sfadb: Bram Stoker Awards 2016 (original) (raw)

Where and When: StokerCon, Las Vegas NV : May 14, 2016
Eligibility Year: 2015

Novel

• Winner: A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)
• Black Tide, Patrick Freivald (Journalstone)
• The Cure, J. G. Faherty (Samhain)
• The Deep, Michaelbrent Collings (self-published)
• The Scarlet Gospels, Clive Barker (St. Martin's)

First Novel

• Winner: Mr. Suicide, Nicole Cushing (Word Horde)
• Hannahwhere, John McIlveen (Crossroad)
• Riding the Centipede, Jean Claude Smith (Omnium Gatherum)
• Shutter, Courtney Alameda (Feiwel & Friends)
• We Are Monsters, Brian Kirk (Samhain)

Young-adult Novel

• Winner: Devil's Pocket, John Dixon (Simon & Schuster)
• End Times at Ridgemont High, Ian Welke (Omnium Gatherum)
• Hallowed, Tonya Hurley (Simon & Schuster)
• Never Let Me Sleep, Jennifer Brozek (Permuted)
• The Ridealong, Michaelbrent Collings (self-published)
• The Shadow Cabinet, Maureen Johnson (Penguin)

Long Fiction

• Winner: “Little Dead Red”, Mercedes M. Yardley (Grimm Mistresses)
• “Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen”, Scott Edelman (Dark Discoveries Jan 2015)
• The Box Jumper, Lisa Mannetti (Smart Rhino)
• “Paper Cuts”, Gary A. Braunbeck (Seize the Night)
• “Special Collections”, Norman Partridge (The Library of the Dead)

Short Fiction

• Winner: “Happy Joe's Rest Stop”, John Palisano (18 Wheels of Horror)
• The Algernon Effect, Gene O'Neill (White Noise)
• “All the Day You'll Have Good Luck”, Kate Jonez (Black Static Jul/aug 2015)
• “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”, Alyssa Wong (Nightmare Oct 2015)
• “Sing Me Your Scars”, Damien Angelica Walters (Sing Me Your Scars)

Collection

• Winner: While the Black Stars Burn, Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming)
• The Dark at the End of the Tunnel, Taylor Grant (Crystal Lake)
• Halfway Down the Stairs, Gary A. Braunbeck (JournalStone)
• The Hitchhiking Effect, Gene O'Neill (Dark Renaissance)
• The Mirrors, Nicole Cushing (Cycatrix)

Anthology

• Winner: The Library of the Dead, Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards)
• The Doll Collection, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• Midian Unmade, Joseph Nassise & Del Howison, eds. (Tor)
• nEvermore!, Nancy Kilpatrick & Caro Soles, eds. (Edge)
• Seize the Night, Christopher Golden, ed. (Gallery)
• X-Files: Trust No One, Jonathan Maberry, ed. (IDW)

Nonfiction

• Winner: The Art of Horror, Stephen Jones (Applause Theatre & Cinema)
• Author's Guide to Marketing with Teeth, Michael Knost (Seventh Star)
• Horror 201: The Silver Scream, Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley, eds. (Crystal Lake)
• Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Danel Olson (Centipede)
• The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror, Justin Everett & Jeffrey H. Shanks, eds. (Rowman & Littlefield)

Graphic Novel

• Winner: Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller & Mort Castle, eds. (IDW)
• Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints, Cullen Bunn (Dark Horse)
• Hellbound, Victor Gischler (Dark Horse)
• Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him, Robert Kirkman (Image)
• Wytches, Vol. 1, Scott Snyder (Image)

Screenplay

• Winner: It Follows, David Robert Mitchell (Northern Lights Films)
• Crimson Peak, Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins (Legendary Pictures)
• Penny Dreadful: “And Hell Itself My Only Foe”, John Logan (Showtime)
• Penny Dreadful: “Nightcomers”, John Logan (Showtime)
• What We Do in the Shadows, Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement (Unison Films)

Poetry Collection

• Winner: Eden Underground, Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake)
• Dark Energies, Ann K. Schwader (P'rea Press)
• An Exorcism of Angels, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Naughty Ladies, Marge Simon (Eldritch)
• Resonance Dark and Light, Bruce Boston (Eldritch)

Specialty Press Award

• Winner: Borderlands Press