The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced their final ballot for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement (for stories published in 2010). From this ballot, the organization’s Active members will select the winners. The awards will be presented this year during the Stoker Weekend, which will be 16-19 June in Uniondale (Long Island), New York. (We listed the preliminary ballot, from which this year’s nominees were chosen, in this article.)
The final ballot is:
Superior Achievement in a Novel:
Horns by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
Dead Love by Linda Watanabe McFerrin (Stone Bridge)
Apocalypse of the Dead by Joe McKinney (Pinnacle)
Dweller by Jeff Strand (Leisure/Dark Regions Press)
A Dark Matter by Peter Straub (Doubleday)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel:
Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Bad Moon Books)
A Book of Tongues by Gemma Files (Chizine Publications)
Castle of Los Angeles by Lisa Morton (Gray Friar Press)
Spellbent by Lucy Snyder (Del Rey)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction:
“The Painted Darkness” by Brian James Freeman (Cemetery Dance)
“Dissolution” by Lisa Mannetti (Deathwatch)
“Monster Among Us” by Kristyn McDermott (Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears)
“The Samhanach” by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
“Invisible Fences” by Norman Prentiss (Cemetery Dance)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction:
“Return to Mariabronn” by Gary Braunbeck (Haunted Legends)
“The Folding Man” by Joe R. Lansdale (Haunted Legends)
“1925: A Fall River Halloween” by Lisa Mannetti (Shroud Magazine #10)
“In the Middle of Poplar Street” by Nate Southard (Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology)
“Final Draft” by Mark W. Worthen (Horror Library IV)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology:
Dark Faith edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon (Apex Publications)
Horror Library IV edited by R.J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris (Cutting Block Press)
Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears edited by Angela Challis and Marty Young (Brimstone Press)
Haunted Legends edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas (Tor)
The New Dead edited by Christopher Golden (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Superior Achievement in a Collection:
Occultation by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
Blood and Gristle by Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books)
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King (Simon and Schuster)
The Ones that Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones (Prime Books)
A Host of Shadows by Harry Shannon (Dark Regions Press)
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction:
To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck (Apex Publications)
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti (Hippocampus Press)
Wanted Undead or Alive by Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman (Citadel)
Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews by Sam Weller (Melville House Publications)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection:
Dark Matters by Bruce Boston (Bad Moon Books)
Wild Hunt of the Stars by Ann K. Schwader (Sam’s Dot)
Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist by Robin Spriggs (Anomalous Books)
Vicious Romantic by Wrath James White (Needfire Poetry)