Kristopher Triana won Best Novel for his survival tale The Old Lady at the 2025 Splatterpunk Awards presented at KillerCon in Austin, Texas, on August 2. Triana is now a three-time honoree in the category, previously winning Best Novel for Full Brutal in 2019 and The Night Stockers (co-authored with Ryan Harding) in 2022.
Visit BrianKeene.com for the official press release on the 2025 awards. Works published in 2024 were eligible for the 2025 awards.
In other news, Bram Stoker Award-winning author John Everson added a Splatterpunk Award to his shelf, earning Best Novella for the apocalyptic zombie story Living Death Race: Beauty & the Brains. Everson’s Covenant previously won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for First Novel.
Grindhouse Press owner and author C.V. Hunt garnered her first Splatterpunk Award, winning Best Short Story for “Together Forever.” The tale appeared in The Obituaries #6: Red Romance.
Eric LaRocca won his second Splatterpunk Award. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances won Best Collection. LaRocca previously won the 2022 Best Novella award for Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.
Splatology 2.0 edited by Sidney Shiv and Chisto Healy won Best Anthology. It is the first Splatterpunk Award for both authors.
Joe R. Lansdale and Lucy Taylor received the 2025 J. F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Awards. Previous recipients are David J. Schow, David G. Barnett, Edward Lee, John Skipp, Clive Barker, Monica J. O’Rourke, Brian Keene, Wrath James White, Craig Spector, and Ray Garton.
The Splatterpunk Awards also announced that the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Christine Morgan.
Founded by authors Wrath James White and Brian Keene in 2017, the Splatterpunk Awards honor superior achievement in Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror fiction. For a complete list of all nominees and winners, click HERE.
LIONEL RAY GREEN 
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