Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction
The Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing for non-fiction.
Winners and nominees
Nominees are listed below the winner for each year.- 1987: Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark
- * Joe Bob Goes To the Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs
- * The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh by Paul A. Gagne
- 1988:
- 1989:
- *Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison
- * Horror: The 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
- ** American Vampires: by Fans, Victims, Practitioners by Norine Dresser
- ** Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature and Film by Leonard Wolf
- ** H. P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon
- 1990: Dark Dreamers by Stanley Wiater
- * Hollywood Gothic by David J. Skal
- * Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide by Neil Barron
- * Joe Bob Goes Back To The Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs
- * The Weird Tale by S. T. Joshi
- 1991: Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden by Stephen Jones
- * Vampires Among Us Rosemary by Ellen Guillen
- * Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice by Katherine Ramsland
- * The Shape Under The Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia by Stephen J. Spignesi
- 1992: Cut! Horror Writers of Horror Film by Christopher Golden
- * Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover
- * Young Adult Horror Fiction by Cosete Kies
- * Scare Tactics by John Russo
- * Dark Visions by Stanley Wiater
- 1993: Once Around the Bloch by Robert Bloch
- * The Diary of Jack the Ripper by Shirley Harrison & Michael Barrett
- * The Monster Show by David J. Skal
- 1994:
- 1995: The Supernatural Index by Michael Ashley & William Contento
- * Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller by Janet Leigh & Christopher Nickens
- * An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural by James Randi
- * ' by Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs
- 1996: H. P. Lovecraft: A Life by S. T. Joshi
- * Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula by Barbara Belford
- * The Great Pulp Heroes by Don Hutchison
- * The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
- * V is for Vampire by David Skal
- 1997: Dark Thoughts: On Writing by Stanley Wiater
- * The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John Clute & John Grant
- * The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes
- * Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror by Stephen Jones
- * Video Watchdog, Tim Lucas, ed.
- * Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography by Katherine Ramsland
- 1998: DarkEcho Newsletter Vol. 5, #1-50, edited by Paula Guran
- * Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, edited by Clive Bloom
- * The Science of the X-Files by Jeanne Cavelos
- * A Writer's Tale by Richard Laymon
- 1999: DarkEcho Newsletter, edited by Paula Guran
- * The Essential Monster Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
- * Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography by Victoria Price
- * Hellnotes, edited by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
- 2000: ' by Stephen King
- * Hellnotes, edited by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
- * At the Foot of the Story Tree by Bill Sheehan
- * Horror of the 20th Century by Robert Weinberg
- 2001: Jobs in Hell, edited by Brian Keene
- * If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
- * Personal Demons, edited by Brian A. Hopkins & Garrett Peck
- * Hellnotes, edtied by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
- 2002: Ramsey Campbell, Probably by Ramsey Campbell
- * Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition by Richard Bleiler
- * Ralan.com, Ralan Conley, ed.
- * Jobs in Hell, Brian Keene & Kelly Laymon, eds.
- * Hellnotes, David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson & Garrett Peck, eds.
- 2003: The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association by Thomas F. Monteleone
- * Fear in a Handful of Dust by Gary A. Braunbeck
- * Ralan.com edited by Ralan Conley
- * ', edited by Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man
- * Hellnotes edited by Judi Rohrig
- 2004: Hellnotes edited by Judi Rohrig
- * Ralan's SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza by Ralan Conley
- * Hanging Out with the Dream King by Joseph McCabe
- * The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel by Thomas F. Monteleone
- * The Road to the Dark Tower by Bev Vincent
- 2005: Horror: Another 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
- * More Giants of the Genre by Michael McCarty
- * Morbid Curiosity magazine #9 by Loren Rhoads
- * The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller
- * Why Buffy Matters: The Art of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rhonda Wilcox
- 2006:
- *Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die by Michael Largo
- *Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth
- **Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished by Rocky Wood
- **Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris
- 2007: The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer
- * ' by Joshua Gee
- * The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich & Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo
- * Storytellers Unplugged by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson
- 2008: A Hallowe'en Anthology by Lisa Morton
- * Cheap Scares by Gregory Lamberson
- * Zombie CSU by Jonathan Maberry
- * The Book of Lists: Horror by Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley
- 2009: Writers Workshop of Horror by Michael Knost
- * Cinema Knife Fight by L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda
- * The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by Bev Vincent
- * Stephen King: The Non-Fiction by Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks
- 2010: To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck
- *The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti
- * Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil by Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman
- * Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews by Sam Weller
- 2011: Stephen King: A Literary Companion by Rocky Wood
- * Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
- * Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu edited by Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers
- * Starve Better by Nick Mamatas
- * Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies by Matt Mogk
- * The Gothic Imagination by John C. Tibbetts
- 2012: ' by Lisa Morton
- * Writing Darkness by Michael Collings
- * The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1 by Leslie S. Klinger
- * The Undead and Theology by Kim Paffenroth and John W. Morehead
- * Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film by Kendall R. Phillips
- 2013: Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction by William F. Nolan
- * ' edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan
- * ' edited by Gary William Crawford
- * ' by Jarkko Toikkanen
- * ' edited by Robert H. Waugh
- 2014: Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide by Lucy Snyder
- * Disorders of Magnitude by Jason V Brock
- * Lovecraft and a World in Transition by S. T. Joshi
- * The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by Leslie S. Klinger
- * Horror 101: The Way Forward by Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley
- 2015: The Art of Horror by Stephen Jones
- * The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror by eds. Justin Everett & Jeffrey H. Shanks
- * Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth by Michael Knost
- * Horror 201: The Silver Scream by eds. Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley
- * Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining by Danel Olson
- 2016: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
- * Haunted by Leo Braudy
- * Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil's Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth by Danel Olson
- * In the Mountains of Madness by W. Scott Poole
- * Something in the Blood by David J. Skal
- * The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub by John Tibbetts
- 2017: Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix
- * Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre by Michele Brittany
- * Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks
- * The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History by Stephen Jones
- * Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre by Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson
- 2018: by Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson
- * Horror Express by John Connolly
- * The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film by Lee Gambin
- * Uncovering Starnger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series by Kevin. J. Wemore, Jr.
- * We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror'' by Howard David Ingham