2012 Stoker Awards Final Ballot

The 2012 Stoker Final Ballot has been released by the Horror Writers Association:

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Bottled Abyss, Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Redrum Horror)
• NightWhere, John Everson (Samhain)
• The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc)
• The Haunted, Bentley Little (Signet)
• Inheritance, Joe McKinney (Evil Jester)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Charlotte Markham and the House of Darklings, Michael Boccacino (William Morrow)
• Wide Open, Deborah Coates (Tor)
• The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief, Charles Day (Noble YA)
• A Requiem for Dead Flies, Peter Dudar (Nightscape)
• Bad Glass, Richard Gropp (Del Rey)
• Life Rage, L.L. Soares (Nightscape)

Superior Achievement in a YA Novel

• The Diviners, Libba Bray (Little Brown)
• I Hunt Killers, Barry Lyga (Little Brown)
• Flesh & Bone, Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
• I Kissed A Ghoul, Michael McCarty (Noble Romance)
• The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
• A Bad Day for Voodoo, Jeff Strand (Sourcebooks)

Superior Achievement Long Fiction

• Thirty Miles South of Dry County, Kealan Patrick Burke (Delirium)
• I’m Not Sam, Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee (Sinister Grin)
• Lost Girl of the Lake, Joe McKinney & Michael McCarty (Bad Moon)
• The Blue Heron, Gene O’Neill (Dark Regions)
• The Fleshless Man, Norman Prentiss (Delirium)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest”, Bruce Boston (Daily Science Fiction)
• “Bury My Heart at Marvin Gardens”, Joe McKinney (Best of Dark Moon Digest)
• “Righteous”, Weston Ochse (Psychos)
• “Available Light”, John Palisano (Lovecraft eZine, March 2012)
• “Magdala Amygdala”, Lucy Snyder (Dark Faith: Invocations)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Shadow Show, Mort Castle & Sam Weller (HarperCollins)
• Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations, Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon)
• Hell Comes to Hollywood, Eric Miller (Big Time)
• Horror for Good: A Charitable Anthology, Mark C. Scioneaux, R.J. Cavender, & Robert S. Wilson (Cutting Block)
• Slices of Flesh, Stan Swanson (Dark Moon)

Superior Achievement in a Collection

• The Woman Who Married a Cloud: Collected Stories, Jonathan Carroll (Subterranean)
• New Moon on the Water, Mort Castle (Dark Regions)
• Errantry: Strange Stories, Elizabeth Hand (Small Beer)
• The Janus Tree, Glen Hirshberg (Subterranean)
• Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories, Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Writing Darkness, Michael Collings (self-published)
• The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1, Les Klinger (Vertigo)
• Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween, Lisa Morton (Reaktion)
• The Undead and Theology, Kim Paffenroth & John W. Morehead (Pickwick)
• Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film, Kendall R. Phillips (Southern Illinois University Press)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Dark Duet, Linda Addison & Stephen M. Wilson (NECON eBooks)
• Notes from the Shadow City, Bruce Boston and Gary William Crawford (Dark Regions)
• A Verse to Horrors, Michael Collings (self-published)
• Vampires, Zombies & Wanton Souls, Marge Simon (Elektrik Milk Bath)
• Lovers & Killers, Mary A. Turzillo (Dark Regions)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• The Sixth Gun Volume 3: Bound, Cullen Bunn (Oni Press)
• Rachel Rising Vol. 1: The Shadow of Death, Terry Moore (Abstract Studio)
• The Tale of Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone, Ravi Thornton (Jonathan Cape)
• Behind These Eyes, Peter J. Wacks & Guy Anthony De Marco (Villainous Press)
• Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times, Rocky Wood & Lisa Morton (McFarland)

There were also nominees for superior achievement in a screenplay.

Horror Writers Association members will vote to determine winners. The Bram Stoker Awards for the 2012 calendar year will be presented at the 26th annual Bram Stoker Awards Banquet held during the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 2013 Incorporating World Horror Convention in New Orleans LA on June 15, 2013.