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Horror Writers Association Reading List
As part of our relentless efforts to add every celebrated genre novel to our site, we have finally begun adding novels explicitly in the Horror genre to WWEnd. While many books in our database have arguably been more Horror than Science Fiction or Fantasy, our excuse was that they could still be labelled as Dark Fantasy or that they had some elements of Science Fiction. October, appropriately enough, is going to see an expansion of WWEnd into the Horror genre, and while we haven’t quite yet added enough books to fill the historical records of any Horror awards, we decided to go ahead and gather together a genre reading list, and the Horror Writers Association’s Horror Reading List fit the bill perfectly. Here’s how they describe the list:
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) was formed, in part, to foster a greater appreciation of dark fiction among members of the general public. Whether you are new to Horror, or simply want to become familiar with some of the classics and ‘bests’ of dark fiction, the following books are a wonderful place to begin.
Also be on the lookout for an upcoming series of blog posts starting this week from Rico and I about some of our favorite scary books.
2011 British Fantasy Society Award
The results for the 2011 British Fantasy Society Awards have been announced at Fantasycon in Brighton, England. The award for best novel, also known as the August Derleth Award, goes to:
Demon Dance by Sam Stone (The House of Murky Depths, 2010)
Demon Dance is book 3 of the Vampire Gene Trilogy. Book 2, Futile Flame, was nominated for the 2010 BFS. Congratulations to Sam Stone and all the nominees.
There is no official press release yet but you can see the complete list of winners for all categories on Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews website.
Update 10/06/11: Locus is reporting that BFS Best Novel winner, Sam Stone, is returning her prize over alleged improprieties in how the awards were managed this year.
Philip K. Dickathon: Dr. Futurity
Guest Blogger and WWEnd Member, Charles Dee Mitchell, has contributed a great many book reviews to WWEnd and we’ve invited him to contribute to our blog. This is the latest in Dee’s series of Philip K. Dick reviews that he started on his blog www.potatoweather.blogspot.com. We’ll be posting one every week until he runs out of reviews or gets tired of Philip K. Dick books.
I hope Phil was able to pay some bills with whatever money he got from Dr. Futurity. It is filled with the kind of prose that sounds like the author is thinking through what his character might do next, making notes rather than telling a story.
This one is definitely for completists only.
