2025 Literary Awards Roundup Challenge - hosted by sarahweyand

Bram Stoker Awards

First Novel

  • Midnight Rooms - Donyae Coles
  • Hollow Girls - Jessica Drake-Thomas
  • This Wretched Valley - Jenny Kiefer
  • The Eyes Are the Best Part - Monika Kim
  • Bless Your Heart - Lindy Ryan

Novel

  • House of Bone and Ruin - Gabino Iglesias
  • I Was a Teenage Slasher - Stephen Graham Jones
  • The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste
  • Incidents Around the House - Josh Malerman
  • Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay

YA Novel

  • Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo - Adam Cesare
  • A Place for Vanishing - Ann Fraistat
  • Come Out, Come Out - Natalie C. Parker
  • The Losting Fountain - Lora Senf
  • The Blonde Dies First - Joelle Wellington

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Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

Horror Movie

Paul Tremblay

7 hours, 22 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat

A Place for Vanishing

Ann Fraistat

464 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror young adult dark emotional medium-paced
Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo by Adam Cesare

Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo

Clown in a Cornfield #3

Adam Cesare

448 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror thriller young adult dark tense fast-paced
The Losting Fountain by Lora Senf

The Losting Fountain

Lora Senf

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult
I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

I Was a Teenage Slasher

Stephen Graham Jones

384 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror thriller dark tense medium-paced
Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan

Bless Your Heart

A Bless Your Heart Novel #1

Lindy Ryan

304 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror mystery dark funny mysterious fast-paced
Come Out, Come Out by Natalie C. Parker

Come Out, Come Out

Natalie C. Parker

324 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror lgbtqia+ young adult dark emotional tense medium-paced
Hollow Girls by Jessica Drake-Thomas

Hollow Girls

Jessica Drake-Thomas

185 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction fantasy horror thriller
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer

This Wretched Valley

Jenny Kiefer

304 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror dark emotional tense medium-paced
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

Incidents Around the House

Josh Malerman

367 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction horror dark mysterious tense fast-paced