Bram Stoker Award® Nominees

The Horror Writers Association has released a list of nominees for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards® to highlight the best of horror fiction for 2015. The nominees are as follows:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Clive Barker – The Scarlet Gospels (St. Martin’s Press)
• Michaelbrent Collings – The Deep (self-published)
• JG Faherty – The Cure (Samhain Publishing)
• Patrick Freivald – Black Tide (JournalStone Publishing)
• Paul Tremblay – A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Courtney Alameda – Shutter (Feiwel & Friends)
• Nicole Cushing – Mr. Suicide (Word Horde)
• Brian Kirk – We Are Monsters (Samhain Publishing)
• John McIlveen – Hannahwhere (Crossroad Press)
• John Claude Smith – Riding the Centipede (Omnium Gatherum)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Jennifer Brozek – Never Let Me Sleep (Permuted Press)
• Michaelbrent Collings – The Ridealong (self-published)
• John Dixon – Devil’s Pocket (Simon & Schuster)
• Tonya Hurley – Hallowed (Simon & Schuster)
• Maureen Johnson – The Shadow Cabinet (Penguin)
• Ian Welke – End Times at Ridgemont High (Omnium Gatherum)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Cullen Bunn – Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints (Dark Horse Comics)
• Victor Gischler – Hellbound (Dark Horse Books)
• Robert Kirkman – Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him (Image Comics)
• Scott Snyder – Wytches, Vol. 1 (Image Comics)
• Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Chris Ryall, & Carlos Guzman (editors) – Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (IDW Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Gary A. Braunbeck – "Paper Cuts" (Seize the Night) (Gallery Books)
• Lisa Mannetti – "The Box Jumper" (Smart Rhino Publications)
• Norman Partridge – "Special Collections" (The Library of the Dead) (Written Backwards)
• Mercedes M. Yardley – "Little Dead Red" (Grimm Mistresses) (Ragnarok Publications)
• Scott Edelman – "Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen" (Dark Discoveries #30)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Kate Jonez – All the Day You’ll Have Good Luck (Black Static #47)
• Gene O’Neill – The Algernon Effect (White Noise Press)
• John Palisano – Happy Joe’s Rest Stop (18 Wheels of Horror) (Big Time Books)
• Damien Angelica Walters – Sing Me Your Scars (Sing Me Your Scars) (Apex Publications)
• Alyssa Wong – Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Nightmare Magazine #37)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins – Crimson Peak (Legendary Pictures)
• John Logan – Penny Dreadful: And Hell Itself My Only Foe (Showtime)
• John Logan – Penny Dreadful: Nightcomers (Showtime)
• David Robert Mitchell – It Follows (Northern Lights Films)
• Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement – What We Do in the Shadows (Unison Films)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Michael Bailey – The Library of the Dead (Written Backwards)
• Ellen Datlow – The Doll Collection: Seventeen Brand-New Tales of Dolls (Tor Books)
• Christopher Golden – Seize the Night (Gallery Books)
• Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles – nEvermore! (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
• Jonathan Maberry – The X-Files: Trust No One (IDW Publishing)
• Joseph Nassise and Del Howison – Midian Unmade (Tor Books)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Gary A. Braunbeck – Halfway Down the Stairs (JournalStone Publishing)
• Nicole Cushing – The Mirrors (Cycatrix Press)
• Taylor Grant – The Dark at the End of the Tunnel (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Gene O’Neill – The Hitchhiking Effect (Dark Renaissance Books)
• Lucy A. Snyder – While the Black Stars Burn (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Justin Everett and Jeffrey H. Shanks (ed.) – The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
• Stephen Jones – The Art of Horror (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books)
• Michael Knost – Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth (Seventh Star Press)
• Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley (editors) – Horror 201: The Silver Scream (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Danel Olson – Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (Centipede Press)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Bruce Boston – Resonance Dark and Light (Eldritch Press)
• Alessandro Manzetti – Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Ann Schwader – Dark Energies (P’rea Press)
• Marge Simon – Naughty Ladies (Eldritch Press)
• Stephanie M. Wytovich – An Exorcism of Angels (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

The awards will be handed out during the inaugural StokerCon™ in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 14, 2016. In addition, life-time achievement awards will be presented to George A. Romero and Alan Moore. For more information, please visit the Horror Writers Association website.

Congratulations to all of the nominees!