Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
THE BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT is presented
periodically to an individual whose work has substantially
influenced the horror genre. While this award is often presented to
a writer, it may also be given for influential accomplishments in
other creative fields.
About the Award
WHO MAY RECEIVE THE AWARD? To be eligible for this award, a
candidate must either be at least sixty years of age by May 1 of
the year of the award's presentation, or must have first produced
professional work in the field of Horror at least thirty-five years
prior to May 1 of the year of the award's presentation. All
recipients must be alive at the time the President is informed of
the committee's choice.
HOW ARE RECIPIENTS CHOSEN? The Lifetime Achievement Award is the
most prestigious of all awards presented by HWA. It does not merely
honor the superior achievement embodied in a single work. Instead,
it is an acknowledgement of superior achievement in an entire
career. So, to prevent unseemly competition and to prevent the
impression that there are any losers in this category, the L.A.A.
is the only award that is not decided by a vote of the entire
Active membership.
Instead, at the beginning of each year, HWA's President appoints
a Lifetime Achievement Awards Committee consisting of five Active
HWA members from diverse geographical areas, and whose writing
represents the varied types of dark fantasy/ horror/ and occult
fiction. This committee considers recommendations submitted by
HWA's membership at large, though they are not obliged to pick an
award recipient from among the recommendations.
MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS. The committee may, at its discretion, bestow up to three Lifetime Achievement Awards in a single year, though only if they are in unanimous agreement that more than one Award is appropriate that year.
Past Recipients
The following individuals have received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award:
2010 - Ellen Datlow, Al Feldstein
2009 - Brian Lumley, William F. Nolan
2008 - F. Paul Wilson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
2007 - John
Carpenter, Robert
Weinberg
2006 - Thomas
Harris
2005 - Peter Straub
2004 - Michael
Moorcock
2003 - Anne Rice,
Martin H. Greenberg
2002 - Stephen King,
J.N.
Williamson
2001 - John
Farris
2000 - Nigel Kneale
1999 - Edward
Gorey, Charles L. Grant
1998 - Ramsey
Campbell, Roger Corman
1997 - William
Peter Blatty, Jack Williamson
1996 - Ira
Levin, Forrest J.
Ackerman
1995 - Harlan
Ellison
1994 - Christopher
Lee
1993 - Joyce
Carol Oates
1992 - Ray
Russell
1991 - Gahan
Wilson
1990 - Hugh
B. Cave, Richard
Matheson
1989 - Robert
Bloch
1988 - Ray Bradbury,
Ronald
Chetwynd-Hayes
1987 - Fritz
Leiber, Frank
Belknap Long, Clifford
D. Simak
