The winners of the 2024 Lord Ruthven Assembly Awards, presented for the best fiction on vampires and the best academic work on the study of the vampire figure in culture and literature, were announced at this year’s virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts on March 16.

Because the awards were on hiatus last year, two sets of winners were selected for the eligibility years 2022 and 2023.

NON-FICTION

Violet Fenn, A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture. Love at First Bite (2022)

Simon Bacon, Contagion and the Vampire: The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in the 21st Century (2023)

FICTION

S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood (2022)

Jacqueline Holland, The God of Endings (2023)

MEDIA:

Interview with the Vampire (TV) (2022)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

The awards take their name from the vampire antagonist in John Polidori’s “The Vampyre” (1819) and are given by the Lord Ruthven Assembly, an organization affiliated with the IAFA whose objectives include the serious pursuit of scholarship and research focusing on the vampire/revenant figure in a variety of disciplines. The Lord Ruthven Assembly is a public group on Facebook.