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

Year	Recipient	Title	Result	Citation
2011	Alan Moore	Neonomicon	Winner	[2][3][4]
	Vera Brosgol	Anya's Ghost	Nominee	[2][3][4]
	Joe Hill	Locke & Key Volume 4
	Jeff Jensen	Green River Killer
	Jonathan Maberry	Marvel Universe vs. Wolverine
	Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola	Baltimore Volume I: The Plague Ships
2012	Lisa Morton and Rocky Wood	Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times	Winner	[5][3][6][7]
	Cullen Bunn	The Sixth Gun Volume 3: Bound	Nominee	[5][3][6][7]
	Terry Moore	Rachel Rising Vol. 1: The Shadow of Death
	Ravi Thornton	The Tale of Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone
	Guy Anthony De Marco and Peter J. Wacks	Behind These Eyes
2013	Caitlin R. Kiernan	Alabaster: Wolves	Winner	[8][3][9][10]
	Ed Brubaker	Fatale Book Three: West of Hell	Nominee	[8][3][9][10]
	Brandon Seifert	Witch Doctor, Vol. 2: Mal Practice
	Cameron Stewart	Sin Titulo
	Paul Tobin	Colder
2014	Tyler Crook and Jonathan Maberry	Bad Blood	Winner	[11][3][12][13]
	Emily Carroll	Through the Woods	Nominee	[11][3][12][13]
	Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez	Locke & Key Vol. 6: Alpha and Omega
	Joe R. Lansdale an Daniele Serra	I Tell You It's Love
	Paul Tobin	The Witcher
2015	Mort Castle, Carlos Guzman, Chris Ryall, and Sam Weller	Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury	Winner	[14][3][15][16]
	Cullen Bunn	Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints	Nominee	[14][3][15][16]
	Victor Gischler	Hellbound
	Robert Kirkman	Outcast Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him
	Scott Snyder	Wytches Vol. 1
2016	James Chambers	Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe	Winner	[17][3][18][19]
	Cullen Bunn	Blood Feud	Nominee	[17][3][18][19]
	Alex de Campi	No Mercy, Vol. 2
	Robert Kirkman	Outcast Vol. 3: This Little Light
	Joe R. Lansdale and Mark Alan Miller	The Steam Man
	Alan Moore	Providence, Act 1
2017	Octavia E. Butler and Damian Duffy	Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation	Winner	[20][21][22]
	Ethan David Arvind and Mike Carey	Darkness Visible	Nominee	[20][21][22]
	Emil Ferris	My Favourite Thing Is Monsters
	Jonathan Hickman	The Black Monday Murders
	Marjorie Liu	Monstress, Vol 2: The Blood
2018	Joana Lafuente, Victor LaValle, and Dietrich Smith	Victor LaValle's Destroyer	Winner	[23][24][25]
	Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivela & Jason Wordie	Abbott	Nominee	[23][24][25]
	Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso	Moonshine Vol. 2 Misery Train
	Cullen Bunn	Bone Parish
	Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda	Monstress Vol 3: Haven
2019	Colleen Doran & Neil Gaiman	Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples	Winner	[26][27][28]
	Cullen Bunn	Bone Parish Vol.2	Nominee	[26][27][28]
	Marjorie Liu	Monstress Vol.4: The Chosen
	Alessandro Mansetti	Calcutta Horror
	Gou Tanabe	H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness Volume I
2020	Chiara Di Francia (artist), Nancy Holder (author), and Amelia Woo (artist)	Mary Shelley Presents	Winner	[29][30][31]
	Steven Archer (author; artist)	The Masque of the Red Death	Nominee	[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
2021	Stefano Cardoselli (author; artist) & Alessandro Manzetti (author)	The Inhabitant of the Lake	Winner	[32][33][34]
	Saladin Ahmed (author) & Sami Kivela (artist)	Abbott 1973	Nominee	[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
2022	James Aquilone (editor)	Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50th Anniversary	Winner	[35]
	Sarah Gailey (author) and Pius Bak (artist)	Eat the Rich	Nominee	[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
2023	Amy Chu (author) and Soo Lee (artist)	Carmilla: The First Vampire	Winner	[36]
	Cullen Bunn (author) and Leomacs (artist)	Ghostlore, Vol. 1	Nominee	[36]
	Adam Cesare (author) and David Stoll (artist)	Dead Mall
	Junji Ito	Tombs
	Gou Tanabe	H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth
2024
	Gou Tanabe	H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu	Winner	[37]
	Robin Ha	The Fox Maidens	Nominee	[37]
	Beth Hetland	Tender
	Patrick Horvath	Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees
	Maggie Umber	Chrysanthemum Under The Waves