The Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement are awarded annually
by the Horror Writers Association, a nonprofit group dedicated to promoting
the interests of writers of horror and dark fantasy.
2002
Novel: American
Gods by Neil Gaiman
First Novel: Deadliest
of the Species by Michael Oliveri
Long Fiction: In These Final Days of Sales by Steve
Rasnic Tem
Short Fiction: "Reconstructing Amy" by Tim
Lebbon
Fiction Collection: The
Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists by Norman Partridge
Anthology: Extremes 2: Fantasy and Horror from the Ends of
the Earth edited by Brian
A. Hopkins and Terri
Windling
Nonfiction: Jobs in Hell by Brian Keene
Illustrated Narrative: No award.
Screenplay: Memento
by Christopher & Jonathan Nolan
Work for Young Readers: The
Willow Files: Volume 2 by Yvonne Navarro
Poetry Collection: Consumed,
Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes by Linda D. Addison
Alternative Forms: Dark
Dreamers: Facing the Masters of Fear by Beth Gwinn & Stanley
Wiater
Lifetime Achievement Award: John
Farris
2001
Novel: The
Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
First Novel: The
Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club by Brian A. Hopkins
Long Fiction: The Man on the Ceiling by Melanie and Steve
Rasnic Tem
Short Fiction: "Gone" by Jack
Ketchum
Fiction Collection: Magic
Terror by Peter Straub
Anthology: The
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th Annual Collection edited
by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Nonfiction: On
Writing by Stephen King
Illustrated Narrative: The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (miniseries) by Alan Moore
Screenplay: Shadow of the Vampire by Steven Katz
Work for Young Readers: The
Power of UN by Nancy Etchemendy
Poetry Collection: A
Student of Hell by Tom Piccirilli
Other Media: Chiaroscuro (web site), by Patricia Lee Macomber,
Steve Eller, and Sandra Kasturi
Lifetime Achievement Award: Nigel
Kneale
Specialty Press Award: Subterranean Press, William K. Schafer