Horror Awards [updated October 2022]

Use these links to access the various awards given for Horror and Horror-esque books. Also please see this post on the general blog about How to Use Awards Lists as a RA Tool.

• The Bram Stoker Award is the biggest prize in horror writing. It is given out by The Horror Writers Association every year. Click here to access a list of all past winners and nominees.
• The Locus Awards: Covers all the speculative genres in most categories [including horror] and horror has its own novel category.
• The Shirley Jackson Award has been given annually since 2007 for "outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic." Click here for current and past winners and nominees.
• This is Horror Awards: Categories besides the regular book ones are podcast and magazines. 
• SplatterPunk Awards: Celebrates the best of extreme horror. Five categories.