2008 Bram Stoker Awards Where & When: World Horror Convention, Salt Lake City, Sat 29 Mar 2008
Eligibility Year: 2007


NOVEL

  • The Guardener’s Tale, Bruce Boston (Sam’s Dot Publishing)
  • Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow)
  • The Missing, Sarah Langan (Harper)
  • The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
  • FIRST NOVEL

  • Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow)
  • The Hollower, Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books)
  • I Will Rise, Michael Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing)
  • The Memory Tree, John R. Little (Nocture Press)
  • The Witch’s Trinity, Erika Mailman (Crown)
  • LONG FICTION

  • “Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway”, Gary Braunbeck (Five Strokes to Midnight)
  • “Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man”, Scott Edelman (Postscripts)
  • “An Apiary of White Bees”, Lee Thomas (Inferno)
  • General Slocum’s Gold, Nicholas Kaufmann (Burning Effigy Press)
  • “The Tenth Muse”, William Browning Spencer (Subterranean #6)
  • SHORT FICTION

  • “Closet Dreams”, Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts #10)
  • “The Death Wagon Rolls On By”, C. Dean Andersson (Cemetery Dance #57)
  • “The Gentle Brush of Wings”, David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)
  • “Letting Go”, John Everson (Needles and Sins)
  • “The Teacher”, Paul G. Tremblay (ChiZine)
  • “There’s No Light Between Floors”, Paul G. Tremblay (Clarkesworld)
  • COLLECTION

  • 5 Stories, Peter Straub (Borderlands)
  • Defining Moments, David Niall Wilson (Sarob Press)
  • The Imago Sequence, Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
  • Old Devil Moon, Christopher Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)
  • Proverbs for Monsters, Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions Press)
  • ANTHOLOGY

  • At Ease with the Dead, Barbara & Christopher Roden, eds (Ash-Tree Press)
  • Dark Delicacies 2: Fear, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, eds. (Carroll & Graf/Avalon)
  • Five Strokes to Midnight, Gary Braunbeck & Hank Schwaeble, eds. (Haunted Pilican Press)
  • Inferno, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
  • Midnight Premiere, Tom Piccirilli, ed. (Cemetery Dance Publications)
  • NONFICTION

  • The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre, Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press/Kensington)
  • Encyclopedia Horrifica, Joshua Gee (Scholastic)
  • The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died, Michael Largo (Harper)
  • Storytellers Unplugged, Joe Nassise & David Niall Wilson (Storytellers Unplugged)
  • POETRY

  • Being Full of Light, Insubstantial, Linda Addison (Space and Time)
  • Heresy, Charlee Jacob (Necro Publications)
  • Ossuary, JoSelle Vanderhooft (Sam’s Dot Publishing)
  • Phantasmapedia, Mark McLaughlin (Dead Letter Press)
  • Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet, Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Regions Press)