The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards on May 10, 2014, at the World Horror Convention in Portland.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

• R.L. Stine
• Stephen Jones

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL

Stephen King – Doctor Sleep (Scribner)

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL

Rena Mason – The Evolutionist (Nightscape Press)

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Joe McKinney – Dog Days (JournalStone)

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A GRAPHIC NOVEL

Caitlin R. Kiernan – Alabaster: Wolves (Dark Horse Comics)

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION

Gary Braunbeck – “The Great Pity” (Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards)

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION

David Gerrold – “Night Train to Paris” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan./Feb. 2013)

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SCREENPLAY

Glen Mazzara – The Walking Dead: “Welcome to the Tombs” (AMC TV)

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ANTHOLOGY

Eric J. Guignard (ed.) – After Death… (Dark Moon Books)

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN FICTION COLLECTION

Laird Barron – The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories (Night Shade Books)

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NON-FICTION

William F. Nolan – Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction (Hippocampus Press)

FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN POETRY COLLECTION

Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison – Four Elements (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press)

THE SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD for superior publishing professionalism and support of the genre

Gray Friar Press, Whitby, U.K.

THE RICHARD LAYMAN PRESIDENT’S AWARD for superior service to the Horror Writers Association

J.G. Faherty

THE SILVER HAMMER AWARD for superior service to the Horror Writers Association

Norman Rubenstein