The Horror Writers Association has announced the nominees for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards®.
Superior Achievement in a Novel
- Hand, Elizabeth – Hard Light: A Cass Neary Crime Novel (Minotaur Books)
- Jones, Stephen Graham – Mongrels (William Morrow)
- Langan, John – The Fisherman (Word Horde)
- MacLeod, Bracken – Stranded: A Novel (Tor Books)
- Tremblay, Paul – Disappearance at Devil’s Rock (William Morrow)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
- Barnett, Barbara – The Apothecary’s Curse (Pyr Books)
- Chapman, Greg – Hollow House (Omnium Gatherum Media)
- Deady, Tom – Haven (Cemetery Dance Publications)
- Garza, Michelle and Lason, Melissa – Mayan Blue (Sinister Grin Press)
- Wytovich, Stephanie – The Eighth (Dark Regions Press)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
- Alexander, Maria – Snowed (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- Brozek, Jennifer – Last Days of Salton Academy (Ragnarok Publishing)
- Cosimano, Elle – Holding Smoke (Hyperion-Disney)
- Roberts, Jeyn – When They Fade (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- Sirowy, Alexandra – The Telling (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
- Bunn, Cullen – Blood Feud (Oni Press)
- Chambers, James – Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe (Moonstone)
- de Campi, Alex – No Mercy, Vol. 2 (Image Comics)
- Kirkman, Robert – Outcast by Kirkman&Azaceta, Vol 3 This Little Light (Image Comics)
- Miller, Mark Alan and Lansdale, Joe R. –The Steam Man (Dark Horse Books)
- Moore, Alan – Providence, Act 1 (Avatar Press)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
- Cushing, Nicole – The Sadist’s Bible (01Publishing)
- Edelman, Scott – That Perilous Stuff (Chiral Mad 3) (Written Backwards)
- LaValle, Victor – The Ballad of Black Tom (Tor.com)
- Malerman, Josh – The Jupiter Drop (You, Human) (Dark Regions Press)
- Waggoner, Tim – The Winter Box (DarkFuse)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
- Bailey, Michael – Time is a Face on the Water (Borderlands 6) (Borderlands Press)
- Bodner, Hal – A Rift in Reflection (Chiral Mad 3) (Written Backwards)
- Golden, Christopher – The Bad Hour (What the #@&% is That?) (Saga Press)
- Mannetti, Lisa – ArbeitMacht Frei (Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories) (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- Oates, Joyce Carol – The Crawl Space (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume #2016/Issue#8) (Dell Magazines)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
- Barron, Laird – Swift to Chase (JournalStone)
- Chizmar, Richard – A Long December (Subterranean Press)
- Oates, Joyce Carol – The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (Mysterious Press)
- O’Neill, Gene – Lethal Birds (Omnium Gatherum Media)
- Schwaeble, Hank – American Nocturne (Cohesion Press)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
- Campbell, Josh, Chazelle, Damien, and Stuecken, Matthew – 10 Cloverfield Lane (Paramount Pictures)
- Duffer, Matt and Duffer, Ross – Stranger Things: The Vanishing of Will Byers (Episode 01: Chapter One) (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre)
- Duffer, Matt and Duffer, Ross – Stranger Things: The Upside Down (Episode 01: Chapter Eight) (21 Laps Entertainment, Monkey Massacre)
- Eggers, Robert – The VVitch (Parts and Labor, RT Features, Rooks Nest Entertainment, Code Red Productions, Scythia Films, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Mott Street Pictures, Pulse Films, and Very Special Projects)
- Logan, John – Penny Dreadful: A Blade of Grass (Episode 03:04) Showtime Presents in association with SKY, Desert Wolf Productions, Neal Street Productions)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
- Bailey, Michael – Chiral Mad 3 (Written Backwards)
- Manzetti, Alessandro – The Beauty of Death (Independent Legions Publishing)
- Monteleone, Thomas F. and Monteleone, Oliva F. – Borderlands 6 (Samhain Publishing, Ltd.)
- Mosiman, Billie Sue – Fright Mare-Women Write Horror (DM Publishing)
- Murano, Doug and Ward, D. Alexander – Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
- Braudy, Leo – Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural(Yale University Press)
- Franklin, Ruth – Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
- Olson, Danel P. – Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth”: Studies in the Horror Film (Centipede Press)
- Poole, W. Scott – In the Mountains of Madness: The Life, Death and Extraordinary Afterlife of H. P. Lovecraft (Soft Skull Press)
- Skal, David J. – Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula (Liveright Publishing Corporation)
- Tibbetts, John – The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub (McFarland)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
- Boston, Bruce and Manzetti, Alessandro – Sacrificial Nights (KippleOfficinaLibraria)
- Collings, Michael R. – Corona Obscura: Poems Dark and Elemental (self-published)
- Gailey, Jeannine Hall – Field Guide to the End of the World: Poems (Moon City Press)
- Simon, Marge – Small Spirits (Midnight Town Media)
- Wytovich, Stephanie M. – Brothel (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
The Bram Stoker Awards® will be presented at StokerCon on April 29, 2017. The awards ceremonies will be live-streamed online.
One of the things I find fascinating about this genre is how diverse the publishers represented are here as opposed to the Hugos where (generally speaking) a small number of publishers dominate the list.
Cat Eldridge: One of the things I find fascinating about this genre is how diverse the publishers represented are here as opposed to the Hugos where (generally speaking) a small number of publishers dominate the list.
I know that’s the perception about the Hugos, but it’s not really backed up by reality. While Horror certainly does have a more diverse list of publishers, here’s what the Hugos look like:
Novel 2016
Del Rey
Orbit (2)
Roc
William Morrow
Novella 2016
Dragonsteel
Spectrum
Tachyon
Tor.com (2)
Novelette 2016
Lightspeed
Scribner
Uncanny
Puppy (2)
Short Story 2016
Clarkesworld
Nature
Puppy (2)
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That’s 15 different publishers out of 20 entries.
And if you look at the 5 years prior to the Puppy idiocy:
Novel 2010-2014
Ace
Baen
Bantam Spectra
DAW
Del Rey
Golancz/Pyr
Macmillan
Orbit
Tor
Novella 2010-2014
Ace
Asimov’s
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Immersion
Orbit
Panverse
Privateer
Pyr
Science Fiction Book Club
Subterranean Press
Tachyon
Tor.com
William Morrow
WSFA Press
Novelette 2010-2014
Analog
Asimov’s
Clarkesworld
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Interzone
Night Shade
PS Publishing
Solaris
Subterranean Press
Tor.com
self-published
Short Story 2010-2014
Apex
Asimov’s
Clarkesworld
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Hadley-Rille
Lightspeed
Strange Horizons
Tor.com
Viz Media
That’s 33 publishers for approx. 80 finalists.
It’s a little more lopsided at the top if you look at the 2016 lists with the puppies removed.
Best Novel is Orbit(3) , Del Rey, and William Morrow.
Best Novella is Tor.com(3), Tachyon, and Self-published.
Best Novelette is Lightspeed, Asimov’s, Clarkesworld(2), Uncanny, and Microsoft.
Best Short Story is Clarkesworld, Nightmare, Uncanny, Lightspeed, and Apex.
But I agree in general; the claims that the Hugos are dominated by a few publishers aren’t really true.
Greg Hullender: It’s a little more lopsided at the top if you look at the 2016 lists with the puppies removed.
Yes, and that’s why I did the 5-year pre-Puppy data — because just removing the Puppy publishers from the 2016 data doesn’t give an accurate picture, so there’s no point in doing it.
I didn’t have time right now to look up which works were pushed off the ballot by Puppies, and who their publishers were, so thanks for doing that. It still ends up being 13 publishers for 20 works.
I’m kind of surprised, there were some big main stream horror players last year. I’d consider The Heart Goes Last in that genre, The Fireman and Fellside were all pretty big names and were great. Not to mention Lovecraft Country.
All around great year for horror.
Mogrels was good stuff and I hear The Fisherman was excellent so I look forward to catching up on the rest.