The Horror Writers Association has announced the nominees for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards which recognize achievement in horror writing. The award has a variety of categories including screenplay, graphic novel, nonfiction and age categories for fiction. Here are the nominees for the youth categories:

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A MIDDLE GRADE NOVEL NOMINEES

Broken Dolls by Ally Malinenko

The Girl in the Walls by Meg Eden Kuyatt

The House Next Door by Ellen Oh

Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave by Ally Russell

Ride or Die by Delilah S. Dawson

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL NOMINEES

Beautiful Brutal Bodies by Linda Cheng

A Girl Walks into the Forest by Madeleine Roux

Shiny Happy People by Clay McLeod Chapman

The Silenced by Diana Rodriguez Wallach

We’re Not Safe Here by Rin Chupeco