Final 2007 Stoker Ballot

Ellen Datlow writes in to tell us that the 2007 Stoker Ballot (presented by the Horror Writers Association) has gone final:

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL

• The Guardener’s Tale by Bruce Boston
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• The Missing by Sarah Langan
• The Terror by Dan Simmons

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL

• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• I Will Rise by Michael Calvillo
• The Memory Tree by John R. Little
• The Witch’s Trinity by Erika Mailman
• The Hollower by Mary SanGiovanni

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION

• Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway by Gary Braunbeck
• Almost The Last Story By Almost The Last Man by Scott Edelman
• General Slocum’s Gold by Nicholas Kaufmann
• The Tenth Muse by William Browning Spencer
• An Apiary Of White Bees by Lee Thomas

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION

• “The Death Wagon Rolls On By” by C. Dean Andersson
• “Letting Go” by John Everson
• “The Teacher” by Paul G. Tremblay
• “There’s No Light Between Floors” by Paul G. Tremblay
• “Closet Dreams” by Lisa Tuttle
• “The Gentle Brush Of Wings” by David Niall Wilson

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY

• Five Strokes To Midnight edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble
• Inferno edited by Ellen Datlow
• Dark Delicacies 2: Fear edited by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb
• Midnight Premiere edited by Tom Piccirilli
• At Ease With The Dead edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A COLLECTION

• Proverbs For Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen
• The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
• Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler
• 5 Stories by Peter Straub
• Defining Moments by David Niall Wilson

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION

• Encyclopedia Horrifica by Joshua Gee
• The Portable Obituary: How The Famous, Rich, And Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo
• the cryptopedia: a dictionary of the weird, strange & downright bizarre by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer
• Storytellers Unplugged by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN POETRY

• “Being Full Of Light, Insubstantial” by Linda Addison
• “Heresy” by Charlee Jacob
• “Vectors: A Week In The Death Of A Planet” by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon
• “Phantasmapedia” by Mark McLaughlin
• “Ossuary” by JoSelle Vanderhooft

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