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Bram Stoker Award Nominations

The nominations for the Bram Stoker Awards have been announced. Winners will be presented at the Horror Writers of America Annual Conference and Bram Stoker Awards banquet which will be held on June 25th 2005 in Burbank California.

The Horror Writers of America have also announced that this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award Winner is Michael Moorcock. Below is a list of this years nominations:

# NOVEL The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner)
# Deep in the Darkness, Michael Laimo (Leisure/Flesh & Blood Press)
# In the Night Room, Peter Straub (Random House)
# The Wind Caller, P. D. Cacek (Leisure)

# FIRST NOVEL Black Fire, James Kidman (Leisure)
# Covenant, John Everson (Delirium Books)
# Move Under Ground, Nick Mamatas (Night Shade Books)
# Stained, Lee Thomas (Wildside Press)

# LONG FICTION “Dead Man’s Hand”, Tim Lebbon (Necessary Evil Press)
# “Lisey and the Madman”, Stephen King (McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories)
# “Northwest Passage”, Barbara Roden (Acquainted with the Night)
# “The Turtle Boy”, Kealan-Patrick Burke (Necessary Evil Press)
# “Zora and the Zombie”, Andy Duncan (Sci Fiction)

# SHORT FICTION “Guts”, Chuck Palahniuk (Playboy)
# “Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland”, John Farris (Elvisland)
# “Just Out of Reach”, Gary Braunbeck (Cemetery Dance #50)
# “A Madness of Starlings”, Douglas Clegg (Cemetery Dance #50)
# “Nimitseahpah”, Nancy Etchemendy (F&SF)
# “Singing My Sister Down”, Margo Lanagan (Black Juice)

# FICTION COLLECTION 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories, Michael Arnzen (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
# Demonized, Christopher Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)
# Fearful Symmetries, Thomas F. Monteleone (CD Publications)
# Fears Unnamed, Tim Lebbon (Leisure/Borderlands Press)
# The Machinery of Night, Douglas Clegg (CD Publications)

# ANTHOLOGY Acquainted with the Night, Barbara & Christopher Roden, eds (Ash Tree Press)
# The Many Faces of Van Helsing, Jeanne Cavelos, ed. (Ace)
# Quietly Now, Kealan-Patrick Burke, ed. (Borderlands)
# Shivers III, Richard Chizmar, ed. (CD Publications)
# The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, eds. (St. Martin’s Griffin)

# NONFICTION The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel, Thomas F. Monteleone (Alpha Books)
# Hanging Out with the Dream King, Joseph McCabe (Fantagraphic Books)
# Hellnotes, Judi Rohrig (Wolf Moon Publications)
# Ralan.com, Ralan Conley (RalanConley.com)
# The Road to the Dark Tower, Bev Vincent (New American Library)

# ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE Aleister Arcane, Steve Niles (IDW Publishing)
# Graphic Classics: Robert Louis Stevenson, Tom Pomplun (Eureka Productions)
# Heaven’s Devils, Jai Nitz (Image Comics)
# Lost Loves, James Lowder (Moonstone Monsters: Demons)

# SCREENPLAY Dawn of the Dead, James Gunn (Strike Entertainment)
# Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth (Blue Ruin)
# Hellboy, Guillermo Del Toro (Revolution)
# Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright (Canal/Universal)

# WORK FOR YOUNGER READERS Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, Clive Barker (HarperCollins)
# Oddest Yet, Steve Burt (Burt Creations)
# Robot Santa: The Further Adventures of Santa’s Twin, Dean Koontz (HarperCollins)
# Witch Season: Fall, Jeff Mariotte (Simon Pulse)

# POETRY COLLECTION The Desert, Charlee Jacob (Dark Regions Press)
# Men Are From Hell, Women Are From The Galaxy Of Death, Mark McLaughlin (Kelp Queen Press)
# Waiting My Turn to Go Under the Knife, Tom Piccirilli (Fairwood Press)
# The Women at the Funeral, Corinne De Winter (Space & Time)

# ALTERNATIVE FORMS ChiZine, Brett Savory (Brett Savory)
# The Devil’s Wine, Tom Piccirilli (CD Publications)
# Flesh & Blood (magazine), Jack Fisher (Flesh & Blood Press)
# The Goreletter, Michael Arnzen (gorelets.com)

Eoghann Irving is amongst other things the creator and Editor of Solar Flare. He has a life long interest in all forms of science fiction and fantasy and a pressing need to share this interest with anyone who will listen. Find out more at his personal website eoghann.com..

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