Following the preliminary ballot that was announced earlier this year, The Horror Writers Association has revealed the preliminary ballot for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards, which includes a graphic novel category.
Three comics by Dark Horse, along with one each from Storm King Comics and Vault Comics. The awards recognize “superior achievement” in horror literature and dark fiction. H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu by Gou Tanabe won in the graphic novel category last year.
Here are the final nominees for the “Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel” catgeory:
Bunn, Cullen (writer) and Luckert, Danny (artist) – Jumpscare (Dark Horse Comics)
King, Sandy (editor) – John Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight, Volume 11 (Storm King Comics)
Kraus, Daniel (writer) and Dani (artist) – Athanasia (VAULT Comics)
Mignola, Mike – Bowling With Corpses and Other Tales from Lands Unknown (Dark Horse Comics)
Tynion IV, James (writer), Foxe, Steve (writer), and Kowalski, Piotr (artist) – Let This One Be a Devil – (Dark Horse Comics & Tiny Onion Studios)
You can find the complete list of nominees across all categories on the awards’ website, which includes novels by several “comics adjacent” authors like Stephen Graham Jones, Joe Hill, Clay McLeod Chapman and Delilah S. Dawson.