Bram Stoker Award® Winners Announced in Las Vegas

LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy, tonight announced this year's Bram Stoker Award® winners during a ceremony held as part of StokerCon 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Superior Achievement in a NOVEL
Paul Tremblay - A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL
Nicole Cushing - Mr. Suicide (Word Horde)

Superior Achievement in a YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
John Dixon – Devil's Pocket (Simon & Schuster)

Superior Achievement in a GRAPHIC NOVEL
Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Chris Ryall, & Carlos Guzman (editors) Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (IDW Publishing)

Superior Achievement in LONG FICTION
Mercedes M. Yardley - Little Dead Red (Grimm Mistresses) (Ragnarok Publications)

Superior Achievement in SHORT FICTION
John Palisano - Happy Joe's Rest Stop (18 Wheels of Horror) (Big Time Books)

Superior Achievement in a SCREENPLAY
David Robert Mitchell - It Follows (Northern Lights Films)

Superior Achievement in an ANTHOLOGY
Michael Bailey - The Library of the Dead (Written Backwards)

Superior Achievement in a FICTION COLLECTION
Lucy A. Snyder - While the Black Stars Burn (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in NON-FICTION
Stephen Jones - The Art of Horror (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books)

Superior Achievement in a POETRY COLLECTION
Alessandro Manzetti - Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing)

About the Horror Writers Association

The Horror Writers Association is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it. The HWA formed in 1985 with the help of many of the field's greats, including Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon, and Joe Lansdale. The HWA is home to the prestigious Bram Stoker Award® and the annual StokerCon horror convention.

For more on the Horror Writers Associations, please visit www.horror.org.

SOURCE Horror Writers Association

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