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2011 Bram Stoker Award Winners
The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. The winners in the novel categories are:
- Novel: Flesh Eaters – Joe McKinney (Pinnacle Books)
- First Novel: Isis Unbound – Allyson Bird (Dark Regions Press)
- Young Adult Novel (tie): The Screaming Season – Nancy Holder (Razorbill)
- Young Adult Novel (tie): Dust & Decay – Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
The HWA also presented a special one-time only Vampire Novel of the Century Award to: Richard Matheson for his modern classic I Am Legend. The jury for this award was chaired by Dracula expert Leslie S. Klinger. How would you like to have that on your resume?
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees! So what do you think of the results?
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I wholeheartedly agree with the award for I Am Legend, which sadly has not been represented well at all in its film adaptations. It’s a great meditation on being alone and the last man on earth as well as being a great vampire novel. Klinger is a neat Dracula scholar as well. He has an annotated version of the book that treats it as though it was a real historical document. All of the inaccuracies or oversights in the text are treated as some kind of lie or misrepresentation or deliberate omission by the characters (since the book is a collection of their journals, diaries, etc.). Definitely worth reading, as is I Am Legend!
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