Final 2009 Stoker Ballot
*I found this lost in my drafts.
Congrats to all the nominees!!
The 2009 Stoker Awards Final Ballot has been released:
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Audrey’s Door, Sarah Langan (Harper)
Patient Zero, Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Quarantined, Joe McKinney (Lachesis)
Cursed, Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Breathers, S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)
Solomon’s Grave, Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)
Damnable, Hank Schwaeble (Jove)
The Little Sleep, Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Dreaming Robot Monster, Mort Castle (Mighty Unclean)
The Hunger of Empty Vessels, Scott Edelman (Bad Moon)
The Lucid Dreaming, Lisa Morton (Bad Moon)
Doc Good’s Traveling Show, Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
“Keeping Watch”, Nate Kenyon (Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror)
“The Crossing of Aldo Ray”, Weston Ochse (The Dead That Walk)
“In the Porches of My Ears”, Norman Prentiss (Postscripts 18)
“The Night Nurse”, Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-In 7/09)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, Christopher Conlon, ed. (Gauntlet)
Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
Poe, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)
Midnight Walk, Lisa Morton, ed. (Dark House)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Martyrs and Monsters, Robert Dunbar (DarkHart)
Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories, Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)
A Taste of Tenderloin, Gene O’Neill (Apex)
In the Closet, Under the Bed, Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe)
Superior Achievement in Non-fiction
Writers Workshop of Horror, Michael Knost (Woodland)
Cinema Knife Fight, L.L. Soares & Michael Arruda (Fearzone)
The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, Bev Vincent (Fall River)
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction, Rocky Wood & Justin Brook (Cemetery Dance)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Double Visions, Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)
North Left of Earth, Bruce Boston (Sam’s Dot)
Barfodder, Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)
Chimeric Machines, Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy)