Locus Award - Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel (Awarded by Locus Magazine)

Awards List

2024

A House With Good Bones
(Winner)
T. Kingfisher

How to Sell a Haunted House
(Finalist)
Grady Hendrix

Don't Fear the Reaper
(Finalist)
Stephen Graham Jones

Lone Women
(Finalist)
Victor Lavalle

Silver Nitrate
(Finalist)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Vampires of El Norte
(Finalist)
Isabel Canas

Black River Orchard
(Finalist)
Chuck Wendig

A Haunting on the Hill
(Finalist)
Elizabeth Hand

The Reformatory
(Finalist)
Tananarive Due

Starling House
(Finalist)
Alix E. Harrow

2023

What Moves the Dead
(Winner)
T. Kingfisher

Road of Bones
(Finalist)
Christopher Golden

Echo
(Finalist)
Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Gwendy's Final Task
(Finalist)
Stephen King; Richard Chizmar

Sundial
(Finalist)
Catriona Ward

The Fervor
(Finalist)
Alma Katsu

Just Like Home
(Finalist)
Sarah Gailey

The Pallbearers Club
(Finalist)
Paul Tremblay

The Devil Takes You Home
(Finalist)
Gabino Iglesias

No Gods For Drowning
(Finalist)
Hailey Piper

Saturnalia
(Finalist)
Stephanie Feldman

2022

My Heart Is a Chainsaw
(Winner)
Stephen Graham Jones

Later
(Finalist)
Stephen King

A Broken Darkness
(Finalist)
Premee Mohamed

Sorrowland
(Finalist)
Rivers Solomon

Moon Lake
(Finalist)
Joe R. Lansdale

The Book of Accidents
(Finalist)
Chuck Wendig

The Final Girl Support Group
(Finalist)
Grady Hendrix

Billy Summers
(Finalist)
Stephen King

Revelator
(Finalist)
Daryl Gregory

The Death of Jane Lawrence
(Finalist)
Caitlin Starling

2021

Mexican Gothic
(Winner)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Beowulf
(Nominee)
Maria Dahvana Headley

The Deep
(Nominee)
Alma Katsu

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
(Nominee)
Grady Hendrix

Devolution
(Nominee)
Max Brooks

The Only Good Indians
(Nominee)
Stephen Graham Jones

Survivor Song
(Nominee)
Paul Tremblay

The Hole
(Nominee)
Hiroko Oyamada

The Hollow Places
(Nominee)
T. Kingfisher

Plain Bad Heroines
(Nominee)
Emily M. Danforth

2020

Black Leopard, Red Wolf
(Nominee)
Marlon James

Prisoner of Midnight
(Nominee)
Barbara Hambly

The Grand Dark
(Nominee)
Richard Kadrey

The Toll
(Nominee)
Cherie Priest

The Institute
(Nominee)
Stephen King

Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju
(Nominee)
Kim Newman

Curious Toys
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Hand

Imaginary Friend
(Nominee)
Stephen Chbosky

The Twisted Ones
(Nominee)
T. Kingfisher

The Pursuit of William Abbey
(Nominee)
Claire North

2019

The Cabin at the End of the World
(Winner)
Paul Tremblay

The Listener
(Nominee)
Robert R. McCammon

The Hunger
(Nominee)
Alma Katsu

Tide of Stone
(Nominee)
Kaaron Warren

Unlanguage
(Nominee)
Michael Cisco

The Outsider
(Nominee)
Stephen King

Cross Her Heart
(Nominee)
Sarah Pinborough

We Sold Our Souls
(Nominee)
Grady Hendrix

Coyote Songs
(Nominee)
Gabino Iglesias

In the Night Wood
(Nominee)
Dale Bailey

2018

The Changeling
(Winner)
Victor Lavalle

Behind Her Eyes
(Nominee)
Sarah Pinborough

Ubo
(Nominee)
Steve Rasnic Tem

Universal Harvester
(Nominee)
John Darnielle

Ill Will
(Nominee)
Dan Chaon

The Night Ocean
(Nominee)
Paul LaFarge

Food of the Gods
(Nominee)
Cassandra Khaw

Mormama
(Nominee)
Kit Reed

After the End of the World
(Nominee)
Jonathan L. Howard

Red Snow
(Nominee)
Ian R. MacLeod

2017

The Fireman
(Winner)
Joe Hill

Lovecraft Country
(Nominee)
Matt Ruff

Brotherhood of the Wheel
(Nominee)
R.S. Belcher

Fellside
(Nominee)
M.R. Carey

Hex
(Nominee)
Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Mongrels
(Nominee)
Stephen Graham Jones

Disappearance at Devil's Rock
(Nominee)
Paul Tremblay

The Fisherman
(Nominee)
John Langan

The Family Plot
(Nominee)
Cherie Priest

Certain Dark Things
(Nominee)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

1999

Bag of Bones
(Winner)
Stephen King

1997

Desperation
(Winner)
Stephen King

1996

Expiration Date
(Winner)
Tim Powers

1995

Fires of Eden
(Winner)
Dan Simmons

1994

The Golden
(Winner)
Lucius Shepard

1993

Children of the Night
(Winner)
Dan Simmons

1992

Summer of Night
(Winner)
Dan Simmons

1991

Witching Hour
(Winner)
Anne Rice

1990

Carrion Comfort
(Winner)
Dan Simmons

1989

Those Who Hunt the Night
(Winner)
Barbara Hambly

Award Categories

Anthology

Art Book

Collection

Fantasy Novel

First Novel

Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel

Nonfiction

Novelette

Novella

Science Fiction Novel

Short Story

Young Adult Novel

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