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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?
2011 Bram Stoker Award Nominees
The final ballot for the 2011 Bram Stoker Award has been announced. The nominees in the novel categories are:
Novel
- A Matrix Of Angels – Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)
- Cosmic Forces – Greg Lamberson (Medallion Press)
- Floating Staircase – Ronald Malfi (Medallion Press / Thunderstorm Books)
- Flesh Eaters – Joe McKinney (Pinnacle Books)
- Not Fade Away – Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon Books)
- The German – Lee Thomas (Lethe Press)
First Novel
- Isis Unbound – Allyson Bird (Dark Regions Press)
- Southern Gods – John Hornor Jacobs (Night Shade Books)
- The Lamplighters – Frazer Lee (Samhain Publishing)
- The Panama Laugh – Thomas S. Roche (Night Shade Books)
- That Which Should Not Be – Brett J. Talley (JournalStone)
Young Adult Novel
- Ghosts of Coronado Bay – J.G. Faherty (JournalStone)
- The Screaming Season – Nancy Holder (Razorbill)
- Rotters – Daniel Kraus (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
- Dust Decay – Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
- A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness (Candlewick / Walker)
- This Dark Endeavor – Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Schuster / David Fickling Books)
Congrats to all the nominees. See the complete list of nominees on the Horror Writers Association web site.
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.
