Lord_Ruthven_Award

Lord Ruthven Award

Annual literary award for works on vampires

The Lord Ruthven Award is an annual award presented by the Lord Ruthven Assembly, a group of academic scholars specialising in vampire literature and affiliated with the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA).^[1]

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 (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, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror ^[2]
1995: J. Gordon Melton, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead
1996: Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves
1997: David J. Skal, 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, 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, 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, Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side
2016: J. Gordon Melton & Alysa Hornick, The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film, and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography
2017: David J. Skal, 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.

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"The Locus Index to SF Awards: Lord Ruthven Awards Winners by Category". locusmag.com. Retrieved 2014-04-06.

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Lord Ruthven Award

Lord Ruthven Award: Non-Fiction

Lord Ruthven Award: Fiction

Lord Ruthven Award: Media/Popular Culture

Lord Ruthven Special Award

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