Year
|
Author
|
Title
|
Result
|
Ref.
|
1987
|
Muriel Spark
|
Mary Shelley
|
Winner
|
[2]
|
Joe Bob Briggs
|
Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In
|
Finalist
|
[2]
|
Paul A. Gagne
|
The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh
|
Finalist
|
[2]
|
1988
|
(no award)
|
|
1989
|
Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
|
Horror: The 100 Best Books
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
Harlan Ellison
|
Harlan Ellison's Watching
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
Norine Dresser
|
American Vampires by Fans, Victims, Practitioners
|
Finalist
|
[3]
|
Peter Cannon
|
H. P. Lovecraft
|
Finalist
|
[3]
|
Leonard Wolf
|
Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature and Film
|
Finalist
|
[3]
|
1990
|
Stanley Wiater
|
Dark Dreamers
|
Winner
|
[4]
|
Joe Bob Briggs
|
Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In
|
Finalist
|
[4]
|
S. T. Joshi
|
The Weird Tale
|
Finalist
|
[4]
|
David J. Skal
|
Hollywood Gothic
|
Finalist
|
[4]
|
Neil Barron
|
Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide
|
Finalist
|
[4]
|
1991
|
Stephen Jones
|
Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden
|
Winner
|
[5]
|
Stephen J. Spignesi
|
The Shape Under The Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia
|
Finalist
|
[5]
|
Katherine Ramsland
|
Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice
|
Finalist
|
[5]
|
Rosemary Ellen Guillen
|
Vampires Among Us
|
Finalist
|
[5]
|
1992
|
Christopher Golden
|
Cut! Horror Writers of Horror Film
|
Winner
|
[6]
|
Carol J. Clover
|
Men, Women, and Chainsaws
|
Finalist
|
[6]
|
Stanley Wiater
|
Dark Visions
|
Finalist
|
[6]
|
John Russo
|
Scare Tactics
|
Finalist
|
[6]
|
Cosete Kies
|
Young Adult Horror Fiction
|
Finalist
|
[6]
|
1993
|
Robert Bloch
|
Once Around the Bloch
|
Winner
|
[7]
|
Shirley Harrison and Michael Barrett
|
The Diary of Jack the Ripper
|
Finalist
|
[7]
|
David J. Skal
|
The Monster Show
|
Finalist
|
[7]
|
1994
|
(no award)
|
|
1995
|
Michael Ashley and William Contento
|
The Supernatural Index
|
Winner
|
[8]
|
Janet Leigh and Christopher Nickens
|
Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller
|
Finalist
|
[8]
|
Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs
|
Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984
|
Finalist
|
[8]
|
James Randi
|
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
|
Finalist
|
[8]
|
1996
|
S. T. Joshi
|
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life
|
Winner
|
[9]
|
Don Hutchison
|
The Great Pulp Heroes
|
Finalist
|
[9]
|
Stephen Jones
|
The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide
|
Finalist
|
[9]
|
Barbara Belford
|
Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula
|
Finalist
|
[9]
|
David Skal
|
V is for Vampire
|
Finalist
|
[9]
|
1997
|
Stanley Wiater
|
Dark Thoughts: On Writing
|
Winner
|
[10]
|
John Clute and John Grant
|
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
|
Finalist
|
[10]
|
Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes
|
The Hammer Story
|
Finalist
|
[10]
|
Tim Lucas, ed.
|
Video Watchdog
|
Finalist
|
[10]
|
Stephen Jones
|
Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror
|
Finalist
|
[10]
|
Katherine Ramsland
|
Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography
|
Finalist
|
[10]
|
1998
|
Paula Guran, ed.
|
DarkEcho Newsletter, Vol. 5, #1-50
|
Winner
|
[11]
|
Clive Bloom, ed.
|
Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond
|
Finalist
|
[11]
|
Jeanne Cavelos
|
The Science of the X-Files
|
Finalist
|
[11]
|
Richard Laymon
|
A Writer's Tale
|
Finalist
|
[11]
|
1999
|
Paula Guran, ed.
|
DarkEcho Newsletter
|
Winner
|
[12]
|
David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds.
|
Hellnotes
|
Finalist
|
[12]
|
Stephen Jones
|
The Essential Monster Movie Guide
|
Finalist
|
[12]
|
Victoria Price
|
Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography
|
Finalist
|
[12]
|
2000
|
Stephen King
|
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
|
Winner
|
[13]
|
David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds.
|
Hellnotes
|
Finalist
|
[13]
|
Bill Sheehan
|
At the Foot of the Story Tree
|
Finalist
|
[13]
|
Robert Weinberg
|
Horror of the 20th Century
|
Finalist
|
[13]
|
2001
|
Brian Keene, ed.
|
Jobs in Hell
|
Winner
|
[14]
|
Brian A. Hopkins and Garrett Peck, eds.
|
Personal Demons
|
Finalist
|
[14]
|
David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson, eds.
|
Hellnotes
|
Finalist
|
[14]
|
Bruce Campbell
|
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
|
Finalist
|
[14]
|
2002
|
Ramsey Campbell
|
Ramsey Campbell, Probably
|
Winner
|
[15]
|
Ralan Conley, ed.
|
Ralan.com
|
Finalist
|
[15]
|
Brian Keene and Kelly Laymon, eds.
|
Jobs in Hell
|
Finalist
|
[15]
|
David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson, and Garrett Peck, eds.
|
Hellnotes
|
Finalist
|
[15]
|
Richard Bleiler
|
Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition
|
Finalist
|
[15]
|
2003
|
Thomas F. Monteleone
|
The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association
|
Winner
|
[16]
|
Gary A. Braunbeck
|
Fear in a Handful of Dust
|
Finalist
|
[16]
|
Ralan Conley, ed.
|
Ralan.com
|
Finalist
|
[16]
|
Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man, eds.
|
Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman
|
Finalist
|
[16]
|
Judi Rohrig, ed.
|
Hellnotes
|
Finalist
|
[16]
|
2004
|
Judi Rohrig, ed.
|
Hellnotes
|
Winner
|
[17]
|
Thomas F. Monteleone
|
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel
|
Finalist
|
[17]
|
Bev Vincent
|
The Road to the Dark Tower
|
Finalist
|
[17]
|
Joseph McCabe
|
Hanging Out with the Dream King
|
Finalist
|
[17]
|
Ralan Conley
|
Ralan's SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza
|
Finalist
|
[17]
|
2005
|
Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
|
Horror: Another 100 Best Books
|
Winner
|
[18]
|
Sam Weller
|
The Bradbury Chronicles
|
Finalist
|
[18]
|
Loren Rhoads
|
Morbid Curiosity, #9
|
Finalist
|
[18]
|
Michael McCarty
|
More Giants of the Genre
|
Finalist
|
[18]
|
Rhonda Wilcox
|
Why Buffy Matters: The Art of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'
|
Finalist
|
[18]
|
2006
|
Michael Largo
|
Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die
|
Winner
|
[19]
|
Kim Paffenroth
|
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth
|
Winner
|
[19]
|
Mark Morris, ed.
|
Cinema Macabre
|
Finalist
|
[19]
|
Rocky Wood
|
Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished
|
Finalist
|
[19]
|
2007
|
Jonathan Maberry and David F. Kramer
|
The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre
|
Winner
|
[20]
|
Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson
|
Storytellers Unplugged
|
Finalist
|
[20]
|
Michael Largo
|
The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich & Powerful Really Died
|
Finalist
|
[20]
|
Joshua Gee
|
Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying Truth About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More
|
Finalist
|
[20]
|
2008
|
Lisa Morton
|
A Hallowe'en Anthology
|
Winner
|
[21]
|
Gregory Lamberson
|
Cheap Scares
|
Finalist
|
[21]
|
Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley
|
The Book of Lists: Horror
|
Finalist
|
[21]
|
Jonathan Maberry
|
Zombie CSU
|
Finalist
|
[21]
|
2009
|
Michael Knost
|
Writers Workshop of Horror
|
Winner
|
[22]
|
L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda
|
Cinema Knife Fight
|
Finalist
|
[22]
|
Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks
|
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction
|
Finalist
|
[22]
|
Bev Vincent
|
The Stephen King Illustrated Companion
|
Finalist
|
[22]
|
2010
|
Gary A. Braunbeck
|
To Each Their Darkness
|
Winner
|
[23]
|
Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman
|
Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
Thomas Ligotti
|
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
Sam Weller
|
Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
2011
|
Rocky Wood
|
Stephen King: A Literary Companion
|
Winner
|
[24][25][26][27]
|
Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
|
Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night
|
Finalist
|
[24][25][26]
|
Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill, and Brian J. Showers, eds.
|
Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu
|
Finalist
|
[24][25][26]
|
John C. Tibbetts
|
The Gothic Imagination
|
Finalist
|
[24][25][26]
|
Matt Mogk
|
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies
|
Finalist
|
[24][25][26]
|
Nick Mamatas
|
Starve Better
|
Finalist
|
[24][25][26]
|
2012
|
Lisa Morton
|
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
|
Winner
|
[28][29][30]
|
Leslie S. Klinger
|
The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1
|
Finalist
|
[28][29][30]
|
Kim Paffenroth and John W. Morehead
|
The Undead and Theology
|
Finalist
|
[28][29][30]
|
Kendall R. Phillips
|
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film
|
Finalist
|
[28][29][30]
|
Michael Collings
|
Writing Darkness
|
Finalist
|
[28][29][30]
|
2013
|
William F. Nolan
|
Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction
|
Winner
|
[31][32]
|
Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, eds.
|
Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic
|
Finalist
|
[31][32]
|
Gary William Crawford, ed.
|
Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror
|
Finalist
|
[31][32]
|
Robert H. Waugh, ed.
|
Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors
|
Finalist
|
[31][32]
|
Jarkko Toikkanen
|
The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures
|
Finalist
|
[31][32]
|
2014
|
Lucy Snyder
|
Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide
|
Winner
|
[33][34][35]
|
Jason V. Brock
|
Disorders of Magnitude
|
Finalist
|
[33][34][35]
|
S. T. Joshi
|
Lovecraft and a World in Transition
|
Finalist
|
[33][34][35]
|
Leslie S. Klinger
|
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
|
Finalist
|
[33][34][35]
|
Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley
|
Horror 101: The Way Forward
|
Finalist
|
[33][34][35]
|
2015
|
Stephen Jones
|
The Art of Horror
|
Winner
|
[36][37]
|
Justin Everett and Jeffrey H. Shanks, eds.
|
The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror
|
Finalist
|
[36][37]
|
Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley, eds.
|
Horror 201: The Silver Scream
|
Finalist
|
[36][37]
|
Michael Knost
|
Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth
|
Finalist
|
[36][37]
|
Danel Olson
|
Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (film)
|
Finalist
|
[36][37]
|
2016
|
Ruth Franklin
|
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
|
Winner
|
[38]
|
W. Scott Poole
|
In the Mountains of Madness
|
Finalist
|
[38]
|
David J. Skal
|
Something in the Blood
|
Finalist
|
[38]
|
John Tibbetts
|
The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
|
Finalist
|
[38]
|
Danel Olson
|
Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil's Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth
|
Finalist
|
[38]
|
Leo Braudy
|
Haunted
|
Finalist
|
[38]
|
2017
|
Grady Hendrix
|
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction
|
Winner
|
[39][40][41]
|
Kinitra D. Brooks
|
Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror
|
Finalist
|
[39][40][41]
|
Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson
|
Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre
|
Finalist
|
[39][40][41]
|
Stephen Jones
|
The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History
|
Finalist
|
[39][40][41]
|
Michele Brittany
|
Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre
|
Finalist
|
[39][40][41]
|
2018
|
Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson
|
It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life
|
Winner
|
[42]
|
Howard David Ingham
|
We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror
|
Finalist
|
[42]
|
Kevin. J. Wemore, Jr.
|
Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series
|
Finalist
|
[42]
|
Lee Gambin
|
The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film
|
Finalist
|
[42]
|
John Connolly
|
Horror Express
|
Finalist
|
[42]
|
2019
|
Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger
|
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
|
Winner
|
[43][44]
|
Harriet E. H. Earle
|
Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays
|
Finalist
|
[43][44]
|
Jonathan Greenaway and Eleanor Beal
|
Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality
|
Finalist
|
[43][44]
|
John B. Kachuba
|
Shapeshifters: A History
|
Finalist
|
[43][44]
|
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
|
Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces
|
Finalist
|
[43][44]
|
2020
|
Tim Waggoner
|
Writing in the Dark
|
Winner
|
[45][46]
|
Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl
|
The Science of Women in Horror: The Special Effects, Stunts, and True Stories Behind Your Favorite Fright Films
|
Finalist
|
[45][46]
|
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
|
1000 Women in Horror
|
Finalist
|
[45][46]
|
Brian Keene
|
End of the Road
|
Finalist
|
[45][46]
|
Alison Peirse, ed.
|
Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
|
Finalist
|
[45][46]
|
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
|
The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaption
|
Finalist
|
[45][46]
|
2021
|
Michael Knost, ed.
|
Writers Workshop of Horror 2
|
Winner
|
[47][48]
|
Danel Olson
|
9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels
|
Finalist
|
[47][48]
|
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Regina M. Hansen
|
Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema
|
Finalist
|
[47][48]
|
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
|
Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
|
Finalist
|
[47][48]
|
Kristopher Woofter
|
Shirley Jackson: A Companion
|
Finalist
|
[47][48]
|
2022
|
Michael Cisco
|
Weird Fiction: A Genre Study
|
Winner
|
[49][50]
|
Leanna Renee Hieberand Andrea Janes
|
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts
|
Finalist
|
[49][50]
|
Lisa Krögerand Melanie R. Anderson
|
Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult
|
Finalist
|
[49][50]
|
Tim Waggoner
|
Writing in the Dark: The Workbook
|
Finalist
|
[49][50]
|
Stephanie M. Wytovich
|
Writing Poetry in the Dark
|
Finalist
|
[49][50]
|