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Ann Aguirre Wins A RITA for Enclave

People are sometimes surprised to realize that romance and horror have the same roots, but every once in awhile we get to see where they intertwine, and this is one of those times. Ann Aguirre, known for her dark and gritty urban fantasy and paranormal fiction for adults,  just won the RITA for Young Adult Romance for her post-apocalyptic novel Enclave, which we reviewed here.

Congratulations, Ann!

 

Shirley Jackson Awards Announced

The Shirley Jackson Awards for 2011 were announced earlier this month in Burlington, Massachusetts at Readercon 23, Conference on Imaginative Literature. The awards honor outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. There are a lot of familiar names on the list…  some of the nominees were also candidates for the 2011 Stoker Awards (“The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine” by Peter Straub, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates, Red Gloves by Christopher Fowler, Supernatural Noir edited by Ellen Datlow, Blood and Other Cravings edited by Ellen Datlow, and Ghosts by Gaslight edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers), and there are others that we reviewed on there as well (The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan, and Teeth edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling). I was also excited to see that Kelly Link and Kit Reed  appeared on the list.  The entire list of nominees and winners is below. Congratulations, all!

2011 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners

NOVEL

WINNER:

Witches on the Road Tonight, Sheri Holman (Grove Press)

Finalists:

  • The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock (Doubleday)
  • The Dracula Papers, Reggie Oliver (Chômu Press)
  • The Great Lover, Michael Cisco (Chômu Press)
  • Knock Knock, S. P. Miskowski (Omnium Gatherum Media)
  • The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan (Canongate Books, Ltd.-UK / Alfred A. Knopf-US)

NOVELLA

WINNER:

“Near Zennor,” Elizabeth Hand (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)

Finalists:

  • “And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living,” Deborah Biancotti (Ishtar, Gilgamesh Press)
  • “A Child’s Problem,” Reggie Oliver (A Book of Horrors, Jo Fletcher Books)
  • “Displacement,” Michael Marano (Stories from the Plague Years, Cemetery Dance Publications)
  • The Men Upstairs, Tim Waggoner (Delirium Books)
  • “Rose Street Attractors,” Lucius Shepard (Ghosts by Gaslight, Harper Voyager)

NOVELETTE

WINNER:

“The Summer People,” Kelly Link (Tin House 49/Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, Candlewick Press)

Finalists:

  • “The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine,” Peter Straub (Conjunctions 56)
  • “Ditch Witch,” Lucius Shepard (Supernatural Noir, Dark Horse)
  • “The Last Triangle,” Jeffrey Ford (Supernatural Noir, Dark Horse)
  • “Omphalos,” Livia Llewellyn (Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, Lethe Press)

SHORT FICTION

WINNER:

“The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece,” M. Rickert (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept/Oct, 2011)

Finalists:

  • “Absolute Zero,” Nadia Bulkin (Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters, Prime Books)
  • “Hair,” Joan Aiken (The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories, Small Beer Press/ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/Aug, 2011)
  • “Max,” Jason Ockert (The Iowa Review 41/1)
  • “Sunbleached,” Nathan Ballingrud (Teeth, HarperCollins)
  • “Things to Know About Being Dead,” Genevieve Valentine (Teeth, HarperCollins)

SINGLE-AUTHOR COLLECTION

WINNER:

After the Apocalypse: Stories, Maureen F. McHugh (Small Beer Press)

Finalists:

  • The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious Press)
  • Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, Livia Llewellyn (Lethe Press)
  • The Janus Tree, Glen Hirshberg (Subterranean Press)
  • Red Gloves, Christopher Fowler (PS Publishing)
  • What Wolves Know, Kit Reed (PS Publishing)

EDITED ANTHOLOGY

WINNER:

Ghosts by Gaslight, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers (Harper Voyager)

Finalists:

  • Blood and Other Cravings, edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
  • A Book of Horrors, edited by Stephen Jones (Jo Fletcher Books)
  • Supernatural Noir, edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse)
  • Teeth, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (HarperCollins)
  • The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Harper Voyager)

 

 

 

2010 Bram Stoker Winners Announced

The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2010 Bram Stoker Awards.

The Stoker Awards are choice awards. Works can be recommended by any member of the HWA. Members then vote works onto a preliminary ballot. From there the field is narrowed to the final ballot. Active members of HWA choose the winner. I will say this- while we didn’t review all the nominees on the preliminary ballot, you can find reviews of many of the books on MonsterLibrarian.com, highly recommended. Congratulations to the many fine writers whose works were and are recognized as the winners of the Stoker Awards were chosen.

Librarians have a great opportunity to promote the horror genre and showcase nominees and winners of the Stoker Awards by consulting the HWA’s list of current and past winners and nominees. Lists going back to 1987 can be found on the HWA’s website. So go on, clear off some shelf space, and put these award winning books out where the public can see. I am sure most people are already aware of Stephen King, but there are a lot of names on these lists that should be better known. For your convenience, I’m listing the 2010 award winners below.

Superior Achievement in a Novel
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub (Doubleday/Orion)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel (Tie)
Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Bad Moon Books)
The Castle of Los Angeles by Lisa Morton (Gray Friar Press)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Invisible Fences by Norman Prentiss (Cemetery Dance)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
“The Folding Man” by Joe R. Lansdale (from Haunted Legends)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Haunted Legends edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas (Tor)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King (Simon and Schuster)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck (Apex Publications)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Dark Matters by Bruce Boston (Bad Moon Books)

Again, congratulations to the winners. Go check them out!