winner | [27] |
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| "Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Bury My Heart at Marvin Gardens" |
| "Righteous" |
| "Available Light" |
2013 | | "Night Train to Paris" | Winner | [28] |
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| "Primal Tongue" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Snapshot" |
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| "Code 666" |
2014 | | | < | --Result-->Co-Winner | < | --Citation-->[29] |
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| "Ruminations" |
| "Hot Tub" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Baby's Breath" |
| "Splinterette" |
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2015 | | "Happy Joe's Rest Stop" | Winner | [30] |
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| "All the Day You'll Have Good Luck" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Sing Me Your Scars" |
| "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" |
2016 | | | Winner | [31] |
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| "Time is a Face on the Water" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "ArbeitMacht Frei" |
2017 | | "Apocalypse Then" | Winner | [32] |
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| "I Will Be the Reflection Until the End" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "So Sings the Siren" |
| "Loving You Darkly" |
2018 | | "Mutter" | Winner | [33] |
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| "Dead End Town" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Glove Box" |
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| "And in Her Eyes the City Drowned" |
2019 | | | Winner | [34] |
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| | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Bury Me in Tar and Twine" |
| "Lydia" |
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2020 | | "One Last Transformation" | Winner | [35] |
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| "Am I Missing the Sunlight?" | < | --Result-->Nominee | < | --Citation--> |
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| "Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1" |
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| "Should Fire Remember the Fuel?" |
2021 | | "Permanent Damage" | Winner | [36] |
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| "Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail" |
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2022 | | "Nona Doesn’t Dance" | < | --Result-->Nominee | [37] |
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| "Poppy’s Poppy" |
| "" |
| "" |
| "" |
| "Fracture" | |
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Past Bram Stoker Nominees & Winners . Horror Writers Association . https://web.archive.org/web/20180517082317/http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm . 17 May 2018 . dead.
- Web site: 1987 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220621020947/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1987-bram-stoker-award-nominees-winner/ . live .
- Web site: 1988 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-08-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220809223722/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1988-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1989 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220621021008/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1989-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1990 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220621020958/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1990-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1991 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220621020952/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1991-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1992 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220621021012/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1992-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1993 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-08-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220809233006/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1993-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1994 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-08-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220809223347/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1994-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1995 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-02-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220211095335/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1995-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1996 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2021-12-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211212165405/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1996-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1997 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220621020954/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1997-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1998 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-08-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220809225645/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1998-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 1999 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220813071933/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/1999-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2000 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-08-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220810000240/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2000-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2001 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-08-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220809230806/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2001-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2002 Bram Stoker Award® Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-05-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220529074501/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2002-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2003 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-05-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220529084948/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2003-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2004 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-05-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220529080213/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2004-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2005 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220621020949/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2005-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2006 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220621021001/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2006-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2007 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-05-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220505021539/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2007-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2008 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220621021004/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2008-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees-2/ . live .
- Web site: 2009 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-08-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220809225306/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2008-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2010 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220604035809/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2010-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2011 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220604100925/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2011-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2012 Bram Stoker Awards Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220603142336/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2012-bram-stoker-awards-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2013 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220613123917/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2013-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2014 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220613124047/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2014-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2015 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-08-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220810000130/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2015-bram-stoker-award-nominees-winners/ . live .
- Web site: 2016 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-06-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220613124055/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2016-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2017 Bram Stoker Award® Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220813072245/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/uncategorized/2017-bram-stoker-award-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: 2018 Bram Stoker Awards Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-05-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521000710/http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/news/2018-bram-stoker-awards-winners-nominees/ . live .
- Web site: The 2019 Bram Stoker Award® Winners – The Bram Stoker Awards . 2022-06-21 . en-US . 2022-05-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220528203728/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/news/the-2019-bram-stoker-award-winners/ . live .
- Web site: Templeton . Molly . 2021-06-01 . Announcing the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards Winners . . 2023-02-28 . 2021-07-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210707081314/https://www.tor.com/2021/06/01/announcing-the-2020-bram-stoker-awards-winners/ . live .
- Web site: Pavlik . Tina . 2022-05-16 . 2021 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners . 2022-06-21 . Horror Writers Association . en-US . 2022-06-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220620004049/https://horror.org/2021-bram-stoker-awards-winners/ . live .
- Web site: The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230228061850/https://www.thebramstokerawards.com/front-page/the-2022-bram-stoker-awards-final-ballot/ . 2023-02-28 . 2023-02-28 . . en-US.