NOMINEES: 2011 Bram Stoker Award [UPDATE]

The Horror Writers Association has announced the nominees for the 2011 Bram Stoker Award!

[UPDATE:The nominees below reflect an amendment in the list of Short Fiction nominees. After the Preliminary Ballot was completed and the initial list of nominees issued one work was found to be ineligible and was replaced by the work which received the next highest number of votes in the relevant Preliminary Ballot. The list below reflects the final nominees.]

• A Matrix Of Angels by Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)
• Cosmic Forces by Greg Lamberson (Medallion Press)
• Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi (Medallion Press / Thunderstorm Books)
• Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney (Pinnacle Books)
• Not Fade Away by Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon Books)
• The German by Lee Thomas (Lethe Press)

• Isis Unbound by Allyson Bird (Dark Regions Press)
• Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs (Night Shade Books)
• The Lamplighters by Frazer Lee (Samhain Publishing)
• The Panama Laugh by Thomas S. Roche (Night Shade Books)
• That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley (JournalStone)

• Ghosts of Coronado Bay, A Maya Blair Mystery by J.G. Faherty (JournalStone)
• The Screaming Season (Possessions) by Nancy Holder (Razorbill)
• Rotters by Daniel Kraus (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
• Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (Candlewick / Walker)
• This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Schuster / David Fickling Books)

• Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol (First Second) [See our review]
• Locke & Key Volume 4: Keys to the Kingdom TP by Joe Hill (IDW Publishing)
• Green River Killer: A True Detective Story by Jeff Jensen & Jonathan Case (Dark Horse)
• Baltimore Volume 1: The Plague Ships by Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden (Dark Horse Comics)
• Alan Moore’s Neonomicon by Alan Moore & Antony Johnston (Avatar Press)

• 7 Brains by Michael Louis Calvillo (Burning Effigy Press)
• “Roots and All” by Brian Hodge (A Book of Horrors)
• “The Colliers’ Venus (1893)” by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy)
• Ursa Major by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)
• Rusting Chickens by Gene O’Neill (Dark Regions Press)
• “The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine” by Peter Straub (Conjunctions: 56)

• “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed Magazine, October 2011)
• “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive” by Stephen King (The Atlantic Magazine, May
• 2011)
• “Hypergraphia” by Ken Lillie-Paetz (The Uninvited, Issue #1)
• “Graffiti Sonata” by Gene O’Neill (Dark Discoveries #18)
• “Home” by George Saunders (The New Yorker Magazine, June 13, 2011)
• “All You Can Do Is Breathe” by Kaaron Warren (Blood and Other Cravings)

• True Blood, episode #44: “Spellbound” by Alan Ball (HBO)
• The Walking Dead, episode #13: “Pretty Much Dead Already” by Scott M. Gimple (AMC)
• The Walking Dead, episode #9: “Save the Last One” by Scott M. Gimple (AMC)
• Priest by Cory Goodman (Screen Gems)
• The Adjustment Bureau by George Nolfi (Universal Pictures)
• American Horror Story, episode #12: “Afterbirth” by Jessica Sharzer (20th Century Fox Television)

• Voices: Tales of Horror by Lawrence C. Connolly (Fantasist Enterprises)
• Red Gloves Volume I & II [signed 2 volume slipcase] by Chrstopher Fowler (PS Publishing)
• Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One) by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
• Monsters of L.A. by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
• The Corn Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious Press)
• Multiplex Fandango by Weston Ochse (Dark Regions Press)

• Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers edited by Tracy L. Carboned (NEHW)
• Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense edited by Jack Dann & Nick Gevers (Harper Voyager)
• Blood and Other Cravings edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor Books)
• Supernatural Noir edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
• Tattered Souls 2 edited by Frank J. Hutton (Cutting Block Press)
• Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed edited by John Skipp (Black Dog & Leventhal)

• Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne (Pelican Publishing)
• Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu edited by Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers (Hippocampus Press)
• Starve Better by Nick Mamatas (Apex Publications)
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies by Matt Mogk (Gallery Books)
• The Gothic Imagination: Conversations on Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction in the Media by John C. Tibbetts (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Stephen King: A Literary Companion (McFarland Literary Companions) by Rocky Wood (McFarland)

• How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend: Necon Contemporary Horror by Linda Addison (CreateSpace)
• At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned & the Absinthe-Minded by Maria Alexander (Burning Effigy Press)
• Surrealities by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions Press)
• Shroud of Night by G. O. Clark (Dark Regions Press)
• The Mad Hattery by Marge Simon (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)
• Unearthly Delights by Marge Simon (Sam’s Dot)

The Awards will be presented at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 31.

Congratulation to all the nominees!