Nominees for the 24th Annual Bram Stoker Awards
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL
HORNS by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
Joe Hill is the author of the New York Times Bestsellers Horns and Heart-Shaped Box, and an award-winning short story collection, 20th Century Ghosts. He also scripts the Eisner-nominated horror comic, Locke & Key, which is being adapted as a TV show by FOX. He thinks zombies > sparkly vampires.
ROT AND RUIN by Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
Jonathan Maberry is the
NY Times bestselling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and Marvel Comics writer. His recent works include
The King of Plagues, Rot & Ruin, and
Wanted Undead or Alive. Since 1978 he has sold fourteen novels, many nonfiction books, more than 1200 feature articles, thousands of columns, two plays, greeting cards, technical manuals, how-to books, short stories, and more. Jonathan is the founder of the Writers Coffeehouse and co-founder of The Liars Club. He is a frequent keynote speaker and guest of honor at writers conferences including BackSpace, PennWriters, The Write Stuff, Central Coast Writers, Necon, Killer Con, Liberty States, and many others. Visit him online at
www.jonathanmaberry.com
DEAD LOVE by Linda Watanabe McFerrin (Stone Bridge Press)
Poet, travel writer, and novelist, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, is a contributor to numerous magazines andanthologies including The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Bay Nature, Salon.com, and The Washington Post. She is the author of two poetry collections, past editor of a popular Northern California guidebook and a winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize forFiction. Her novel, Namako: Sea Cucumber, was named Best Book for the Teen-Age by the New York Public Library. In addition to authoring an award-winning short story collection, The Hand of Buddha (Coffee House Press), she has co-edited several anthologies, including the Hot Flashes: sexy little stories & poems series.
Linda has judged the San Francisco Literary Awards, the Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence and the Kiriyama Prize, served as a visiting mentor for the Loft Mentor Series and been guest faculty at the Oklahoma Arts Institute. A past NEA Panelist and juror forthe Marin Literary Arts Council, she has taught workshops in Greece, Italy, France, Ireland, Cost Rica and other far-flung places and has mentored a longlist of accomplished authors toward publication.
Her newest book, Dead Love (Stone Bridge Press, 2010), a novel about Japan and zombies and undying love, is full of characters who are currently enjoying a very active virtual life. You can find out more about them at: www.deadlovebook.com and about Linda at: www.lwmcferrin.com.
"Delightfully disgusting, Dead Love is the new horror genre at its best. Fans of Twilight, World War Z,and Neil Gaiman will devour this fine novel whole." —Claire Rudy Foster, ForeWord
APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD by Joe McKinney (Pinnacle)
Joe McKinney is a sergeant in the San Antonio Police Department who has been writing professionally since 2006. He is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of Dead City, Quarantined, Apocalypse of the Dead, Dodging Bullets and Dead Set. His upcoming books include The Zombie King, St. Rage, Lost Girl of the Lake, and The Red Empire. As a police officer, he’s received training in disaster mitigation, forensics, and homicide investigation techniques, some of which finds its way into his stories. He lives in the Texas Hill Country north of San Antonio. Visit him at joemckinney.wordpress.com for news and updates.
DWELLER by Jeff Strand (Leisure/Dark Regions Press)
Jeff Strand was nominated for but failed to win the Bram Stoker Award for his novel Pressure and his collection Gleefully Macabre Tales. That’s a 0% success rate, people. If he doesn’t win for Dweller and bring his average up to 33.3%, we’re left with one of two scenarios: 1) Silent weeping. 2) Rampage. You probably think that both of those sound like they’d be pretty entertaining, but you’re wrong. It’ll be awkward and spoil what had, up until that point, been a lovely evening for everyone. You can visit his website at www.JeffStrand.com.
P.S.: Buy Dweller!
A DARK MATTER by Peter Straub (Doubleday)
Peter Straub is the author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. He has written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction, and he edited the Library of America’s edition of H. P. Lovecraft’s Tales and the forthcoming Library of America’s 2-volume anthology, American Fantastic Tales. He has won the British Fantasy Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, two International Horror Guild Awards, and two World Fantasy Awards. In 1998, he was named Grand Master at the World Horror Convention. In 2006, he was given the HWA’s Life Achievement Award. In 2008, he was given the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award by Poets & Writers.
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL
BLACK AND ORANGE by Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Bad Moon Books)
Benjamin Kane Ethridge's fiction has appeared in Doorways Magazine, Dark
Recesses, FearZone, and others. His dark fantasy novel Black & Orange was
published in 2010 from Bad Moon Books. He also wrote a Master's thesis
entitled, "CAUSES OF UNEASE: The Rhetoric of Horror Fiction and Film." Available in an ivory tower near you. Ben lives in Southern California with
his wife and daughter, both lovely and both worthy of better. When he isn't
writing, reading, or playing guitar, he's defending California's waterways from pollution.
A BOOK OF TONGUES by Gemma Files (Chizine Publications)
This is Gemma Files’s first Stoker Award nomination.
THE CASTLE OF LOS ANGELES by Lisa Morton (Gray Friar Press)
Lisa Morton is a born-and-raised Los Angeleno, three-time Stoker Award winner, Black Quill Award winner, occasional screenwriter, hopeless Sinophile, and Halloween expert. She lives online at www.lisamorton.com.
SPELLBENT by Lucy Snyder (Del Rey)
Lucy Snyder won the 2009 Poetry Collection Stoker Award for her book Chimeric Machines.
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION
THE PAINTED DARKNESS by Brian James Freeman (Cemetery Dance)
Brian James Freeman's new novella, The Painted Darkness, was downloaded by
more than 30,000 readers last summer, and the first printing of the
hardcover sold out on the day of publication. His short fiction has
appeared in From the Borderlands, every volume of the Shivers series, and
many other magazines and anthologies. His essays, columns, and interviews
have appeared in The Stephen King Library Desk Calendar series from
Book-of-the-Month Club, Jobs in Hell, Hellnotes, and Cemetery Dance. His
official website is: www.BrianJamesFreeman.com
DISSOLUTION by Lisa Mannetti (Deathwatch)
Lisa Mannetti’s debut novel, The Gentling Box, garnered a Bram Stoker Award. Her story, “Everybody Wins,” was made into a short film by director Paul Leyden starring Malin Ackerman and released under the title Bye-Bye Sally. Recent short stories include, “Spy Glass Hill,” in Fear of the Dark Anthology (Feb 2011).
She has also authored two companion novellas in Deathwatch, (Shadowfall Publications, Dec 2010), a macabre gag book, 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave your Lover, (Bad Moon Books, Feb 2010) as well as non-fiction books, and numerous articles and short stories in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Forthcoming works include additional short stories and a young adult book, The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, (Shadowfall Publications, 2011). She is currently working on a paranormal novel, The Everest Hauntings. Lisa lives in New York.
Visit her author website: www.lisamannetti.com
Visit her virtual haunted house: www.thechanceryhouse.com
MONSTERS AMONG US by Kirstyn McDermott (
Macabre: A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears)
Kirstyn McDermott was born on Halloween, an auspicious date which perhaps accounts for her lifelong attraction to all things dark, mysterious and bumpy-in-the-night. She has been published in various journals, magazines and anthologies, including
Aurealis,
Macabre, Southerly,
GUD and
Island. Her short fiction has won Aurealis, Ditmar and Chronos Awards and her debut novel,
Madigan Mine, was published by Picador in 2010. Kirstyn lives in Melbourne with her husband and fellow author, Jason Nahrung. She can be found online at
www.kirstynmcdermott.com.
THE SAMHANACH by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
Lisa Morton is a born-and-raised Los Angeleno, three-time Stoker Award winner, Black Quill Award winner, occasional screenwriter, hopeless Sinophile, and Halloween expert. She lives online at www.lisamorton.com.
INVISIBLE FENCES by Norman Prentiss (Cemetery Dance)
Norman Prentiss teaches at the Shoshana S. Cardin High School and is a part-time
editor for Cemetery Dance. He won the 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Superior
Achievement in Short Fiction for “In the Porches of My Ears,” in Postscripts
18. His first book, Invisible Fences, was published in May 2010. His fiction has
also appeared in Black Static, Commutability, Tales from the Gorezone, Damned
Nation, Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and in
three editions of the Shivers anthology series. His poetry has appeared in
Writer Online, Southern Poetry Review, and Baltimore's City Paper, and is
forthcoming in A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock. His essays on gothic
and sensation literature have appeared in Victorian Poetry, Colby Quarterly, and
The Thomas Hardy Review.
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION
RETURN TO MARIABRONN by Gary Braunbeck (Haunted Legends)
Gary Braunbeck has previously won the 2007 Stoker Award for Long Fiction (“Afterward There Will Be a Hallway”), the 2007 Anthology Stoker Award (Five Strokes to Midnight), in 2006 for Fiction Collection (Destinations Unknown), in 2005 for Short Fiction (“We Now Pause for Station Identification”), and the 2003 Short Fiction Award (“Duty”), He’s also been nominated in 2008 in the Novel category (Coffin County), 2006 in the Novel category (Prodigal Blues), in 2005 for Novel (Keepers), in 2005 for Long Fiction (In the Midnight Museum), in 2004 for Short Fiction (“Just Out of Reach”), in 2003 for Fiction Collection (Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Volume I), in 2003 for Non-fiction (Fear in a Handful of Dust), in 2000 for Novel (The Indifference of Heaven), and in 1997 for Fiction Collection (Things Left Behind).
THE FOLDING MAN by Joe R. Lansdale (Haunted Legends)
Joe R. Lansdale has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. He has also written for comics and animation (Batman: The Animated Series). He is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and seven Bram Stoker Awards. At the 2007 World Horror Convention, he received the Grandmaster Award. Lansdale, who was born in Gladewater, Texas, now lives in Nacogdoches and is the writer in residence at Stephen F. Austin State University. He also teaches at his own Shen Chuan martial arts school and is a member of the Martial Arts Hall of Fame. Ellen Datlow will accept on Joe R. Lansdale's behalf.
Photo © Larry D. Moore
1925: A FALL RIVER HALLOWEEN by Lisa Mannetti (Shroud Magazine #10)
Lisa Mannetti’s debut novel, The Gentling Box, garnered a Bram Stoker Award. Her story, “Everybody Wins,” was made into a short film by director Paul Leyden starring Malin Ackerman and released under the title Bye-Bye Sally. Recent short stories include, “Spy Glass Hill,” in Fear of the Dark Anthology (Feb 2011).
She has also authored two companion novellas in Deathwatch, (Shadowfall Publications, Dec 2010), a macabre gag book, 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave your Lover, (Bad Moon Books, Feb 2010) as well as non-fiction books, and numerous articles and short stories in newspapers, magazines and anthologies. Forthcoming works include additional short stories and a young adult book, The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, (Shadowfall Publications, 2011). She is currently working on a paranormal novel, The Everest Hauntings. Lisa lives in New York.
Visit her author website: www.lisamannetti.com
Visit her virtual haunted house: www.thechanceryhouse.com
IN THE MIDDLE OF POPLAR STREET by Nate Southard (Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology)
Nate Southard’s books include Red Sky, Just Like Hell, Broken Skin, and He Stepped Through. His short fiction has appeared in such venues as Cemetery Dance, Black Static, Thuglit, and the upcoming anthology Supernatural Noir. A graduate of The University of Texas with a degree in Radio, Television, and Film, Nate lives in Austin, Texas with his girlfriend and numerous pets. You can learn more at natesouthard.com.
FINAL DRAFT by Mark W. Worthen (
Horror Library IV)
Mark Worthen is a winner of the HWA President’s Richard Laymon Award. This is his first Stoker Award nomination in any category.
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN FICTION COLLECTION
OCCULTATION by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
Laird Barron was previously nominated for the 2006 Long Fiction Stoker Award (“Hallucigenia”) and in 2007 for the Fiction Collection Stoker Award (The Imago Sequence).
BLOOD AND GRISTLE by Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books)
Michael Louis Calvillo is eighty percent blood & gristle, nineteen percent love, and one percent evil. He is the author of I Will Rise (a Stoker finalist for Superior Achievement in a First Novel), As Fate Would Have It (winner of three Black Quill Awards), and the seriously screwed-up shorty story collection, Blood & Gristle (winner of a Black Quill and current Stoker nominee). Recent works include the psycho-teen novella, Bleed for You, and the apocalyptic, love story, Death & Desire in the Age of Women.
When not staring at a computer screen and doing the writing thing, Michael loves his family, plays video games, and worries himself sick about stupid stuff. Google him, visit his website at www.destroymc.com, or better yet, send a lovingly crafted e-mail to mlcalvillo@yahoo.com.
THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY by Stephen Graham Jones (Prime Books)
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of nine novels, with two or three more
forthcoming. Twice a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, once an
International Horror Guild finalist, Stephen's also been an NEA fellow. His
hundred and thirty or so stories have appeared in multiple
best-of-the-years, in anthologies, in textbooks, he has essays all over the
place, and he also reviews horror movies from time to time. After earning
his PhD. in two years at Florida State, Stephen's now a full professor in
the MFA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he teaches
fiction and just all kinds of horror. More at demontheory.net.
FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King (Simon and Schuster)
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. In the fall of 1973, he began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since published over 50 books and has become one of the world's most successful writers.
Stephen lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. They are regular contributors to a number of charities including many libraries and have been honored locally for their philanthropic activities.
A HOST OF SHADOWS by Harry Shannon (Dark Regions Press)
Publishers Weekly has written that Harry Shannon's "impeccable pacing and an eye for the terrifying will leave the reader shaken and unsettled." He has been a counselor, an actor, an Emmy-nominated songwriter, a recording artist, a music publisher, VP Music at Carolco Pictures and a Music Supervisor on films such as Basic Instinct and Universal Soldier. His many books include Dead and Gone (a Lions Gate movie), Daemon, the Mick Callahan suspense series, the 2010 collection A Host of Shadows and the novella PAIN. Shannon has won the Tombstone Award, the Black Quill, and has been nominated twice for the Stoker Award by the Horror Writer's Association. Joe McKinney will be accepting on Harry Shannon's behalf.
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ANTHOLOGY (EDITING)
DARK FAITH edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon (Apex Publications)
Maurice Broaddus has written dozens of short stories, essays, and articles.
His dark fiction has been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and
web sites, most recently including Cemetery Dance, Dark Dreams II & III,
Apex Magazine, Black Static, and Weird Tales Magazine. He is the co-editor
of the Dark Faith anthology (Apex Books). And he’s the author of the Knights
of Breton Court trilogy (Angry Robot/Osprey Books) debuts in 2010. Visit
his site at www.MauriceBroaddus.com.
Jerry Gordon is a full-time writer, editor, grad student, teacher,
and web programmer. In addition to co-editing Dark Faith and Last Rites, he's published stories in Apex Magazine, The Midnight
Diner, and Indie Review. He lives in Indiana with his wife and new
son. When he's not changing diapers, you can find him blurring genre
lines at www.jerrygordon.net.
HORROR LIBRARY IV edited by R.J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris (Cutting Block Press)
R.J. Cavender is the editor of the Cutting Block Press Horror Library anthology series. His book, Horror Library Volume 2 received a preliminary nomination for a Bram Stoker Award in 2008, and his book Horror Library Volume 3 was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in 2009. RJ's Horror Library IV (co-edited with Boyd E. Harris) won the 2010 reader's choice Black Quill Award from Dark Scribe Magazine in the Best Dark Genre Anthology category.
Cavender is a contributing editor at Dark Recesses magazine and has worked closely with some of the most talented authors in the horror genre. He has edited both fiction and non-fiction over the years, and while his genre of choice over the last decade has been predominantly horror, he also enjoys comedy, memoirs, edgy crime-noir, and screenplays.
This is Boyd E. Harris’s first Stoker Award nomination in any category.
MACABRE: A JOURNEY THROUGH AUSTRALIA’S DARKEST FEARS edited by Angela Challis and Marty Young (Brimstone Press)
Angela Challis is the co-founder of Brimstone Press, and she is Australia's leading horror fiction anthologist, having edited (or co-edited) several ground-breaking anthologies including the critically-acclaimed
Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror 'year's best' series,
Shadow Box, and
Macabre: A Journey through Australia's Darkest Fears. She was the Editor-in-Chief of
Black: Australian Dark Culture Magazineand
Shadowed Realms online magazine, and she co-edited issue #2 of
Midnight Echo, the magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association. Many of her edited publications have been nominated for Australia's genre fiction awards, and in 2009, she won the Ditmar Award for her achievements in establishing
Black: Australian Dark Culture as a national newsstand magazin
e. Angela is a founding committee member of the Australian Horror Writers Association.
Rocky Wood will accept on Angela Challis' behalf.
Marty Young is a (very recently!) Bram Stoker nominated editor and writer and sometimes ghost hunter. He was the founding President of the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) from 2005-2010, and one of the creative minds behind the internationally acclaimed Midnight Echo magazine. His horror fiction has been reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror (‘the best of 2008’), repeatedly included in Ellen Datlow’s year’s best recommended reading list, and nominated for both the Australian Shadows and Ditmar awards. Marty’s essays on horror literature have been published in journals and university textbooks in Australia and India, and he is also co-editor of Macabre; a Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears, a landmark anthology showcasing some of the best Australian horror stories from 1836 to 2010.
HAUNTED LEGENDS edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas (Tor)
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over twenty-five years. She was fiction editor of
Omni Magazine and
Scifiction and has edited more than fifty anthologies, including
The Best Horror of the Year,
Inferno, Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror,
Lovecraft Unbound, Supernatural Noir,
The Beastly Bride (with Terri Windling),
Teeth: Vampire Tales, and
Haunted Legends (with Nick Mamatas).
Forthcoming are Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy, Blood and Other Cravings, and the young adult dystopian anthology After (the last with Windling).
She's has won multiple Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and The Shirley Jackson Award for her editing. She was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre."
She co-curates the long-running Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in New York City’s east village.
More information can be found at www.datlow.com or at her blog.
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including 2004 Bram Stoker nominee Move Under Ground, Sensation, and with Brian Keene The Damned Highway. He's also published over seventy short stories in such venues as "Lovecraft Unbound," "Supernatural Noir," and "Black Wings II." As an editor of Clarkesworld Nick was nominated for both the Hugo and World Fantasy awards, and he now edits Haikasoru, an imprint dedicated to Japanese science fiction in translation. The Stoker nomination with Ellen Datlow for Haunted Legends is his fourth in as many categories.
THE NEW DEAD edited by Christopher Golden (St. Martin's Griffin)
Christopher Golden is the author of such novels as Of Saints and Shadows, The Boys Are Back in Town, and Strangewood. He has also written books for teens and young adults, including When Rose Wakes, Soulless, Poison Ink, and The Secret Journeys of Jack London, co-authored with Tim Lebbon. A lifelong fan of the “team-up,” Golden frequently collaborates with other writers on books, comics, and scripts. His collaborative efforts include novels written with Tom Sniegoski, Amber Benson, Tim Lebbon, James A. Moore, and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, with whom he wrote the illustrated novels Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire and the upcoming Joe Golem and the Drowning City. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies The New Dead, The Monster’s Corner, and British Invasion, among others. Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His original novels have been published in more than fourteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com.
Jonathan Maberry will accept on behalf of Christopher Golden.
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION
TO EACH THEIR DARKNESS by Gary A. Braunbeck (Apex Publications)
Gary Braunbeck has previously won the 2007 Stoker Award for Long Fiction (“Afterward There Will Be a Hallway”), the 2007 Anthology Stoker Award (Five Strokes to Midnight), in 2006 for Fiction Collection (Destinations Unknown), in 2005 for Short Fiction (“We Now Pause for Station Identification”), and the 2003 Short Fiction Award (“Duty”), He’s also been nominated in 2008 in the Novel category (Coffin County), 2006 in the Novel category (Prodigal Blues), in 2005 for Novel (Keepers), in 2005 for Long Fiction (In the Midnight Museum), in 2004 for Short Fiction (“Just Out of Reach”), in 2003 for Fiction Collection (Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Volume I), in 2003 for Non-fiction (Fear in a Handful of Dust), in 2000 for Novel (The Indifference of Heaven), and in 1997 for Fiction Collection (Things Left Behind).
THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE by Thomas Ligotti (Hippocampus Press)
Thomas Ligotti is one of the foremost contemporary authors of supernatural horror literature. For his writings in this genre, he has been honored with several awards. These include the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker award for his collection The Nightmare Factory (1996) and short novel My Work Is Not Yet Done (2002). Ligotti’s most recent publication is a nonfiction book, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010). This work comprises an excursion through the darker byways of literature, philosophy, and psychology, approaching its themes in the uncompromisingly bleak and often blackly humorous manner familiar to readers of Ligotti's tales. Derrick Hussey will accept on behalf of Thomas Ligotti.
WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE by Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman (Citadel)
Jonathan Maberry is the NY Times bestselling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and Marvel Comics writer. His recent works include The King of Plagues, Rot & Ruin, and Wanted Undead or Alive. Since 1978 he has sold fourteen novels, many nonfiction books, more than 1200 feature articles, thousands of columns, two plays, greeting cards, technical manuals, how-to books, short stories, and more. Jonathan is the founder of the Writers Coffeehouse and co-founder of The Liars Club. He is a frequent keynote speaker and guest of honor at writers conferences including BackSpace, PennWriters, The Write Stuff, Central Coast Writers, Necon, Killer Con, Liberty States, and many others. Visit him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com
Janice Gable Bashman is the author of Wanted Undead or Alive (with Jonathan Maberry; Citadel Press 2010). She is managing editor of The Big Thrill, the International Thriller Writers’ newsletter and webzine. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of anthologies, and she has written for Novel & Short Story Writer's Market, The Writer, Wild River Review, and many others. Find Janice’s website at www.janicegablebashman.com.
LISTEN TO THE ECHOES: THE RAY BRADBURY INTERVIEWS by Sam Weller (Melville House Publications)
Sam Weller is the authorized biographer of Ray Bradbury. Weller’s book
The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury, was a
Los Angeles Times bestseller, winner of the 2005 Society of Midland Authors Award for Best Biography, and a Bram Stoker Award finalist. The companion book,
Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews was published by Melville House/Stop Smiling Books in 2010. Weller is the former Midwest Correspondent for
Publishers Weekly magazine and has written for the
Paris Review and the National Public Radio Program
All Things Considered. Weller’s short fiction has appeared in numerous books and journals, including the 2008 anthology
Who Can Save Us Now: Brand New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories, published by Free Press. His pop-cultural essays have appeared in
Post Road,
Annalemma, and
F Magazine, among many other publications. Weller is a professor in the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughters.
SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN POETRY COLLECTION
DARK MATTERS by Bruce Boston (Bad Moon Books)
Bruce Boston lives in Ocala, Florida, once known as The City of Trees, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon, and the ghosts of two cats. He is the
author of forty-seven books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener’s Tale and Stained Glass Rain. His fiction and poetry have appeared in
hundreds of publications and received a number of awards, most notably the
Bram Stoker Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Asimov's Readers' Award, the
Rhysling Award, and the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Poetry
Association. His graphic art and designs often surface online and in print. For
more information, visit www.bruceboston.com
WILD HUNT OF THE STARS by Ann K. Schwader (Sam's Dot)
Ann K. Schwader is the author of five poetry collections: Wild Hunt of the Stars (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2010), In the Yaddith Time (Mythos Books, 2007), Architectures of Night (Dark Regions Press, 2003), The Worms Remember (Hive Press, 2001), and Werewoman (Nocturnal Publications, 1990). A comprehensive collection of her weird verse (edited by S.T. Joshi) is forthcoming from Hippocampus Press.
Her fiction collection Strange Stars & Alien Shadows appeared in 2003 from Lindisfarne Press. Her stories have also been anthologized in Rehearsals For Oblivion, Horrors Beyond, Tales Out of Innsmouth, The Darker Side, and elsewhere.
Ann received a Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 2010. She is an active member of both HWA and SFWA, and a member of SFPA. Marge Simon will be accepting on Ann Schwader's behalf.
DIARY OF A GENTLEMAN DIABOLIST by Robin Spriggs (Anomalous Books)
Robin Spriggs is the author of Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist, Wondrous Strange: Tales of the Uncanny, The Dracula Poems, Capes & Cowls: Adventures in Wyrd City, and nearly 200 short stories and poems that have appeared in a wide variety of publications. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Rhysling Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and received honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. In another life, Spriggs is an actor. His performance as affable sociopath Alfonse Duncan in the rural noir Sinkhole was lauded by both Variety and Film Threat and honored with a Best Actor nomination by the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival. His next book, The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom, is due out in late 2011 from Double Feature Press.
VICIOUS ROMANTIC by Wrath James White (Needfire Poetry)
This is Wrath James White’s first Stoker Award nomination in any category.
