2021 Stoker Awards Final Ballot

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “The Yellow Crown”, Carol Gyzander (Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign)
• “Permanent Damage”, Lee Murray (Attack From the ‘80s)
• “A Gathering at the Mountain”, Cindy O’Quinn (The Bad Book)
• “Two Shakes Of A Dead Lamb’s Tail”, Anna Taborska (Terror Tales of the Scottish Lowlands)
• “A Whisper in the Death Pit”, Kyla Lee Ward (Weirdbook #44)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• In That Endlessness, Our End, Gemma Files (Grimscribe)
• Beneath a Pale Sky, Philip Fracassi (Lethe)
• Empty Graves: Tales of the Living Dead, Jonathan Maberry (WordFire)
• The Dead Hours of Night, Lisa Tuttle (Valancourt)
• The Ghost Sequences, A.C. Wise (Undertow)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign, James Chambers (Hippocampus)
• When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Titan)
• There is No Death, There are No Dead, Aaron J. French & Jess Landry (Crystal Lake)
• Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, Eric J. Guignard (Dark Moon)
• Attack From the 80’s, Eugene Johnson (Raw Dog Screaming)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Writers Workshop of Horror 2, Michael Knost (Hydra)
• 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels, Danel Olson (Lexington)
• Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock & Regina M. Hansen (Fordham University Press)
• Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Reaktion)
• Shirley Jackson: A Companion, Kristopher Woofter (Peter Lang)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• “The Three Paradigms of Horror”, Dejan Ognjanović (Vastarien Vol. 4, #2)
• “One and Done”, Cindy O’Quinn (Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology)
• “A Horror Fan’s Guide to Surviving Womanhood”, Emily Ruth Verona (thefinalgirls.co.uk)
• Devil’s Advocates: The Conjuring, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Auteur/Liverpool University Press)
• “Horror Writers: Architects of Hope”, Angela Yuriko Smith (The Sirens Call #55)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Apache Witch and Other Poetic Observations, Joe R. Lansdale (Independent Legions)
• Strange Nests, Jessica McHugh (Apokrupha)
• Victims, Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo (Weasel)
• Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken., Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn (Yuriko)
• Exposed Nerves, Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Abbott 1973, Saladin Ahmed & Sami Kivelä (BOOM! Studios)
• Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity, Kami Garcia, Mico Suayan, Jason Badower & Mike Mayhew (DC Comics)
• The Inhabitant of the Lake, Alessandro Manzetti & Stefano Cardoselli (Independent Legions Publishing)
• Proctor Valley Road, Grant Morrison, Alex Child & Naomi Franquiz (BOOM! Studios)
• An Unkindness of Ravens, Dan Panosian & Marianna Ignazzi (BOOM! Studios)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Antlers
• Candyman
• Fear Street: Part One – 1994
• Midnight Mass, “Book VI: Acts of the Apostles”
• Squid Game, “Red Light, Green Light”

Voting is now open to HWA members until March 15, 2022. Winners will be honored at a gala during StokerCon 2022, to be held May 12-15, 2022 at the Curtis Hotel in Denver CO. For more information, see the Stoker Awards website.

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