Winners of the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards Announced

Posted on May 12, 2014

The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards. Stephen King won the Best Novel award for Doctor Sleep. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to King's bestseller, The Shining.

The Best First Novel award went to Rena Mason for The Evolutionist. R.L. Stine and Stephen Jones each won Lifetime Achievement Awards. The winners were announced at the HWA's annual awards banquet, which was held at the 2014 World Horror Convention in Portland, Oregon.

Here is the list of winners:

Superior Achievement in a Novel: Stephen King, Doctor Sleep (Scribner)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel: Rena Mason, The Evolutionist (Nightscape Press)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel: Joe Mckinney, Dog Days (Journalstone)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel: Caitlin R. Kiernan, Alabaster: Wolves (Dark Horse Comics)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction: Gary Braunbeck, "The Great Pity" (Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction: David Gerrold, "Night Train To Paris" (The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan./Feb. 2013)
Superior Achievement in Screenplay: Glen Mazzara, The Walking Dead: "Welcome To The Tombs" (AMC)
Superior Achievement in Anthology: Eric J. Guignard (Ed.), After Death... (Dark Moon Books)
Superior Achievement in Fiction Collection: Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All And Other Stories (Night Shade Books)
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction: William F. Nolan, Nolan On Bradbury: Sixty Years Of Writing About The Master Of Science Fiction (Hippocampus Press)
Superior Achievement in Poetry Collection: Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, And Linda Addison, Four Elements (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press)
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
Lifetime Achievement: R.L. Stine and Stephen Jones

Update: Here is a video of the Bram Stoker Awards banquet from the HWA. This was the 27th anniversary of the awards. Take a look: