Locus Award for Best Horror Novel

The Locus Award for Best Horror Novel is a literary award given annually by Locus Magazine as part of their Locus Awards. It has also been known as both the Locus Award for Best Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel and Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel.

Naming

• Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (1989–90, 1994, since 2017)
• Locus Award for Best Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel (1991–93, 1996–97)
• Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel (1995, 1999)

Winners

Full list of category winners at sfadb.^[1]

Original run (1989–1999)

Year	Novel	Author	Ref.
1989	Those Who Hunt the Night	Barbara Hambly	[2]
1990	Carrion Comfort	Dan Simmons	[3]
1991	The Witching Hour	Anne Rice	[4]
1992	Summer of Night	Dan Simmons	[5]
1993	Children of the Night	Dan Simmons	[6]
1994	The Golden	Lucius Shepard	[7]
1995	Fires of Eden	Dan Simmons	[8]
1996	Expiration Date	Tim Powers	[9]
1997	Desperation	Stephen King	[10]
1998	No award		[11]
1999	Bag of Bones	Stephen King	[12]

Current run (since 2017)

Year	Novel	Author	Ref.
2017	The Fireman	Joe Hill	[13][14]
2018	The Changeling	Victor LaValle	[15][16]
2019	The Cabin at the End of the World	Paul G. Tremblay	[17][18]
2020	Black Leopard, Red Wolf	Marlon James	[19][20]
2021	Mexican Gothic	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	[21][22]
2022	My Heart Is a Chainsaw	Stephen Graham Jones	[23][24]
2023	What Moves the Dead	T. Kingfisher
2024	A House with Good Bones	T. Kingfisher	[25]

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