2022 Stoker Awards Final Ballot

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “Nona Doesn’t Dance”, Aaron Dries (Cut to Care: A Collection of Little Hurts)
• “Poppy’s Poppy”, Douglas Gwilym (Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine 6/21-4/22)
• “The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body”, J.A.W McCarthy (A Woman Built by Man)
• “A Song for Barnaby Jones”, Anna Taborska (Zagava)
• “The Star”, Anna Taborska (Great British Horror 7: Major Arcane)
• “Fracture”, Mercedes M. Yardley (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• We Are Here to Hurt Each Other, Paula D. Ashe (Nictitating)
• Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted, RJ Joseph (The Seventh Terrace)
• Breakable Things, Cassandra Khaw (Undertow)
• Spontaneous Human Combustion, Richard Thomas (Keylight)
• The Black Maybe, Attila Veres (Valancourt)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Nightfire)
• Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology, Sadie Hartmann & Ashley Saywers, eds. (Dark Matter Ink)
• Mother: Tales of Love and Terror, Christi Nogle & Willow Becker, eds. (Weird Little Worlds)
• Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, Lindy Ryan, ed. (Black Spot)
• Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror, Sara Tantlinger, ed. (Strangehouse)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Weird Fiction: A Genre Study, Michael Cisco (Palgrave)
• A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts, Leanna Renee Hieber &  Andrea Janes (Citadel)
• Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult, Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson (Quirk)
• Writing in the Dark: The Workbook, Tim Waggoner (Guide Dog)
• Writing Poetry in the Dark, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Superior Achievement in Short Non-Fiction

• “I Don’t Read Horror (& Other Weird Tales)”, Lee Murray (Interstellar Flight Magazine 10/24/22)
• “This is Not a Poem”, Cynthia Pelayo (Writing Poetry in the Dark)
• “A Clown in the Living Room: The Sinister Clown on Television”, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (The Many Lives of Scary Clowns: Essays on Pennywise, Twisty, the Joker, Krusty and More)
• “African American Horror Authors and Their Craft: The Evolution of Horror Fiction from African Folklore” , Marie L. Wood (Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students)
• “The H Word: The Horror of Hair”, Marie L. Wood (Nightmare Magazine 7/22)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Sifting the Ashes, Michael Bailey & Marge Simon (Crystal Lake)
• Girls from the County, Donna Lynch (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Crime Scene, Cynthia Pelayo (Raw Dog Screaming)
• The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry, Sumiko Saulson (self-published)
• The Gravity of Existence, Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Kolchak: The Night Stalker: 50^th Anniversary, James Aquilone, ed. (Moonstone)
• Eat the Rich, Sarah Gailey, art by Pius Bak (Boom!)
• Kraken
• Kraken Inferno: The Last Hunt, Alessandro Manzetti, art by Stefano Cardoselli (Independent Legions)
• Something is Killing the Children Vol 4, James Tynion IV, art by Werther Dell’Edera (Boom!)
• The Me You Love in the Dark, Skottie Young, art by Jorge Corona (Image Comics)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• The Pale Blue Eye
• The Black Phone
• Stranger Things, “Chapter One: The Hellfire Club”
• Men
• Pearl

Winners will be honored at a gala during StokerCon 2023, to be held June 15-18, 2023 at the Sheraton Pittsburgh Hotel at Station Square in Pittsburgh PA. For more information, see the Stoker Awards website.

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