Bram Stoker Award Winning Books - Best First Novel
Discover the best Bram Stoker Award-winning first novels in horror fiction. Explore our curated list of acclaimed debut books that have earned the prestigious Stoker Award for Best First Novel.
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Ghost Road Blues
by Jonathan Maberry
The first book in a new trilogy that chronicles an apocalyptic showdown between the residents of a secluded, rural farm and the deadly evil that confronts them wherever they turn.
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Wither
by J G Passarella
A twisted take on the small-town shocker, this spine-tingling debut novel bristles with pure storytelling magic. The college town of Windale, Massachusetts, is proud of its colonial heritage -- including the legend of a dark witches' coven dating back three hundred years. No one in Windale actually believes in witches, or imagines that the blood-chilling history of the Salem era could repeat itself. But three people, unknown to one another, are experiencing vivid nightmares of palpable horror. They alone can sense that a dreadful presence is working its way into their waking lives -- and is coming for them. On a crisp autumn night deep in the New England woods, a young woman's harmless channeling ritual unwittingly opens the floodgates to terrifying forces that have, until then, lived only in dreams: a breed of demonic creatures with the power to shatter an unsuspecting town....
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Lives of the Monster Dogs
by Kirsten Bakis
When a group of elegant, anthropomorphic dogs arrives in New York from isolation in the Canadian wilderness, bringing with them the nineteenth-century Germanic culture of their distant creators, they force humanity to reassess its values. Reprint.
