Past Award Winners

Honoring our past Splatterpunk Award winners.

BEST NOVEL

2025 – The Old Lady by Kristopher Triana (Bad Dream Books)
2024 – Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede (Tor Nightfire)
2023 – Playground by Aron Beauregard (Independently Published)
2022 – The Night Stockers by Kristopher Triana & Ryan Harding (The Evil Cookie Publishing)
2021 – The Magpie Coffin by Wile E. Young (Death’s Head Press)
2020 – Lakehouse Infernal by Christine Morgan (Deadite)
2019 – Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana (Grindhouse)
2018 – White Trash Gothic by Edward Lee

BEST NOVELLA

2025 – Living Death Race: Beauty & the Brains by John Everson (The Evil Cookie Publishing)
2024 – Snow Angels by Lucas Mangum (D&T Publishing)
2023 – Plastic Monsters by Daniel J. Volpe (Independently Published)
2022 – Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca (Weirdpunk Books)
2021 – True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik (Grindhouse Press)
2020 – One for the Road by Wesley Southard (Deadite)
2019 – Kill For Satan by Bryan Smith (Grindhouse)
2018 – Header 3 by Edward Lee & Ryan Harding

BEST SHORT STORY

2025 – “Together Forever” by C.V. Hunt (from The Obituaries #6: Red Romance) (Bad Dream Books)
2024 – “My Octopus Master” by Stephen Kozeniewski (Dead and Bloated, Evil Cookie Publishing)
2024 – “Blood Harmony” by Chet Williamson (from The Drive-In: Multiplex, Pandi Press)
2023 – “Jinx” by Bridgett Nelson (A Bouquet of Viscera)
2022 – “Sun Poison” by Stephen Kozeniewski (Battered, Broken Bodies, Independently Published)
2022 – “Next Best Baker” by Jeff Strand (Baker’s Dozen, Uncomfortably Dark)
2021 – “My Body” by Wesley Southard (Midnight In the Pentagram, Silver Shamrock Publishing)
2020 – “Angelbait” by Ryan Harding (The Big Book of Blasphemy)
2019 – “The Seacretor” by Ryan Harding (Splatterpunk Forever)
2018 – “The Tipping Point” by Jeff Strand (Everything has Teeth)

BEST COLLECTION

2025 – This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca (Titan Books)
2024 – Transcendental Mutilation by Ryan Harding (Death’s Head Press)
2023 – A Bouquet of Viscera by Bridgett Nelson (Independently Published)
2022 – Beyond Reform by Jon Athan, Aron Beauregard, and Jasper Bark (Aron Beauregard Horror)
2021 – The Essential Sick Stuff by Ronald Kelly (Silver Shamrock Publishing)
2020 – Dirt Rotten Hippies and Other Stories by Bryan Smith (Grindhouse)
2019 – DJStories by David J. Schow (Subterranean)
2018 – Gorilla in my Room by Jack Ketchum

BEST ANTHOLOGY

2025 – Splatology 2.0 edited by Sidney Shiv and Chisto Healy (Unveiling Nightmares)
2024 – We’re Here: An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Horror edited by Angelique Jordonna and James G. Carlson (Gloom House Publishing)
2023 – Camp Slasher Lake, Volume 1 edited by D.W. Hitz and Candace Nola (Fedowar Press)
2022 – Body Shocks edited by Ellen Datlow (Tachyon Publications)
2022 – Baker’s Dozen edited by Candace Nola (Uncomfortably Dark)
2021 – Worst Laid Plans edited by Samantha Kolesnik (Grindhouse Press)
2020 – And Hell Followed, edited by Jarod Barbee & Patrick C. Harrison III (Death’s Head Press)
2019 – Splatterpunk Forever edited by Jack Bantry and Kit Power
2018 – Splatterpunk Fighting Back edited by Jack Bantry and Kit Power