Lord Ruthven Award

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The Lord Ruthven Award is an American literary prize that has been awarded since 1989 for literary or scientific works about vampires . The awards ceremony takes place at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA), the annual March conference of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) in Orlando , Florida .

The prize is awarded in the following categories:

  • fictional work (annually since 1989)
  • non-fictional work (literary, biographical and critical work, annually since 1994)
  • Media and popular culture (irregular since 2003)

The award is named after Lord Ruthven , the protagonist in John Polidori's story The Vampire , the first vampire story in world literature .

Award winners

non-fictional work
  • 1994: David J. Skal: The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
  • 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 to 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 Keywirth: 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
fictional work
Media and popular culture
Special Price
  • 1997: Raymond McNally
  • 2018: Bram Stoker and Valdimar Ásmundsson: Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula , translation by Hans Corneel de Roos

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