2017 Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot

• The Fourth Monkey, J.D. Barker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Ararat, Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s)
• The Grip of It, Jac Jemc (FSG Original)
• Sleeping Beauties, Stephen King & Owen King (Scribner)
• Black Mad Wheel, Josh Malerman (Ecco)
• The Wardrobe Mistress, Patrick McGrath (Hutchinson)
• I Wish I Was Like You, S.P. Miskowski (JournalStone)
• Under a Watchful Eye, Adam Nevill (Pan Macmillan)
• The Silent Companions, Laura Purcell (Raven)
• Hounds of the Underworld, Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Ubo, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Cold Cuts, Robert Payne Cabeen (Omnium Gatherum)
• In the Valley of the Sun, Andy Davidson (Skyhorse)
• Tip of the Iceberg, Ash Hartwell (Stitched Smile)
• What do Monsters Fear?, Matt Hayward (Post Mortem)
• The Boulevard Monster, Jeremy Hepler (Bloodshot)
• The Mercy of the Tide, Keith Rosson (Meerkat)
• Kill Creek, Scott Thomas (Ink Shares)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• The Door to January, Gillian French (Islandport)
• Hellworld, Tom Leveen (Simon Pulse)
• The Last Harvest, Kim Liggett (Tor Teen)
• The Ravenous, Amy Lukavics (Harlequin Teen)
• When I Cast Your Shadow, Sarah Porter (Tor Teen)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• The Book Club, Alan Baxter (PS)
• Weekend Getaway, Tom Deady (Grinning Skull)
• “Faking it Until Forever Comes”, Scott Edelman (Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them)
• Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Final Reconciliation, Todd Keisling (Crystal Lake)
• Agents of Dreamland, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Tor.com Publishing)
• Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Sweetlings, Lucy Taylor (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Strange Bird, Jeff VanderMeer (MCD)
• A Kiss of Thorns, Tim Waggoner (DarkFuse)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “I will be the Reflection Until the End”, Michael Bailey (Tales from the Lake, Vol. 4)
• “The Baker of Millepoix”, Hal Bodner (Behold!)
• “Etch the Unthinkable”, Kurt Fawver (Gamut 1/17)
• “Even the Stars Fall”, Nicola Lombardi (The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2)
• “Apocalypse Then”, Lisa Mannetti (Never Fear: The Apocalypse)
• “No Filter”, Caitlin Marceau (Read-Only)
• “So Sings the Siren”, Annie Neugebauer (Apex 10/12/17)
• “Coyote”, Naomi Brett Rourke (Straight Outta Tombstone)
• “A Ware That Will Not Keep”, John F.D. Taff (Behold!)
• “Absolution”, M.F. Wahl (Feverish Fiction 5/17)
• “All the Windows and All the Doors”, Damien Angelica Walters (Chopping Block Party)
• “Loving You Darkly”, Mercedes M. Yardley (F(r)iction Summer ’17)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Embers, Kenneth W. Cain (Crystal Lake)
• Speaking to the Skull Kings, Emily B. Cataneo (Trepidatio)
• Tombs, James Dorr (Elder Signs)
• Behold the Void, Philip Fracassi (JournalStone)
• The Dreamer in Fire and Other Stories, Sam Gafford (Hippocampus)
• Strange Weather, Joe Hill (William Morrow)
• And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Gwendolyn Kiste (JournalStone)
• Goblin, Josh Malerman (Earthling)
• The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales, Thersa Matsuura (Independent Legions)
• Writing Madness, Patrick McGrath (Centipede)
• Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories, Deborah Sheldon (IFWG Australia)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Adam’s Ladder, Michael Bailey & Darren Speegle, eds. (Written Backwards)
• Sycorax’s Daughters, Kinitra Brooks, Linda D. Addison & Susana Morris, eds. (Cedar Grove)
• Black Feathers, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Pegasus)
• Tales from the Lake, Vol. 4: The Horror Anthology, Ben Eads, ed. (Crystal Lake)
• Mother’s Revenge, Cin Ferguson & Broos Campbell, eds. (Scary Dairy)
• California Screamin’, Danielle Kaheaku, ed. (Barking Deer)
• Nights of the Living Dead, Jonathan Maberry & George A. Romero, eds. (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2: Death by Water, Alessandro Manzetti & Jodi Renee Lester, eds. (Independent Legions)
• Garden of Fiends, Mark Matthews, ed. (Wicked Run)
• Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, Doug Murano, ed. (Crystal Lake)
• Northern Frights, David Price, ed. (Grinning Skull)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Horror in Space, Michele Brittany, ed. (McFarland)
• Searching for Sycorax, Kinitra D. Brooks (Rutgers University Press)
• Horror Literature through History, Matt Cardin, ed. (Greenwood)
• Paperbacks from Hell, Grady Hendrix (Quirk)
• The Art of Horror Movies, Stephen Jones, ed. (Applause Theatre & Cinema)
• Where Nightmares Come From, Joe Mynhardt & Eugene Johnson, eds. (Crystal Lake)
• 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, Loren Rhoads (Black Dog & Leventhal)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• The Lay of Old Hex, Adam Bolivar (Hippocampus)
• Alchemy of Dreams and Other Poems, Michael Fantina (Hippocampus)
• Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest, Robert Frazier & Bruce Boston (Crystal Lake)
• When The Night Owl Screams, Michael H. Hanson (MoonDream)
• No Mercy, Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake)
• Through Immortal Shadows Singing, Mari Ness (Papaveria)
• Return to Graveyard Dust, Cynthia O’Quinn (Goose River)
• heliophobia, Saba Syed Razvi (Finishing Line)
• Satan’s Sweethearts, Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo (Weasel)
• A Collection of Nightmares, Christina Sng (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Darkness Visible, Mike Carey, Ethan David Arvind, Brendan Cahill & Livio Ramondelli (IDW)
• Kindred, Damian Duffy, Octavia E. Butler & John Jennings (Abrams)
• My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)
• The Beauty: Volume 3, Jeremy Haun, Jason Hurley, Thomas Nachlik & John Rauch (Image)
• The Black Monday Murders, Jonathan Hickman & Tomm Coker (Image)
• Monstress: Volume 2: The Blood, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Get Out
• It
• Mother!
• Raw
• The Shape of Water
• Split
• Stranger Things: “MadMax”
• Twin Peaks: The Return: “Gotta Light?”