2022 Splatterpunk Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: The Night Stockers, Kristopher Triana & Ryan Harding (The Evil Cookie) 

• Don’t Go To Wheelchair Camp, David Irons (Severed)
• Trench Mouth, Christine Morgan (Madness Heart)
• The Maddening, Carver Pike (self-published)
• The Devoured and the Dead, Kristopher Rufty (Death’s Head)
• Left to You, Daniel J. Volpe (D&T)

Best Novella

• WINNER: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Eric LaRocca (Weirdpunk)

• Midnight in the City of the Carrion Kid, James G. Carlson (Gloom)
• Only The Stains Remain, Ross Jeffery (Cemetery Gates)
• A Roll of the Dice, Matt Shaw (self-published)
• Sacrament, Steve Stred (Black Void)
• Talia, Daniel J. Volpe (self-published)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “Next Best Baker”, Jeff Strand (Baker’s Dozen) 

• “The Martini Club”, Aron Beauregard (Beyond Reform)
• “Fireflies and Apple Pies”, Thomas R. Clark (The God Provides)
• “Sun Poison”. Stephen Kozeniewski (Battered, Broken Bodies)
• “Start Today”, Justin Lutz (Teenage Grave)
• “Abigail”, Daemon Manx (Terror Tract)

Best Collection

• WINNER: Beyond Reform, Jon Athan, Aron Beauregard & Jasper Bark (Aron Beauregard Horror) 

• Black Tongue and Other Anomalies, Richard Beauchamp (D&T)
• Sinister Mix, Brian Bowyer (self-published)
• Twisted: Tainted Tales, Janine Pipe (Pipe Screams)
• May Cause Ocular Bleeding, Nikolas P. Robinson (self-published)

Best Anthology

• WINNER (TIE): Body Shocks, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tachyon)
• WINNER (TIE): Baker’s Dozen, Candace Nola, ed. (Uncomfortably Dark) 

• Between a Spider’s Eyes, River Dixon, ed. (Potter’s Grove)
• Bludgeon Tools, K. Trap Jones, ed. (The Evil Cookie)
• Gorefest, K. Trap Jones, ed. (The Evil Cookie)
• Battered, Broken Bodies, Matt Shaw, ed. (self-published)

J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award

• Clive Barker

The inaugural Splatterpunk Hall of Legends was also announced. The inductees:

• David G. Barnett
• Gak
• J.F. Gonzalez
• Charlee Jacob
• Jack Ketchum
• Richard Laymon
• John Pelan

For more information, see the Twitter feeds of awards founders Wrath James White and Brian Keene as well as Keene’s website.

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