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The Bram Stoker Award
As part of WWEnd’s Month of Horrors, we have added the first book award to the site in years: The Bram Stoker Award. This Horror-related award was formed in 1987 by the Horror Writer’s Association. Here’s how the HWA describes the award:
Each year, the Horror Writer’s Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement, named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula…. To ameliorate the competitive nature of any award system, the Bram Stoker Awards are given “for superior achievement,” not for “best of the year,” and the rules are deliberately designed to make ties possible. The first awards were presented in 1988 (for works published in 1987) and they have been presented every year since. The award itself is an eight-inch replica of a fanciful haunted house, designed specifically for HWA by sculptor Steven Kirk. The door of the house opens to reveal a brass plaque engraved with the name of the winning work and its author.
The addition of the Stoker has brought with it such famed authors as Alice Sebold, Stewart O’Nan and Joyce Carol Oates—adding Dante Alighieri to the site was just for fun, really—so check it out and see what strikes your fancy… or strikes terror in your heart.
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This site just keeps getting better and better. Love the new additions, hope to read some of them soon.
@ADDkid: Thanks! We aim to please. This is the first new award in some time so we’re excited to finally get this one done.
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