Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for graphic novels.

Criteria

Awards are given in each calendar year and books originally published between January 1 and December 31 of that year are eligible. The Horror Writers Association defines a graphic novel as "any trade paperback or hardcover book consisting of work of fiction in comic-book form; the work may be presented in an electronic form as well, provided the total length is equivalent to at least 48 printed pages."[1] The work can be original or a collection of previously published issues, with the publication date of the collection determining eligibility not the individual issues. Only the author or authors of the work receive the award.

Winners and nominees

The following are the winners and nominees. Nominees who were finalists are listed under the winner for each year, respectively.

The year of eligibility listed in the table is the year that the work was published; the ceremony when the honor was awarded happening the following year.

Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel
YearRecipientTitleResultCitation
2011Alan MooreNeonomiconWinner[2][3][4]
Vera BrosgolAnya's GhostNominee[2][3][4]
Joe HillLocke & Key Volume 4
Jeff JensenGreen River Killer
Jonathan MaberryMarvel Universe vs. Wolverine
Christopher Golden and Mike MignolaBaltimore Volume I: The Plague Ships
2012Lisa Morton and Rocky WoodWitch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning TimesWinner[5][3][6][7]
Cullen BunnThe Sixth Gun Volume 3: BoundNominee[5][3][6][7]
Terry MooreRachel Rising Vol. 1: The Shadow of Death
Ravi ThorntonThe Tale of Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone
Guy Anthony De Marco and Peter J. WacksBehind These Eyes
2013Caitlin R. KiernanAlabaster: WolvesWinner[8][3][9][10]
Ed BrubakerFatale Book Three: West of HellNominee[8][3][9][10]
Brandon SeifertWitch Doctor, Vol. 2: Mal Practice
Cameron StewartSin Titulo
Paul TobinColder
2014Tyler Crook and Jonathan MaberryBad BloodWinner[11][3][12][13]
Emily CarrollThrough the WoodsNominee[11][3][12][13]
Joe Hill and Gabrielle RodriguezLocke & Key Vol. 6: Alpha and Omega
Joe R. Lansdale an Daniele SerraI Tell You It's Love
Paul TobinThe Witcher
2015Mort Castle, Carlos Guzman, Chris Ryall, and Sam WellerShadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray BradburyWinner[14][3][15][16]
Cullen BunnHarrow County, Vol. 1: Countless HaintsNominee[14][3][15][16]
Victor GischlerHellbound
Robert KirkmanOutcast Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him
Scott SnyderWytches Vol. 1
2016James ChambersKolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan PoeWinner[17][3][18][19]
Cullen BunnBlood FeudNominee[17][3][18][19]
Alex de CampiNo Mercy, Vol. 2
Robert KirkmanOutcast Vol. 3: This Little Light
Joe R. Lansdale and Mark Alan MillerThe Steam Man
Alan MooreProvidence, Act 1
2017Octavia E. Butler and Damian DuffyKindred: A Graphic Novel AdaptationWinner[20][21][22]
Ethan David Arvind and Mike CareyDarkness VisibleNominee[20][21][22]
Emil FerrisMy Favourite Thing is Monsters
Jonathan HickmanThe Black Monday Murders
Marjorie LiuMonstress, Vol 2: The Blood
2018Joana Lafuente, Victor LaValle, and Dietrich SmithVictor LaValle's DestroyerWinner[23][24][25]
Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivela & Jason WordieAbbottNominee[23][24][25]
Brian Azzarello & Eduardo RissoMoonshine Vol. 2 Misery Train
Cullen BunnBone Parish
Marjorie Liu & Sana TakedaMonstress Vol 3: Haven
2019Colleen Doran & Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, ApplesWinner[26][27][28]
Cullen BunnBone Parish Vol.2Nominee[26][27][28]
Marjorie LiuMonstress Vol.4: The Chosen
Alessandro MansettiCalcutta Horror
Gou TanabeH.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness Volume I
2020Chiara Di Francia (artist), Nancy Holder (author), and Amelia Woo (artist)Mary Shelley PresentsWinner[29][30][31]
Steven Archer (author; artist)The Masque of the Red DeathNominee[29][30][31]
Jennifer Brody (author) & Jules Rivera (artist)Spectre Deep 6
Stefano Cardoselli (author; artist) & Alessandro Manzetti (author)Her Life Matters: (Or Brooklyn Frankenstein)
Alex Cormack (artist) & Rich Douek (author)Road of Bones
Szymon Kudranski (artist), Steve Niles (author), and Salvatore Simeone (author)Lonesome Days, Savage Nights
2021Stefano Cardoselli (author; artist) & Alessandro Manzetti (author)The Inhabitant of the LakeWinner[32][33][34]
Saladin Ahmed (author) & Sami Kivela (artist)Abbott 1973Nominee[32][33][34]
Jason Badower (artist), Kami Garcia (author), Mike Mayher (artist), and Mico Suayan (artist)Joker/Harley: Criminal Insanity
Alex Child (author), Naomi Franquiz (artist), and Grant Morrison (author)Proctor Valley Road
Marianna Ignazzi (artist) & Dan Panosian (author)An Unkindness of Ravens
2022James Aquilone (editor)Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th AnniversaryWinner[35]
Sarah Gailey (author) and Pius Bak (artist)Eat the RichNominee[35]
Alessandro Manzetti (author) and Stefano Cardoselli (artist/author)Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt
James Tynion IV (author) and Werther Dell’Edera (artist)Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4
Skottie Young (author) and Jorge Corona (artist)The Me You Love in the Dark

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