2020 Splatterpunk Awards Nominees

Best Novel

• Carnivorous Lunar Activities, Max Booth III (Cinestate/Fangoria)
• Killer Lake, W.D. Gagliani & David Benton (Deadite)
• Reception, Kenzie Jennings (Death’s Head)
• Lakehouse Infernal, Christine Morgan (Deadite)
• Merciless, Bryan Smith (Grindhouse)
• Toxic Love, Kristopher Triana (Blood Bound)
• They Kill, Tim Waggoner (Flame Tree)

Best Novella

• White Trash Gothic Part Two, Edward Lee (Section 31)
• Saint Sadist, Lucas Mangum (Grindhouse)
• Weeping Season, Seán O’Connor (Uafas)
• How Much To..?, Matt Shaw (self-published)
• One For the Road, Wesley Southard (Deadite)
• Paradise, Maine, Jackson R. Thomas (Alien Agenda)

Best Short Story

• “Breaking the Waters”, Donyae Coles (Pseudopod 9/19)
• “Angelbait”, Ryan Harding (The Big Book of Blasphemy)
• “Censered”, Christine Morgan (And Hell Followed)
• “Shoulder Pain”, Chandler Morrison (The Macabre Museum 10/19)
• “Param”, Susan Snyder (Trigger Warning: Body Horror)
• “Norwegian Woods”, Jeremy Wagner (The Big Book of Blasphemy)

Best Collection

• Dead Sea Chronicles, Tim Curran (Bloodshot)
• Various States of Decay, Matt Hayward (Poltergeist)
• Dawn of the Living Impaired, and Other Messed-Up Zombie Stories, Christine Morgan (Death’s Head)
• This Is a Horror Book, Charles Austin Muir (Clash)
• Dirty Rotten Hippies and Other Stories, Bryan Smith (Grindhouse)
• Resisting Madness, Wesley Southard (Death’s Head)

Best Anthology

• And Hell Followed, Jarod Barbee & Patrick C. Harrison III, eds. (Death’s Head)
• Dig Two Graves, Jarod Barbee & Patrick C. Harrison III, eds. (Death’s Head)
• Midnight In The Graveyard, Kenneth W. Cain, ed. (Silver Shamrock)
• Polish Extreme, Edward Lee & Karolina Kaczkowska, eds. (Necro)
• The Big Book of Blasphemy, Regina Mitchell & David G. Barnett, eds. (Necro)
• The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg, Sam Richard & Brendan Vidito, eds. (Weirdpunk)

J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award

• Edward Lee

The awards will be presented at the 2020 Killercon at the DoubleTree in Austin TX, August 7-9, 2020. For more, see the announcement.

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