The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced their preliminary ballot for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement (which Ellen Datlow has posted). From this ballot, the members of HWA will choose the nominees to appear on the final ballot, and then they’ll vote on that ballot to determine the winners, which will be announced at the World Horror Convention, 25-28 March 2010, in Brighton, England.
The preliminary ballot is:
Superior Achievement in a Novel:
As Fate Would Have It by Michael Louis Calvillo (published by Bad Moon Books)
Sacrifice by John Everson (Leisure)
Eternal Vigilance II: Death of Illusions by Gabrielle Faust (Immanion Press)
Twisted Ladder by Rhodi Hawk (Tor/Forge)
Voracious by Alice Henderson (Jove)
The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon (Leisure)
Audrey’s Door by Sarah Langan (Harper)
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Quarantined by Joe McKinney (Lachesis Publishing)
Cursed by Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel:
The Black Act by Louise Bohmer (Library of Horror)
Breathers by S.G. Browne (Broadway Books)
Slaughter by Marcus Griffin (Alexandrian Archives Publishing)
The Dead Path by Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia)
Solomon’s Grave by Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)
Dismember by Daniel Pyle (Wild Child)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan (Delacorte Press/Random House)
Damnable by Hank Schwaeble (Jove)
The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)
Slights by Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction:“Dreaming Robot Monster” by Mort Castle (published in Mighty Unclean)
The Hunger of Empty Vessels by Scott Edelman (Bad Moon Books)
Rot by Michelle Lee (Skullvines Press)
The Gray Zone by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)
“Diana and the Goong-Si” by Lisa Morton (Midnight Walk)
The Lucid Dreaming by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)Black Butterflies by Kurt Newton (Sideshow Press)
Doc Good’s Traveling Show by Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon Books)
Little Graveyard on the Prairie by Steven E. Wedel (Bad Moon Books)
Mama Fish by Rio Youers (Shroud Publishing)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction:
“Nub Hut” by Kurt Dinan (Chizine)
“One More Day” by Brian Freeman (Shivers V)
“Where Sunlight Sleeps” by Brian Freeman (Horror Drive-in)
“Blanket of White” by Amy Grech (Blanket of White)
“Keeping Watch” by Nate Kenyon (Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror)
“Plague Dogs” by Joe McKinney (Potters Field 3)
“The Crossing of Aldo Ray” by Weston Ochse (The Dead that Walk)
“The Outlaws of Hill County” by John Palisano (Harvest Hill)
“In the Porches of My Ears” by Norman Prentiss (PS Publishing)
“The Night Nurse” by Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-in)
Superior Achievement in Anthology:
Harlan County Horrors edited by Mari Adkins (Apex Publications)
He is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson edited by Christopher Conlon (Gauntlet Press)
Mighty Unclean edited by Bill Breedlove (Dark Arts Books)
Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse Books)
Poe edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
Dark Delicacies 3: Haunted edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Running Press)
Butcher Shop Quartet 2 edited by Frank J. Hutton (Cutting Block Press)
British Invasion by Chris Golden, Tim Lebbon, and James Moore (Cemetery Dance Publications)
Midnight Walk edited by Lisa Morton (Dark House)
Grants Pass edited by Amanda Pillar and Jennifer Brozek (Morrigan Books)
Superior Achievement in a Collection:
Shards by Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone Press)
Martyrs and Monsters by Robert Dunbar (DarkHart Press)
Dark Entities by David Dunwoody (Dark Regions)
Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories by Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)
Shades of Blood and Shadow by Angeline Hawkes (Dark Regions Press)
Unhappy Endings by Brian Keene (Delirium Books)
You Might Sleep… by Nick Mamatas (Prime)A Little Help from My Friends by Michael McCarty (Sam’s Dot)
A Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O’Neill (Apex Book Company)
In the Closet, Under the Bed by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction:
Writers Workshop of Horror by Michael Knost (Woodland Press)
Esoteria-Land by Michael McCarty (BearManor Media)
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues edited by Loren Rhoads (Simon & Schuster)
Cinema Knife Fight by L.L. Soares and Michael Arruda (Fearzone)
The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by Bev Vincent (Fall River Press)
Stephen King: The Non-Fiction by Rocky Wood and Justin Brook (Cemetery Dance)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection:
Double Visions by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)
North Left of Earth by Bruce Boston (Sam’s Dot)
Mortician’s Tea by G.O. Clark (Sam’s Dot)
Starkweather Dreams by Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)
Voices from the Dark by Gary William Crawford (Dark Regions)
Barfodder by Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)
Grave Bits by Todd Hanks (Skullvines Press)
Toward Absolute Zero by Karen L. Newman (Sam’s Dot)
Chimeric Machines by Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy Publishing)