{"id":3116,"date":"2014-02-26T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2014-02-26T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T16:52:19","slug":"stoker-finalists-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/stoker-finalists-named\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoker Finalists Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for the Stoker ballot have been named! It&#8217;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&#8217;s not a surprise, guys). Yes, our reviewers are heroes. Any finalists who happen to be reading this&#8230; Please contact us at monsterlibrarian@monsterlibrarian.com so we can get this (heroic) party going!<\/p>\n<p>And now:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to present a particularly notable slate of nominees this year, showing the horror genre is strong and popular,\u201d Rocky Wood, the HWA\u2019s President, said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT: Voting begins on 2\/28 and ends on 3\/15. Only Active and Lifetime members can vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The nominees are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Superior Achievement in a Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>Joe Hill \u2013 NOS4A2 (William Morrow)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Stephen King \u2013 Doctor Sleep (Scribner)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Lisa Morton \u2013 Malediction (Evil Jester Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Sarah Pinborough and F. Paul Wilson \u2013 A Necessary End (Thunderstorm\/Maelstrom Press)<\/ul>\n<ul>Christopher Rice \u2013 The Heavens Rise (Gallery Books)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Superior Achievement in a First Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>Kate Jonez \u2013 Candy House (Evil Jester Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>John Mantooth \u2013 The Year of the Storm (Berkley Trade)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Rena Mason \u2013 The Evolutionist (Nightscape Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Jonathan Moore \u2013 Redheads (Samhain Publishing)<\/ul>\n<ul>Royce Prouty \u2013 Stoker\u2019s Manuscript (G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSuperior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>Patrick Freivald \u2013 Special Dead (JournalStone)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Kami Garcia \u2013 Unbreakable (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Geoffrey Girard \u2013 Project Cain (Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Joe McKinney \u2013 Dog Days (JournalStone)<\/ul>\n<ul>Cat Winters \u2013 In the Shadow of Blackbirds (Harry N. Abrams)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSuperior Achievement in a Graphic Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>Ed Brubaker \u2013 Fatale Book Three: West of Hell (Image Comics)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Caitlin R. Kiernan \u2013 Alabaster: Wolves (Dark Horse Comics)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Brandon Seifert \u2013 Witch Doctor, Vol. 2: Mal Practice (Image Comics)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Cameron Stewart \u2013 Sin Titulo (Dark Horse Comics)<\/ul>\n<ul>Paul Tobin \u2013 Colder (Dark Horse Comics)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSuperior Achievement in Long Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>Dale Bailey \u2013 \u201cThe Bluehole\u201d (The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction, May\/June 2013)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Gary Braunbeck \u2013 \u201cThe Great Pity\u201d (Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Benjamin K. Ethridge \u2013 \u201cThe Slaughter Man\u201d (Limbus, Inc., JournalStone)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Gregory Frost \u2013 \u201cNo Others Are Genuine\u201d (Asimov\u2019s Science Fiction, Oct.\/Nov. 2013)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Greg F. Gifune \u2013 House of Rain (DarkFuse)<\/ul>\n<ul>Rena Mason \u2013 East End Girls (JournalStone)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Superior Achievement in Short Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>Michael Bailey \u2013 \u201cPrimal Tongue\u201d (Zippered Flesh 2, Smart Rhino Publications)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Patrick Freivald \u2013 \u201cSnapshot\u201d (Blood &amp; Roses, Scarlett River Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>David Gerrold \u2013 \u201cNight Train to Paris\u201d (The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction, Jan.\/Feb. 2013)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Lisa Mannetti \u2013 \u201cThe Hunger Artist\u201d (Zippered Flesh 2, Smart Rhino Publications)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>John Palisano \u2013 \u201cThe Geminis\u201d (Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards)<\/ul>\n<ul>Michael Reaves \u2013 \u201cCode 666\u201d (The Magazine of Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction, March\/April 2013)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSuperior Achievement in a Screenplay<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>Fabien Adda and Fabrice Gobert \u2013 The Returned: \u201cThe Horde\u201d (Ramaco Media I, Castelao Pictures)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Brad Falchuk \u2013 American Horror Story: Asylum: \u201cSpilt Milk\u201d (Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision, Ryan Murphy Productions)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Bryan Fuller \u2013 Hannibal: \u201cAp\u00e9ritif\u201d (Dino De Laurentiis Company, Living Dead Guy Productions, AXN: Original X Production, Gaumont International Television)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Daniel Knauf \u2013 Dracula: \u201cA Whiff of Sulfur\u201d (Flame Ventures, Playground, Universal Television, Carnival Films<\/ul>\n<ul>Glen Mazzara \u2013 The Walking Dead: \u201cWelcome to the Tombs\u201d (AMC TV)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSuperior Achievement in an Anthology<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>R.J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris (ed.) \u2013 Horror Library: Volume 5 (Cutting Block Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Eric J. Guignard (ed.) \u2013 After Death\u2026 (Dark Moon Books)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Michael Knost and Nancy Eden Siegel (ed.) \u2013 Barbers &amp; Beauties (Hummingbird House Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (ed.) \u2013 The Grimscribe\u2019s Puppets (Miskatonic River Press)<\/ul>\n<ul>Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson (ed.) \u2013 Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror, Volume One (Grey Matter Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>Nathan Ballingrud \u2013 North American Lake Monsters: Stories (Small Beer Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Laird Barron \u2013 The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories (Night Shade Books)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>James Dorr \u2013 The Tears of Isis (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Caitlin R. Kiernan \u2013 The Ape\u2019s Wife and Other Stories (Subterranean)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Gene O\u2019Neill \u2013 Dance of the Blue Lady (Bad Moon Books)<\/ul>\n<ul>S. P. Somtow \u2013 Bible Stories for Secular Humanists (Diplodocus Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nSuperior Achievement in Non-Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan (ed.) \u2013 Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (Fairleigh Dickinson)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Gary William Crawford (ed.) \u2013 Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror (Scarecrow Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>William F. Nolan \u2013 Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction (Hippocampus Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Jarkko Toikkanen \u2013 The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures (Palgrave Macmillan)<\/ul>\n<ul>Robert H. Waugh (ed.) \u2013 Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors (Scarecrow Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>Bruce Boston \u2013 Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 (Dark Renaissance Books)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Helen Marshall \u2013 The Sex Lives of Monsters (Kelp Queen Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Marge Simon and Sandy DeLuca \u2013 Dangerous Dreams (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison \u2013 Four Elements (Bad Moon Books\/Evil Jester Press)<\/ul>\n<ul>Stephanie M. Wytovich \u2013 Hysteria: A Collection of Madness (Raw Dog Screaming Press)<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HWA\u2019s voting members will now vote on this Final Ballot, with voting closing on March 31 (only Active and Lifetime Members are eligible to vote).<\/p>\n<p>The Bram Stoker Awards\u00ae will be presented at the 27th annual Bram Stoker Awards\u00ae 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finalists for the Stoker ballot have been named! It&#8217;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&#8217;s not a surprise, guys). 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