"Ruminations" Makes 2014 Final Ballot

Horror Writers Association Reveals Final Ballot for 2014 Bram Stoker Awards® end .post-info

The Horror Writers Association, the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy, today announced the 2014 nominees for the iconic Bram Stoker Award®.

Named in honor of the author of the seminal horror novel Dracula, the Bram Stoker Awards® are presented annually for superior writing in eleven categories including traditional fiction of various lengths, poetry, screenplays and non-fiction. Previous winners include Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, George R. R. Martin, Joyce Carol Oates and Neil Gaiman. The HWA also presents a Lifetime Achievement Award to living individuals who have made a substantial and enduring contribution to the genre. This year’s Lifetime Achievement recipients are Jack Ketchum and Tanith Lee.

“This year’s nominees have not only penned remarkable works, they have raised the bar for exceptional writing and have helped shape the continuing evolution of the genre,” said Lisa Morton, HWA president and multiple Bram Stoker Award® winner.

The presentation of the Bram Stoker Awards® will occur during the World Horror Convention in Atlanta, Georgia on the evening of Saturday, May 9, 2015. Tickets to the banquet and the convention are on sale to the public at www.whc2015.org. The awards presentation will also be live-streamed online.

The full ballot is included below.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

Craig DiLouie – Suffer the Children (Gallery Books of Simon & Schuster)Patrick Freivald – Jade Sky (JournalStone)Chuck Palahniuk – Beautiful You (Jonathan Cape, Vintage/Penguin Random House UK)Christopher Rice – The Vines (47North)Steve Rasnic Tem – Blood Kin (Solaris Books)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

Maria Alexander – Mr. Wicker (Raw Dog Screaming Press)J.D. Barker – Forsaken (Hampton Creek Press)David Cronenberg – Consumed (Scribner)Michael Knost – Return of the Mothman (Woodland Press)Josh Malerman – Bird Box (Harper Collins)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Jake Bible – Intentional Haunting (Permuted Press)John Dixon – Phoenix Island (Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books)Kami Garcia – Unmarked (The Legion Series Book 2) (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)Tonya Hurley – Passionaries (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)Peter Adam Salomon – All Those Broken Angels (Flux)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Emily Carroll – Through the Woods (Margaret K. McElderry Books)Joe Hill – Locke and Key, Vol. 6 (IDW Publishing)Joe R. Lansdale and Daniele Serra – I Tell You It’s Love (Short, Scary Tales Publications)Jonathan Maberry – Bad Blood (Dark Horse Books)Paul Tobin – The Witcher (Dark Horse Books)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Taylor Grant – “The Infected” (Cemetery Dance #71) (Cemetery Dance)

Eric J. Guignard – “Dreams of a Little Suicide” (Hell Comes to Hollywood II: Twenty-Two More Tales of Tinseltown Terror (Volume 2)) (Big Time Books) Joe R. Lansdale – “Fishing for Dinosaurs” (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone) Jonathan Maberry – “Three Guys Walk into a Bar” (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone) Joe McKinney – “Lost and Found” (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

Hal Bodner – “Hot Tub” (Hell Comes to Hollywood II: Twenty-Two More Tales of Tinseltown Terror (Volume 2)) (Big Time Books) Sydney Leigh – “Baby’s Breath” (Bugs: Tales That Slither, Creep, and Crawl) (Great Old Ones Publishing) Usman T. Malik – “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” (Qualia Nous) (Written Backwards) Rena Mason – “Ruminations” (Qualia Nous) (Written Backwards) John Palisano – “Splinterette” (Widowmakers: A Benefit Anthology of Dark Fiction) (Widowmaker Press) Damien Angelica Walters – “The Floating Girls: A Documentary” (Jamais Vu, Issue Three) (Post Mortem Press)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

Scott M. Gimple – The Walking Dead: “The Grove”, episode 4:14 (AMC) Jennifer Kent – The Babadook (Causeway Films) John Logan – Penny Dreadful: “Séance” (Desert Wolf Productions/Neal Street Productions) Steven Moffat – Doctor Who: “Listen” (British Broadcasting Corporation) James Wong – American Horror Story: Coven: “The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks” (FX Network)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Michael Bailey – Qualia Nous (Written Backwards) Jason V Brock – A Darke Phantastique (Cycatrix Press) Ellen Datlow – Fearful Symmetries (ChiZine Publications) Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer – Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press) Brett J. Talley – Limbus, Inc., Book II (JournalStone)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Stephen Graham Jones – After the People Lights Have Gone Off (Dark House Press) John R. Little – Little by Little (Bad Moon Books) Helen Marshall – Gifts for the One Who Comes After (ChiZine Publications) Lucy A. Snyder – Soft Apocalypses (Raw Dog Screaming Press) John F.D. Taff – The End in All Beginnings (Grey Matter Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Jason V Brock – Disorders of Magnitude (Rowman & Littlefield) S.T. Joshi – Lovecraft and a World in Transition (Hippocampus Press) Leslie S. Klinger – The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft (Liveright Publishing Corp., a division of W.W. Norton & Co.) Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley – Horror 101: The Way Forward (Crystal Lake Publishing) Lucy A. Snyder – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide (Post Mortem Press)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Robert Payne Cabeen – Fearworms: Selected Poems (Fanboy Comics) Corrine De Winter and Alessandro Manzetti – Venus Intervention (Kipple Officina Libraria) Tom Piccirilli – Forgiving Judas (Crossroad Press) Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo – Sweet Poison (Dark Renaissance Books) Stephanie Wytovich – Mourning Jewelry (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

About the Horror Writers Association

The Horror Writers Association is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it. The HWA formed in 1985 with the help of many of the field’s greats, including Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon, and Joe Lansdale. Today, with over 1250 members around the globe, it is the oldest and most respected professional organization for the much-loved writers who have brought you the most enjoyable sleepless nights of your life.

One of HWA’s missions is to encourage public interest in and foster an appreciation of good Horror and Dark Fantasy literature. The organization offers public areas of its site, www.horror.org; sponsors or takes part in public readings and lectures; publishes a monthly newsletter for members; maintains outreach to booksellers, librarians, fans and readers; facilitates readings and signings by horror writers; offers scholarships; and maintains an official presence at the major fan-based horror and fantasy conventions, such as the World Horror Convention, and literary festivals.