The Bram Stoker Award
The horror world's most recognized literary honor, and the reason Michael Largo's research into death sits on the same shelf as the masters of invented terror.
What the award is
The Bram Stoker Award is presented by the Horror Writers Association for superior achievement in horror and dark fantasy writing. Named for the author of Dracula, it is the genre's most recognized honor, and its nonfiction category rewards the rare writers who prove that the documented world can unsettle a reader as thoroughly as the invented one.
Michael Largo belongs to that rare company twice over. His illustrated encyclopedia of mortality, Final Exits, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction in 2006. The following year, The Portable Obituary, his compendium of how the famous really died, was named a Bram Stoker Award finalist in nonfiction.
Two consecutive years of recognition from the horror world's peer judges, earned without a single invented scare. Largo's method has never needed one. The record of how people actually die, collected and told plainly, has always been frightening enough.
Michael Largo's Stoker record
Bram Stoker Award Winner, 2006
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction
Final Exits
Bram Stoker Award Finalist, 2007
Nonfiction
The Portable Obituary
Presented by the Horror Writers Association. Largo is a member of the Horror Writers of America.
