Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel
The Bram Stoker Award for First Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing for an author's first horror novel.
Winners and nominees
| Year | Recipient | Title | Citation | Ref. |
| 1987 | Winner | |||
| 1987 | Nominee | |||
| 1987 | Slob | Nominee | ||
| 1987 | Nominee | |||
| 1987 | Excavation | Nominee | ||
| 1988 | Winner | |||
| 1988 | Cities of the Dead | Nominee | ||
| 1988 | Resurrection, Inc. | Nominee | ||
| 1988 | Deliver Us From Evil | Nominee | ||
| 1988 | Demon Night | Nominee | ||
| 1988 | Fear Book | Nominee | ||
| 1989 | Sunglasses After Dark | Winner | ||
| 1989 | Nominee | |||
| 1989 | Goat Dance | Nominee | ||
| 1989 | Laying The Music To Rest | Nominee | ||
| 1989 | Nominee | |||
| 1990 | Winner | |||
| 1990 | Blood of the Children | Nominee | ||
| 1990 | Dark Father | Nominee | ||
| 1990 | Nightblood | Nominee | ||
| 1991 | Winner | |||
| 1991 | Prodigal | Winner | ||
| 1991 | Winter Scream | Nominee | ||
| 1991 | Wilderness | Nominee | ||
| 1991 | Unearthed | Nominee | ||
| 1992 | Sineater | Winner | ||
| 1992 | Lost Souls | Nominee | ||
| 1992 | Beauty | Nominee | ||
| 1992 | Less Than Human | Nominee | ||
| 1992 | Nominee | |||
| 1993 | Winner | |||
| 1993 | Afterage | Nominee | ||
| 1993 | Created By | Nominee | ||
| 1993 | Suckers | Nominee | ||
| 1993 | Wet Work | Nominee | ||
| 1994 | Grave Markings | Winner | ||
| 1994 | Nominee | |||
| 1994 | Deadweight | Nominee | ||
| 1994 | Near Death | Nominee | ||
| 1995 | Winner | |||
| 1995 | Diary of a Vampire | Nominee | ||
| 1995 | Nominee | |||
| 1995 | Madeleine's Ghost | Nominee | ||
| 1995 | Wyrm Wolf | Nominee | ||
| 1996 | Crota | Winner | ||
| 1996 | Flute Song | Nominee | ||
| 1996 | Horror Show | Nominee | ||
| 1996 | Dead Heat | Nominee | ||
| 1997 | Lives of the Monster Dogs | Winner | ||
| 1997 | Nominee | |||
| 1997 | Hungry Eyes | Nominee | ||
| 1997 | Drawn to the Grave | Nominee | ||
| 1997 | Nominee | |||
| 1998 | Dawn Song | Winner | ||
| 1998 | Night Prayers | Nominee | ||
| 1998 | This Symbiotic Fascination | Nominee | ||
| 1998 | Silk | Nominee | ||
| 1999 | Wither | Winner | ||
| 1999 | Widow's Walk | Nominee | ||
| 1999 | Every Dead Thing | Nominee | ||
| 1999 | King Rat | Nominee | ||
| 2000 | Winner | |||
| 2000 | Nailed by the Heart | Nominee | ||
| 2000 | House of Leaves | Nominee | ||
| 2000 | Run | Nominee | ||
| 2001 | Deadliest of the Species | Winner | ||
| 2001 | Phantom Feast | Nominee | ||
| 2001 | Skating on the Edge | Nominee | ||
| 2001 | Riverwatch | Nominee | ||
| 2002 | Winner | |||
| 2002 | Nominee | |||
| 2002 | Atmosphere | Nominee | ||
| 2002 | Nominee | |||
| 2003 | Winner | |||
| 2003 | Wolf's Trap | Nominee | ||
| 2003 | Monstrocity | Nominee | ||
| 2003 | Veniss Underground | Nominee | ||
| 2004 | Covenant | Winner | ||
| 2004 | Stained | Winner | ||
| 2004 | Black Fire | Nominee | ||
| 2004 | Move Under Ground | Nominee | ||
| 2005 | Scarecrow Gods | Winner | ||
| 2005 | Nominee | |||
| 2005 | Siren Promised | Nominee | ||
| 2006 | Ghost Road Blues | Winner | ||
| 2006 | Nominee | |||
| 2006 | Bloodstone | Nominee | ||
| 2006 | Nominee | |||
| 2007 | Heart-Shaped Box | Winner | ||
| 2007 | I Will Rise | Nominee | ||
| 2007 | Nominee | |||
| 2007 | Nominee | |||
| 2008 | ' | Winner | ||
| 2008 | Midnight on Mourn Street | Nominee | ||
| 2008 | Monster Behind the Wheel | Nominee | ||
| 2008 | Nominee | |||
| 2008 | Frozen Blood | Nominee | ||
| 2009 | Damnable | Winner | ||
| 2009 | Breathers | Nominee | ||
| 2009 | Solomon's Grave | Nominee | ||
| 2009 | Nominee | |||
| 2010 | Black & Orange | Winner | ||
| 2010 | Winner | |||
| 2010 | Nominee | |||
| 2010 | Spellbent | Nominee | ||
| 2011 | Isis Unbound | Winner | ||
| 2011 | Southern Gods | Nominee | ||
| 2011 | Nominee | |||
| 2011 | Nominee | |||
| 2011 | That Which Should Not Be | Nominee | ||
| 2012 | Life Rage | Winner | ||
| 2012 | Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling | Nominee | ||
| 2012 | Wide Open | Nominee | ||
| 2012 | Nominee | |||
| 2012 | Nominee | |||
| 2012 | Bad Glass | Nominee | ||
| 2013 | Winner | |||
| 2013 | Candy House | Nominee | ||
| 2013 | Nominee | |||
| 2013 | Redheads | Nominee | ||
| 2013 | Stoker’s Manuscript | Nominee | ||
| 2014 | Mr. Wicker | Winner | ||
| 2014 | Forsaken | Nominee | ||
| 2014 | Consumed | Nominee | ||
| 2014 | Return of the Mothman | Nominee | ||
| 2014 | Bird Box | Nominee | ||
| 2015 | Mr. Suicide | Winner | ||
| 2015 | Shutter | Nominee | ||
| 2015 | We Are Monsters | Nominee | ||
| 2015 | Hannahwhere | Nominee | ||
| 2015 | Riding the Centipede | Nominee | ||
| 2016 | Haven | Winner | ||
| 2016 | Nominee | |||
| 2016 | Hollow House | Nominee | ||
| 2016 | Mayan Blue | Nominee | ||
| 2016 | Nominee | |||
| 2017 | Cold Cuts | Winner | ||
| 2017 | In The Valley of the Sun | Nominee | ||
| 2017 | What Do Monsters Fear? | Nominee | ||
| 2017 | Nominee | |||
| 2017 | Kill Creek | Nominee | ||
| 2018 | Winner | |||
| 2018 | What Should Be Wild | Nominee | ||
| 2018 | I Am the River | Nominee | ||
| 2018 | Baby Teeth | Nominee | ||
| 2018 | Nominee | |||
| 2019 | Winner | |||
| 2019 | Dear Laura | Nominee | ||
| 2019 | Doorways to the Deadeye | Nominee | ||
| 2019 | Invisible Chains | Nominee | ||
| 2019 | Nominee | |||
| 2020 | Winner | |||
| 2020 | Nominee | |||
| 2020 | Nominee | |||
| 2020 | Tome | Nominee | ||
| 2020' | True Story | Nominee | ||
| 2021 | Queen of Teeth | Winner | ||
| 2021 | Nominee | |||
| 2021 | Helminth | Nominee | ||
| 2021 | Rabbits | Nominee | ||
| 2021 | Tidepool | Nominee | ||
| 2021 | When the Reckoning Comes | Nominee | ||
| 2022 | Beulah | Winner | ||
| 2022 | Jackal | Nominee | ||
| 2022 | Nominee | |||
| 2022 | Black Tide | Nominee | ||
| 2022 | All the White Spaces | Nominee | ||
| 2023 | - | - | - | - |
| 2023 | The Daughters of Block Island | Winner | ||
| 2023 | The Spite House | Nominee | ||
| 2023 | Everything the Darkness Eats | Nominee | ||
| 2023 | Maeve Fly | Nominee | ||
| 2023 | Edenville | Nominee | ||
| 2024 | - | - | - | - |
| 2024 | The Eyes Are the Best Part | Winner | ||
| 2024 | Midnight Rooms | Nominee | ||
| 2024 | Hollow Girls | Nominee | ||
| 2024 | This Wretched Valley | Nominee | ||
| 2024 | Bless Your Heart'' | Nominee |