2018 Splatterpunk Awards Nominees

Best Novel

• Containment: The Death of Earth, Charlee Jacob (Necro)
• Exorcist Falls, Jonathan Janz (Sinister Grin)
• The Hematophages, Stephen Kozeniewski (Sinister Grin)
• White Trash Gothic, Edward Lee (Deadite)
• Spermjackers From Hell, Christine Morgan (Deadite)

Best Novella

• The Lucky Ones Died First, Jack Bantry (Deadite)
• Killer Chronicles, Somer Canon (Thunderstorm)
• Header 3, Edward Lee & Ryan Harding (Necro)
• “Damn Dirty Apes”, Adam Howe (Die Dog or Eat the Hatchet)
• The Big Bad, K. Trap Jones (Necro)

Best Short Story

• “Extinction Therapy”, Bracken MacLeod (Splatterpunk Fighting Back)
• “Molly”, Glenn Rolfe (Splatterpunk Fighting Back)
• “Melvin”, Matt Shaw (Splatterpunk Fighting Back)
• “The Tipping Point”, Jeff Strand (Everything Has Teeth)
• “Dirty Desk”, Jeffrey Thomas (Chopping Block Party)

Best Collection

• Gorilla in My Room, Jack Ketchum (Cemetery Dance)
• The Garden of Delight, Alessandro Manzetti (Comet)
• 2017: A Year of Horror and Pain, Part One, Matt Shaw (self-published)
• Everything Has Teeth, Jeff Strand (Thunderstorm)

Best Anthology

• Splatterpunk Fighting Back, Jack Bantry & Kit Power, eds. (Splatterpunk Zine)
• VS, Dawn Cano, ed. (Shadow Work)
• Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 2, Randy Chandler & Cheryl Mullenax, eds. (Comet)
• DOA III, Marc Ciccarone & Andrea Dawn, eds. (Blood Bound)
• Chopping Block Party, Brendan Deneen & David G. Barnett, eds. (Necro)

J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award

• David J. Schow

The 2018 jurors are Tod Clark, Gerard Houarner, Mike Lombardo, Monica J. O’Rourke, and David J. Schow. The selectors for the J.F. Gonzalez Award are Brian Keene and Wrath James White.

The awards will be presented at Killercon 2018 at the Wingate by Wyndham Conference Center in Round Rock TX, August 24-26, 2018. For more, see the Killercon website.