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***denotes winner. Presented at the StokerCon, 17 June in Pittsburgh.

Novel

First Novel

Young Adult Novel

Middle Grade Novel

Long Fiction

And in Her Smile, the World, Rebecca J. Allred & Gordon B. White (Trepidatio)
Below, Laurel Hightower (Ghoulish)
Three Days in the Pink Tower, EV Knight (Creature)
Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell, Christa Carmen (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror)
***The Wehrwolf, Alma Katsu (Amazon Original)

Short Fiction

***“Fracture”, Mercedes M. Yardley (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror)
“Nona Doesn't Dance”, Aaron Dries (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts)
“The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body”, J. A. W. McCarthy (A Woman Built by Man)
“Poppy's Poppy”, Douglas Gwilym (Penumbrice Speculative Fiction Magazine)
“A Song for Barnaby Jones”, Anna Taborska (Zagava)
“The Star”, Anna Taborska (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcane)

Collection

Anthology

Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology of Women in Horror, Sara Tantlinger, ed. (Strangehouse)
Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology, Sadie Hartmann & Ashley Saywers, eds. (Dark Matter Ink)
Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, Lindy Ryan, ed. (Black Spot)
Mother: Tales of Love and Terror, Christi Nogle & Willow Becker, eds. (Weird Little Words)
***Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)

Nonfiction

A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of American's Ghosts, Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes (Citadel)
Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult, Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson (Quirk)
Weird Fiction: A Genre Study, Michael Cisco (Palgrave)
***Writing in the Dark: The Workbook, Tim Waggoner (Guide Dog)
Writing Poetry in the Dark, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Short Nonfiction

“African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore”, L. Marie Wood (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students)
“A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television”, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More)
“The H Word: The Horror of Hair”, L. Marie Wood (Nightmare Magazine Jul 2022)
***“I Don't Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)”, Lee Murray (Interstellar Flight Magazine 24 Oct 2022)
“This is Not a Poem”, Cynthia Pelayo (Writing Poetry in the Dark)

Graphic Novel

Eat the Rich, Sarah Gailey, art by Pius Bak (Boom!)
***Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary, James Aquilone, ed. (Moonstone)
Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt, Alessandro Manzetti, art by Stefano Cardoselli (Independent Legions)
The Me You Love in the Dark, Skottie Young, art by Jorge Corona (Image Comics)
Something is Killing the Children Vol 4, James IV Tynion, art by Werther Dell'Edera (Boom!)

Screenplay (a tie)

The Black Phone, Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill (Blumhouse Productions, Crooked Highway, Universal Pictures)
Men, Alex Garland (DNA Films)
The Pale Blue Eye, Scott Cooper (Cross Creek Pictures, Grisbi Productions, Streamline Global Group)
Pearl, Mia Goth & Ti West (A24, Bron Creative, Little Lamb, New Zealand Film Commission)
***Stranger Things: “s4e1: Chapter One: The Hellfire Club”, The Duffer Brothers (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre, Netflix, Upside Down Pictures)

Poetry Collection

Also presented at the ceremony:

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

THE RICHARD LAYMON PRESIDENT’S AWARD

THE KAREN LANSDALE SILVER HAMMER AWARD

MENTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD

Courtesy File 770 and SFADB.

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