The Horror Writers Association (HWA) today announced the Bram Stoker Award® Nominees for the 2021 calendar year.

The Bram Stoker Award winners are presently scheduled to be announced on May 14 at StokerCon 2022 in Denver.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Castro, V. – The Queen of the Cicadas (Flame Tree Press)
• Hendrix, Grady – The Final Girl Support Group (Berkley)
• Jones, Stephen Graham – My Heart Is a Chainsaw (Gallery/Saga Press)
• Pelayo, Cynthia – Children of Chicago (Agora Books)
• Wendig, Chuck – The Book of Accidents (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Martinez, S. Alessandro – Helminth (Omnium Gatherum)
• McQueen, LaTanya – When the Reckoning Comes (Harper Perennial)
• Miles, Terry – Rabbits (Del Rey)
• Piper, Hailey – Queen of Teeth (Strangehouse Books)
• Quigley, Lisa – The Forest (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
• Willson, Nicole – Tidepool (The Parliament House)

*Due to a tie in fifth place, there are six nominees in this category.

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Ahmed, Saladin (author) and Kivelä, Sami (artist) – Abbott 1973 (BOOM! Studios)
• Garcia, Kami (author); Suayan, Mico (artist); Badower, Jason (artist); and Mayhew, Mike (artist) – Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity (DC Comics)
• Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist) – The Inhabitant of the Lake (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Morrison, Grant (author); Child, Alex (author); and Franquiz, Naomi (artist) – Proctor Valley Road (BOOM! Studios)
• Panosian, Dan (author) and Ignazzi, Marianna (artist) – An Unkindness of Ravens (BOOM! Studios)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Blake, Kendare – All These Bodies (Quill Tree Books)
• Boyle, R.L. – The Book of the Baku (Titan Books)
• Lewis, Jessica – Bad Witch Burning (Delacorte Press)
• Sutherland, Krystal – House of Hollow (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Waters, Erica – The River Has Teeth (HarperTeen)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Castro, V. – Goddess of Filth (Creature Publishing, LLC)
• Khaw, Cassandra – Nothing But Blackened Teeth (Tor Nightfire)
• LaRocca, Eric – Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Weirdpunk Books)
• Piper, Hailey – “Recitation of the First Feeding” (Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy) (The Seventh Terrace)
• Strand, Jeff – “Twentieth Anniversary Screening” (Slice and Dice) (Independently published)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Gyzander, Carol – “The Yellow Crown” (Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign) (Hippocampus Press)
• Murray, Lee – “Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• O’Quinn, Cindy – “A Gathering at the Mountain” (The Bad Book) (Bleeding Edge Books)
• Taborska, Anna -“Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail”(Terror Tales of the Scottish Lowlands) (Telos Publishing)
• Ward, Kyla Lee – “A Whisper in the Death Pit” (Weirdbook #44) (Wildside Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Files, Gemma – In That Endlessness, Our End (Grimscribe Press)
• Fracassi, Philip – Beneath a Pale Sky (Lethe Press)
• Maberry, Jonathan – Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead (WordFire Press LLC)
• Tuttle, Lisa – The Dead Hours of Night (Valancourt Books)
• Wise, A.C. – The Ghost Sequences (Undertow Publications)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Chaisson, C. Henry; Antosca, Nick; and Cooper, Scott – Antlers (Searchlight Pictures)
• Dong-hyuk, Hwang – Squid Game, Season 1, Episode 1: “Red Light, Green Light” (Siren Pictures) 
• Flanagan, Mike; Flanagan, James; and Howard, Jeff – Midnight Mass, Season 1, Episode 6: “Book VI: Acts of the Apostles” (Intrepid Pictures)
• Graziadei, Phil and Janiak, Leigh – Fear Street: Part One – 1994 (Chernin Entertainment)
• Peele, Jordan; Rosenfeld, Win; and DaCosta, Nia – Candyman (Universal Pictures)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Lansdale, Joe R. – Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations (Independent Legions Publishing)
• McHugh, Jessica – Strange Nests (Apokrupha)
• Simon, Marge and Turzillo, Mary – Victims (Weasel Press)
• Sng, Christina; Yuriko Smith, Angela; Murray, Lee; and Flynn, Geneve – Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing)
• Snyder, Lucy A. – Exposed Nerves (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Chambers, James – Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign (Hippocampus Press)
• Datlow, Ellen – When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books) 
• French, Aaron J. and Landry, Jess – There is No Death, There are No Dead (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Guignard, Eric J. – Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (Dark Moon Books)
• Johnson, Eugene – Attack From the ’80s (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Knost, Michael – Writers Workshop of Horror 2 (Hydra Publications)
• Olson, Danel – 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels (Lexington Books)
• Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew and Hansen, Regina M. – Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and  Cinema (Fordham University Press)
• Wetmore Jr., Kevin J. – Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters (Reaktion Books)
• Woofter, Kristopher – Shirley Jackson: A Companion (Peter Lang Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• Ognjanovi?, Dejan – “The Three Paradigms of Horror” (Vastarien Vol. 4, Issue 2) (Grimscribe Press)
• O’Quinn, Cindy – “One and Done” (Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology) (Brigids Gate Press)
• Verona, Emily Ruth – “A Horror Fan’s Guide to Surviving Womanhood” (thefinalgirls.co.uk)
• Wetmore Jr., Kevin J. – “Devil’s Advocates: The Conjuring” (Auteur Publishing/Liverpool University Press)
• Yuriko Smith, Angela – “Horror Writers: Architects of Hope” (The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021, Issue 55) (Sirens Call Publications)

[Via Ellen Datlow.]