A press release from the Horror Writers Association:

At long last, the anticipation is over. The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards at its annual Bram Stoker Awards Banquet held as part of the World Horror Convention in Portland, Oregon.

Fourteen new bronze haunted-house statuettes were handed over to the writers responsible for creating superior works of horror last year. This year’s winners are:

Novel: Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (Scribner)

First Novel: The Evolutionist by Rena Mason (Nightscape Press)

Young Adult Novel: Dog Days by Joe McKinney (JournalStone)

Graphic Novel: Alabaster: Wolves by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Dark Horse Comics)

Long Fiction: “The Great Pity” by Gary Braunbeck (Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards)

Short Fiction: “Night Train to Paris” by David Gerrold (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

Screenplay: The Walking Dead: “Welcome to the Tombs” by Glen Mazzara (AMC TV)

Anthology: After Death edited by Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon Books)

Fiction Collection: The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All and Other Stores by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)

Nonfiction: Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing About the Mast of Science Fiction by William F. Nolan (Hippocampus Press)

Poetry: Four Elements by Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press)

HWA also presented its annual Lifetime Achievement Awards and its Specialty Press Award. Editor Stephen Jones was on hand to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award, while Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine accepted via video. The Specialty Press Award went to Gary Fry of Gray Friar Press.

The Silver Hammer Award, for outstanding service to HWA, was voted by the organization’s board of trustees to Norman Rubenstein. The President’s Richard Laymon Service Award was given to JG Faherty.