Book prize

Locus Award for Best Horror Novel winners

13 winners and 48 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
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Winners

  1. 2026 Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones First edition: Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2025
  2. 2022 My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones First edition: Saga Press 2021
  3. 2020 Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James First edition: Riverhead Books 2019
  4. 2019 The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay First edition: William Morrow 2018
  5. 2018 The Changeling by Victor LaValle First edition: Spiegel & Grau 2017
  6. 2017 The Fireman by Joe Hill First edition not yet identified
  7. 1999 Bag of Bones by Stephen King First edition: Scribner 1998
  8. 1997 Desperation by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  9. 1996 Expiration Date by Tim Powers First edition: HarperCollins 1995
  10. 1995 Fires of Eden by Dan Simmons First edition: Headline 1994
  11. 1993 Children of the Night by Dan Simmons First edition not yet identified
  12. 1992 Summer of Night by Dan Simmons First edition not yet identified
  13. 1990 Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons First edition: Dark Harvest 1989
Shortlisted and nominated

Also in the running

  1. 2026 Never Flinch by Stephen King First edition: Scribner 2025
  2. 2024 Starling House by Alix E. Harrow First edition not yet identified
  3. 2024 The Reformatory by Tananarive Due First edition not yet identified
  4. 2023 Gwendy's Final Task by Richard Chizmar First edition not yet identified
  5. 2023 Sundial by Catriona Ward First edition: Doherty Associates, Tom 2022
  6. 2022 Billy Summers by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  7. 2022 Later by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  8. 2022 Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
  9. 2021 Devolution by Max Brooks First edition: Del Rey 2020
  10. 2021 The Hole by David Boyd First edition not yet identified
  11. 2021 The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones First edition: Perfection Learning Corporation 2019
  12. 2021 The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix First edition: Quirk Books 2020
  13. 2020 Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky First edition not yet identified
  14. 2018 Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough First edition: Harper Collins 2017
  15. 2018 Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin First edition not yet identified
  16. 2018 Universal Harvester by John Darnielle First edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
  17. 2017 Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia First edition not yet identified
  18. 2017 Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt First edition not yet identified
  19. 2017 Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff First edition: HarperCollins 2016
  20. 2017 The Fisherman by John Langan First edition: Word Horde 2016
  21. 1999 Galilee by Clive Barker First edition: HarperCollins 1998
  22. 1999 Judgment of Tears by Kim Newman First edition not yet identified
  23. 1997 Sacrament by Clive Barker First edition: HarperCollins 1996
  24. 1997 Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice First edition not yet identified
  25. 1997 The Green Mile by Stephen King First edition: Signet 1996
  26. 1996 Rose Madder by Stephen King First edition: Viking 1995
  27. 1996 The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman First edition: Simon and Schuster 1995
  28. 1995 Darkness, I by Tanith Lee First edition not yet identified
  29. 1995 Insomnia by Stephen King First edition: Mark V. Ziesing 1994
  30. 1995 Taltos by Anne Rice First edition not yet identified
  31. 1994 Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite First edition: Delacorte Press, Abyss 1993
  32. 1994 Lasher by Anne Rice First edition not yet identified
  33. 1994 Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz First edition not yet identified
  34. 1993 Dark Dance by Tanith Lee First edition: Dell 1992
  35. 1993 Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  36. 1993 Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card First edition not yet identified
  37. 1993 The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice First edition not yet identified
  38. 1992 Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon First edition: Pocket Books 1991
  39. 1992 Imajica by Clive Barker First edition: HarperCollins 1991
  40. 1992 Needful Things by Stephen King First edition: Viking 1991
  41. 1992 The Waste Lands by Stephen King First edition: Donald M. Grant 1991
  42. 1991 Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin First edition not yet identified
  43. 1991 The Stand by Stephen King First edition: Doubleday 1978
  44. 1990 Geek Love by Katherine Dunn First edition not yet identified
  45. 1990 The Dark Half by Stephen King First edition not yet identified
  46. 1989 Koko by Peter Straub First edition: Dutton 1988
  47. 1989 Stinger by Robert R. McCammon First edition not yet identified
  48. 1989 The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale First edition: Doubleday 1988

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