Caitlin R. Kiernan won the best novel award at the Bram Stoker Awards for The Drowning Girl. The Horror Writers Association revealed the winners at a gala this weekend.
Below, we’ve rounded up free samples of the scariest books of the year–did your favorite horror novel make the cut?

 All the winners are listed in bold.

NOVEL
Kiernan, Caitlin R. - The Drowning Girl (Roc)
Ethridge, Benjamin Kane - Bottled Abyss (Redrum Horror)
Everson, John - NightWhere(Samhain Publishing)
Little, Bentley - The Haunted(Signet)
McKinney, Joe - Inheritance (Evil Jester Press)

 FIRST NOVEL
Soares, L.L. - Life Rage (Nightscape Press)
Boccacino, Michael - Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling (William Morrow)
Coates, Deborah - Wide Open (Tor Books)
Day, Charles - The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief (Noble YA Publishers LLC)
Dudar, Peter - A Requiem for Dead Flies (Nightscape Press)
Gropp, Richard - Bad Glass (Ballantine/Del Rey)

 YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Maberry, Jonathan - Flesh & Bone (Simon & Schuster)
Bray, Libba - The Diviners (Little Brown)
Lyga, Barry - I Hunt Killers (Little Brown)
McCarty, Michael - I Kissed A Ghoul (Noble Romance Publishing)
Stiefvater, Maggie - The Raven Boys (Scholastic Press)
Strand, Jeff - A Bad Day for Voodoo (Sourcebooks)

 GRAPHIC NOVEL
Wood, Rocky, and Lisa Morton - Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times (McFarland)
Bunn, Cullen - The Sixth Gun Volume 3: Bound (Oni Press)
Moore, Terry - Rachel Rising Vol. 1: The Shadow of Death (Abstract Studio)
Thornton, Ravi - The Tale of Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone (Jonathan Cape)
Wacks, Peter J., and Guy Anthony De Marco - Behind These Eyes (Villainous Press)