Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement

The Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement annually recognizes one to three living artists for "superior achievement in an entire career" which has "substantially influenced the horror genre". It is conferred by the Horror Writers Association, and most winners have been horror fiction writers, but other creative occupations are eligible.^[1]

The Bram Stoker Awards, including the lifetime honor in particular, were established along with the Association itself in 1987. They are presented in the year following the award year, which is the publication year for most of the awards program.

The winners are selected by the annual Lifetime Achievement Award Committee, which comprises five HWA members appointed by the President. Unlike the literary awards, which are determined by vote of all members, there are no official runners-up.^[1]

Elizabeth Massie, Nuzo Onoh, and John Saul are the most recent winners, all three receiving the award on June 17, 2023.

Recipients

The annual committee may bestow up to fu awards, by unanimous agreement, and it need not bestow any. In fact, though, there has been at least a single winner every year, and there were three winners for 1987, and more recently 2020 and 2021. There were 40 Lifetime Achievement Awards in the first 25 years, through the 2011/2012 cycle.^[1]

Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement winners^[2][3]

Eligibility Year (for Other Categories)	Year Awarded (Ceremony Year)	Winner	Ref
1987	1988	Fritz Leiber	[4]
		Frank Belknap Long
		Clifford D. Simak
1988	1989	Ray Bradbury	[5]
		Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes
1989	1990	Robert Bloch	[6]
1990	1991	Hugh B. Cave	[7]
		Richard Matheson
1991	1992	Gahan Wilson	[8]
1992	1993	Ray Russell	[9]
1993	1994	Joyce Carol Oates	[10]
1994	1995	Christopher Lee	[11]
1995	1996	Harlan Ellison	[12]
1996	1997	Ira Levin	[13]
		Forrey Ackerman
1997	1998	William Peter Blatty	[14]
		Jack Williamson
1998	1999	Ramsey Campbell	[15]
		Roger Corman
1999	2000	Edward Gorey	[16]
		Charles L. Grant
2000	2001	Nigel Kneale	[17]
2001	2002	John Farris	[18]
2002	2003	Stephen King	[19]
		J. N. Williamson
2003	2004	Martin H. Greenberg	[20]
		Anne Rice
2004	2005	Michael Moorcock	[21]
2005	2006	Peter Straub	[22]
2006	2007	Thomas Harris	[23][24]
2007	2008	John Carpenter	[25][26]
		Robert Weinberg
2008	2009	F. Paul Wilson	[27][28]
		Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
2009	2010	Brian Lumley	[29][30]
		William F. Nolan
2010	2011	Ellen Datlow	[31][32][33]
		Al Feldstein
2011	2012	Rick Hautala	[34][35]
		Joe R. Lansdale
2012	2013	Clive Barker	[36][37]
		Robert McCammon
2013	2014	R. L. Stine	[38][39]
		Stephen Jones
2014	2015	Jack Ketchum	[40][41]
		Tanith Lee
2015	2016	Alan Moore	[42][43]
		George Romero
2016	2017	Dennis Etchison	[44][45]
		Thomas Monteleone
2017	2018	Linda Addison	[46][47]
2018	2019	Graham Masterton	[48][49]
2019	2020	Owl Goingback	[50][51]
		Thomas Ligotti
2020	2021	Carol J. Clover	[52][53]
		Jewelle Gomez
		Marge Simon
2021	2022	Jo Fletcher	[54][55][56]
		Nancy Holder
		Koji Suzuki

Multiple awards

Six of the Stoker Award winners have also been named SFWA Grand Masters by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America: Leiber, Simak, Bradbury, Ellison, Jack Williamson, and Moorcock.^[57]

See also