After seven weeks of voting, yielding 3,100 ballots, the 2015 winners of the Rondo Hatton Awards have been announced.

BEST FILM OF 2014

• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
• Runner-up: THE BABADOOK
• Honorable mention: GODZILLA; DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

BEST TV PRESENTATION

• THE WALKING DEAD: ‘The Grove’
  • Runners-up: DOCTOR WHO; AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN
  • Honorable mention: PENNY DREADFUL

BEST CLASSIC DVD OF 2014

• NIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT (Shout!)
  • Runners-up: THE TIME MACHINE; THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
  • Honorable mention: THE INNOCENTS

BEST CLASSIC DVD/BLU-RAY COLLECTION

• BATMAN: THE COMPLETE TELEVISION SERIES (Warner Home Video)
  • Runner-up: VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION VOL. 2
  • Honorable mention: UNIVERSAL CLASSIC MONSTERS: 30-FILM COLLECTION; HALLOWEEN: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION

BEST RESTORATION

• NIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT (Shout!)
  • Runner-up: THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (Kino)
  • Honorable mention: THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (Kino); THEATRE OF BLOOD (Arrow)

BEST COMMENTARY

• Clive Barker and Mark AlanMillerNIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
  • Runners-up: Tim Lucas (PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES); Klaus Kinski (NOSFERATU)

BEST DVD EXTRA

• PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE: PAULWILLIAMSANDGUILLERMODELTORO
  • Runner-up: Tribes of the Moon: Making Nightbreed (NIGHTBREED: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT);
  • Honorable mention: Caligari: When Horror Came to the Cinema (THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI)

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM

• WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, directedbyJemaine ClementandTaikaWaititi
  • Runner-up: THE LASHMAN
  • Honorable mentions: A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE; GODZILLA BATTLE ROYALE

BEST SHORT FILM

• THE MILL AT CALDER’S END, directed byKevinMcTurk
  • Runner-up: A ZOMBIE NEXT DOOR
  • Honorable mentions: BUILD ME UP BUTTERCUP; BROKEN; WITCH GIRL; THEATRE FANTASTIQUE: MADAME LA SOEUR

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• JODOROWSKY’S DUNE, directed byFrankPavich
  • Runner-up: AS TIMELESS AS INFINITY: THE TWILIGHT ZONE LEGACY
  • Honorable mention: UNCLE FORRY’S ACKERMANSIONS

BOOK(S) OF THE YEAR

TIED:

• THE CREATURE CHRONICLES by Tom Weaver with David Schecter and Steve Kronenberg
• THE OUTER LIMITS AT 50 by David J.Schow with Ted C.Rypel.
  • Runner-up: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF DON POST STUDIOS by Lee Lambert
  • Honorable mention: THE ART OF JAPANESE MONSTERS by Sean Linkenback

BEST MAGAZINE

• RUE MORGUE
  • Runners-up:  FANGORIA, HORRORHOUND
  • Honorable mention: VIDEO WATCHDOG

BEST MAGAZINE (classic)

• FAMOUS MONSTERS
  • Runners-up: DIABOLIQUE; SCARY MONSTERS; MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT
  • Honorable mention: LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS, G-FAN, FILMFAX

BEST ARTICLE

• ‘The Complete Godzilla Chronology, 1954-2004,’ byAugustRagone, FAMOUS MONSTERS #275
  • Runners-up:  ‘Days of Future Past: Remembering the Outer Limits,’ by David J. Schow, SCREEM #29; ‘Dick Smith: An Appreciation of the Master of Make-Up,’ by Scott Essman, BELOW THE LINE (industry magazine).
  • Honorable mentions:’Family Man,’ by James Gracey, DIABOLIQUE #20;  ‘Lady Impunity,’ by Max Weinstein, DIABOLIQUE #22; ‘Arkham House Publishers: 75 Years of Scares,’ by Mark C. Glassey, SCARY MONSTERS #94; ‘Ghost Stories for Christmas,’ by Kier-la Janisse, VIDEO WATCHDOG #176; ‘Carnival of Monstrosity: 70th Anniversary of House of Frankenstein,’ by Greg Mank, MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT #33; ‘For the Love of Schlock,’ by Nathan Hannemann and Aaron Crowell, HORRORHOUND #46; ‘The Making of Dracula, Prince of Darkness,’ by Bruce G. Hallenbeck, LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS #33.

BEST INTERVIEW (Award goes to interviewer)

• Chris Alexander interview with Werner Herzog,FANGORIA #334
  • Runner-up: Jessica Dwyer interviews Anne Rice, HORRORHOUND #48
  • Honorable mentions: Michael Doyle interviews Ivan Reitman, RUE MORGUE #151; Rod Labbe interviews Jerry Lacy, SCARY MONSTERS #90; Joe Moe interviews John Logan, FAMOUS MONSTERS #276.

BEST OVERALL ISSUE

• DIABOLIQUE #22 (Childbirth, family and horror)
  • Runner-up: FANGORIA #330 (Nightbreed)
  • Honorable mentions: MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT #33 (Karloff); HORRORHOUND #48  (horror fiction); RUE MORGUE #151 (Ghostbusters); FAMOUS MONSTERS (Matheson); LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS (Dracula);

BEST COLUMN

• DIARY OF THE DEB byDebbieRochon (FANGORIA)
  • Runners-up: They Came from the Krypt, by Jon Kitley (HORRORHOUND); The Doctor Is In-Sane, by Dr. Gangrene (SCARY MONSTERS)
  • Honorable mentions: It Came from Bowen’s Basement, by John Bowen (RUE MORGUE); Fright Gallery, by Gary Pullin (RUE MORGUE); Tales from the Attic, by Tim Lucas (GOREZONE); Scare-News (John Skerchock, SCARY MONSTERS)

BEST COVER

• FANGORIA #330 by Nick Percival
  • Runners-up: RUE MORGUE #150 (Gary Pullin, Andrew Wright); DIABOLIQUE #16 by Robert Aragon
  • Honorable mentions: HORRORHOUND #50 (Ed Repke); MAD SCIENTIST #29 (Mark Maddox); FAMOUS MONSTERS #272 (Simon Thorpe); MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT #33 (Kerry Gammill);  SCREEM #29 (Maddox)

BEST WEBSITE

• Joe Dante’s TRAILERS FROM HELL
  • Runners-up: Dread Central; Count Gore De Vol’s Creature Features; Mick Garris Interviews

BEST HORROR BLOG

• GANGRENE’S MAD BLOG
  • Runners-up: Collinsport Historical Society; Video Watchblog; Terror from Beyond the Daves
  • Honorable mentions: Peter Cushing Appreciation Society; Frankensteinia; Day of the Woman; The Good, the Bad and the Godzilla

BEST CONVENTION OF 2014

• MONSTERPALOOZA
  • Runners-up: Monster Bash; HorrorHound Weekend
  • Honorable mentions: G-Fest;Texas Frightmare; Fright Night Film Fest;  Mad Monster Party; Rue Morgue’s Festival of Fear; WonderFest

BEST FAN EVENT

• EVIL DEAD CAST REUNION (HORRORHOUND WEEKEND)
  • Runner-up: Karloff: A One-Person Show starring Randy Bowser (Salem, Ore.)
  • Honorable mentions:Poe Bronze Bust in Boston; Outer Limits art show at Creature Features; Ifukube 100 concert at G-Fest.

FAVORITE HORROR HOST

• SVENGOOLIE
  • Runner-up: Penny Dreadful
  • Honorable mentions: The Ghouligans; Dr. Gangrene; Count Gore De Vol.

BEST HORROR COMIC BOOK

• THE WALKING DEAD by Robert Kirkman andCharlesAdlard
  • Runners-up: AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE; BELA LUGOSI’S TALES FROM THE GRAVE;
  • Honorable mentions: CLIVE BARKER’S NEXT TESTAMENT; Corben’s EDGAR ALLEN POE (Morella and Rue Morgue)

BEST HORROR MULTI-MEDIA OR PODCAST

• MONSTER KID RADIO (Derek Koch)
  • Runner-up: KILLER POV
  • Honorable mention: FANTASTIC FILMS OF VINCENT PRICE; KAIJUCAST; WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE

BEST CD

• ORIGINALGODZILLA SOUNDTRACK (Death Waltz)
  • Runner-up: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (new score by The Laze)
  • Honorable mention: BIG BAD (Horrorhound compilation); SPINE CHILLERS (Halloween haunt music by Sam Haynes)

BEST TOY, MODEL OR COLLECTIBLE

• CREATURE, Universal Monsters Select (Diamond Select Toys)
  • Runners-up: Lily Munster maquette (Sideshow);  Forrest J Ackerman statue (Dark Horse)
  • Honorable mention: War of the Gargantuas (X-Plus)

CLASSIC MOST IN NEED OF RELEASE, UPGRADE OR RESTORATION

• I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF/FRANKENSTEIN (both films)
  • Runners up: OLD DARK HOUSE (1932); THE BLACK CAT (1934); BEN/WILLARD

INDIVIDUAL RONDO AWARDS

WRITER OF THE YEAR

• MAXWEINSTEIN  (Diabolique editor)
  • Runners-up: Tim Lucas, Greg Mank, April Snellings, Nathan Hanneman, Gary Don Rhodes, Kim Newman

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

• BOBEGGLETON
  • Runners-up: Mark Maddox, Daniel Horne, Ed Repka,  Joel Robinson, Frank Dietz, Steve McGinnis

LINDA MILLER AWARD FOR FAN ARTIST OF THE YEAR (In memory of the late Linda Miller)

• WILLIAM C. COPE
  • Runners-up: Jason Brower, Eric Puckett, Jerrod Brown, Eric Swartz, John Febonio, Malcolm Gittins, John Sargent

REVIEWER OF THE YEAR

• MARK D.CLARK (Monsters from the Vault)
  • Runners-up: Tim Lucas, David-Elijah Nahmod, Glenn Erickson, Stuart Andrews, Nathan Hannemann, Eric Shirey

HENRY ALVAREZ AWARD FOR CREATIVE DESIGN

• SCULPTOR MIKE HILL

INTERNATIONAL FAN OF THE YEAR

• NIGEL HONEYBONE (Australia)

 MONSTER KID OF THE YEAR

• FRANK J. DELLO STRITTO

THE MONSTER KID HALL OF FAME

The four latest inductees are

•  MICHAEL WELDON, The Psychotronic pioneer
• JOSE MOJICA MARINS (COFFIN JOE), Brazil’s superior master of horror
• GARY DON RHODES, Lugosi’s grand biographer
• SARA KARLOFF, Daughter of the gentleman actor