Book prize

August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel winners

6 winners and 16 nominees we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

All prizes

The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel has 6 winners we hold, from 2012 to 2023, and 16 nominees. The most recent winner here is The Last House on Needless Street (2022). Each entry links to the first edition and the points that identify it.

Won

Winners

  1. 2022 The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward First edition not yet identified
  2. 2018 The Changeling by Victor LaValle First edition: Spiegel & Grau 2017
  3. 2015 No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill First edition: Pan Macmillan 2014
  4. 2014 The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes First edition not yet identified
  5. 2013 Last Days by Adam Nevill First edition: Pan Books 2012
  6. 2012 The Ritual by Adam Nevill First edition not yet identified
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. 2023 Sundial by Catriona Ward First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2022
  2. 2022 My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones First edition: Saga Press 2021
  3. 2022 Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw First edition: Titan Books 2021
  4. 2021 The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones First edition: Perfection Learning Corporation 2019
  5. 2019 The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay First edition: William Morrow 2018
  6. 2018 Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough First edition: Harper Collins 2017
  7. 2018 The Boy on the Bridge by Mike Carey First edition not yet identified
  8. 2016 Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink First edition: HarperCollins 2015
  9. 2015 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel First edition: Knopf 2014
  10. 2015 The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey First edition: Orbit 2014
  11. 2014 NOS4A2 by Joe Hill First edition: HarperCollins 2013
  12. 2014 The Year of the Ladybird by Graham Joyce First edition: Gollancz 2013
  13. 2013 Some Kind Of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce First edition: Gollancz 2012
  14. 2012 A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin First edition: Bantam Books 2011
  15. 2012 Among Others by Jo Walton First edition: Tor 2011
  16. 2012 The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie First edition: Gollancz 2011

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