Bram Stoker Awards® - Preliminary Ballot

The Horror Writers Association has announced the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot. Please note that these are not the nominees for the Awards. The nominees for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards® will be announced on February 23rd.


2016 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot


Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Fenn, J. Lincoln – Dead Souls (Gallery Books)
• Hand, Elizabeth – Hard Light: A Cass Neary Crime Novel (Minotaur Books)
• Heuvelt, Thomas Olde – Hex (Tor Books)
• Jones, Stephen Graham – Mongrels (William Morrow)
• Langan, John – The Fisherman (Word Horde)
• Lombardi, Nicola – The Tank (Dunwich Edizioni)
• MacLeod, Bracken – Stranded: A Novel (Tor Books)
• Murray, Lee – Into the Mist (Cohesion Press)
• Prentiss, Norman– Odd Adventures with your Other Father (Kindle Press)
• Snyman, Monique – Muti Nation (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• Tremblay, Paul – Disappearance at Devil’s Rock (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Barnett, Barbara – The Apothecary’s Curse (Pyr Books)
• Chapman, Greg – Hollow House (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• Deady, Tom – Haven (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• Franks, Matthew – The Monster Underneath (Samhain Publishing, Ltd.)
• Garza, Michelle and Lason, Melissa – Mayan Blue (Sinister Grin Press)
• Gorman, William – Blackwater Val (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Kilgore, Kari – Until Death (Spiral Publishing)
• Labat, L.M. – The Sanguinarian ID (Night to Dawn Magazine & Books LLC)
• Lewis, Beth – The Wolf Road (Crown Publishing)
• Murphy, Jason – The Black Goat Motorcycle Club (Sinister Grin Press)
• Woodrow, Jonathan – Wasteland Gods (Horrific Tales Publishing)
• Wytovich, Stephanie – The Eighth (Dark Regions Press)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Alexander, Maria – Snowed (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Brozek, Jennifer – Last Days of Salton Academy (Ragnarok Publishing)
• Cosimano, Elle – Holding Smoke (Hyperion-Disney)
• Ford, Michael Thomas – Lily (Lethe Press)
• Kelley, Michael Brent – Keep Away From Psycho Joe (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• Roberts, Jeyn – When They Fade (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Sirowy, Alexandra – The Telling (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Varley, Dax – Sinful: A Bleed Novel (Garden Gate Press)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Bunn, Cullen – Blood Feud (Oni Press)
• Chambers, James – Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe (Moonstone)
• de Campi, Alex – No Mercy, Vol. 2 (Image Comics)
• Miller, Mark Alan and Lansdale, Joe R. – The Steam Man (Dark Horse Books)
• Moore, Alan – Providence, Act 1 (Avatar Press)
• Quach, Ashley P – Weirdy (Sassquach Comics)
• Kirkman, Robert – Outcast, Vol 3 This Little Light (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Anderson, Paul Michael – Bones Are Made to be Broken (Bones Are Made to be Broken) (Written Backwards)
• Boden, John – Jedi Summer with the Magnetic Kid (Post Mortem Press)
• Cushing, Aric – Vampire Boy (Grand & Archer)
• Cushing, Nicole – The Sadist’s Bible (01Publishing)
• Drinkwater, Karl – Harvest Festival (Organic Apocalypse)
• Edelman, Scott – That Perilous Stuff (Chiral Mad 3) (Written Backwards)
• LaValle, Victor – The Ballad of Black Tom (Tor.com)
• Malerman, Josh – The Jupiter Drop (You, Human) (Written Backwards)
• Matthews, Mark – All Smoke Rises: Milk-Blood Redux (Wicked Run Press)
• Shane, Simmons – Raw (Silent Screams: An Anthology of Socially Conscious Dark Fiction) (Serpent & Dove Speculative Fiction)
• Waggoner, Tim – The Winter Box (Darkfuse)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• Bailey, Michael – Time is a Face on the Water (Borderlands 6) (Borderlands Press)
• Bodner, Hal – A Rift in Reflection (Chiral Mad 3) (Written Backwards)
• Golden, Christopher – The Bad Hour (What the #@&% is That?) (Saga Press)
• Hanson, Michael H. – Conqueror Worms (Dark Corners) (Iron Clad Press)
• Hucklebridge, Dane – Ortolan (F(r)iction #5) (Tethered by Letters)
• Kiste, Gwendolyn – Reasons I Hate My Big Sister (Nightscript Volume 2) (Chthonic Matter)
• Mannetti, Lisa – Arbeit Macht Frei (Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories) (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Manzetti, Alessandro – Long Hair’s Inferno (The Monster, the Bad, and the Ugly) (Kipple Officina Libraria)
• Oates, Joyce Carol – The Crawl Space (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume #2016/Issue#8) (Dell Magazines)
• Smith, John Claude – The Wounded Table (The Wrath of Concrete and Steel) (Dunhams Manor Press)
• Yap, Isabel – Only Unclench Your Hand (What the #@&% is That?) (Saga Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Barron, Laird – Swift to Chase (JournalStone)
• Braum, Daniel – The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales (Grey Matter Press)
• Chizmar, Richard – A Long December (Subterranean Press)
• Gavin, Richard – Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness (Three Hands Press)
• Oates, Joyce Carol – The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (Mysterious Press)
• O’Neill, Gene – Lethal Birds (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• Schaller, Eric – Meet Me in the Middle of the Air (Undertow Publications)
• Schwaeble, Hank – American Nocturne (Cohesion Press)
• Sutton, Pete – A Tiding of Magpies (Kensington Gore Publishing)
• Wehunt, Michael – Greener Pastures (Shock Totem Publications)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Alvarez, Fede and Sayagues, Rodo – DON’T BREATHE (Ghost House Pictures, Good Universe)
• Campbell, Josh, Chazelle, Damien, and Stuecken, Matthew – 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (Paramount Pictures)
• Catlin, Sam, Rogen, Seth, and Goldberg, Evan – PREACHER: PILOT (Episode1:0) (AMC)
• Duffer, Matt and Duffer, Ross – STRANGER THINGS: THE VANISHING OF WILL BYERS (Episode 01: Chapter One) (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre)
• Duffer, Matt and Duffer, Ross – STRANGER THINGS: THE UPSIDE DOWN (Episode 01: Chapter Eight) (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre)
• Eggers, Robert – THE VVITCH (Parts and Labor, RT Features, Rooks Nest Entertainment, Code Red Productions, Scythia Films, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Mott Street Pictures, Pulse Films, and Very Special Projects)
• Gimple, Scott M. – THE WALKING DEAD: THE DAY WILL COME WHEN YOU WON’T BE (Episode 07:01) (AMC)
• Hayes, Carey, Hayes, Chad, Wan, James and Johnson, David – THE CONJURING 2 (New Line Cinema)
• Logan, John – PENNY DREADFUL: A BLADE OF GRASS (Episode 03:04) Showtime Presents in association with SKY, Desert Wolf Productions, Neal Street Productions)
• Nichols, Jeff – MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Warner Bros.)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Bailey, Michael – Chiral Mad 3 (Written Backwards)
• Bennett, T.C. and Carbone, Tracy L. – Cemetery Riots (Awol From Elysium Press)
• Dabrowski, Lisa – Horror from the Inside Out (Whorror House)
• Johnson, Eugene and Day, Charles – Drive-In Creature Feature (Evil Jester Press)
• Kahle, Pete – Not Your Average Monster, Vol. 2: A Menagerie of Vile Beasts (Bloodshot Books)
• Manzetti, Alessandro – The Beauty of Death (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Manzetti, Alessandro and di Orazio, Paolo – The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly (Kipple Officina Libraria)
• Monteleone, Thomas F. and Monteleone, Oliva F. – Borderlands 6 (Samhain Publishing, Ltd.)
• Mosiman, Billie Sue – Fright Mare-Women Write Horror (DM Publishing)
• Murano, Doug and Ward, D. Alexander – Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• Rivera, Anthony and Lawson, Sharon – Peel Back the Skin (Grey Matter Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Braudy, Leo. Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural (Yale University Press)
• Franklin, Ruth – Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
•  Ocker, J.W. A Season with the Witch (Countryman Press)
• Olson, Danel P. – Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth”: Studies in the Horror Film (Centipede Press)
•  Poole, W. Scott. In the Mountains of Madness: The Life, Death and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft (Soft Skull Press)
• Skal, David J. – Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote
• Dracula (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
• Tibbetts, John. The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub (McFarland)
• Towlson, Jon. The Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936 (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Betts, Matt – Underwater Fistfight (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• Boston, Bruce and Manzetti, Alessandro – Sacrificial Nights (Kipple Officina Libraria)
• Collings, Michael R. – Corona Obscura: Poems Dark and Elemental (self-published)
• Cowen, David E. – The Seven Yards of Sorrow (Weasel Press)
• DiLouie, Craig and Moon, Jonathan – Children of God: Poems, Dreams, and Nightmares from the Family of God Cult (ZING Communications, Inc., Jonathan Moon.)
• Gailey, Jeannine Hall – Field Guide to the End of the World: Poems (Moon City Press)
• Lepovetsky, Lisa – Voices from Empty Rooms (Alban Lake)
• Lopez III, Aurelio Rico – Two Drinks Away from Chaos (Azoth Khem Publishing)
• Simon, Marge. – Small Spirits (Midnight Town Media)
• Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Brothel (Raw Dog Screaming Press)