Bram Stoker award nominees

The Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers Association will be presented March 27 at the World Horror Convention in Brighton, UK.


The 2010 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)