Ce prix a été créé en 1988, et est décerné annuellement, par les des membres actifs de l'association des écrivains d'horreur américains (Horror Writers Association). Attention, les prix (l'indication de l'année) ont été renommés au début des années 2000 : ainsi les prix attribués en 2003 s'intitulent prix 2002, pour récompenser des oeuvres parues en 2002.
2023 | (The Reformatory) (Tananarive Due) | |
2022 | (The Devil Takes You Home) (Gabino Iglesias) | |
2021 | (My Heart Is a Chainsaw) (Stephen Graham Jones) | |
2020 | (The Only Good Indians) (Stephen Graham Jones) | |
2019 | (Coyote Rage) (Owl Goingback) | |
2018 | (The Cabin at the End of the World) (Paul Tremblay) | |
2017 | (Ararat) (Christopher Golden) | |
2016 | (The Fisherman) (John Langan) | |
2015 | (A Head Full of Ghosts) (Paul Tremblay) | |
2014 | (Blood Kin) (Steve Rasnic Tem) | |
2013 | Docteur Sleep (Dr. Sleep) (Stephen King) | |
2012 | La fille qui se noie (The Drowning Girl) (Caitlin R. Kiernan) | |
2011 | (Flesh Eaters) (Joe McKinney) | |
2010 | (A Dark Matter) (Peter Straub) | |
2009 | (Audrey's Door ) (Sarah Langan) | |
2008 | Duma Kay (Duma Kay) (Stephen King) | |
2007 | (The missing) (Sarah Langan) | |
2006 | Histoire de Lisey (Lisey's Story) (Stephen King) | |
2005 | (Creepers) (David Morrell) | |
(Dread in the Beast) (Charlee Jacobs) ex-aequos | ||
2004 | (In the Night Room) (Peter Straub) | |
2003 | Les enfants perdus (Lost Boy Lost Girl) (Peter Straub) | |
2002 | (The night class) (Tom Piccirilli) | |
2001 | American gods (American gods) (Neil Gaiman) | |
2000 | (The traveling vampire show) (Richard Laymon) | |
1999 | Mr. X (Mr X) (Peter Straub) | |
1998 | Sac d'os (Bag of bones) (Stephen King) | |
1997 | (Children of the dusk) (Janet Berliner et George Guthridge) | |
1996 | La ligne verte (The green mile) (Stephen King) | |
1995 | (Zombie) (Joyce Carol Oates) | |
1994 | L'appel des profondeurs (Dead in the water) (Nancy Holder) | |
1993 | La gorge (The throat) (Peter Straub) | |
1992 | Le sang de l'agneau (Blood of the lamb) (Thomas Monteleone) | |
1991 | Le mystère du lac (Boy's life) (Robert McCammon) | |
1990 | Mary Terreur (Mine) (Robert McCammon) | |
1989 | L'échiquier du mal (Carrion comfort) (Dan Simmons) | |
1988 | Le silence des agneaux (The silence of the lambs) (Thomas Harris) | |
1987 | Misery (Misery) (Stephen King) | |
(Swan song) (Robert McCammon) ex-aequos |
2023 | (The Daughters of Block Island) (Christa Carmen) | |
2022 | (Beulah) (Christi Nogle) | |
2021 | (Queen of Teeth) (Hailey Piper) | |
2020 | (The Fourth Whore ) (E.V. Knight) | |
2019 | (The Bone Weaver’s Orchard) (Sarah Read) | |
2018 | Filles de rouille (The Rust Maidens) (Gwendolyn Kiste) | |
2017 | (Cold Cuts ) (Robert Payne Cabeen) | |
2016 | (Haven) (Tom Deady) | |
2015 | (Mr. Suicide) (Nicole Cushing) | |
2014 | (Mr. Wicker) (Maria Alexander) | |
2013 | (The Evolutionist) (Rena Mason) | |
2012 | (Life Rage) (L.L. Soares) | |
2011 | (Isis Unbound) (Allyson Bird) | |
2010 | (Castle of Los Angeles) (Lisa Morton) | |
(Black and Orange) (Benjamin Kane Ethridge) ex-aequos | ||
2009 | (Damnable ) (Hank Schwaeble) | |
2008 | (The Gentling Box) (Lisa Mannetti) | |
2007 | Le costume du mort (Heart-Shaped Box) (Joe Hill) | |
2006 | (Ghost Road Blues) (Jonathan Maberry) | |
2005 | (Scarecrow Gods) (Weston Ochse) | |
2004 | (Stained) (Lee Thomas) | |
Le Pacte des suicidés (Covenant) (John Everson) ex-aequos | ||
2003 | (The Rising) (Brian Keene) | |
2002 | (The lovely bones) (Alice Sebold) | |
2001 | (Deadliest of the species) (Michael Oliveri) | |
2000 | (The licking valley coon hunters club) (Brian A. Hopkins) | |
1999 | (Wither) (J.G. Passarella) | |
1998 | (Dawn song) (Michael Marano) | |
1997 | Les chiens monstres (Lives of the monster dogs) (Kirsten Bakis) | |
1996 | (Crota) (Owl Goingback) | |
1995 | (The safety of unknown cities) (Lucy Taylor) | |
1994 | (Grave markings) (Michael Arnzen) | |
1993 | (The thread that binds the bones) (Nina Kiriki Hoffman) | |
1992 | (Sineater) (Elizabeth Massie) | |
1991 | (Prodigal) (Melanie Tem) | |
Brèche vers l'enfer (The cipher) (Kathe Koja) ex-aequos | ||
1990 | Révélations (The revelation) (Bentley Little) | |
1989 | La volupté du sang (Sunglasses after dark) (Nancy A. Collins) | |
1988 | (The suiting) (Kelley Wilde) | |
1987 | (The manse) (Lisa Cantrell) |
2023 | (She Is a Haunting) (Trang Thanh Tran) | |
2022 | (The Triangle) (Robert P. Ottone) | |
2021 | (The River Has Teeth) (Erica Waters) | |
2020 | (Clown in a Cornfield) (Adam Cesare) | |
2019 | (Oware Mosaic) (Nzondi) | |
2018 | (The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein) (Kiersten White) | |
2017 | (The Last Harvest) (Kim Liggett) | |
2016 | (Snowed) (Maria Alexander) | |
2015 | (Devil’s Pocket) (John Dixon) | |
2014 | (Phoenix Island) (John Dixon) | |
2013 | (Dog Days) (Joe McKinney) | |
2012 | (Flesh & Bone) (Jonathan Maberry) | |
2011 | (Dust & Decay) (Jonathan Maberry) | |
(The Screaming Season) (Nancy Holder) ex-aequos | ||
2004 | (Oddest Yet) (Steve Burt) | |
Jours de lumière, nuits de guerre (Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War) (Clive Barker) ex-aequos | ||
2003 | Harry Potter et l'Ordre du Phénix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) (J.K. Rowling) | |
2002 | Coraline (Coraline) (Neil Gaiman) | |
2001 | (The Willow Files 2) (Yvonne Navarro) | |
2000 | (The Power of Un) (Nancy Etchemendy) | |
1999 | Harry Potter et le prisonnier d'Azkaban (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) (J.K. Rowling) | |
1998 | (Bigger than Death) (Nancy Etchemendy) |