LibGuides: Bram Stoker Awards: Young Adult Novel (2011- )

Bram Stoker Awards
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

2020-2029

WINNER

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare

FINALISTS

Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus
The Bone Carver by Monique Snyman
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

Cemetery Boys by Thomas, Aiden
Call Number: YA F THO-A (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250250469
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free. But the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school's resident bad boy, and Julian is determined to find out what happened-- and tie up some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.

WINNER

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

FINALISTS:

All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
The Book of the Baku by R. L. Boyel
Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
Call Number: YA F BLA-K (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780062977168
Publication Date: 2021-09-21
August, 1958. A string of murders plagues the Midwest. The victims are found in their cars and in their homes, even in their beds: their bodies drained, but with no blood anywhere. September 18, 1858. The Carlson family is slaughtered in their Minnesota farmhouse, and the case gets its first lead. Marie Catherine Hale is found at the scene, is covered in blood from head to toe. At first she is mistaken for a survivor... but not a drop of the blood is hers. Michael Jensen, son of the local sheriff, yearning to become a journalist, never imagined that the biggest story in the country would fall into his lap. He is pulled into the investigation when Marie decides that he is the only one she will confess to. As she recounts her version of the story, it falls to Michael to find the truth.
Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis
Call Number: YA F LEW-J (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780593177389
Publication Date: 2021-08-24
Sixteen-year-old Katrell uses her witchy powers to talk to the dead and escape her home life, but when she disregards the dead's warnings to stop, dark forces begin to close in forcing Ketrell to make some hard decisions.
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
Call Number: YA F SUT-K (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780593110348
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
Iris and Vivi work to uncover their dark, dangerous, and possibly magical past when their older sister Grey goes missing.

PRELIMINARY BALLOT:

To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames
Small Favors by Erin A. Craig
The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould
Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall
The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould
Call Number: YA F GOU-T (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781250762016
Publication Date: 2021-08-03
Snakebite, Oregon. The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead. All fingers seem to point to TV's most popular ghost hunters who have just returned to town. Arriving in Snakebite, Logan Ortiz-Woodley, daughter of TV's ParaSpectors, gets the feeling that there's more secrets buried here than they originally let on. Ashley Barton's boyfriend was the first teen to go missing, and she has felt his presence ever since: his ghost is following her, and the only person Ashley can trust is the mysterious Logan. As the danger intensifies, they realize that their growing feelings for each other could be a light in the darkness.
Small Favors by Erin A. Craig
Call Number: YA F CRA-EA (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780593306741
Publication Date: 2021-07-27
Life in isolated Amity Falls in the Blackspire Mountain range has a predictable sameness. Ellerie Downing's days are filled tending to her family's beehives, chasing after her sisters, and dreaming of the adventures that her twin, Samuel, is free to indulge in. When some townsfolk go missing on a trip to fetch supplies, and strange activities begin to plague the town, it's clear something is terribly wrong. The forest creatures are real, and they need a favor. A small favor. Which may hide sinister intentions.
Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall
Call Number: YA F MAR-KA (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780593113622
Publication Date: 2021-03-16
Sophia's first memory is of drowning: the darkness of the water, the briny taste as it fills her throat. She remembers her mother pulling her to safety before disappearing forever. But Sophia has never been in the ocean ... and her mother died years ago in a hospital. Or so she has been told her whole life. Clues lead her to the island of Bitter Rock, Alaska, where she talks her way into a summer internship at the Landon Avian Research Center, the same center her mother worked at right before she died. She meets Liam, whose mother runs the LARC, as well as Abby, who's following a mystery of her own: people have been vanishing from Bitter Rock for decades, leaving only their ghostly echoes behind. When it looks like their two mysteries might be one and the same, Sophia vows to dig up the truth, no matter how many lies she has to tell along the way.

FINALISTS:

What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
Gallant by V. E. Schwab
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat
Call Number: YA F FRA-A (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780593382165
Publication Date: 2022-03-15
The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickened and blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find that there is a lot they do not know about their town and its miracle crops, and that their ancestors have a lot to answer for.

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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Call Number: YA F JAC-TD (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780063029149
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret . . . one that will cost them all their lives.

WINNER

The Triangle by Robert P. Ottone

WINNER

The Triangle by Robert P. Ottone

The Triangle + the Deep (Rise trilogy #1 & #2) by Robert P. Ottone
Call Number: YA F OTT-RP R1-2
ISBN: 9798990617728
Publication Date: 2024-08-02
THE TRIANGLE. The world, as we know it, is over. Sea level rise has all but finished off life on Earth. Born with a gift for engineering and technology, Azlynn and her father Merrill spend their days running a small shop in the flotilla community of Coral Cove. They scavenge shipwrecks, sunken vessels, and what precious little remains of the world before the planet drowned. With her best friend Ellis, they do their best to support their community, while struggling to survive. When a group of scouts sent by The Order, a mysterious and powerful northeastern cabal, goes missing in the nearby Bermuda Triangle, Merrill is tasked with finding them. Unbeknownst to him, Azlynn and Ellis have snuck aboard to join in on the mission to find out what lurks within The Triangle. The ancient, cosmic truths they discover may be more terrifying than they ever imagined. THE DEEP. One year ago, Azlynn survived a journey into The Triangle. After an extended time alone at sea, Azlynn finds herself at a crossroads. With rumors of a mysterious force rising in the east, she heads back to her hometown of Coral Cover to warn her people of the possible impending doom.

FINALISTS

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado
Gallant by V. E. Schwab
These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat

Gallant by V. E. Schwab
Call Number: YA F SCH-VE
ISBN: 9780062835772
Publication Date: 2022-03-01
Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for Girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal--which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home; it doesn't matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile, or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Olivia knows that Gallant is hiding secrets, and she is determined to uncover them. When she crosses a ruined wall at just the right moment, Olivia finds herself in a place that is Gallant--but not. The manor is crumbling, the ghouls are solid, and a mysterious figure rules over all. Now Olivia sees what has unraveled generations of her family, and where her father may have come from. Olivia has always wanted to belong somewhere, but will she take her place as a Prior, protecting our world against the Master of the House? Or will she take her place beside him?
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Call Number: YA F JAC-TD (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780063029149
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret . . . one that will cost them all their lives.
What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat
Call Number: YA F FRA-A (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780593382165
Publication Date: 2022-03-15
The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickened and blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find that there is a lot they do not know about their town and its miracle crops, and that their ancestors have a lot to answer for.

WINNER

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
Call Number: YA F TRA-TT
ISBN: 9781547610815
Publication Date: 2023-02-28
Seventeen-year-old Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.

FINALISTS

Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

Find Him Where You Left Him Dead (Death games #1) by Kristen Simmons
Call Number: YA F SIM-K D1
ISBN: 9781250851123
Publication Date: 2023-09-26
Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors--Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax--have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they've been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished--an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido.
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
Call Number: YA F DIM-C (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780735265639
Publication Date: 2023-04-04
Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend, Jack. Her habit of wandering the graveyard at all hours has started a rumor that Winterson Cemetery might be haunted. It's welcome news since the crematorium is on the verge of closure and her father's job being outsourced. Now that the ghost tours have started, Winifred just might be able to save her father's job and the only home she's ever known, not to mention being able to stay close to where her mother is buried. All she has to do is get help from her con-artist cousin to keep up the rouse and somehow manage to stop her father from believing his wife has returned from the grave. But when Phil, an actual ghost of a teen girl who lived and died in the ravine next to the cemetery, starts showing up, Winifred begins to question everything she believes about life, love and death. Especially love.
Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Call Number: YA F SMI-CL
ISBN: 9781536218602
Publication Date: 2023-04-11
Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired by local legend, will headline. Folklore aside, unusual things have been happening at night at the crossroads near Harvest House. A creepy man is stalking teenage girls and young women, particularly Indigenous women; dogs are fretful and on edge; and wild animals are behaving strangely. While Hughie weighs how and when to speak up about the bigoted legend, he and his friends begin to investigate the crossroads and whether it might be haunted after all. As Moon rises on All Hallow's Eve, will they be able to protect themselves and their community? Gripping and evocative, Harvest House showcases a versatile storyteller at her spooky, unsettling best.

2011-2019

WINNERS (Tie)

The Screaming Season by Nancy Hold
Dust and Decay by Jonathan Maberry

FINALISTS

Ghosts of Coronado Bay, a Maya Blair Mystery by J. G. Faherty
Rotters by Daniel Kraus
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
This Dark Endeavor : the Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness; Jim Kay (Illustrator)
Call Number: YA F NES-P (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780763656331
Publication Date: 2011-09-27
Conor sees a monster outside his bedroom window one night, but not the one from his recurring nightmare.
A Monster Calls [E-Book] by Patrick Ness; Jim Kay (Illustrator)
Call Number: YA F NES-P Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780763656331
Publication Date: 2011-09-27

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This Dark Endeavor (The apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein #1) by Kenneth Oppel
Call Number: YA F OPP-K F1 (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781442403154
Publication Date: 2011-08-23
When his twin brother falls ill in the 18th century, Victor Frankenstein, 16, embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life.

WINNER

Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry

FINALISTS

The Diviners by Libba Bray
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
I Kissed a Ghoul by Michael McCarty
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
A Bady Day for Voodoo by Jeff Strand

WINNER

Dog Days by Joe McKinney

FINALISTS

Special Dead by Patric, Freivald
Unbreakable by Kami Garcia
Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard
In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters

Unbreakable by Kami García
Call Number: YA F GAR-K L1 (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780316210171
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Seventeen-year-old Kennedy Waters discovers she is a member of an ancient secret society formed to protect the world from a powerful demon determined to find a way out of his dimension and into ours. She joins the Legion on a mission to find a weapon that can defeat the demon.

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In the Shadow of Blackbirds [E-Book] by Cat Winters
Call Number: YA F WIN-C Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781613124598
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion. Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches as desperate mourners flock to sTances and spirit photographers for comfort, but she herself has never believed in ghosts. During her bleakest moment, however, sheÆs forced to rethink her entire way of looking at life and death, for her first loveùa boy who died in battleùreturns in spirit form. But what does he want from her? Featuring haunting archival early-twentieth-century photographs, this is a tense, romantic story set in a past that is eerily like our own time.

WINNER

Phoenix Island by John Dixon

FINALISTS

Intentional Haunting by Jake Bible
Unmarked by Kami Garcia
Passionaries by Tonya Hurley
All Those Broken Angels by Peter Adam Salomon

WINNER

Devil's Pocket by John Dixon

FINALISTS

Never Let Me Sleep by Jennifer Brozek
The Ridealong by Michaelbrent Collings
Hallowed by Tonya Hurley
The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson
End Times at Ridgemont High by Ian Welke

WINNER

Snowed by Maria Alexander

FINALISTS

Last Days of Salton Academy by Jennifer Brozek
Holding Smoke by Elle Cosimano
When They Fade by Jeyn Roberts
The Telling by Alexandra Sirowy

WINNER

The Last Harvest by Kim Liggett

FINALISTS

The Door to January by Gillian French
Hellworld by Tom Leveen
The Ravenous by Amy Lukavics
When I Cast Your Shadow by Sarah Porter

The Ravenous [E-Book] by Amy Lukavics
Call Number: YA F LUK-A Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781488026041
Publication Date: 2017-09-26
There's something wrong with Rose. From the outside, the Cane family looks like they have it all. A successful military father, a loving mother and five beautiful teenage daughters. But on the inside, life isn't quite so idyllic: the Cane sisters can barely stand each other, their father is always away and their neglectful mother struggles with addiction and depression. When their youngest and most beloved sister, Rose, dies in a tragic accident, Mona Cane and her sisters are devastated. And when she is brought back from the dead, they are relieved. But soon they discover that Rose must eat human flesh to survive, and when their mother abandons them, the sisters will find out just how far they'll go to keep their family together.

WINNER

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

FINALISTS

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry
The Night Weaver by Monique Snyman

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
Call Number: YA F LEG-C (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780062696601
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
Who are the Sawkill Girls? Marion: The newbie. Awkward and plain, steady and dependable. Weighed down by tragedy and hungry for love she’s sure she’ll never find. Zoey: The pariah. Luckless and lonely, hurting but hiding it. Aching with grief and dreaming of vanished girls. Maybe she’s broken - or maybe everyone else is. Val: The queen bee. Gorgeous and privileged, ruthless and regal. Words like silk and eyes like knives; a heart made of secrets and a mouth full of lies. Their stories come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where gleaming horses graze in rolling pastures and cold waves crash against black cliffs. Where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and around campfires. Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight…until now.

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Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry
Call Number: YA F MAB-J B1 (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781534406377
Publication Date: 2018-12-11
Gabriella "Gutsy" Gomez teams up with Benny Imura and his gang as they seek to finish what Captain Joe Ledger started--to find a cure for the zombie infection.

WINNER

Oware Mosaic by Nzondi

FINALISTS

Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé
Five Midnights by Ann Dávila Cardinal
Speak No Evil by Liana Gardner
Rules for Vanising by Kate Alice Marshall
Eght Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds by Peter Adam Salomon

Here There Are Monsters [E-Book] by Amelinda Béruné
Call Number: YA F BER-A Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781492671022
Publication Date: 2019
Sixteen-year-old Skye is done playing the knight in shining armor for her insufferable younger sister, Deirdre. And moving across the country seems like the perfect chance to start over as someone different. In their isolated new neighborhood, Skye manages to fit in, but Deirdre withdraws from everyone, becoming fixated on the swampy woods behind their house and building monstrous sculptures out of sticks and bones. Then Deirdre disappears. And when something awful comes scratching at Skye's window in the middle of the night, claiming Skye's the only one who can save Deirdre, Skye knows she will stop at nothing to bring her sister home.

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Five Midnights by Cardinal, Ann Dávila
Call Number: YA F CAR-AD (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781250296078
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
When Lupe Dýavila arrives in Puerto Rico for the summer, she'll be staying with her uncle, the local police chief. Javier Utierre's friends are dying in a series of grisly murders. Is it the el Cuco -- or someone human? Working together, Lupe and Javier will have to step into the shadows to see what's lurking there: murderer, or monster?

Bram Stoker Awards

2020-2029

WINNER

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare

FINALISTS

Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus

The Bone Carver by Monique Snyman

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

WINNER

The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters

FINALISTS:

All These Bodies by Kendare Blake

The Book of the Baku by R. L. Boyel

Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

PRELIMINARY BALLOT:

To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames

Small Favors by Erin A. Craig

The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall

The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

FINALISTS:

What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

Gallant by V. E. Schwab

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

WINNER

The Triangle by Robert P. Ottone

WINNER

The Triangle by Robert P. Ottone

FINALISTS

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

Gallant by V. E. Schwab

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat

WINNER

She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

FINALISTS

Find Him Where You Left Him Dead by Kristen Simmons

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith

You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

2011-2019

WINNERS (Tie)

The Screaming Season by Nancy Hold

Dust and Decay by Jonathan Maberry

FINALISTS

Ghosts of Coronado Bay, a Maya Blair Mystery by J. G. Faherty

Rotters by Daniel Kraus

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

This Dark Endeavor : the Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel

WINNER

Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry

FINALISTS

The Diviners by Libba Bray

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga

I Kissed a Ghoul by Michael McCarty

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

A Bady Day for Voodoo by Jeff Strand

WINNER

Dog Days by Joe McKinney

FINALISTS

Special Dead by Patric, Freivald

Unbreakable by Kami Garcia

Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard

In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters

WINNER

Phoenix Island by John Dixon

FINALISTS

Intentional Haunting by Jake Bible

Unmarked by Kami Garcia

Passionaries by Tonya Hurley

All Those Broken Angels by Peter Adam Salomon

WINNER

Devil's Pocket by John Dixon

FINALISTS

Never Let Me Sleep by Jennifer Brozek