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  "description": "The best writing in horror from 2025",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-08T14:12:14.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Nebula Award for Best Novel for his novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter",
    "Uncertain Sons",
    "Squid Teeth",
    "Wolf Moon, Antler Moon",
    "Saint Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls",
    "Autogas Ferryman",
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  "textContent": "Stephen Graham Jones had a good night over the weekend: not only did he earn the Nebula Award for Best Novel for his novel The Buffalo Hunter Hunter_,_ he earned the \"Superior Achievement in a Novel\" for the same.\n\nI don't read as much horror as I'd like, but the field is really brimming over with excellence, and to that end, the Horror Writers Association awarded its annual Bram Stoker Awards® over the weekend.\n\nHere are the finalists and winners (winners marked in **bold**). I've added links where I can find the online publication:\n\n### Superior Achievement in an Anthology\n\n  *  _Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology_ edited by Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett, and Craig Laurance Gidney\n  *  _The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand_ edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene\n  * ** _Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora_ edited by Kristy Park Kulski**\n  *  _This Way Lies Madness: Stories from the Edge of Darkness_ edited by Lee Murray and Dave Jeffery\n  *  _HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror_ edited by Lindy Ryan and Stephanie M. Wytovich\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection\n\n  *  _Acquired Taste_ by Clay McLeod Chapman\n  *  _Little Horn: Stories_ by Gemma Files\n  * ** _Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions_ by John Langan**\n  *  _Teenage Girls Can Be Demons_ by Hailey Piper\n  *  _Cyanide Constellations_ by Sara Tantlinger\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in a First Novel\n\n  *  _The Scald-Crow_ by Grace Daly\n  *  _Moonflow_ by Bitter Karella\n  *  _Her Wicked Roots_ by Tanya Pell\n  *  _The Faceless Thing We Adore_ by Hester Steel\n  *  _Molting_ by Kathryn Tennison\n  *  _Listen to Your Sister_ by Neena Viel\n  * ** _The October Film Haunt_ by Michael Wehunt**\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel\n\n  *  _Jumpscare_ by Cullen Bunn (writer) and Danny Luckert (artist)\n  * _John Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight,_ Volume 11 edited by Sandy King\n  *  _Athanasia_ by Daniel Kraus (writer) and Dani (artist)\n  * **_Bowling With Corpses and Other Tales from Lands Unknown_ by Mike Mignola**\n  *  _Let This One Be a Devil_ by James Tynion IV (writer), Steve Foxe (writer), and Piotr Kowalski (artist)\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in Long Fiction\n\n  * ** _Cathedral of the Drowned_ by Nathan Ballingrud**\n  * \"Uncertain Sons\" by Thomas Ha\n  * \"Squid Teeth\" by Sarah Langan\n  *  _Pam Kowolski Is a Monster!_ by Sarah Langan\n  * **\"** Wolf Moon, Antler Moon**\" by A.C. Wise**\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction\n\n  *  _Global Indigenous Horror_ edited by Naomi Simone Borwein\n  *  _The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters_ edited by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead\n  *  _America’s Most Gothic_ by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes\n  *  _Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away_ by Coltan Scrivner\n  * ** _Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction_ edited by Becky Siegel Spratford**\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel\n\n  * ** _Ride or Die_ by Delilah S. Dawson**\n  *  _The Girl in the Walls_ by Meg Eden Kuyatt\n  *  _Broken Dolls_ by Ally Malinenko\n  *  _The House Next Door_ by Ellen Oh\n  *  _Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave_ by Ally Russell\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in a Novel\n\n  *  _Witchcraft for Wayward Girls_ by Grady Hendrix\n  *  _King Sorrow_ by Joe Hill\n  * ** _The Buffalo Hunter Hunter_ by Stephen Graham Jones**\n  *  _The Bewitching_ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia\n  *  _Girl in the Creek_ by Wendy N. Wagner\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in Poetry (Collection and Long Form)\n\n  * **_Everything Endless_ by Linda D. Addison and Jamal Hodge**\n  *  _Songs of Enough: An Inferno All My Own_ by Maxwell I. Gold\n  *  _The Uterus Is an Impossible Forest_ by Shannon Kearns\n  *  _The Haunting_ by Cate Peebles\n  *  _Allegories of Beauty & Violence: A collection of Gothic Romance Poems_ by MarieAnn C. Raguso, PhD\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in a Screenplay\n\n  * ** _Sinners_ by Ryan Coogler**\n  *  _Weapons_ by Zach Cregger\n  *  _28 Years Later_ by Alex Garland\n  *  _Companion_ by Drew Hancock\n  *  _Bring Her Back_ by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in Short Fiction\n\n  *  _\"_ Stomata\" by L.E. Daniels (_Darkness Most Fowl_)\n  * **_\"_ Inheritance\" by RJ Joseph (_Full Throttle: A Dark Dozen Anthology_)**\n  * \"Saint Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls\" by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (_Weird Horror_ #10)\n  * \"[Ir]reversible\" by Anna Taborska (_Witches and Witchcraft: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Essays_)\n  * \"Autogas Ferryman\" by Champ Wongsatayanont (_Nightmare Magazine_ #156)\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction\n\n  * \"Deathwish Wolf Man: The Tragic Hero at the Heart of the Universal Monster\" by Patrick Barb (_Interstellar Flight Magazine_)\n  * **\"My Long Road to Horror\" by Tananarive Due (_Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction_)**\n  * \"Why Horror\" by Stephen Graham Jones (_Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction_)\n  * \"Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism\" by Mo Moshaty (_Darkest Margins: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre_)\n  * \"My Mother Was Margaret White\" by Cynthia Pelayo (_Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction_)\n\n\n\n### Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel\n\n  * ** _Shiny Happy People_ by Clay McLeod Chapman**\n  *  _Beautiful Brutal Bodies_ by Linda Cheng\n  *  _We’re Not Safe Here_ by Rin Chupeco\n  *  _The Silenced_ by Diana Rodriguez Wallach\n  *  _A Girl Walks Into the Forest_ by Madeleine Roux\n\n\n\n## Specialty Awards\n\n  * The Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award: Sarah Read\n  * The Richard Laymon President’s Award: Marc L Abbott\n  * Mentor of the Year Award: Eric Guignard\n  * Specialty Press Award: Bad Hand Books\n\n\n\n* * *\n\nThanks for reading: what did you like from this list?",
  "title": "Here are the winners of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-08T14:12:14.463Z"
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