Home » 2014 » February (Page 2)

Stoker Finalists Named

The finalists for the Stoker ballot have been named! It’s unbelievable that Women in Horror Month is already drawing to an end and it will soon be Stoker time! As in past years, we at ML will make a heroic effort to review the finalists (I hope that’s not a surprise, guys). Yes, our reviewers are heroes. Any finalists who happen to be reading this… Please contact us at monsterlibrarian@monsterlibrarian.com so we can get this (heroic) party going!

And now:

“We are proud to present a particularly notable slate of nominees this year, showing the horror genre is strong and popular,” Rocky Wood, the HWA’s President, said.

IMPORTANT: Voting begins on 2/28 and ends on 3/15. Only Active and Lifetime members can vote.

The nominees are:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

      Joe Hill – NOS4A2 (William Morrow)
      Stephen King – Doctor Sleep (Scribner)
      Lisa Morton – Malediction (Evil Jester Press)
      Sarah Pinborough and F. Paul Wilson – A Necessary End (Thunderstorm/Maelstrom Press)
      Christopher Rice – The Heavens Rise (Gallery Books)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

      Kate Jonez – Candy House (Evil Jester Press)
      John Mantooth – The Year of the Storm (Berkley Trade)
      Rena Mason – The Evolutionist (Nightscape Press)
      Jonathan Moore – Redheads (Samhain Publishing)
      Royce Prouty – Stoker’s Manuscript (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)


Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

      Patrick Freivald – Special Dead (JournalStone)
      Kami Garcia – Unbreakable (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
      Geoffrey Girard – Project Cain (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
      Joe McKinney – Dog Days (JournalStone)
      Cat Winters – In the Shadow of Blackbirds (Harry N. Abrams)


Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

      Ed Brubaker – Fatale Book Three: West of Hell (Image Comics)
      Caitlin R. Kiernan – Alabaster: Wolves (Dark Horse Comics)
      Brandon Seifert – Witch Doctor, Vol. 2: Mal Practice (Image Comics)
      Cameron Stewart – Sin Titulo (Dark Horse Comics)
      Paul Tobin – Colder (Dark Horse Comics)


Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

      Dale Bailey – “The Bluehole” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2013)
      Gary Braunbeck – “The Great Pity” (Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards)
      Benjamin K. Ethridge – “The Slaughter Man” (Limbus, Inc., JournalStone)
      Gregory Frost – “No Others Are Genuine” (Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct./Nov. 2013)
      Greg F. Gifune – House of Rain (DarkFuse)
      Rena Mason – East End Girls (JournalStone)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

      Michael Bailey – “Primal Tongue” (Zippered Flesh 2, Smart Rhino Publications)
      Patrick Freivald – “Snapshot” (Blood & Roses, Scarlett River Press)
      David Gerrold – “Night Train to Paris” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan./Feb. 2013)
      Lisa Mannetti – “The Hunger Artist” (Zippered Flesh 2, Smart Rhino Publications)
      John Palisano – “The Geminis” (Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards)
      Michael Reaves – “Code 666” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2013)


Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

      Fabien Adda and Fabrice Gobert – The Returned: “The Horde” (Ramaco Media I, Castelao Pictures)
      Brad Falchuk – American Horror Story: Asylum: “Spilt Milk” (Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision, Ryan Murphy Productions)
      Bryan Fuller – Hannibal: “Apéritif” (Dino De Laurentiis Company, Living Dead Guy Productions, AXN: Original X Production, Gaumont International Television)
      Daniel Knauf – Dracula: “A Whiff of Sulfur” (Flame Ventures, Playground, Universal Television, Carnival Films
      Glen Mazzara – The Walking Dead: “Welcome to the Tombs” (AMC TV)


Superior Achievement in an Anthology

      R.J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris (ed.) – Horror Library: Volume 5 (Cutting Block Press)
      Eric J. Guignard (ed.) – After Death… (Dark Moon Books)
      Michael Knost and Nancy Eden Siegel (ed.) – Barbers & Beauties (Hummingbird House Press)
      Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (ed.) – The Grimscribe’s Puppets (Miskatonic River Press)
      Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson (ed.) – Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror, Volume One (Grey Matter Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

      Nathan Ballingrud – North American Lake Monsters: Stories (Small Beer Press)
      Laird Barron – The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories (Night Shade Books)
      James Dorr – The Tears of Isis (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
      Caitlin R. Kiernan – The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories (Subterranean)
      Gene O’Neill – Dance of the Blue Lady (Bad Moon Books)
      S. P. Somtow – Bible Stories for Secular Humanists (Diplodocus Press)


Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

      Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan (ed.) – Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (Fairleigh Dickinson)
      Gary William Crawford (ed.) – Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror (Scarecrow Press)
      William F. Nolan – Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction (Hippocampus Press)
      Jarkko Toikkanen – The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures (Palgrave Macmillan)
      Robert H. Waugh (ed.) – Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors (Scarecrow Press)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

      Bruce Boston – Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 (Dark Renaissance Books)
      Helen Marshall – The Sex Lives of Monsters (Kelp Queen Press)
      Marge Simon and Sandy DeLuca – Dangerous Dreams (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)
      Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison – Four Elements (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press)
      Stephanie M. Wytovich – Hysteria: A Collection of Madness (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

HWA’s voting members will now vote on this Final Ballot, with voting closing on March 31 (only Active and Lifetime Members are eligible to vote).

The Bram Stoker Awards® will be presented at the 27th annual Bram Stoker Awards® Banquet held during the WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2014 in Portland, Oregon, on May 10th. Purchase of tickets to both the convention and the banquet are open to the public. The awards will also be live-streamed online for those who cannot attend in person.

Posted on February 26, 2014 by , Reply

Women in Horror Fiction: Resource on Black Women Writers of Horror Now Available

 

Author Sumiko Saulson has compiled a great resource, 60 Black Women In Horror Fiction, which is now available on Smashwords for free. February being both Black History Month and Women in Horror Month, this is a perfect choice to add to your reader’s advisory resources. Saulson based the short book on blog posts she has written over the past few years that provided short biographies of  followed up with interviews from some well known black women authors, including Jemiah Jackson and Linda Addison.  The women Saulson profiled have authored books from all over the spectrum, including erotica, urban fantasy, poetry, and science fiction… but all of them have published something that qualifies them as writers in the horror genre.

 

RA librarians, you’ll definitely want to check this out. The price couldn’t be any better, that’s for sure! Many thanks to Sumiko Saulson for compiling this reference– she’s an inspiration!

Posted on February 26, 2014 by , Reply

Women in Horror Fiction: Karen H. Koehler

Planet of Dinosaurs, The Complete Collection (Includes Planet of Dinosaurs, Sea of Serpents, & Valley of Dragons)Karen H. Koehler is a versatile writer who has written everything from kaiju novels to paranormal-tinged steampunk and noir. She is the author of  the stand alone novels Scarabus (KHP 2002), Raiju: The Kaiju Hunter  (K.H. Koehler Books 2010), Black Jack Derringer: The Complete Collection (K.H. Koehler Books 2011),  and Tales for 3 o”Clock in the Morning (K.H. Koehler Books 2012). She has also written several series, including    The Blackburn and Scarletti Mysteries and  the Slayer trilogy (both from KHP) , the Sasha Strange Chronicles, the Horrorotica Collection, the Nick Englebrecht books, and the Mrs. McGillicuddy Mysteries (all from K.H. Koehler Books), and the Anti-Heroes serial, written with Louise Bohmer (Anti-Heroes Press, 2013) She is the owner of K.H. Koehler Books. Her short work has appeared in the Bram-Stoker winning anthology Demons, edited by John Skipp, among other places.

 

1.) Can you give our readers a brief introduction?

 

I started writing books going all the way back to second grade, when I wrote, drew and stapled together a dinosaur book (rather unexpectedly, I might add) for my grade-school teacher. By the time I reached high school, I was regularly writing creepy little gothic, horror and science fiction stories all over the place. They were garbage, of course, but they lead me to reading Stephan King, Anne Rice, Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, and countless other authors in a huge array of genres. Wonderful brain food for a young girl with a slightly spooky, overactive imagination! Now I attempt to emulate those authors with my own unique twist on the genres. It seemed a natural progression.

 

2.) Why do you write horror?  What draws you to the genre?

 

 
I have a lot of anger management issues, admittedly, and, yes, typing up carnal destruction does help feel the mental alligators. But, essentially, I write it because I believe horror is truly the most psychological of all genres. It’s the genre that dives deepest into the human psyche, tearing loose all the most primal concerns of the human race and putting them on morbid display: loneliness, fear, death, change. I guess I enjoy trying to figure out what makes humans tick.
 
3.) Can you describe your writing style or the tone you prefer to set  for your stories?

 

I’m a fairly eclectic writer, and I’ve been known to change voice and style frequently, depending on the sub-genre of the project or the particular needs of the story. In fact, some readers have trouble recognizing that I’ve written certain books at all, especially my pulp series like The Scorpion or Nick Englebrecht because those books are written in a decided “male” voice, you might say. But overall, when in “horror mode”–as opposed to, say, “pulp mode,” “steampunk mode”, or “mystery mode”–I usually try to convey feelings of isolation and oppression in my work. I’m interested in the inner workings of the damaged loner, the anti-hero, the freak, the castoff from society, the villain. I have to say I love the jaded, reluctant, sometimes even misanthropic voice of the Byronic Hero.

 
4.) Who are some of your influences?  Are there any women authors who  have particularly inspired you to write?

 

I’ve loved many authors over the years (from afar!). Probably the most influential are Poppy Z. Brite, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, and many of the pulp writers like Walter B. Gibson and Norvell. W. Page. More recently, I’ve come to love the ultra-clean, “power-ballad” styles of authors like Louise Bohmer and Christa Faust. They’re like a modern, more sadistic version, of Ernest Hemingway. I secretly owe them much as they have helped clean up my, at times, purplish–or, at least, mauve–prose.

 

5.) What authors do you like to read?  Any recommendations?

 

See above! You cannot go wrong with any of them.

 

6.) Where can readers find your work?
 
My ebooks are available from all the usual suspects, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Nook and Smashwords. Recently, I started offering them at All Romance/Omnilit as well–a wonderful and often-overlooked resource for selling your work, I find.

 

7.) Is there anything else you’d like to share with librarians or readers?

 

Only that I appreciate all my fans’ support and that their feedback is always vitally important to me. Reviews are always welcomed and I love listening to my readers’ opinions. It helps me shape my future works.

 

Want to learn more? Visit Karen Koehler’s blog— it has links to all of her books at a variety of online bookstores.
Posted on February 26, 2014 by , Reply
First « 12345 » Last