March
30
Stoker Awards
The Stoker Awards are being presented tonight at WHC in Salt Lake City. The Stokers will be shown live, streaming at http://www.iscifi.tv/live/.
The 2007 Final list of Nominees is below. I will post the winners after the show.
Superior Achievement in a Novel
- THE GUARDENER’S TALE by Bruce Boston (Sam’s Dot Publishing)
- HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
- THE MISSING by Sarah Langan (Harper)
- THE TERROR by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
- HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
- I WILL RISE by Michael Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing)
- THE MEMORY TREE by John R. Little (Nocturne Press)
- THE WITCH’S TRINITY by Erika Mailman (Crown)
- THE HOLLOWER by Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
- AFTERWARD, THERE WILL BE A HALLWAY by Gary Braunbeck (Five Strokes to Midnight)
- ALMOST THE LAST STORY BY ALMOST THE LAST MAN by Scott Edelman (Postscripts)
- GENERAL SLOCUM’S GOLD by Nicholas Kaufmann (Burning Effigy Press)
- THE TENTH MUSE by William Browning Spencer
- AN APIARY OF WHITE BEES by Lee Thomas (Inferno)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
- THE DEATH WAGON ROLLS ON BY by C. Dean Andersson (Cemetery Dance #57)
- LETTING GO by John Everson (Needles and Sins)
- THE TEACHER by Paul G. Tremblay (Chizine)
- THERE’S NO LIGHT BETWEEN FLOORS by Paul G. Tremblay (Clarkesworld)
- CLOSET DREAMS by Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts #10)
- THE GENTLE BRUSH OF WINGS by David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
- FIVE STROKES TO MIDNIGHT edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble (Haunted Pelican Press)
- INFERNO edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
- DARK DELICACIES 2: FEAR edited by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf/Avalon)
- MIDNIGHT PREMIERE edited by Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications)
- AT EASE WITH THE DEAD edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)
Superior Achievement in a Collection
- PROVERBS FOR MONSTERS by Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions Press)
- THE IMAGO SEQUENCE by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books
- OLD DEVIL MOON by Christopher Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)
- 5 STORIES by Peter Straub (Borderlands)
- DEFINING MOMENTS by David Niall Wilson (Sarob Press)
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction
- ENCYCLOPEDIA HORRIFICA by Joshua Gee (Scholastic)
- THE PORTABLE OBITUARY: HOW THE FAMOUS, RICH, AND POWERFUL REALLY DIED by Michael Largo (Harper)
- THE CRYPTOPEDIA: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press / Kensington)
- STORYTELLERS UNPLUGGED by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson (Storytellers Unplugged)
Superior Achievement in Poetry
- BEING FULL OF LIGHT, INSUBSTANTIAL by Linda Addison (Space and Time)
- HERESY by Charlee Jacob (Bedlam Press [Necro Publications])
- VECTORS: A WEEK IN THE DEATH OF A PLANET by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Regions Press)
- PHANTASMAPEDIA by Mark McLaughlin (Dead Letter Press)
- OSSUARY by JoSelle Vanderhooft (Sam’s Dot Publishing)