News: Preliminary Ballot for The Bram Stoker Awards

The Horror Writers' Association (HWA) have released the preliminary ballot for The Bram Stoker Awards.


SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL

• Coffin County by Gary Braunbeck (Leisure)
• The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford (William Morrow)
• Ghost Walk by Brian Keene (Leisure)
• The Reach by Nate Kenyon (Leisure)
• Duma Key by Stephen King (Scribner)
• Johnny Gruesome by Gregory Lamberson (Bad Moon/Medallion)
• Water Witch by Deborah Leblanc (Dorchester/ Leisure)
• Bad Moon Rising by Jonathan Maberry (Pinnacle)
• Dead and Gone by Harry Shannon (Delirium Books)
• The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff (St. Martins)
• The Man on the Ceiling by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem (Wizards of the Coast)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL

• Bestial: Werewolf Apocalypse by William D. Carl (Permuted Press)
• Apricot Brandy by Lynn César (Juno Books)
• Midnight On Mourn Street by Christopher Conlon (Earthling Publications)
• Veins by Lawrence C. Connolly (Fantasist Enterprises)
• Eternal Vigilance by Gabrielle S. Faust (Immanion Press)
• The Gentling Box by Lisa Mannetti (Dark Hart Press)
• Monster Behind the Wheel by Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin (Delirium Books)
• Frozen Blood by Joel A. Sutherland (Lachesis Publishing)
• Crimson Orgy by Austin Williams (Borderlands Press)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION

• The Lagerstatte by Laird Barron (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• The Shallow End of the Pool by Adam-Troy Castro (Creeping Hemlock)
• Miranda by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)
• Redemption Roadshow by Weston Ochse (Burning Effigy)
• The Confessions of St. Zach by Gene O'Neill (Bad Moon Books)
• Orpheus and the Pearl by Kim Paffenroth (Magus Press)
• Behold the Child by Harry Shannon (Brimstone Turnpike)
• Just Like Hell by Nate Southard (Thunderstorm Books)
• Population Zero by Wrath James White (Cargo Cult Press)
• Orgy of Souls by Wrath James White, and Maurice Broaddus (Apex Book Company)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION

• The Last Word by Maria Alexander (Sins of the Sirens)
• Mama Strangelove' s Remedies for Afterlife Disorders, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mother Death by C. Dean Andersson (Brutarian)
• Consumed by Michael Louis Calvillo (Horror Library Volume 3)
• Petrified by Scott Edelman (Desolate Souls)
• Mechanix by Christopher Fulbright (Bound for Evil)
• The Lost by Sarah Langan (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft by Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt (Chizine)
• The Haven by John Palisano (Horror Library Vol. 3)
• Turtle by Lee Thomas (Doorways)
• The Blog at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay (Chizine)
• Those Eyes by Mark W. Worthen (Thinner Than Mist)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY

• The Undead: Headshot Quartet edited by Christina Bivins and Lane Adamson (Permuted Press)
• Like a Chinese Tattoo edited by Bill Breedlove (Dark Arts Books)
• Horror Library, Vol. 3 edited by R. J. Cavender (Cutting Block Press)
• Abominations edited by Tim Deal (Shroud Publishing)
• Beneath the Surface edited by Tim Deal (Shroud Publishing)
• Unspeakable Horrors edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder (Dark Scribe Press)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A COLLECTION

• The Number 121 to Pennsylvania by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel (Apex Publications)
• Just After Sunset by Stephen King (Scribner)
• Little Creatures by Michael McCarty (Sam's Dot Publishing)
• Other Gods by Stephen Mark Rainey (Dark Regions Press)
• The Autopsy and Other Tales by Michael Shea (Centipede)
• Sheep and Wolves by Jeremy C. Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Fourtold by Michael Stone (Baysgarth Publications)
• Gleefully Macabre Tales by Jeff Strand (Delirium)
• Ennui and Other States of Madness by David Niall Wilson (Dark Regions Press)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION

• Shadows Over New England by David Goudsward, and Scott T. Goudsward (BearManor Media)
• Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller (McFarland)
• Spirits and Death in Niagara by Marcy Italiano (Schiffer Publishing)
• The New Annotated Dracula by Leslie S. Klinger (W. W. Norton)
• Beauty and Dynamite by Alethea Kontis (Apex Publications)
• Cheap Scares by Gregory Lamberson (McFarland)
• Zombie CSU by Jonathan Maberry (Citadel)
• Modern Mythmakers by Michael McCarty (McFarland)
• A Hallowe'en Anthology by Lisa Morton (McFarland)
• The Book of Lists: Horror by Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley (Harper)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A POETRY COLLECTION

• The Nightmare Collection by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions Press)
• The Phantom World by Gary William Crawford (Sam's Dot)
• Virgin of the Apocalypse by Corrine De Winter (Sam's Dot Publishing)
• The Flayed Man and Other Poems by Phillip A. Ellis (Gothic Press)
• Attack Of The Two-Headed Poetry Monster by Mark McLaughlin and
• Michael McCarty (Skullvines Press)
• Ghosts of Past and Future by Darrell Schweitzer (Borgo)

Source - Horror Writers' Association, via Jonathan Maberry