The Lord Ruthven Award is an annual award presented by the Lord Ruthven Assembly, a group of academic scholars specialising in

vampire literature Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in 18th-century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publicat ...

and affiliated with the

International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), founded in 1982 is a nonprofit association of scholars, writers, and publishers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in literature, film, and the other arts. Its principal act ...

(IAFA). The award is presented for the best fiction on vampires and the best academic work on the study of the vampire figure in culture and literature. The award is presented each March at the

International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), founded in 1982 is a nonprofit association of scholars, writers, and publishers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in literature, film, and the other arts. Its principal ac ...

(ICFA) in Orlando. The award is named after Lord Ruthven, one of the first vampires in English literature.

Lord Ruthven Award: Non-Fiction

*1994:

David J. Skal David John Skal (June 21, 1952 – January 1, 2024) was an American cultural historian, critic, writer, and on-camera commentator known for his research and analysis of horror films, horror history and horror culture. Early life David John Skal ...

, ''The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror'' *1995:

J. Gordon Melton John Gordon Melton (born September 19, 1942) is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History with the I ...

, ''The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead'' *1996:

Nina Auerbach Nina Auerbach (May 24, 1943 in New York City – February 4, 2017) was the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. Her special area of concentration was nineteenth-century England. She published, lecture ...

, ''Our Vampires, Ourselves'' *1997:

, ''V is for Vampire: An A to Z Guide to everything Undead'' *1998: Carol Margaret Davison & Paul Simpson-Housley, Eds., ''Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century'' *1999: Carol A. Senf, ''Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism'' *2001: Elizabeth Miller, ''Dracula: Sense and Nonsense'' *2002: Michael Bell, ''Food for the Dead: on the Trail of New England's Vampires'' *2003: William Patrick Day, ''Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most'' *2004: James B. South, Ed., '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale.'' *2005: Richard Dalby & William Hughes: ''Bram Stoker: A Bibliography'' *2006:

Jorg Waltje Jorg may refer to: * Jorg Gray, California-based brand of men's and women's watches * Jorg Smeets (born 1970), Dutch former footballer * A battle mech used by the Makron (Quake character) ''Quake'' is a series of first-person shooter video gam ...

, ''Blood Obsession: Vampires, Serial Murder, and the Popular Imagination.'' *2007: Bruce A. McClelland, ''Slayers and their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead'' *2008: David Keyworth, ''Troublesome Corpses: Vampires and Revenants from Antiquity to the Present'' *2009: Elizabeth Miller & Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Eds., ''Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula'' *2010: Mary Y. Hallab, ''Vampire God: The Allure of the Undead in Western Culture'' *2011: John Edgar Browning & Caroline Joan Picart, ''Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances'' *2012:

Susannah Clements ''Susannah'' is an opera in two acts by the American composer Carlisle Floyd, who wrote the libretto and music while a member of the piano faculty at Florida State University. Floyd adapted the story from the Apocryphal tale of Susannah and the E ...

, ''The Vampire Defanged: How the Embodiment of Evil Became a Romantic Hero'' *2013: Jeffrey Weinstock, ''The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema'' *2014: Maria Lindgren Leavenworth & Malin Isaksson, ''Fanged Fan Fiction: Variations on Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries'' *2015:

Margot Adler Margot Susanna Adler (April 16, 1946 – July 28, 2014) was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She worked as a correspondent for National Public Radio for 35 years, became bureau chief of the New York office, and could be heard frequen ...

, ''Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side'' *2016:

& Alysa Hornick, ''The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film, and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography'' *2017:

, ''Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula'' *2018: Gary A. Smith, ''Vampire Films of the 1970s'' *2019: Amy J. Ransom, ''I Am Legend as American Myth'' *2020: Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, ''Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture.'' *2021: Cait Coker, ''The Global Vampire: Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World.'' *2022: Simon Bacon, ''The Transmedia Vampire: Essays on Technological Convergence and the Undead.'' / Violet Fenn, ''A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture. Love at First Bite.'' *2023: Simon Bacon, ''Contagion and the Vampire: The Vampiric Body as Locus of Disease and Global Epidemics in the 21st Century.'' *2024: Simon Bacon (ed.), ''The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire''

Lord Ruthven Award: Fiction

*1989:

Brian Stableford Brian Michael Stableford (25 July 1948 – 24 February 2024) was a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who published a hundred novels and over a hundred volumes of translations. His earlier books were published under the name Br ...

, ''The Empire of Fear'' *1990:

Nancy A. Collins Nancy A. Collins (born September 10, 1959) is an American horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has also written for comic books, including the ''Swamp Thing'' (vol. 2) ser ...

, ''Sunglasses After Dark'' *1993:

Kim Newman Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. He is interested in film history and horror fiction – both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's ''Dracula'' at the age of eleven & ...

, ''

Anno Dracula ''Anno Dracula'' is a 1992 horror novel by British writer Kim Newman, the first in the ''Anno Dracula'' series. It is an alternate history using 19th-century English historical settings and personalities, along with characters from popular fict ...

'' *1996:

Barbara Hambly Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She is the author of the bestselling Benjamin January mystery series featuring a ...

, '' Traveling with the Dead'' *1997

onathan Nasaw, ''The World on Blood'' *1998:

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (born September 15, 1942) is an American writer. She is known for her series of historical horror novels about the vampire Count Saint-Germain. Biography Yarbro was born in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley sch ...

, ''Writ in Blood'' *1999:

P. N. Elrod Patricia Nead Elrod (born 1954) is an American novelist specializing in urban fantasy. She has written in the mystery, romance, paranormal, and historical genres with at least one foray into comedic fantasy. Elrod is also an editor, having worked ...

, ''The Vampire Files: A Chill in the Blood'' *2000:

Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and Satire, satirist, best known for the ''Discworld'' series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the Apocalyp ...

, ''

Carpe Jugulum ''Carpe Jugulum'' (; Latatian for "go for the throat", cf. ''Carpe diem'') is a comic fantasy novel by English writer Terry Pratchett, the twenty-third in the ''Discworld'' series. It was first published in 1998. In ''Carpe Jugulum'', Terry Pr ...

'' *2001: Elaine Bergstrom, ''Blood to Blood: The Dracula Story Continues'' *2002: Jean Lorrah, ''Blood Will Tell'' *2003:

Charlaine Harris Charlaine Harris Schulz (born November 25, 1951) is an American author who specializes in mysteries. She is best known for her book series '' The Southern Vampire Mysteries'', which was adapted as the TV series '' True Blood''. The television sh ...

, '' Living Dead in Dallas'' *2004: Andrew Fox, ''Fat White Vampire Blues'' *2005: David Sosnowski, ''Vamped'' *2006: Elizabeth Kostova, ''

The Historian ''The Historian'' is the 2005 debut novel of American author Elizabeth Kostova. The plot blends the history and folklore of Vlad Țepeș and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula. Kostova's father told her stories about Dracula when she was ...

'' *2007:

, ''Renfield: Slave of Dracula'' *2008: Joel H. Emerson, ''The Undead'' *2009: James Reese, ''The Dracula Dossier'' *2010:

Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez (; born 9 October 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, Gothic fiction, gothicism and horror fiction, horror often blending the genres ...

and

Chuck Hogan Charles Patrick Hogan is an American novelist, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known as the author of '' Prince of Thieves'', and as the co-author of ''The Strain'' trilogy with Guillermo del Toro. Del Toro and Hogan created the ...

, ''

The Strain ''The Strain'' is a 2009 vampire literature, vampire horror fiction, horror novel by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. It is the first installment in ''The Strain Trilogy'', and was followed by ''The Fall (del Toro and Hogan novel), The Fal ...

'' *2011: S. M. Stirling, ''A Taint in the Blood'' *2012:

Glen Duncan Glen Duncan is a British author born in 1965 in Bolton, Lancashire, England to an Anglo-Indian family. He studied philosophy and literature at the universities of Lancaster and Exeter. In 1990 Duncan moved to London, where he worked as a books ...

, ''The Last Werewolf'' *2013:

Tim Powers Timothy Thomas Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy fiction, fantasy author. His first major novel was ''The Drawing of the Dark'' (1979), but the novel that earned him wide praise was ''The Anubis Gates'' ...

, ''Hide Me Among the Graves'' *2014: Joe Hill, '' NOS4A2'' *2015: Lauren Owen, ''The Quick'' *2016: David Gerrold, ''Jacob'' *2017:

Anne Rice Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of Gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known for writing ''The Vampire Chronicles''. She later adapted t ...

, ''

Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis ''Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis'' is a novel by American writer Anne Rice, the twelfth in ''The Vampire Chronicles'' series, published on November 29, 2016. It is written as both a first-person and third-person narrative. Plot summ ...

'' *2018:

: ''The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories'' *2019:

Theodora Goss Theodora Goss (born September 30, 1968) is a Hungarian-American fiction writer and poet. Her writing has been nominated for major awards, including the Nebula, Locus, Mythopoeic, World Fantasy, and Seiun Awards. Her short fiction and poetry ...

, ''European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman'' *2020: Marge Simon & Bryan D. Dietrich, ''The Demeter Diaries'' *2021:

Grady Hendrix Grady Hendrix is an American author, journalist, public speaker, and screenwriter known for his best-selling 2014 novel '' Horrorstör''. He lives in Manhattan, and is one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival. Life and career Hend ...

, ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' *2022: Jessica Lévai, ''The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse'' *2023: Jacqueline Holland, ''The God of Endings.'' *2024: T. Kingfisher ''What Feasts at Night''

Lord Ruthven Award: Media/Popular Culture

*2003: Diary of a Virgin *2004: Dracula *2005: Vampire Dreams *2008: Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations: Romania *2009: ''

True Blood ''True Blood'' is an American fantasy Horror fiction, horror Drama (film and television), drama television series produced and created by Alan Ball (screenwriter), Alan Ball. It is based on ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'', a series of novels ...

'' *2011: ''Being Human'' *2015: ''

Only Lovers Left Alive ''Only Lovers Left Alive'' is a 2013 Gothic film, Gothic Fantasy film, fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright, Slimane Dazi and John H ...

'' *2016: ''What We Do in the Shadows'' *2017: Vamped / The Vampire Historian *2018: ''Midnight'', Texas Season 1 *2020: ''What We Do in The Shadows'' *2022: ''

Midnight Mass In many Western Christian traditions, Midnight Mass is the first liturgy of Christmastide that is celebrated on the night of Christmas Eve, traditionally beginning at midnight when Christmas Eve gives way to Christmas Day. This popular Christm ...

'' *2023: ''

The Last Voyage of the Demeter ''The Last Voyage of the Demeter'' (also known as ''Dracula: Voyage of the Demeter'' in some international markets) is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by André Øvredal, and written by Bragi F. Schut Jr. and Zak Olkewicz. It ...

'' *2024: '' Abigial'' / ''

Nosferatu ''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' () is a 1922 silent film, silent German Expressionism (cinema), German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who ...

Lord Ruthven Special Award

*1997: Raymond T. McNally *2018: Hans Corneel de Roos for his translation of, and research on ''Makt Myrkranna'' (''

Powers of Darkness ''Powers of Darkness'' (Swedish ''Mörkrets makter'') is an anonymous 1899 Swedish version of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ''Dracula'', serialised in the newspaper '' Dagen'' and credited only to Bram Stoker and the still-unidentified "A—e." It i ...

'')

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External links

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