The Horror Writers Association has issued the Final Ballot for Bram Stoker Awards® containing the 2014 nominees for the award. The winners will be named at the World Horror Convention in Atlanta on May 9 and the ceremony will be live-streamed.
Superior Achievement in a Novel
- Craig DiLouie – Suffer the Children (Gallery Books of Simon & Schuster)
- Patrick Freivald – Jade Sky (JournalStone)
- Chuck Palahniuk – Beautiful You (Jonathan Cape, Vintage/Penguin Random House UK)
- Christopher Rice – The Vines (47North)
- Steve Rasnic Tem – Blood Kin (Solaris Books)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
- Maria Alexander – Mr. Wicker (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- J.D. Barker – Forsaken (Hampton Creek Press)
- David Cronenberg – Consumed (Scribner)
- Michael Knost – Return of the Mothman (Woodland Press)
- Josh Malerman – Bird Box (Harper Collins)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
- Jake Bible – Intentional Haunting (Permuted Press)
- John Dixon – Phoenix Island (Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books)
- Kami Garcia – Unmarked (The Legion Series Book 2) (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Tonya Hurley – Passionaries (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
- Peter Adam Salomon – All Those Broken Angels (Flux)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
- Emily Carroll – Through the Woods (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
- Joe Hill – Locke and Key, Vol. 6 (IDW Publishing)
- Joe R. Lansdale and Daniele Serra – I Tell You It’s Love (Short, Scary Tales Publications)
- Jonathan Maberry – Bad Blood (Dark Horse Books)
- Paul Tobin – The Witcher (Dark Horse Books)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
- Taylor Grant – “The Infected” (Cemetery Dance #71) (Cemetery Dance)
- Eric J. Guignard – “Dreams of a Little Suicide” (Hell Comes to Hollywood II: Twenty-Two More Tales of Tinseltown Terror (Volume 2)) (Big Time Books)
- Joe R. Lansdale – “Fishing for Dinosaurs” (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone)
- Jonathan Maberry – “Three Guys Walk into a Bar” (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone)
- Joe McKinney – “Lost and Found” (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
- Hal Bodner – “Hot Tub” (Hell Comes to Hollywood II: Twenty-Two More Tales of Tinseltown Terror (Volume 2)) (Big Time Books)
- Sydney Leigh – “Baby’s Breath” (Bugs: Tales That Slither, Creep, and Crawl) (Great Old Ones Publishing)
- Usman T. Malik – “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” (Qualia Nous) (Written Backwards)
- Rena Mason – “Ruminations” (Qualia Nous) (Written Backwards)
- John Palisano – “Splinterette” (Widowmakers: A Benefit Anthology of Dark Fiction) (Widowmaker Press)
- Damien Angelica Walters – “The Floating Girls: A Documentary” (Jamais Vu, Issue Three) (Post Mortem Press)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
- Scott M. Gimple – The Walking Dead: “The Grove”, episode 4:14 (AMC)
- Jennifer Kent – The Babadook (Causeway Films)
- John Logan – Penny Dreadful: “Séance” (Desert Wolf Productions/Neal Street Productions)
- Steven Moffat – Doctor Who: “Listen” (British Broadcasting Corporation)
- James Wong – American Horror Story: Coven: “The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks” (FX Network)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
- Michael Bailey – Qualia Nous (Written Backwards)
- Jason V Brock – A Darke Phantastique (Cycatrix Press)
- Ellen Datlow – Fearful Symmetries (ChiZine Publications)
- Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer – Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press)
- Brett J. Talley – Limbus, Inc., Book II (JournalStone)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
- Stephen Graham Jones – After the People Lights Have Gone Off (Dark House Press)
- John R. Little – Little by Little (Bad Moon Books)
- Helen Marshall – Gifts for the One Who Comes After (ChiZine Publications)
- Lucy Snyder – Soft Apocalypses (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- John F.D. Taff – The End in All Beginnings (Grey Matter Press)
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
- Jason V Brock – Disorders of Magnitude (Rowman & Littlefield)
- S.T. Joshi – Lovecraft and a World in Transition (Hippocampus Press)
- Leslie S. Klinger – The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft (Liveright Publishing Corp., a division of W.W. Norton & Co.)
- Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley – Horror 101: The Way Forward (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- Lucy Snyder – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide (Post Mortem Press)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
- Robert Payne Cabeen – Fearworms: Selected Poems (Fanboy Comics)
- Corrinne De Winter and Alessandro Manzetti – Venus Intervention (Kipple Officina Libraria)
- Tom Piccirilli – Forgiving Judas (Crossroad Press)
- Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo – Sweet Poison (Dark Renaissance Books)
- Stephanie Wytovich – Mourning Jewelry (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Glad to see “The Grove” episode of The Walking Dead as a finalist. It was some very powerful storytelling.