Back in March, we gave you the list of nominees for the The Horror Writers Association’s 2013 Stoker Awards for superior literary achievement in horror, in a variety of categories. The Bram Stoker Awards were instituted in 1987 and the eleven award categories are: Novel, First Novel, Short Fiction, Long Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction Collection, Poetry Collection, Anthology, Screenplay, Graphic Novel, and Non-Fiction.

The 2013 awards were distributed at the Association’s annual award banquet on May 10, 2014, at the World Horror Convention in Portland. Black Gate and Goth Chick News would like to congratulate the following authors and editors for their superior achievements and suggest you start loading up your Amazon wish list immediately.

Lifetime Achievement Awards

• R.L. Stine
• Stephen Jones

For Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Stephen King – Doctor Sleep (Scribner)

For Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Rena Mason – The Evolutionist (Nightscape Press)

For Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Joe McKinney – Dog Days (JournalStone)

For Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Caitlin R. Kiernan – Alabaster: Wolves (Dark Horse Comics)

For Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Gary Braunbeck – “The Great Pity” (Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards)

For Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• David Gerrold – “Night Train to Paris” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2013)

For Superior Achievement in a Screen Play

• Glen Mazzara – The Walking Dead: “Welcome to the Tombs” (AMC TV)

For Superior Achievement in Anthology

• Eric J. Guignard (ed.) – After Death… (Dark Moon Books)

For Superior Achievement in Fiction Collection

• Laird Barron – The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories (Night Shade Books)

For Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• William F. Nolan – Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction (Hippocampus Press)

For Superior Achievement in Poetry Collection

• Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison – Four Elements (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press)

The Specialty Press Award for superior publishing professionalism and support of the genre

• Gray Friar Press, Whitby, U.K.

The Richard Layman President’s Award for superior service to the Horror Writers Association

• J.G. Faherty

The Silver Hammer Award for superior service to the Horror Writers Association

• Norman Rubenstein

We reported on the 2012 nominees here, and the winners here.