Wednesday 9 April 2003

Awards

The final ballot for this year's Bram Stoker Awards, voted by the Horror Writers Association, has been released. Winners will be announced at a banquet during the 2003 HWA Annual Conference at the Park Central Hotel in New York, June 6-8.

NOVEL

From a Buick 8, Stephen King (Cemetery Dance; Scribner)

The Hour Before Dark, Douglas Clegg (Leisure)

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)

Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)

The Night Class, Tom Piccirilli (Leisure)

FIRST NOVEL

Atmosphere, Michael Laimo (Delirium; Leisure)

The Blues Ain't Nothing', Tina Jens (Design Image Group)

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little, Brown)

The Red Church, Scott Nicholson (Pinnacle)

LONG FICTION

Cape Wrath, Paul Finch (Telos Publishing)

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

El Dia de Los Muertos, Brian A. Hopkins (Earthling Publications)

"My Work Is Not Yet Done", Thomas Ligotti (My Work Is Not Done Yet: Three Tales of Corporate Terror)

"The Origin", David B. Silva (The Darker Side)

SHORT FICTION

"Details", China Miéville (Children of Cthulhu)

"Disappearances", Mort Castle (Chizine)

"The Green Man", Christopher Fowler (The Third Alternative)

"The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair", Tom Piccirilli (The Darker Side)

"The Plague Species", Charlee Jacob (The Darker Side)

FICTION COLLECTION

The Collection, Bentley Little (Signet)

Everything's Eventual, Stephen King (Scribner)

Knuckles and Tales, Nancy A. Collins (Cemetery Dance)

Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead, Mort Castle (Prime)

One More for the Road, Ray Bradbury (Morrow)

ANTHOLOGY

Children of Cthulhu, John Pelan & Benjamin Adams, eds. (Del Rey)

The Darker Side: Generations of Horror, John Pelan, ed. (Roc)

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13, Stephen Jones, ed. (Carroll & Graf)

Shivers, Richard Chizmar, ed. (Cemetery Dance)

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (St. Martin's)

NONFICTION

Hellnotes, David B. Silva, Paul F. Olson & Garrett Peck, eds. (Phantasm Press)

Jobs in Hell, Brian Keene & Kelly Laymon, eds. (JIHad Publications)

Ralan.com, Ralan Conley, ed.

Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies, Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing)

Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, Second Edition, Richard Bleiler (Scribner)

ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE

Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (Issues 1-4), Peter Lenkov (Dark Horse)

Howard the Duck (Issues 1-6), Steve Gerber (Marvel)

Nightside (Issues 1-4), Robert Weinberg (Marvel)

SCREENPLAY

Frailty, Brant Hanley (Lion's Gate Films)

Minority Report, Scott Frank & Jon Cohen (based on a story by Philip K. Dick; 20th Century Fox)

The Ring, Ehren Kruger & Scott Frank (based on the novel by Koji Suzuki and on the motion picture by The Spiral Production Group; Dreamworks)

Signs, M. Night Shyamalan (Touchstone Films)

WORK FOR YOUNGER READERS

Abarat, Clive Barker (Joanna Cotler Books)

Abu and the 7 Marvels, Richard Matheson & William Stout (Gauntlet Press)

Cat in Glass and Other Tales of the Unnatural, Nancy Etchemendy (Cricket Books)

Coraline, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)

POETRY COLLECTION

The Gossamer Eye, Mark McLaughlin, Rain Graves & David Niall Wilson (Meisha Merlin)

Guises (poetry section "Night Unmasked"), Charlee Jacob (Delirium)

Night Smoke, Bruce Boston & Marge Simon (Miniature Sun Press/Quixsilver Press)

This Cape Is Red Because I've Been Bleeding, Tom Piccirilli (Catalyst)

ALTERNATIVE FORMS

"Buckeye Jim in Egypt", Mort Castle (audio script based on the Mort Castle story; Lone Wolf Publications)

Flesh and Blood, Jack Fisher, ed. (Flesh and Blood Press)

"Imagination Box", Steve & Melanie Tem (multimedia CD; Lone Wolf Publications)

"The Tree Is My Hat", Larry Santoro (audio script based on the Gene Wolfe story)

Larry Santoro has made an audio file of a presentation of his script at last year's World Horror Con available, until May 6, at http://www.phaseshift.com/tree/.

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