2025 Splatterpunk Awards

Nominees and Winners for the 2025 Splatterpunk Awards, honoring “superior achievement in the literary sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror fiction” in 2024, were presented at the 2025 KillerCon, held from August 1-3, 2025 in Austin TX.

Best Novel
#1 WINNER: The Old Lady, Kristopher Triana (Bad Dream)
#2 Benjamin, Aron Beauregard & Shane McKenzie (Bad Dream)
#3 This Wretched Valley, Jenny Kiefer (Quirk)
#4 American Rapture, CJ Leede (Tor Nightfire)
#5 The Home, Judith Sonnet (Madness Heart)

Best Novella
#6 WINNER: Living Death Race: Beauty & the Brains, John Everson (The Evil Cookie)
#7 A Life of Crime, Aron Beauregard (Bad Dream)
#8 Master of Bodies, Robert Essig (Infected Voices)
#9 Nipping Them in the Bud, Edward Lee (Deadite)
#10 For the Better, Daniel J. Volpe (Bad Dream)

Best Short Story
#19 WINNER: “Together Forever”, C.V. Hunt (The Obituaries #6: Red Romance)
#21 “The Old College”, Aron Beauregard (Fear of Clowns)
#17 “Genital Grinder 2.5”, Ryan Harding (Y’all Ain’t Right)
#22 “Fulfillment”, Sidney Shiv (Where Devils Dance)
#19 “Baby, I’d Die 4 U”, Kristopher Triana (The Obituaries #6: Red Romance)

Best Collection
#11 WINNER: This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances, Eric LaRocca (Titan)
#12 Gold & Gore, Candace Nola (Uncomfortably Dark)
#13 Every Night in the Bone Orchard, Judith Sonnet (self-published)
#14 Sucking Chest Wound and Other Horrors, Daniel J. Volpe (Bad Dream)
#15 Wrecks & Violets, Mehitobel Wilson (Cimarron Street)

Best Anthology
#16 WINNER: Splatology 2.0, Chisto Healy & Sidney Shiv, eds. (Unveiling Nightmares)
#17 Y’All Ain’t Right, K. Trap Jones, ed. (The Evil Cookie)
#18 Dethfest Confessions: The Devil’s Playlist, Lyndsey Smith & Mark Tulliusm, ed. (Vincere)
#19 The Obituaries #6: Red Romance, Aron Beauregard, C.V. Hunt, Kristopher Triana & Daniel J. Volpe (Bad Dream)
#20 Shocking Sojourns, Sidney Shiv, ed. (self-published)

J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award
Joe R. Lansdale
Lucy Taylor