Friday, February 21, 2020

Final Ballot for the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards Announced

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) have announced the Final Ballot for the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards®.

The HWA is the premier writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with over 1,600 members. The Bram Stoker Awards® were first presented in 1987.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

  • Owl Goingback – Coyote Rage (Independent Legions Publishing)
  • Josh Malerman – Inspection (Del Rey)
  • SP Miskowski – The Worst is Yet to Come (Trepidatio Publishing)
  • Lee Murray – Into the Ashes (Severed Press)
  • Chuck Wendig – Wanderers (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

  • Gemma Amor – Dear Laura (Independently Published)
  • Eric J Guignard – Doorways to the Deadeye (JournalStone)
  • Michelle Renee Lane – Invisible Chains (Haverhill House Publishing)
  • Sarah Read – The Bone Weaver’s Orchard (Trepidatio Publishing)
  • Caitlin Starling – The Luminous Dead (Harper Voyager)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

  • Amelinda Bérubé – Here There Are Monsters (Sourcebooks Fire)
  • Ann Dávila Cardinal – Five Midnights (Tor Teen)
  • Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil (Vesuvian Books)
  • Kate Alice Marshall – Rules for Vanishing (Viking Books for Young Readers)
  • Nzondi – Oware Mosaic (Omnium Gatherum)
  • Peter Adam Salomon – Eight Minutes, Thirty-Two Seconds (PseudoPsalms Press)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

  • Cullen Bunn – Bone Parish Vol 2 (BOOM! Studios)
  • Neil Gaiman – Neil Gaiman’s Snow, Glass, Apples (Dark Horse Books)
  • Marjorie Liu – Monstress Volume 4: The Chosen (Image Comics)
  • Alessandro Manzetti – Calcutta Horror (Independent Legions Publishing)
  • Gou Tanabe – HP Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness Volume 1 (Dark Horse Manga)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

  • Victor LaValle – Up From Slavery (Weird Tales Magazine#363) (Weird Tales Inc.)
  • Alessandro Manzetti – The Keeper of Chernobyl (Omnium Gatherum)
  • Anna Taborska – The Cat Sitter (Shadowcats) (Black Shuck Books)
  • Sara Tantlinger – To Be Devoured (Unnerving)
  • Kaaron Warren – Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Shorts)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

  • Greg Chapman – “The Book of Last Words” (This Sublime Darkness and Other Dark Stories) (Things in the Well Publishing)
  • Gwendolyn Kiste – “The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra’s Diary)” (Nightmare Magazine Nov. 2019, Issue 86)
  • Jess Landry – “Bury Me in Tar and Twine” (Tales of the Lost Volume 1: We All Lose Something!) (Things in the Well Publishing)
  • Cindy O’Quinn – “Lydia” (The Twisted Book of Shadows) (Twisted Publishing)
  • Tim Waggoner – “A Touch of Madness”(The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias) (LVP Publications)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

  • Ted Chiang – Exhalation: Stories (Knopf)
  • Jonez, Kate – Lady Bits (Trepidatio Publishing)
  • Langan, John – Sefira and Other Betrayals (Hippocampus Press)
  • Read, Sarah – Out of Water (Trepidatio Publishing)
  • Tremblay, Paul – Growing Things and Other Stories (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

  • Ari Aster – Midsommar (B-Reel Films, Square Peg)
  • The Duffer Brothers – Stranger Things (Season 3, Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt) (Netflix)
  • Robert & Max Eggers – The Lighthouse (A24, New Regency Pictures, RT Features)
  • Mike Flanagan – Doctor Sleep (Warner Bros., Intrepid Pictures/Vertigo Entertainment)
  • Jordan Peele – Us (Monkeypaw Productions, Perfect World Pictures, Dentsu, Fuji Television Network, Universal Pictures)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

  • Jennifer Brozek – A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods (Pulse Publishing)
  • Ellen Datlow – Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (Gallery/Saga Press)
  • Christopher Golden & James A Moore – The Twisted Book of Shadows (Twisted Publishing)
  • Eric J Guignard – Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror (Dark Moon Books)
  • Robert S Wilson – Nox Pareidolia (Nightscape Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

  • Eleanor Beal & Jonathan Greenaway – Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race, and Sexuality (University of Wales Press)
  • Harriet EH Earle – Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness in American Horror Story: Critical Essays (McFarland)
  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas – Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces (University of Wales Press)
  • John B Kachuba – Shapeshifters: A History (Reaktion Books)
  • Lisa Kröger & Melanie R Anderson – Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (Quirk Books)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

  • Gwendolyn Kiste – “Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman” (Vastarien: A Literary Journal Vol. 2, Issue 1)
  • Vince A Liaguno – “Slasher Films Made Me Gay: The Queer Appeal and Subtext of the Genre” (LGBTQ+ Horror Month: 9/1/2019, Ginger Nuts of Horror)
  • Karen J Renner – “The Evil Aging Women of American Horror Story” (Elder Horror: Essays on Film’s Frightening Images of Aging) (McFarland)
  • Kelly Robinson – “Film’s First Lycanthrope: 1913’s The Werewolf” (Scary Monsters Magazine #114)
  • Valerie E Weich – “Lord Byron’s Whipping Boy: Dr. John William Polidori and the 200th Anniversary of The Vampyre” (Famous Monsters of Filmland, Issue #291)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

  • Linda D Addison & Alessandro Manzetti – The Place of Broken Things (Crystal Lake Publishing)
  • Octavia Cade – Mary Shelley Makes A Monster (Aqueduct Press)
  • Donna Lynch – Choking Back The Devil (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
  • Michelle Scalise – Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning (LVP Publications)
  • Marge Simon & Bryan D Dietrich – The Demeter Diaries (Independent Legions Publishing)
  • Stephanie M Wytovich – The Apocalyptic Mannequin (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

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