The 2002 Bram Stoker Award Winners

The Bram Stoker Award is presented annually by the Horror Writers Association for works published during the previous calendar year. The winners were announced at the Stoker banquet during the 2003 Horror Writers' Association Annual Conference at the Park Central Hotel on New York, June 7, 2003.

Lifetime Achievement
   Stephen King
   J.N. Williamson


Novel
   Tom Piccirilli - The Night Class (Leisure)


First Novel
   Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones (Little, Brown & Co)


Long Fiction (tie)
   Brian A. Hopkins - El Dia de Los Muertos (Earthling Publications)
   Thomas Ligotti - "My Work Is Not Yet Done" (My Work Is Not Done Yet: Three Tales of Corporate Terror)


Short Fiction
   Tom Piccirilli - "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair" (The Darker Side: Generations of Horror)


Fiction Collection
   Ray Bradbury - One More for the Road (Morrow/Earthlight)


Anthology
   ed. John Pelan - The Darker Side: Generations of Horror (Scribner)


Non-Fiction
   Ramsey Campbell - Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies (PS Publishing)


Illustrated Narrative
   Robert Weinberg - Nightside (Marvel Comics)


Screenplay
   Brant Hanley - Frailty (Lion's Gate Films)


Work for Younger Readers
   Neil Gaiman - Coraline (HarperCollins)


Poetry Collection
   Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves & David Niall Wilson - The Gossamer Eye (Meisha Merlin)


Alternate Forms
   Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem - Imagination Box (Mulitmedia CD-rom) (Lone Wolf)