The third time was the charm for Gabino Iglesias. His book The Devil Takes You Home won Superior Achievement in a Novel at the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards. It was Iglesias’s first Stoker win, but he was previously nominated in 2020 for Long Fiction (“Beyond the Reef”) and in 2018 for Fiction Collection (Coyote Songs). Iglesias is also the first Latino to win the award.
The 2022 Bram Stoker Awards are the horror genre’s premier literary award and organized by the Horror Writers Association. This year, the awards were presented at a banquet on June 17 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during StokerCon 2023. Watch the ceremony on YouTube by clicking HERE.
All the winners in the five Novel categories were first-time recipients with Christi Nogle, Daniel Kraus, James Aquilone, and Robert P. Ottone winning along with Iglesias. Other first-time winners were Alma Katsu, Cassandra Khaw, and Cynthia Pelayo, who’s the first Stoker Award recipient born in Puerto Rico and the first Latina.
The Black Phone screenwriters Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill tied for Superior Achievement in a Screenplay with Stranger Things showrunners The Duffer Brothers. The Stoker wins were also firsts for them.
The night wasn’t all about first-time winners. Ellen Datlow, a 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, won her eighth Stoker Award. Lee Murray, a 2019 Mentor of the Year, won her fifth; and Tim Waggoner, a 2016 Mentor of the Year, won his fourth. Mercedes M. Yardley won her second award.
In previously announced HWA news, Elizabeth Massie, Nuzo Onoh, and John Saul received Lifetime Achievement Awards. Undertow Publications, founded by Michael Kelly in 2009, received the Specialty Press Award. Meghan Arcuri received The Richard Laymon President’s Award for her dedicated volunteerism to the HWA. Karen Lansdale was the first recipient of the newly renamed Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award for her work in starting the HWA. David Jeffery received the Mentor of the Year Award.
Here is the complete list of 2022 Bram Stoker Awards winners.
Superior Achievement in a Novel: The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias.
Superior Achievement in a First Novel: Beulah by Christi Nogle.
Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel: They Stole Our Hearts by Daniel Kraus.
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel: Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary edited by James Aquilone.
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel: The Triangle by Robert P. Ottone.
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction: The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu.
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction: “Fracture” from Mother: Tales of Love and Terror by Mercedes M. Yardley.
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection: Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw.
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay (tie): The Black Phone by Scott Derrickson and Robert C. Cargill.; and Stranger Things: Episode 04.01 “Chapter One: The Hellfire Club” by The Duffer Brothers.
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection: Crime Scene by Cynthia Pelayo.
Superior Achievement in an Anthology: Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous by Ellen Datlow.
Superior Achievement in Non–Fiction: Writing in the Dark: The Workbook by Tim Waggoner.
Superior Achievement in Short Non–Fiction: “I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)” from Interstellar Flight Magazine by Lee Murray.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Elizabeth Massie, Nuzo Onoh, and John Saul.
Specialty Press Award: Undertow Publications.
The Richard Laymon President’s Award: Meghan Arcuri.
The Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award: Karen Lansdale.
Mentor of the Year Award: David Jeffery.
Next year’s Bram Stoker Awards will be presented during StokerCon 2024 in San Diego, California, from May 30 to June 2. HWA announced three confirmed Guests of Honor: Paula Guran, Paul Tremblay, and Jonathan Maberry.
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