And the [first round] nominees are announced.... But only a select few are allowed to vote on the ballots that
count. Well... we can't have that! Who would you vote for? Show us in the horror-web's annuals 'everyday joe gets to vote for stokers'
game...
Here is the full roster of categories/nominees... please use this thread for discussion of said roster, awards, etc. and i'm off to make some
polls--please use those to let us know who you, joe public, would vote for!!
Edit #1: bolded the ones we voted for, ** denotes our high vote/winner
Edit #2: true final ballots are in black [congrats to the nominees!!]-those that didn't make the cut, in gray. Note how many of our choices didn't make it!! And note the lack of bold in the final ballots?! Guess we didn't vote for the right people... [italics are those that were added by committee that were not previously on the ballot]
Superior Achievement in a Novel
The Guardener's
Tale by Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot)
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
The Missing by Sarah Langan (Harper)
The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
Dead Man's Song by Jonathan Maberry (Pinnacle)
Mr. Hands by Gary Braunbeck (Leisure)
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer Press)
The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)
The Dust of Wonderland by Lee Thomas (Alyson Books)
Ghoul by Brian Keene (Leisure) **
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
I Will Rise by Michael Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing)
The Memory Tree by John R. Little (Nocturne Press)
The Hollower by Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books)
The Witch's Trinity by Erika Mailman (Crown)
Dying to Live by Kim Paffenroth (Permuted Press) **
Vacation by Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog
Screaming Press)
Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines by D. L. Snell (Permuted Press)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway by Gary Braunbeck
(Five Strokes to Midnight)
Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man by Scott Edelman (Postscripts)
General Slocum's Gold by Nicholas Kaufmann (Burning Effigy Press) **
The Tenth Muse by William Browning Spencer
An Apiary of White Bees by Lee Thomas (Inferno)
Survival of the Fittest by Scott Edelman (Summer Chills)
You Never Got Used to the Needle by John Everson (Needles and Sins)
Blood Coven by Angeline Hawkes & Christopher Fulbright (Dead Letter Press)
Placeholders by John R. Little (Necessary Evil Press)
Blood Wish by Michael McBride (Delirium Books)
Frayed by Tom Piccirilli (Creeping Hemlock Press)
Lost in Translation by Gord Rollo (NYX Books)
Trolling Lures by Steve Vernon (Hard Roads)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
The Death Wagon Rolls On By by C. Dean Andersson
(Cemetery Dance #57)
Letting Go by John Everson (Needles and Sins)
The Teacher by Paul G. Tremblay (Chizine)
There's No Light Between Floors by Paul G. Tremblay (Clarkesworld)
Closet Dreams by Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts #10)
The Gentle Brush of Wings by David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)
The Heart Of The City by Sandy DeLuca & Michael McCarty (Hungur #4)
Longtime Gone by Kurt Dinan (Chizine #34)
Hungry for the Flesh by Lisa Manetti (Space and Time #100)
The Wizard of Ooze by Michael McCarty & Linnea Quigley (Midnight Premiere)
Mr. Creator by Joe McKinney (The Sound of Horror)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Five Strokes to Midnight edited by Gary Braunbeck and
Hank Schwaeble (Haunted Pelican Press)
Inferno edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
Dark Delicacies 2: Fear edited by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf/Avalon)
Midnight Premiere edited by Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications)
At Ease With The Dead edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)
Horror Library Volume 2 edited by R. J. Cavender & Vincent VanAllen
(Cutting Block Press)
High Seas Cthulhu edited by William Jones (Elder Signs Press)
Horrors Beyond 2 edited by William Jones (Elder Signs Press)
Astounding Hero Tales edited by James Lowder (Hero)
History is Dead edited by Kim Paffenroth (Permuted Press)
Gratia Placenti edited by Jason Sizemore & Gill Ainsworth (Apex Publications)
Superior Achievement in a Collection
Proverbs for Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions
Press)
The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books
Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
5 Stories by Peter Straub (Borderlands)
Defining Moments by David Niall Wilson (Sarob Press)
Darker Loves by James Dorr (Dark Regions Press)
Needles and Sins by John Everson (Necro Publications)
When it Rains and Other Wreckage by Christopher Fulbright (Doorways Publication)
Voyeurs of Death by Shaun Jeffrey (Doorways Publication) **
No Further Messages by Brett Alexander Savory (Delirium)
Sparks and Shadows by Lucy Snyder (HW Press)
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction
Encyclopedia Horrifica by Joshue Gee (Scholastic)
The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo (Harper)
The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre by Jonathan
Storytellers Unplugged by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson (Storytellers Unplugged) **
The Science of Stephen King by Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg (John Wiley
& Sons, Inc.)
Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press / Kensington)
Superior Achievement in Poetry
Being Full of Light, Insubstantial by Linda Addison
(Space and Time)
Heresy by Charlee Jacob (Bedlam Press [Necro Publications])
Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Mary Phantasmapedia by Mark McLaughlin (Dead Letter Press)
Ossuary by JoSelle Vanderhooft (Sam's Dot Publishing)Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt by
Christopher Conlon (The Word Works)
Tango in the Ninth Circle by Corrine de Winter (Dark Regions Press)
Regions Press)
Sometimes While Dreaming by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Sam's Dot)
Your Cat & Other Space Aliens by Mary Turzillo (VanZeno Press)
