Thursday, March 3, 2011

2010 Bram Stoker Award Nominees


The 2010 Bram Stoker Award nominees have been announced. They will be presented at Stoker Weekend, which is from June 16-19 in Long Island, New York. Congratulations to all the nominees! Here's the list:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

Horns by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
Dead Love by Linda Watanabe McFerrin (Stone Bridge Press)
Apocalypse of the Dead by Joe McKinney (Pinnacle)
Dweller by Jeff Strand (Leisure/Dark Regions Press)
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub (DoubleDay)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Bad Moon Books)
A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files (Chizine Publications)
The Castle of Los Angeles by Lisa Morton (Gray Friar Press)
Spellbent by Lucy Snyder (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman (Cemetery Dance)
Dissolution by Lisa Mannetti (Deathwatch)
Monsters Among Us by Kirstyn McDermott (Macabre: A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears)
The Samhanach by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
Invisible Fences by Norman Prentiss (Cemetery Dance)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

Return to Mariabronn by Gary Braunbeck (Haunted Legends)
The Folding Man by Joe R. Lansdale (Haunted Legends)
1925: A Fall River Halloween by Lisa Mannetti (Shroud Magazine #10)
In the Middle of Poplar Street by Nate Southard (Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology)
Final Draft by Mark W. Worthen (Horror Library IV)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Dark Faith edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon (Apex Publications)
Horror Library IV edited by R.J. Cavender and, Boyd E. Harris (Cutting Block Press)
Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears edited by Angela Challis and Marty Young (Brimstone Press)
Haunted Legends edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas (Tor)
The New Dead edited by Christopher Golden (St. Martin's Griffin)

Superior Achievement in a Collection

Occultation by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
Blood and Gristle by Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books)
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King (Simon and Schuster)
The Ones That Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones (Prime Books)
A Host of Shadows by Harry Shannon (Dark Regions Press)

Superior Achievement in Nonfiction

To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck (Apex Publications)
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti (Hippocampus Press)
Wanted Undead or Alive by Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman (Citadel)
Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews by Sam Weller (Melville House Publications)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Dark Matters by Bruce Boston (Bad Moon Books)
Wild Hunt of the Stars by Ann K. Schwader (Sam's Dot)
Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist by Robin Spriggs (Anomalous Books)
Vicious Romantic by Wrath James White (Bandersnatch Books)

1 comment:

Jenny Krueger said...

That's awesome! So many books to read up on. :D