Stoker Preliminary Ballot

The preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards has been announced. Eventually each category will be winnowed down to five nominees.

Superior Achievement in a Novel:

• Coffin County, by Gary Braunbeck
• The Shadow Year, by Jeffrey Ford
• Ghost Walk, by Brian Keene
• The Reach, by Nate Kenyon
• Duma Key, by Stephen King
• Johnny Gruesome, by Gregory Lamberson
• Water Witch, by Deborah Leblanc
• Bad Moon Rising, by Jonathan Maberry
• Dead and Gone, by Harry Shannon
• The Price, by Alexandra Sokoloff
• The Man on the Ceiling, by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem

Superior Achievement in a First Novel:

• Bestial: Werewolf Apocalypse, by William D. Carl
• Apricot Brandy, by Lynn César
• Midnight On Mourn Street, by Christopher Conlon
• Veins, by Lawrence C. Connolly
• Eternal Vigilance, by Gabrielle S. Faust
• The Gentling Box, by Lisa Mannetti
• Monster Behind the Wheel, by Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin
• Frozen Blood, by Joel A. Sutherland
• Crimson Orgy, by Austin Williams

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction:

• “The Lagerstatte,” by Laird Barron
• The Shallow End of the Pool, by Adam-Troy Castro
• Miranda, by John R. Little
• Redemption Roadshow, by Weston Ochse
• The Confessions of St. Zach, by Gene O’Neill
• Orpheus and the Pearl, by Kim Paffenroth
• “Behold the Child,” by Harry Shannon
• Just Like Hell, by Nate Southard
• Population Zero, by Wrath James White
• Orgy of Souls, by Wrath James White, and Maurice Broaddus

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction:

• “The Last Word,” by Maria Alexander
• “Mama Strangelove’s Remedies for Afterlife Disorders, or How I Learned to Stop
• Worrying and Love Mother Death,” by C. Dean Andersson
• “Consumed,” by Michael Louis Calvillo
• “Petrified,” by Scott Edelman
• “Mechanix,” by Christopher Fulbright
• The Lost by Sarah Langan
• “The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft,” by Nick Mamatas, and Tim Pratt
• “The Haven,” by John Palisano
• “Turtle,” by Lee Thomas
• “The Blog at the End of the World,” by Paul Tremblay
• “Those Eyes,” by Mark W. Worthen

Superior Achievement in an Anthology:

• The Undead: Headshot Quartet, edited by Christina Bivins and Lane Adamson
• Like a Chinese Tattoo, edited by Bill Breedlove
• Horror Library, Vol. 3, edited by R. J. Cavender
• Abominations, edited by Tim Deal
• Beneath the Surface, edited by Tim Deal
• Unspeakable Horrors, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder

Superior Achievement in a Collection:

• The Number 121 to Pennsylvania, by Kealan Patrick Burke
• Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales, by Fran Friel
• Just After Sunset, by Stephen King
• Little Creatures, by Michael McCarty
• Other Gods, by Stephen Mark Rainey
• The Autopsy and Other Tales, by Michael Shea
• Sheep and Wolves, by Jeremy C. Shipp
• Fourtold, by Michael Stone
• Gleefully Macabre Tales, by Jeff Strand
• Ennui and Other States of Madness, by David Niall Wilson

Superior Achievement in Nonfiction:

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

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection:

• The Nightmare Collection, by Bruce Boston
• The Phantom World, by Gary William Crawford
• Virgin of the Apocalypse, by Corrine De Winter
• The Flayed Man and Other Poems, by Phillip A. Ellis
• Attack Of The Two-Headed Poetry Monster, by Mark McLaughlin and Michael McCarty
• Ghosts of Past and Future, by Darrell Schweitzer

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