2010 Stoker Final Ballot

The 2010 Stoker Final Ballot has been released:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Horns, Joe Hill (William Morrow)
• Rot and Ruin, Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
• Dead Love, Linda Watanabe McFerrin (Stone Bridge Press)
• Apocalypse of the Dead, Joe McKinney (Pinnacle)
• Dweller, Jeff Strand (Leisure/Dark Regions Press)
• A Dark Matter, Peter Straub (DoubleDay)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Black and Orange, Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Bad Moon Books)
• A Book of Tongues, Gemma Files (ChiZine)
• Castle of Los Angeles, Lisa Morton (Gray Friar)
• Spellbent, Lucy Snyder (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement Long Fiction

• The Painted Darkness, Brian James Freeman (Cemetery Dance)
• Dissolution, Lisa Mannetti (Deathwatch)
• Monsters Among Us, Kirstyn McDermott (Macabre: A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears)
• The Samhanach, Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
• Invisible Fences, Norman Prentiss (Cemetery Dance)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “Return to Mariabronn”, Gary Braunbeck (Haunted Legends)
• “The Folding Man”, Joe R. Lansdale (Haunted Legends)
• “1925: A Fall River Halloween”, Lisa Mannetti (Shroud Magazine #10)
• “In the Middle of Poplar Street”, Nate Southard (Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology)
• “Final Draft”, Mark W. Worthen (Horror Library IV)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Dark Faith, Maurice Broaddus & Jerry Gordon, eds. (Apex)
• Horror Library IV, R.J. Cavender & Boyd E. Harris, eds. (Cutting Block)
• Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears, Angela Challis & Marty Young, eds. (Brimstone Press)
• Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor)
• The New Dead, Christopher Golden, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Superior Achievement in a Collection

• Occultation, Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
• Blood and Gristle, Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books)
• Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King (Simon & Schuster)
• The Ones That Got Away, Stephen Graham Jones (Prime Books)
• A Host of Shadows, Harry Shannon (Dark Regions)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• To Each Their Darkness, Gary A. Braunbeck (Apex)
• The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Thomas Ligotti (Hippocampus)
• Wanted Undead or Alive, Jonathan Maberry & Janice Gable Bashman (Citadel)
• Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, Sam Weller (Melville House)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Dark Matters, Bruce Boston (Bad Moon Books)
• Wild Hunt of the Stars, Ann K. Schwader (Sam’s Dot)
• Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist, Robin Spriggs (Anomalous Books)
• Vicious Romantic, Wrath James White (Needfire Poetry)

Winning titles will be announced at the Stoker Weekend in Long Island NY, June 16-19, 2011.