We’re very excited to announce that Del Howison is a recipient of a 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writer Association. The award will be presented on June 14, 2025, during the Bram Stoker Awards Presentation at StokerCon 2025 in Stamford, CT.

Del Howison is an award-winning author, journalist, and actor (including a cameo in the upcoming horror film Big Baby produced by Cher and directed by Spider One.) He has been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award four times (and won it once), for the Black Quill Award twice, for the Shirley Jackson Award and for the Rondo Hatton Award. He has co-edited five books including all three of the Dark Delicacies anthologies, The Book of Lists Horror, and Midian Unmade.

He has written articles for Fear.net, Gauntlet Magazine, and Writers Digest, among others. Del’s short story Cul-de-Sac appeared in Weird Tales Magazine #369. His western short story The Lost Herd was turned into the premiere episode (and the highest rated) for the series Fear Itself. His dark western novel The Survival of Margaret Thomas was shortlisted for the Peacemaker Award given out by the Western Fictioneers. He is the cofounder and owner (with his wife, Sue) of Dark Delicacies, a book and gift store known as “The Home of Horror,” located in Burbank, California. The store won the “Il Posto Nero” award from Italy and has been inducted into the Rondo Hatton Hall of Fame.

Del’s retrospective short story compilation of dark tales, What Fresh Hell Is This?, was released in March of 2025.