3 RDSP Titles Make the 2016 Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards
RDSP Titles on the 2016 Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award
The HWA has announced the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award (full list below) and we are excited to see 3 of our releases from 2016 are included.
This is not the final ballot so these books aren’t official nominees. However, we’re honored that they are being considered to be included in the final ballot. Congratulations to Maria Alexander, Matt Betts and Stephanie Wytovich!
Snowed by Maria Alexander
(Superior Achievement in a YA Novel)
Underwater Fistfight by Matt Betts
(Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection)
Brothel by Stephanie M. Wytovich
(Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection)
We’re also excited to see that Stephanie Wytovich’s first novel, The Eighth, published by Dark Regions Press made the list.
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Fenn, J. Lincoln – Dead Souls (Gallery Books)
Hand, Elizabeth – Hard Light: A Cass Neary Crime Novel (Minotaur Books)
Heuvelt, Thomas Olde – Hex (Tor Books)
Jones, Stephen Graham – Mongrels (William Morrow)
Langan, John – The Fisherman (Word Horde)
Lombardi, Nicola – The Tank (Dunwich Edizioni)
MacLeod, Bracken – Stranded: A Novel (Tor Books)
Murray, Lee – Into the Mist (Cohesion Press)
Prentiss, Norman– Odd Adventures with your Other Father (Kindle Press)
Schaller, Eric – Meet Me in the Middle of the Air (Undertow Publications)
Schwaeble, Hank – American Nocturne (Cohesion Press)
Sutton, Pete – A Tiding of Magpies (Kensington Gore Publishing)
Wehunt, Michael – Greener Pastures (Shock Totem Publications)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Alvarez, Fede and Sayagues, Rodo – DON’T BREATHE (Ghost House Pictures, Good Universe)
Campbell, Josh, Chazelle, Damien, and Stuecken, Matthew – 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (Paramount Pictures)
Catlin, Sam, Rogen, Seth, and Goldberg, Evan – PREACHER: PILOT (Episode1:0) (AMC)
Duffer, Matt and Duffer, Ross – STRANGER THINGS: THE VANISHING OF WILL BYERS (Episode 01: Chapter One) (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre)
Duffer, Matt and Duffer, Ross – STRANGER THINGS: THE UPSIDE DOWN (Episode 01: Chapter Eight) (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre)
Eggers, Robert – THE VVITCH (Parts and Labor, RT Features, Rooks Nest Entertainment, Code Red Productions, Scythia Films, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Mott Street Pictures, Pulse Films, and Very Special Projects)
Gimple, Scott M. – THE WALKING DEAD: THE DAY WILL COME WHEN YOU WON’T BE (Episode 07:01) (AMC)
Hayes, Carey, Hayes, Chad, Wan, James and Johnson, David – THE CONJURING 2 (New Line Cinema)
Logan, John – PENNY DREADFUL: A BLADE OF GRASS (Episode 03:04) Showtime Presents in association with SKY, Desert Wolf Productions, Neal Street Productions)
Nichols, Jeff – MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Warner Bros.)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Bailey, Michael – Chiral Mad 3 (Written Backwards)
Bennett, T.C. and Carbone, Tracy L. – Cemetery Riots (Awol From Elysium Press)
Dabrowski, Lisa – Horror from the Inside Out (Whorror House)
Johnson, Eugene and Day, Charles – Drive-In Creature Feature (Evil Jester Press)
Kahle, Pete – Not Your Average Monster, Vol. 2: A Menagerie of Vile Beasts (Bloodshot Books)
Manzetti, Alessandro – The Beauty of Death (Independent Legions Publishing)
Manzetti, Alessandro and di Orazio, Paolo – The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly (Kipple Officina Libraria)
Monteleone, Thomas F. and Monteleone, Oliva F. – Borderlands 6 (Samhain Publishing, Ltd.)
Mosiman, Billie Sue – Fright Mare-Women Write Horror (DM Publishing)
Murano, Doug and Ward, D. Alexander – Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Rivera, Anthony and Lawson, Sharon – Peel Back the Skin (Grey Matter Press)
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
Braudy, Leo. Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural (Yale University Press)
Franklin, Ruth – Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
Ocker, J.W. A Season with the Witch (Countryman Press)
Olson, Danel P. – Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth”: Studies in the Horror Film (Centipede Press)
Poole, W. Scott. In the Mountains of Madness: The Life, Death and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft (Soft Skull Press)
Skal, David J. – Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote
Dracula (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
Tibbetts, John. The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub (McFarland)
Towlson, Jon. The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 (McFarland)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Betts, Matt – Underwater Fistfight (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Boston, Bruce and Manzetti, Alessandro – Sacrificial Nights (Kipple Officina Libraria)
Collings, Michael R. – Corona Obscura: Poems Dark and Elemental (self-published)
Cowen, David E. – The Seven Yards of Sorrow (Weasel Press)
DiLouie, Craig and Moon, Jonathan – Children of God: Poems, Dreams, and Nightmares from the Family of God Cult (ZING Communications, Inc., Jonathan Moon.)
Gailey, Jeannine Hall – Field Guide to the End of the World: Poems (Moon City Press)
Lepovetsky, Lisa – Voices from Empty Rooms (Alban Lake)
Lopez III, Aurelio Rico – Two Drinks Away from Chaos (Azoth Khem Publishing)
Simon, Marge. – Small Spirits (Midnight Town Media)
Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Brothel (Raw Dog Screaming Press)