News: Dymocks Southland Bestselling Horror Titles for Feb 2010

February was a good month for us for sales of both Horror and Paranormal Romance, with sales of PR slightly ahead on number of titles sold, but Horror ahead on dollar value. Our Top 10 sellers for the month were:

1. Hourglass (Evernight #3) - Claudia Gray
2. Fallen - Lauren Kate
3. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies - Austen / Graeme-Smith
4. Sookie Stackhouse (series) - Charlaine Harris
5. Twilight (series) - Stephanie Meyer
6. Dracula - Bram Stoker
7. Kiss of Life (Generation Dead #2) - Daniel Waters
8. Death's Mistress (Dorina Basarab #2) - Karen Chance
9. Slights - Kaaron Warren
10. Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side - Beth Fantaskey

News: Decay horror comic anthology

A new Aussie horror anthology comic, entitled Decay, is about to be released by Dark Oz Productions.

Each 48-page issue of Decay will have black & white internal artwork, colour covers, and feature around 5 stories per issue.

Editor and publisher Darren Koziol will contribute several stories to the series, as will some recognisable names in the Australian comics industry: Dave Heinrich (cover issue #1 and story in issue #2), SCAR - Steve Carter & Antoinette Rydyr ("hosts" and stories issues 1 and 2), Steve Colloff (story issue #2), and James Fosdike (cover issue #2). Contributors to future issues may include Tanya Nicholls, Glenn Lumsden, Michal Dutkiewicz, and others.

To order or for further information, contact Darren Koziol (darkoz.decay@bigpond.com or PO Box 811, Salisbury SA 5108).


Source: Dark Oz Productions

News: KSP Speculative Fiction Awards

Entries are now being accepted for the 2010 Katharine Susannah Prichard Speculative Fiction Awards.

Writers of all ages are invited to submit their work. A fee per manuscript of $7.00 applies, however, young writers under 20 years are particularly encouraged to enter and may submit their work for free!

Cash prizes are awarded, and winners will be invited to read at the Awards Ceremony on Sunday 15 August 2010 at KSP Writers Centre.

Stories must be between 1500 and 3500 words, with all forms of Speculative Fiction welcomed.


Source: KSP Writers Centre

News: 2009 Bram Stoker Award nominees

The nominees for the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award, representing outstanding achievement in horror fiction, have been announced.

The nominees are:

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL
Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan (Harper)
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin's Griffin)
Quarantined by Joe McKinney (Lachesis Publishing)
Cursed by Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL
Breathers by S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)
Solomon’s Grave by Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)
Damnable by Hank Schwaeble (Jove)
The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION
"Dreaming Robot Monster" by Mort Castle (Mighty Unclean)
The Hunger of Empty Vessels by Scott Edelman (Bad Moon Books)
The Lucid Dreaming by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
Doc Good’s Traveling Show by Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon Books)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION
"Keeping Watch" by Nate Kenyon (Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror)
"The Crossing of Aldo Ray" by Weston Ochse (The Dead That Walk)
"In the Porches of My Ears" by Norman Prentiss (Postscripts #1
"The Night Nurse" by Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-in)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN FICTION COLLECTION
Martyrs and Monsters by Robert Dunbar (DarkHart Press)
Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories by Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)
A Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O'Neill (Apex Book Company)
In the Closet, Under the Bed by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ANTHOLOGY (EDITING)
He is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson edited by Christopher Conlon (Gauntlet Press)
Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse Books)
Poe edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
Midnight Walk edited by Lisa Morton (Darkhouse Publishing)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION
Writers Workshop of Horror by Michael Knost (Woodland Press)
Cinema Knife Fight by L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda (Fearzone)
The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by Bev Vincent (Fall River Press)
Stephen King: The Non-fiction by Rocky Wood and Justin Brook (Cemetery Dance)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN POETRY COLLECTION
Double Visions by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)
North Left of Earth by Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot)
Barfodder by Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)
Chimeric Machines by Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy Publishing)


Source: HWA

Book Review: The World is Dead

Ed. Kim Paffenroth, 2009, Permuted Press

The end of the world has come and gone. The dead have risen, and they've won. No more rallying of the troops. No miracle cure or weapon. Just lots of dead people walking around.

What would that world be like?

In this, the latest zombie-themed anthology from Permuted Press, eighteen contributors attempt to answer just that question, taking a good hard look at work, family relationships, and society in general, post zombie-apocalypse. Regardless of the fact that some of the tales herein cover already well-travelled paths, editor Kim Paffenroth has done a fine job of putting together a publication that stands strong against the many 'big press' zombologies currently available.

Highlights of this anthology, for me, included: 'Bridge Over the Cunere' by Gustavo Bondoni, in which the fragile 'peace' between African tribesmen and the undead is threatened by the good intentions of a naive child; Gary A. Braunbeck's 'Glorietta', which approaches from a new angle the truism that there's nothing worse than being alone at Christmas; 'The Blue World' by Carole Lanham, in which a sheltered young girl comes to realise that sometimes even the most massive of deceptions may serve the greater good; Jennifer Brozek's 'A Bite to Remember', a bleak tale of revenge in a post-zombie dystopia; 'What Comes After' by Kris Dikeman, which likens zombies to dark secrets - neither staying buried forever; and perhaps the most startlingly original piece of the bunch, Christine Morgan's 'Cured Meat', which describes - from an undead POV - how an effectively-functioning zombie society might evolve in the absence of the living (and delivers a nasty twist into the bargain).

The World is Dead is an extremely unsettling, thought-provoking and satisfying read. Zomfic fans should be extremely happy with this anthology.

Book Review: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard

Random House Australia, 2008

Although perhaps better known today for his heroic fantasy tales, especially those involving Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) also produced an impressive body of horror and dark fantasy literature during his short life, ranging from more traditional tales of ghosts, vampires and werewolves to those involving zombies, Egyptian lore and Lovecraftian entities.

The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard collects 56 of Howard's best dark tales and poems, together with various fragments and miscellanea, beautifully illustrated throughout by Grig Staples. While some of the pieces may not sit comfortably with readers due to their 'dated' depiction of non-whites, there's no denying that Howard's work includes some of the most effective and atmospheric (if occasionally melodramatic, in true 'Pulp' style) writing in the entire horror genre. I defy anyone to read 'Pigeons from Hell', for example, and not feel nervous about turning off the lights afterwards (I may or may not speak from experience here. Ahem).

This is definitely a collection for any fan of classic horror literature, and one that is readily available from Australian bookshops.

Book Review: Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter

A. E. Moorat, Hodder, 2009

London, 1838: Young Victoria has ascended to the throne, and - in a not-altogether unrelated turn-of-events - has just been made aware that not only do the forces of supernatural evil actually exist, they may also be plotting to assassinate her. Fortunately, there are people specifically employed to protect the monarch from such threats as succubi, werewolves and zombies; unfortunately, all the Protektors at Victoria's disposal may not be sufficient a force to keep the gates of Hell itself closed...

In a nutshell, Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter is a great romp, with dollops of swashbuckling action, genuinely unsettling horror, and character-driven comedy (think Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next), all mashed up together in a fast-paced and engrossing alternate/secret history adventure.

If you're starting to get a little sick of all the second-rate horror/historical/classic literature mash-ups doing the rounds at present, take heart from the fact that there are still some first-rate examples hitting the bookshops; Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter is definitely one such to check out.

News: AHWA & Midnight Echo fan pages

The Australian Horror Writers' Association and Midnight Echo magazine now have fan pages on Facebook. Add them to participate in a dialogue with other horror writers and fans.

• AHWA (facebook fan page)
• Midnight Echo (facebook fan page)

For those who prefer to social network on MySpace, the AHWA have a page there too (with a handy blog of news digests). While you're there, check out the profile for the musicians who supported the AHWA by donating music to the Black Box multimedia fundraiser (Brimstone Press, 2008).

• AHWA (myspace page)
• Black Box (musicians' myspace page)

Source: Benjamin Solah

News: Terra Incognita podcast #016

Terra Incognita SF podcast #016 is now available for streaming and download at www.tisf.com.au, or on itunes!

This episode features:

• Matthew Chrulew reading Beast Machine Fableaux
• Keith Stevenson reviewing Ian Irvine's The Terminator Gene

Source: Keith Stevenson

News: Tin Duck Award nominations

Nominations are now open for the 2010 Tin Duck Awards, the annual Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation (WASFF) Achievement Awards for WA writers and artists. The awards will be presented at Swancon 2010.

Works eligible to be nominated must have been "published" (be it written work, art or any form of performing art or convention running) in the 2009 calendar year, and must not have been voted upon in any previous Tin Duck Award. Works will be validated by the Tin Duck Awards Committee, and may be moved to a different category than nominated for if deemed necessary. Any works nominated without a category may be deemed invalid by the Awards Committee. Nominations may be subject to short-listing if necessary in categories with large number of nominations.

Multiple nominations may be submitted for any category. Nominations must be received no later than midnight 22th February 2010, and can be submitted by emailing tinducks-2010@swancon.com.au or snail-mail it to:

Tin Ducks Awards Committee
Swancon 2010
GPO Box G429
Perth WA 6948

The award categories are:

• Best WA Professional Long Written Work
• Best WA Professional Short Written Work
• Best WA Professional Art Work
• Best WA Professional Production (any medium)
• Best WA Unpaid or Fan Written Work
• Best WA Unpaid or Fan Art Work
• Best WA Unpaid or Fan Production

Nominations can be made via an online form at the Swancon website.

Source: Linda Deegan

News: Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair

Sticky Institute is hosting a month-long Festival of the Photocopier dedicated to zines!!! Saturday February March 13 is the day zines go above ground.

60 plus zinemakers, 40 tables x 1.8metres of zine real estate, 140 or so chairs, market umbrellas, street exposure, nearby cafes and bars and ZINES, thousands of precious precious zines from all over the country. At the institute they know how to hold a zine fair and take it VERY seriously. Don't expect to find any vegan cupcakes or craft felt toys here.

SATURDAY 13 FEBRUARY
3PM - 8PM CITY SQUARE
Melbourne CBD

Source: Sticky Institute

Competition: Nameless Recap

Are you a writer? Do you have a keen imagination and ten dollars? Then you may be able to assist Paul Haines by completing the enigma that is the Nameless round-robin story.

For an investment of 50 to 500 words, your work could be judged by the master of dark fantasy Ramsey Campbell!

If you win, your $10.00 (AU) donation will have brought you the $500.00 (AU) cash prize, plus a swag of books and subscriptions.

You will have named the Nameless. You will have completed the most infamous story in Australian speculative fiction history. You will have collaborated with an A-list of renowned authors, including: Sean Williams, Kim Wilkins, Lucy Sussex , Jack Dann, Richard Harland, Will Elliott, Kaaron Warren and Brett Mcbean. You will be a literary legend.

This competition closes on March 13 2010.

To read the Nameless story and find out how to enter the competition please visit the AHWA Website.


Source: Stephen Studach

News: Melbourne Horror Film Society

The Melbourne Horror Film Society are a not-for-profit film society dedicated to screening the best/worst horror films ever made. The society screens one film on the last Thursday of each month from 8:30pm at Glitch Bar + Cinema in Fitzroy North.

To attend any screenings you need to be a member of the film society. There are two types of membership:

Mini Membership: gives you access to the next 3 consecutive screenings and costs $20.

Full Membership: gives you access to the next 12 consecutive screenings and you are able to borrow films from the societies film collection. Full membership costs $70

2010 Program

• 25th February - Dog Soldiers (Dir:Neil Marshall)
• 25th March - Tetsuo: Iron Man & Body Hammer (Dir: Shinya Tsukamoto)
• 29th April - The Thing (Dir: John Carpenter)
• 27th May - Deep Red (Dir: Dario Argento)
• 24th June - Dawn Of The Dead (Dir: George A Romero)
• 29th July - Rec (Dir: Jaume Belaguero & Paco Plaza)
• 26th August - Friday 13th Part 2 (Dir: Steve Miner)
• 30th September - The Beyond (Dir: Lucio Fulci)
• 28th October - Halloween (Dir: John Carpenter)
• 25th November - Lake Mungo (Dir: Joel Anderson)
• 30th December - Nosferatu (Dir: F W Murnau)

Source: Melbourne Horror Film Society

News: 5th International Aeon Award short fiction contest

Albedo One, Ireland’s magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, is proud to announce the fifth International Aeon Award short fiction contest. Grand prize is 1000 euro and publication in Albedo One. Second and third place stories win 200 and 100 euro respectively, alongside publication in Albedo One.

This year Albedo One have arranged an added bonus prize for the winning story courtesy of the highly respected Authorlink.com. The winning story will have the option of a free one-year publication in their Storywire section where authors earn royalties from online readers of their work. Authorlink.com is a news, information and marketing site for editors, agents, writers, and readers with more than 50,000 unique visitors a month and a social network of 6,000+ friends.

The contest is open to stories of up to 8000 words in any speculative genre, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, or anything in between or unclassifiable. The judges have a very broad definition of what constitutes a genre story. The contest is also open to writers of all nationalities. The winning stories will be chosen by highly respected genre author Ian Watson, who will again act as Grand Judge for this year’s contest.

The contest is open from January 1 2010 until November 30 2010, and runs in four rounds, at the end of which the judges will announce on the Albedo One website a shortlist of those entries they feel worthy of further consideration. The 1^st round ends March 31st, the second round, June 30th, the third round September 30th and the final round November 30^th.

The aim of the contest is to promote new writers and writing in the speculative fiction genres, and previous contests have certainly shown us that speculative fiction at the shorter lengths is alive and well, despite its many detractors and those who would pronounce the decline of SF, horror, fantasy etc. or the death of the short story.

Previous winners have been announced at the World Science Fiction Convention and European SF Convention, they have been reprinted or received Honourable Mentions in the prestigious Year’s Best Science Fiction and Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror volumes, and have been translated into other European languages and published in their national magazines (e.g. Galaxies SF, in France). So entering the Award will certainly get some attention for the respective authors and their work, never mind the prize money and publication in Albedo One.

A modest entry fee of 7 euro applies to all entries, and can be paid easily and securely via PayPal at the Albedo One website. Entries may be submitted to fraslaw@yahoo.co.uk

Full details may be found online.

Source: Frank Ludlow & the Albedo One team

News: Antipodean SF #140

AntipodeanSF Issue 140 is available for your enjoyment on the net, with another ten fabulous pieces of flash fiction from around the world.

AntiSF won't take hours to read, and you can also access the content on your mobile phone or mobile device. Read AntiSF on the train, the plane, or any other sophisticated method of transport that you happen to be wrapped in.

Source: Ion, Editor AntipodeanSF

News: 1st Annual Women In Horror Awards

Created in honor of Women in Horror - Recognition Month, the Women in Horror Awards are the first annual awards created by women in horror, for women in horror. The awards are designed to recognise excellence and contributions, and to foster awareness of the growing population of hardworking females within the genre.

Preliminary nominations are open to the public for voting through the month of February. The winners will be chosen by a panel of expert judges and announced live at the 2010 Women in Horror Awards Show.

To view nomination categories (which includes Best Writer, Best Female-Run Publication, and a range of different screen industry roles), and to make a nomination, visit the website.

Source: Women In Horror Awards, via Sue Brown

News: Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards

The 18th Annual Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards are calling for entries. Writer's Digest is searching for the best self-published books of the past few years. Whether you're a professional writer, part-time freelancer, or a self-starting student, here's your chance to enter the only competition exclusively for self-published books! Win $3,000 in cash! Gain international exposure for your book! Catch the attention of prospective editors and publishers!

Deadline May 3 2010.

For full details of prizes, to view competition rules, and to enter the competition, visit the website. This competition welcomes self-published genre fiction.

Source: Writer's Digest

News: Dancing On Your Grave

Get ready for a funny, fast-paced evening of death, disease and decay as this all-singing, all-dancing corpse extravaganza bursts across the stage. Described as a Victorian music hall skit gone sour, this ghoulishly entertaining treasure is the brainchild of Lea Anderson, one of the UK’s most creative director choreographers. Song, dance and original music combine as vaudevillian zombies vie for our attention, regaling with humorous songs of regret while urging us to celebrate life before it’s too late.

Let’s be fair, how often do you hear songs referring to the pancreatic tract that make you laugh rather than cringe, whilst watching movement of the most divine, effective simplicity being performed in the background? At times... a little disturbing and no time more so than when Maho Ihara illustrates beautifully - if that’s the right word - a countless number of ways to commit suicide.

- Chris High, The Stage Reviews

Dancing On Your Grave

22 and 23 February

Becks Music Box

For more information please visit the Perth International Arts Festival website.

For tickets visit BOCS Ticketing.

Source: Perth International Arts Festival, via Adam Weiland

News: Continuum 6 horror and writing program

Continuum 6 have released the convention program on their website, and there are a number of items of interest to horror writers and aficionados, as this brief selection shows.

The Art of Self-promotion
These days, authors need to do more and more promotion for themselves - especially if they have been published by small press or independent publishers. Hear about some of the creative techniques authors have utilised in order to promote their latest works.
George Ivanoff, Narrelle M Harris

Aussie Horror Vs Other Horror
What, in particular, makes Australian Horror different from UK, US or any other horror? Is there a cultural connection to horror? Or is horror just the same no matter from where it originates?

Dating the Undead
With consideration of Buffy, Twilight and True Blood, when did it become cool to engage in necrophilia?
Heath Miller, Paul Poulton

Reinventing the Cliché
How do you make vampire, zombie, epic fantasy or (insert sub-genre) stories exciting again? How do you add to an existing well-established genre without your work sounding just like all of those that have gone before?

How to break fairy tales
Using traditional fairy & folk tales to create fantasy stories is not a new idea.. but which fairy/folk tale would you use and why?

There are many other panels and presentations that may be of interest. Visit the website for the complete program.

This year’s guests of honour include: futurist writer and virtual reality pioneer Mark Pesce (Hyperpeople, ABC’s New Inventors) and Aurealis-award winning author Kim Westwood (The Oracle, The Daughters of Moab). Panel discussions, workshops, readings and more.

Continuum 6 are host to the awards night for the Chronos Awards for excellence in Victorian science fiction, fantasy and horror in 2009.

Continuum 6 - Future Tense
26-28th February, 2010
Venue: ether, Little Bourke St, Melbourne CBD
www.continuum.org.au

Source: www.continuum.org.au

Review: The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff

The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff

ISBN: 9780312357504

Australian Release Date: 2010-01-21
Publisher: ST MARTINS PRESS
Country of origin: USA

An amazing ride through disturbingly familiar waters.

Will Sullivan is destined for big things in US politics. With family history behind him and a perfect wife and daughter beside him, becoming Governor of Massachusetts is only the first step on the long road to a big white house.

But when his daughter is diagnosed with an inoperable tumour, his world is turned upside down and inside out. Sokoloff pulls back the brambles and lets us slide into a rabbit hole not many would want to examine closely.

The story is complex with little bits of information paying off much later in the tale, and not usually in a blatant manner. You’ll read a few pages and stop, go back, and then the penny will drop in one of those moments authors dream about creating in a reader—except this happens a lot in this book. And yet the prose is easy to read, the pace rarely allowing a chance to take a breath. Many authors worry if the second book will live up to the hype created by the their debut—this novel doesn't begin as darkly as her first, but it surpasses its ability to disturb the most seasoned dark fiction reader.

Sokoloff’s theatrical and screenwriting ability is also on show with her transporting visuals and grasp of suspense. It is not difficult to see this as movie told in words and even less difficult to visualise the settings she weaves with an amazing deftness of touch.

The Price leads you into a very identifiable situation, something many parents fear, and other adults can empathise with, and slowly twists things to a supernatural bent that quickens the pulse. It makes you guess at what the author has in mind. When you think you have it straight, it goes in another direction, only to twist back on you and leave you doubting your own reasoning ability. The suspense is played out to leave the nerves quite raw and the emotions palpable. If you’re not in Will Sullivan’s cheer squad by the halfway mark, you’re probably not altogether human.

His five-year-old daughter is the typical, and somewhat clichéd, terminally ill child with an overly sharp mind and an amazing sense of occasion which escapes way too many adults in the real world, but seems adorable when viewed on the Hallmark channel. Taken with a grain of salt and knowledge of Sokoloff’s background, it’s obviously written for a screen performance and works as such, but it is a little sickly sweet at times.

The stunningly beautiful wife, abused in her childhood and now fiercely protective of the love surrounding her, a love she never thought she’d have in her life, is also a little formulaic for most of the story, but the way Sokoloff plays out the scenarios involving a mother’s love and determination in the face of supreme adversity is stark and emotionally powerful. The inner strength depicted is truly awe inspiring.

But Will carries the story, along with his battle against an evil nobody wants to face. The antagonist is rarely seen but ever present and this only adds to the tension building throughout. And the ending will leave you full of dread, not only for Will and his girls, but for all of mankind.

Highly recommended.

News: 2009 Bram Stoker Award preliminary ballot

Australian authors have had an unprecedented showing in the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award 2009 preliminary ballot. The Bram Stoker Award is the peak international horror fiction award, and the preliminary ballot represents the longlist of potential Stoker nominees as decided by the HWA membership.

This year, a record five Australians made the preliminary ballot: Kaaron Warren and Stephen M. Irwin for first novel, Amanda Pillar (Grants Pass co-editor) for anthology, Rocky Wood for non-fiction, and Shane Jiraiya Cummings for collection.

The full 2009 preliminary Stoker ballot is as follows (Australian works in bold):

Superior Achievement in a Novel
QUARANTINED by Joe McKinney (Lachesis Publishing)
AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT by Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books)
PATIENT ZERO by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin's Griffin)
CURSED by Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
SACRIFICE by John Everson (Leisure)
AUDREY'S DOOR by Sarah Langan (Harper)
ETERNAL VIGILANCE II: DEATH OF ILLUSIONS by Gabrielle Faust (Immanion Press)
TWISTED LADDER by Rhodi Hawk (Tor/Forge)
VORACIOUS by Alice Henderson (Jove)
THE BONE FACTORY by Nate Kenyon (Leisure)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel
DAMNABLE by Hank Schwaeble (Jove)
THE BLACK ACT by Louise Bohmer (Library of Horror)
SLAUGHTER by Marcus Griffin (Alexandrian Archives Publishing)
BREATHERS by S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)
THE LITTLE SLEEP by Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)
SOLOMON’S GRAVE by Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)
DISMEMBER by Daniel Pyle (Wild Child)
SLIGHTS by Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)
THE DEAD PATH by Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia)
THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH by Carrie Ryan (Delacorte Press/Random House)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction,
MAMA FISH by Rio Youers (Shroud Publishing)
HUNGER OF EMPTY VESSELS by Scott Edelman (Bad Moon Books)
DIANA AND THE GOONG-SI by Lisa Morton (MIDNIGHT WALK)
DOC GOOD'S TRAVELING SHOW by Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon Books)
THE GRAY ZONE by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)
THE LUCID DREAMING by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
DREAMING ROBOT MONSTER by Mort Castle (MIGHTY UNCLEAN)
LITTLE GRAVEYARD ON THE PRAIRIE by Steven E. Wedel (Bad Moon Books)
ROT by Michelle Lee (Skullvines Press)
BLACK BUTTERFLIES by Kurt Newton (Sideshow Press)

Superior Achievement in a Short Fiction
IN THE PORCHES OF MY EARS by Norman Prentiss (PS Publishing)
BLANKET OF WHITE by Amy Grech (BLANKET OF WHITE)
KEEPING WATCH by Nate Kenyon (MONSTROUS: 20 TALES OF GIANT CREATURE TERROR)
ONE MORE DAY by Brian Freeman (SHIVERS V)
THE CROSSING OF ALDO RAY by Weston Ochse (THE DEAD THAT WALK)
WHERE SUNLIGHT SLEEPS by Brian Freeman (Horror Drive-in)
THE NIGHT NURSE by Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-in)
PLAGUE DOGS by Joe McKinney (POTTERS FIELD 3)
THE OUTLAWS OF HILL COUNTY by John Palisano (Harvest Hill)
NUB HUT by Kurt Dinan (Chizine)

Superior Achievement in a Anthology,
MIDNIGHT WALK edited by Lisa Morton (Dark House)
POE edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
HARLAN COUNTY HORRORS edited by Mari Adkins (Apex Publications)
HE IS LEGEND: AN ANTHOLOGY CELEBRATING RICHARD MATHESON edited by Christopher Conlon (Gauntlet Press)
LOVECRAFT UNBOUND edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse Books)
DARK DELICACIES 3: HAUNTED edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Running Press)
BUTCHER SHOP QUARTET 2 edited by Frank J. Hutton (Cutting Block Press)
GRANTS PASS edited by Amanda Pillar and Jennifer Brozek (Morrigan Books)
MIGHTY UNCLEAN edited by Bill Breedlove (Dark Arts Books)
BRITISH INVASION by Chris Golden, Tim Lebbon and James Moore (Cemetery Dance Publications)

Superior Achievement in a Collection
A TASTE OF TENDERLOIN by Gene O'Neill (Apex Book Company)
SHADES OF BLOOD AND SHADOW by Angeline Hawkes (Dark Regions Press)
MARTYRS AND MONSTERS by Robert Dunbar (DarkHart Press)
IN THE CLOSET, UNDER THE BED by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)
A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FIENDS by Michael McCarty (Sam's Dot)
GOT TO KILL THEM ALL AND OTHER STORIES by Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)
DARK ENTITIES by David Dunwoody (Dark Regions)
SHARDS by Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone Press)
UNHAPPY ENDINGS by Brian Keene (Delirium Books)
YOU MIGHT SLEEP… by Nick Mamatas (Prime)

Superior Achievement in a Nonfiction
WRITERS WORKSHOP OF HORROR by Michael Knost (Woodland Press)
STEPHEN KING: THE NON-FICTION by Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks (Cemetery Dance)
CINEMA KNIFE FIGHT by L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda (Fearzone)
ESOTERIA-LAND by Michael McCarty (BearManor Media)
MORBID CURIOSITY CURES THE BLUES edited by Loren Rhoads (Simon & Schuster)
THE STEPHEN KING ILLUSTRATED COMPANION by Bev Vincent (Fall River Press)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
CHIMERIC MACHINES by Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy Publishing)
MORTICIAN'S TEA by G. O. Clark (Sam's Dot)
DOUBLE VISIONS by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)
VOICES FROM THE DARK by Gary William Crawford (Dark Regions)
BARFODDER by Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)
STARKWEATHER DREAMS by Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)
TOWARD ABSOLUTE ZERO by Karen L. Newman (Sam's Dot)
NORTH LEFT OF EARTH by Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot)
GRAVE BITS by Todd Hanks (Skullvines Press)


Source: HWA