Swan Song
The Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for “superior achievement” in horror writing for novels.
Last updated: 12th June 2026
- 2025 – The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
- 2024 – The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
- 2023 – The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
- 2022 – The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
- 2021 – My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
- 2020 – The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- 2019 – Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback
- 2018 – The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay
- 2017 – Ararat by Christopher Golden
- 2016 – The Fisherman by John Langan
- 2015 – A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul G Tremblay
- 2014 – Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem
- 2013 – Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
- 2012 – The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan
- 2011 – Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney
- 2010 – A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
- 2009 – Audrey’s Door by Sarah Langan
- 2008 – Duma Key by Stephen King
- 2007 – The Missing by Sarah Langan
- 2006 – Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
- 2005 – Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob (co-winner)
- 2005 – Creepers by David Morrell (co-winner)
- 2004 – In the Night Room by Peter Straub
- 2003 – Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub
- 2002 – The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli
- 2001 – American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- 2000 – The Travelling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
- 1999 – Mr. X by Peter Straub
- 1998 – Bag of Bones by Stephen King
- 1997 – Children of the Dusk by Janet Berliner & George Guthridge
- 1996 – The Green Mile by Stephen King
- 1995 – Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
- 1994 – Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder
- 1993 – The Throat by Peter Straub
- 1992 – Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone
- 1991 – Boy’s Life by Robert R. McCammon
- 1990 – Mine by Robert R. McCammon
- 1989 – Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
- 1988 – The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
- 1987 – Misery by Stephen King (co-winner)
- 1987 – Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon (co-winner)
