2019 Splatterpunk Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: Full Brutal, Kristopher Triana (Grindhouse)

• Ring of Fire, David Agranoff (Deadite)
• Camp Slasher, Dan Padavona (self-published)
• Last Day, Bryan Smith (self-published)
• A Gathering of Evil, Gil Valle (Comet)
• Rabid Heart, Jeremy Wagner (Riverdale Avenue)

Best Novella

• WINNER: Kill For Satan!, Bryan Smith (Grindhouse)

• 1000 Severed Dicks, Ryan Harding & Matt Shaw (self-published)
• Cockblock, C.V. Hunt (Grindhouse)
• The Mongrel, Seán O’Connor (Troubador)
• The Writhing Skies, Betty Rocksteady (Perpetual Motion Machine)
• Dead Stripper Storage, Bryan Smith (Grindhouse)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “The Seacretor”, Ryan Harding (Splatterpunk Forever)

• “Diabolicus Interruptus”, Christine Morgan (Forbidden Futures 6/18)
• “Fistulas”, Mame Bougouma Diene (Dark Moons Rising on a Starless Night)
• “Rebound”, Brendan Vidito (Nightmares in Ecstasy)
• “Seersucker Motherfucker”, Jay Wilburn (Beautiful Darkness)
• “Virtue of Stagnant Waters”, Monica J. O’Rourke (Splatterpunk Forever)

Best Collection

• WINNER: DJStories, David J. Schow (Subterranean)

• The Very Ineffective Haunted House, Jeff Burk (Clash)
• Dark Moons Rising on a Starless Night, Mame Bougouma Diene (Clash)
• Walking Alone, Bentley Little (Cemetery Dance)
• Nightmares in Ecstasy, Brendan Vidito (Clash)

Best Anthology

• WINNER: Splatterpunk Forever, Jack Bantry & Kit Power, eds. (self-published)

• Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 3, Randy Chandler & Cheryl Mullenax, eds. (Red Room)
• Welcome to the Show, Matt Hayward & Doug Murano, eds. (Crystal Lake)
• Monsters of Any Kind, Alessandro Manzetti & Daniele Bonfanti, eds. (Independent Legions)
• The Black Room Manuscripts Volume 4, J.R. Park & Tracy Fahey, eds. (Sinister Horror)

J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award

• David G. Barnett

The 2019 jurors were Jason Cavallaro, Tod Clark, Garrett Cook, Regina Garza-Mitchell, Gerard Houarner, and Gabino Iglesias.

For more, see the Killercon website.

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