2009 Stoker Final Ballot

The 2009 Stoker Awards Final Ballot has been released:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Audrey’s Door, Sarah Langan (Harper)

• Patient Zero, Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s Griffin)

• Quarantined, Joe McKinney (Lachesis)

• Cursed, Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Breathers, S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)

• Solomon’s Grave, Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)

• Damnable, Hank Schwaeble (Jove)

• The Little Sleep, Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• Dreaming Robot Monster, Mort Castle (Mighty Unclean)

• The Hunger of Empty Vessels, Scott Edelman (Bad Moon)

• The Lucid Dreaming, Lisa Morton (Bad Moon)

• Doc Good’s Traveling Show, Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “Keeping Watch”, Nate Kenyon (Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror)

• “The Crossing of Aldo Ray”, Weston Ochse (The Dead That Walk)

• “In the Porches of My Ears”, Norman Prentiss (Postscripts 18)

• “The Night Nurse”, Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-In 7/09)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, Christopher Conlon, ed. (Gauntlet)

• Lovecraft Unbound, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)

• Poe, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Solaris)

• Midnight Walk, Lisa Morton, ed. (Dark House)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Martyrs and Monsters, Robert Dunbar (DarkHart)

• Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories, Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)

• A Taste of Tenderloin, Gene O’Neill (Apex)

• In the Closet, Under the Bed, Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe)

Superior Achievement in Non-fiction

• Writers Workshop of Horror, Michael Knost (Woodland)

• Cinema Knife Fight, L.L. Soares & Michael Arruda (Fearzone)

• The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, Bev Vincent (Fall River)

• Stephen King: The Non-Fiction, Rocky Wood & Justin Brook (Cemetery Dance)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Double Visions, Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)

• North Left of Earth, Bruce Boston (Sam’s Dot)

• Barfodder, Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)

• Chimeric Machines, Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy)

Horror Writers Association members will vote to determine winners. Winning titles will be announced at the World Horror Convention, March 25-28 2010, in Brighton, England.