Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction

Winners and nominees

• 1987: Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark
• * Joe Bob Goes To the Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs
• * The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh by Paul A. Gagne
• 1988:
• 1989:
• *Harlan Ellison's Watching by Harlan Ellison
• * Horror: The 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
• ** American Vampires: by Fans, Victims, Practitioners by Norine Dresser
• ** Horror: A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature and Film by Leonard Wolf
• ** H. P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon
• 1990: Dark Dreamers by Stanley Wiater
• * Hollywood Gothic by David J. Skal
• * Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide by Neil Barron
• * Joe Bob Goes Back To The Drive-In by Joe Bob Briggs
• * The Weird Tale by S. T. Joshi
• 1991: Clive Barker's Shadows in Eden by Stephen Jones
• * Vampires Among Us Rosemary by Ellen Guillen
• * Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice by Katherine Ramsland
• * The Shape Under The Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia by Stephen J. Spignesi
• 1992: Cut! Horror Writers of Horror Film by Christopher Golden
• * Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover
• * Young Adult Horror Fiction by Cosete Kies
• * Scare Tactics by John Russo
• * Dark Visions by Stanley Wiater
• 1993: Once Around the Bloch by Robert Bloch
• * The Diary of Jack the Ripper by Shirley Harrison & Michael Barrett
• * The Monster Show by David J. Skal
• 1994:
• 1995: The Supernatural Index by Michael Ashley & William Contento
• * Psycho: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Thriller by Janet Leigh & Christopher Nickens
• * An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural by James Randi
• * ' by Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs
• 1996: H. P. Lovecraft: A Life by S. T. Joshi
• * Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula by Barbara Belford
• * The Great Pulp Heroes by Don Hutchison
• * The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
• * V is for Vampire by David Skal
• 1997: Dark Thoughts: On Writing by Stanley Wiater
• * The Encyclopedia of Fantasy by John Clute & John Grant
• * The Hammer Story by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes
• * Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror by Stephen Jones
• * Video Watchdog, Tim Lucas, ed.
• * Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography by Katherine Ramsland
• 1998: DarkEcho Newsletter Vol. 5, #1-50, edited by Paula Guran
• * Gothic Horror: A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, edited by Clive Bloom
• * The Science of the X-Files by Jeanne Cavelos
• * A Writer's Tale by Richard Laymon
• 1999: DarkEcho Newsletter, edited by Paula Guran
• * The Essential Monster Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
• * Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography by Victoria Price
• * Hellnotes, edited by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
• 2000: ' by Stephen King
• * Hellnotes, edited by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
• * At the Foot of the Story Tree by Bill Sheehan
• * Horror of the 20th Century by Robert Weinberg
• 2001: Jobs in Hell, edited by Brian Keene
• * If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
• * Personal Demons, edited by Brian A. Hopkins & Garrett Peck
• * Hellnotes, edtied by David B. Silva & Paul F. Olson
• 2002: Ramsey Campbell, Probably by Ramsey Campbell
• * Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition by Richard Bleiler
• * Ralan.com, Ralan Conley, ed.
• * Jobs in Hell, Brian Keene & Kelly Laymon, eds.
• * Hellnotes, David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson & Garrett Peck, eds.
• 2003: The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association by Thomas F. Monteleone
• * Fear in a Handful of Dust by Gary A. Braunbeck
• * Ralan.com edited by Ralan Conley
• * ', edited by Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man
• * Hellnotes edited by Judi Rohrig
• 2004: Hellnotes edited by Judi Rohrig
• * Ralan's SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza by Ralan Conley
• * Hanging Out with the Dream King by Joseph McCabe
• * The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel by Thomas F. Monteleone
• * The Road to the Dark Tower by Bev Vincent
• 2005: Horror: Another 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• * More Giants of the Genre by Michael McCarty
• * Morbid Curiosity magazine #9 by Loren Rhoads
• * The Bradbury Chronicles by Sam Weller
• * Why Buffy Matters: The Art of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rhonda Wilcox
• 2006:
• *Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die by Michael Largo
• *Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth
• **Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished by Rocky Wood
• **Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris
• 2007: The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer
• * ' by Joshua Gee
• * The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich & Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo
• * Storytellers Unplugged by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson
• 2008: A Hallowe'en Anthology by Lisa Morton
• * Cheap Scares by Gregory Lamberson
• * Zombie CSU by Jonathan Maberry
• * The Book of Lists: Horror by Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley
• 2009: Writers Workshop of Horror by Michael Knost
• * Cinema Knife Fight by L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda
• * The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by Bev Vincent
• * Stephen King: The Non-Fiction by Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks
• 2010: To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck
• *The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti
• * Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil by Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman
• * Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews by Sam Weller
• 2011: Stephen King: A Literary Companion by Rocky Wood
• * Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
• * Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu edited by Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers
• * Starve Better by Nick Mamatas
• * Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies by Matt Mogk
• * The Gothic Imagination by John C. Tibbetts
• 2012: ' by Lisa Morton
• * Writing Darkness by Michael Collings
• * The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1 by Leslie S. Klinger
• * The Undead and Theology by Kim Paffenroth and John W. Morehead
• * Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film by Kendall R. Phillips
• 2013: Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction by William F. Nolan
• * ' edited by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan
• * ' edited by Gary William Crawford
• * ' by Jarkko Toikkanen
• * ' edited by Robert H. Waugh
• 2014: Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide by Lucy Snyder
• * Disorders of Magnitude by Jason V Brock
• * Lovecraft and a World in Transition by S. T. Joshi
• * The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by Leslie S. Klinger
• * Horror 101: The Way Forward by Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley
• 2015: The Art of Horror by Stephen Jones
• * The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror by eds. Justin Everett & Jeffrey H. Shanks
• * Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth by Michael Knost
• * Horror 201: The Silver Scream by eds. Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley
• * Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining by Danel Olson
• 2016: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
• * Haunted by Leo Braudy
• * Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil's Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth by Danel Olson
• * In the Mountains of Madness by W. Scott Poole
• * Something in the Blood by David J. Skal
• * The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub by John Tibbetts
• 2017: Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ‘70s and ‘80s Horror Fiction by Grady Hendrix
• * Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre by Michele Brittany
• * Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks
• * The Art of Horror Movies: An Illustrated History by Stephen Jones
• * Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre by Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson
• 2018: by Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson
• * Horror Express by John Connolly
• * The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film by Lee Gambin
• * Uncovering Starnger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series by Kevin. J. Wemore, Jr.
• * We Don't Go Back: A Watcher's Guide to Folk Horror'' by Howard David Ingham