2012 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot

I’m so excited about the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards! The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition for “superior achievement” in horror writing and is presented annually by the Horror Writers Association. I’ve actually read a few of these titles and can vouch for their awesomeness, but you’ll certainly want to pick them up and see for yourself (also worth noting is that many of these are a STEAL in ebook format, so be sure to check them out.)

Now, keep in mind, this is the preliminary ballot, which means that voting members will receive ballots with these names on them in February for final voting. I also just included fiction, so if you’d like to take a look at who’s on the list for screenplays,non-fiction, poetry, etc, head over to the Stokers website.

Who are you rooting for to appear on the final ballot?

NOVEL

• Hal Bodner - The Trouble With Hairy (Phantom Hollow Publishing)
• Peter Clines - 14 (Permuted Press)
• Benjamin Kane Ethridge - Bottled Abyss (Redrum Horror)
• John Everson - NightWhere (Samhain Publishing)
• JG Faherty - Cemetery Club (JournalStone)
• Lee F. Jordan - Coronation (Black Rose Writing)
• Caitlin R. Kiernan - The Drowning Girl (Roc)
• Bentley Little - The Haunted (Signet)
• Joe McKinney - Inheritance (Evil Jester Press) | My Review

FIRST NOVEL

• Michael Boccacino- Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling (William Morrow)
• Deborah Coates - Wide Open (Tor Books) | My Review
• Charles Day - The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief (Noble YA Publishers LLC)
• Peter Dudar - A Requiem for Dead Flies (Nightscape Press)
• Richard Gropp - Bad Glass (Ballantine/Del Rey)
• Dane Hatchell- Resurrection X: Zombie Evolution (Post Mortem Press)
• Chris F. Holm - Dead Harvest (Angry Robot) | My Review
• K. Trap Jones - The Sinner (Blood Bound Books)
• L.L. Soares - Life Rage (Nightscape Press)
• Hugh Sterbakov - City Under the Moon (Ben & Derek Ink Inc.)

YA NOVEL

• Laura Bickle - The Hallowed Ones (Graphia)
• Libba Bray - The Diviners (Little Brown)
• Steve Burt - FreeK Show (Burt Creations)
• Michaelbrent Collings - Hooked: A True Faerie Tale (Createspace/Amazon Digital Services, Inc.)
• Barry Lyga - I Hunt Killers (Little Brown)
• Jonathan Maberry - Flesh & Bone (Simon & Schuster)
• Michael McCarty - I Kissed a Ghoul (Noble Romance Publishing)
• Maggie Stiefvater - The Raven Boys (Scholastic Press)
• Jeff Strand - Bad Day for Voodoo (Sourcebooks)
• Daniel Waters - Break My Heart 1,000 Times (Hyperion Book CH)
• Connie Corcoran Wilson - The Color of Evil (Quad Cities Press)

LONG FICTION

• Kealan Patrick Burke- Thirty Miles South Of Dry County (Delirium Books)
• JG Faherty- The Cold Spot (Delirium Books)
• Peter Giglio - Sunfall Manor (Nightscape Press)
• Jack Ketchum and Lucky McGee - I’m Not Sam (Sinister Grin Press)
• Ronald Malfi - The Mourning House (Delirium Books)
• Joe McKinney and Michael McCarty - Lost Girl of the Lake (Bad Moon Books)
• S.P. Miskowski- Delphine Dodd (Omnium Gatherum Media)
• Gene O’Neill - The Blue Heron (Dark Regions Press)
• Norman Prentiss - The Fleshless Man (Delirium Books)
• Lee Thompson - When We Join Jesus In Hell (Darkfuse)

SHORT FICTION

• Michael Bailey – Bootstrap (Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad!, Smart Rhino Publications)
• Bruce Boston – Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest (Daily Science Fiction)
• Kevin James Breaux - The Journal of USS Indianapolis Survivor: Stefanos “Stevie” Georgiou (Zombie Jesus and Other True Stories, Dark Moon Books)
• Nicole Cushing- A Catechism for Aspiring Amnesiacs (Lovecraft eZine, March 2012)
• Jay Lake – The Cancer Catechism (Dark Faith: Invocations, Apex Book Company)
• Joe McKinney – Bury My Heart at Marvin Gardens (The Best of Dark Moon Digest, Dark Moon Books)
• Weston Ochse – Righteous (Psychos, Black Dog and Leventhall Publication)
• John Palisano – Available Light (Lovecraft eZine – March 2012 – Issue 12, March 2012)
• Lucy Snyder – Magdala Amygdala (Dark Faith: Invocations, Apex Book Company)

ANTHOLOGY

• Eric Beebe - Fear the Abyss (Post Mortem Press)
• Mort Castle and Sam Weller - Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (HarperCollins)
• Gallows Press - Tales From the Yellow Rose Diner and Fill Station (Gallows Press)
• Eric J. Guignard- Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations (Dark Moon Books)
• Eric Miller - Hell Comes To Hollywood (Big Time Books)
• Richard Salter - World’s Collider: A Shared-World Anthology (Nightscape Press)
• Patrick Scalisi - The Ghost IS the Machine (Port Mortem Press)
• Mark C. Scioneaux, R.J. Cavender, and Robert S. Wilson - Horror For Good – A Charitable Anthology (Cutting Block Press)
• Stan Swanson - Slices of Flesh (Dark Moon Books)

FICTION COLLECTION

• Kenneth W. Cain - These Old Tales (CreateSpace Distressed Press)
• Jonathan Carroll - The Woman Who Married a Cloud: The Collected Short Stories (Subterranean Press)
• Mort Castle- New Moon on the Water (Dark Regions)
• Corrine De Winter - Valentines for the Dead (Shadowfall Publications)
• Elizabeth Hand - Errantry: Strange Stories (Small Beer Press)
• Glen Hirshberg - The Janus Tree and Other Stories (Subterranean Press)
• Joel Lane - Where Furnaces Burn (PS Publishing)
• C.W. LaSart - Ad Nauseam (Dark Moon Books)
• Joyce Carol Oates - Black Dahlia & White Rose (Ecco)
• Mark Onspaugh - Christmas Ghost Stories (Createspace)
• Mercedes M. Yardley - Beautiful Sorrows (Shock Totem)

GRAPHIC NOVEL (these selections will go directly to the final ballot)

• Cullen Bunn - The Sixth Gun Volume 3 TP: Bound (Oni Press)
• Terry Moore - Rachel Rising Volume 1: The Shadow of Death (Abstract Studio)
• Ravi Thornton - The Tale of Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone (Jonathan Cape)
• Peter J. Wacks and Guy Anthony De Marco - Behind These Eyes (Villainous Press)
• Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton - Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times (McFarland)

4 Responses to “2012 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot”

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1. Michelle @ The True Book Addict says:

   January 21, 2013 at 7:55 pm

   Frankly, I’m surprised Breed by Chase Novak is not on this list. I am pleased to see The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle though. It was an awesome book!

   Thanks for sharing!

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   • Kristin says:

     January 21, 2013 at 7:58 pm

     It kind of surprised me too…Breed was definitely one of the best of 2012!

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2. David Greybeard says:

   January 24, 2013 at 11:12 am

   These are my best novel picks for 2012.
   I’ve not even heard of any of yours and I’m shocked BREED, SOMETHING RED and BETWEEN TWO FIRES are not on your list.

   BETWEEN TWO FIRES by Christopher Buehlman
   THOSE ACROSS THE RIVER by Christopher Buehlman
   WALKING DEAD: RISE OF THE GOVERNOR by Robert Kirkman
   HOLLOW CITY by Dan Wells
   MONSTER by Dave Zeltserman
   THE CARETAKER OF LORNE FIELD by Dave Zeltserman
   COLD VENGENCE by Preston and Child
   SOMETHING RED by Douglas Nicholas
   BREED by Chase Novak
   MICRO by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston
   AMERICAN GOTHIC by Robert Bloch
   THE LAST WEREWOLF by Glen Duncan
   FRANKENSTEIN: THE DEAD TOWN by Dean Koontz
   FRANKENSTEIN: LOST SOULS by Dean Koontz
   ODD APOCALYPSE by Dean Koontz
   77 SHADOW STREET by Dean Koontz

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   • Kristin says:

     January 24, 2013 at 11:33 am

     David-Loved Breed and was hoping to see it on the Bram Stoker Ballot as well, however, this is actually the list made by the Horror Writer’s Association:) You can check out my personal Best of 2012 list here: http://www.mybookishways.com/2012/12/mbw-best-books-of-2012-giveaway.html

     Lost of great titles on your list!

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