The International Horror Guild awards are based on public recommendations, but the winners are determined by a panel of judges. This year, the award winners will be announced during the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, New York, on Thursday 1 November.
Ramsey Campbell has been named this year’s Living Legend.
The rest of the nominees are:
Novel:
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue (Doubleday)
The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott (ABC Books)
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press)
Lisey’s Story by Stephen King (Scribner)
The Unblemished by Conrad Williams (Earthling)
Long Fiction:
“Hallucigenia” by Laird Barron (Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2006)
“Forced Perspective” by P.D. Cacek (Night Visions XII)
“Isis” by Douglas Clegg (CD Publications)
“Blackburn and the Blade” by Bradley Denton (Lords of the Razor)
“Dark Harvest” by Norman Partridge (CD Publications)
Mid-Length Fiction:
“The Old North Road” by Paul Finch (Alone on the Darkside)
“The Muldoon” by Glen Hirshberg (American Morons)
“Bainbridge” by Caitlin R. Kiernan (Alabaster)
“Journey into the Kingdom” by M. Rickert (F&SF, May 2006)
“Obsequy” by David J. Schow (Subterranean #3/Havoc Swims Jaded)
Short Fiction:
“Cheat Light” by Terry Dowling (Basic Black)
“The Box” by Stephen Gallagher (Retro-Pulp Tales)
“Raphael” by Stephen Graham Jones (Cemetery Dance #55)
“You Could Have It All” by Joel Lane (The Lost District)
“The Disease Artist” by Steve Rasnic Tem (Dark Arts)
Collection (Single Author):
Basic Black by Terry Dowling (CD Publications)
American Morons by Glen Hirshberg (Earthling)
The Lost District and Other Stories by Joel Lane (Night Shade Books)
Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (Golden Gryphon)
Anthology:
Night Visions XII edited by Kealan Patrick Burke (Subterranean Press)
Lords of the Razor edited by William Sheehan and Bill Schafer (Subterranean Press)
Masques V edited by J.N. Williamson and Gary A. Braunbeck (Gauntlet Publications)
Periodical:
Cemetery Dance
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Postscripts
Subterranean
Weird Tales
Illustrated Narrative:
Hellcity by Macon Blair and Joel Flood (Gigantic Comics)
Impaler by William Harms, Nick Postic, and Nick Marinkovich (Image Comics)
Panopticon by Greg Ruth (Dark Horse)
A.L.I.E.E.N. by Lewis Trondheim (Editions Breal [France, 2004]; Firstsecond Books [US, 2006])
Nonfiction:
Cinema Macabre edited by Mark Morris (PS Publishing)
Icons of Horror and the Supernatural edited by S.T. Joshi (Greenwood Press)
Gospel of the Living Dead by Kim Paffenroth (Baylor University Press)
The Freedom of Fantastic Things edited by Scott Connors (Hippocampus Press)
The Darkening Garden by John Clute (Payseur & Schmidt)
Art:
“Exhibits from the Imginary Museum” by Aeron Alfrey (www.ligotti.net/gallery/alfrey.html)
“Camille Rose Garcia: Subterranean Death Clash” by Camille Rose Garcia (Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York)
“Chris Mars: Subderma” by Chris Mars (Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York)
Cover Story: The Art of John Picacio by John Picacio (MonkeyBrain)
Cover and illustrations for Tim Powers’s A Soul in a Bottle by J.K. Potter (Subterranean)
This year’s judges are Edward Bryant, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Ann Kennedy, and Hank Wagner. Paula Guran is the award administrator. For more information on the International Horror Guild, see www.ihgonline.org.