Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction - Definition

This category of Bram Stoker Awards was previously titled "best novella" or "best novellette". Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

Novelette:

• 1987: "The Pear-Shaped Man" by George R.R. Martin (tie)
• 1987: "The Boy Who Came Back From the Dead" by Alan Rodgers (tie)
  • "Pamela's Get" by David J. Schow
  • "Resurrec Tech" by S.P. Somtow
• 1988: "Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity" by David Morrell
  • "The Skin Trade" by George R.R. Martin
  • "The Function of Dream Sleep" by Harlan Ellison
  • "The Juniper Tree" by Peter Straub
  • "The Night Flier" by Stephen King
  • "Horrorshow" by John Farris
• 1989: "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert With Dead Folks" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "At First Just Ghostly" by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "The Confessions of St. James" by Chet Williamson
  • "Phantom" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 1990: "Stephen" by Elizabeth Massie
  • "Bestseller" by Michael Blumleim
  • "Entropy's Bed at Midnight" by Dan Simmons
  • "Pelts" by F. Paul Wilson
  • "The Langoliers" by Stephen King
• 1991: "The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves" by David Morrell
  • "Fetish" by Edward Bryant
  • "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint
  • "Advocates" by Suzy McKee Charnas & Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • "Magpie" by Stephen Gallagher
• 1992: "Alien: Tribes" by Stepehn Bissette (tie)
• 1992: "The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "Nothing Will Hurt You" by David Morrell
  • "The Shrine" by David Morrell
  • "For You, the Living" by Wayne Allen Sallee

Novella:

• 1993: "The Night We Buried Road Dog" by Jack Cady (tie)
• 1993: "Mefisto in Onyx" by Harlan Ellison (tie)
  • "Flashback" by Dan Simmons
  • "Mefisto in Onyx" by Harlan Ellison

Novelette:

• 1993: "Death in Bankok" by Dan Simmons
  • "Colour" by Michael Moorcock
  • "Darker Angels" by S.P. Somtow
  • "Death on the Nile" by Connie Willis
• 1994: "The Scent of Vinegar" by Robert Bloch
  • "Sometimes, in the Rain" by Charles L. Grant
  • "The Alchemy of the Throat" by Brian Hodge
  • "Buba Ho-tep" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "The Siren of Swan Quarter" by William Trotter
• 1995: "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" by Stephen King
  • "Baby Girl Diamond" by Adam-Troy Castro
  • "Looking for Mr. Flip" by Thomas F. Monteleone
  • "Lover Doll" by Wayne Allen Sallee
• 1996: "The Red Tower" by Thomas Ligotti
  • "Kilroy Was Here" by Jack Cady
  • "The Thing from Lover's Lane" by Nancy Collins
  • "Brimstone and Salt" by S.P. Somtow
• 1997: "The Big Blow" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "The Word" by Ramsey Campbell
  • "Everything's Eventual" by Stephen King
  • "Coppola's Dracula" by Kim Newman
  • "The Zombies of Madison County" by Douglas E. Winter

Long Fiction:

• 1998: "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" by Peter Straub
  • "Leavings" by P.D. Cacek
  • "As Above, So Below" by Brian Hodge
  • "What Would You Do For Love?" by John Shirley
• 1999: "Mad Dog Summer" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "Five Days in April" by Brian A. Hopkins
  • "Dread in the Beast" by Charlee Jacob
  • "Right to Life" by Jack Ketchum
• 2000: "The Man on the Ceiling" by Melanie and Steven Rasnic Tem
  • "Riding the Bullet" by Stephen King
  • "In Shock" by Joyce Carol Oates
  • "God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him" by Lawrence P. Santoto
• 2001: "In These Final Days of Sales" by Tim Lebbon
  • "From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Demolition" by Nancy Etchemendy
  • "Earthworm Gods" by Brian Keene
  • "Northern Gothic" by Nick Mamatas
• 2002: "El Dia de Los Muertos" by Brian A. Hopkins (tie)
• 2002: "My Work is Not Yet Done" by Thomas Ligotti
  • "Cape Wrath" by Paul Finch
  • "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
  • "The Origin" by David B. Silva