Nominees for this year’s Splatterpunk Awards were announced on The Horror Show with Brian Keene podcast,  The awards ceremony will take place at KillerCon in Austin, TX, August 24-26.

The nominees were selected by the jurors for this year’s Splatterpunk Awards: David J. Schow, Gerard Houarner, Monica J. O’Rourke, Mike Lombardo, and Tod Clark. Jurors are ineligible for consideration for a Splatterpunk Award in any category.

BEST NOVEL

• CONTAINMENT by Charlee Jacob (Necro Publications)
• EXORCIST FALLS by Jonathan Janz (Sinister Grin Press)
• THE HEMATOPHAGES by Stephen Kozeniewski (Sinister Grin Press)
• SPERMJACKERS FROM HELL by Christine Morgan (Deadite Press)
• WHITE TRASH GOTHIC by Edward Lee (Deadite Press)

BEST NOVELLA

• THE BIG BAD by K. Trap Jones (Necro Publications)
• DAMN DIRTY APES by Adam Howe (Thunderstorm Books)
• HEADER 3 by Edward Lee and Ryan Harding (Necro Publications)
• KILLER CHRONICLES by Somer Canon (Thunderstorm Books)
• THE LUCKY ONES DIED FIRST by Jack Bantry (Deadite Press)

BEST SHORT STORY

• “Dirty Desk” by Jeffrey Thomas, from Chopping Block Party (Necro Publications)
• “Extinction Therapy” by Bracken MacLeod, from Splatterpunk Fighting Back (Splatterpunk Zine)
• “Melvin” by Matt Shaw, from Splatterpunk Fighting Back (Splatterpunk Zine)
• “Molly” by Glenn Rolfe, from Splatterpunk Fighting Back (Splatterpunk Zine)
• “The Tipping Point” by Jeff Strand, from Everything Has Teeth (Thunderstorm Books)

BEST COLLECTION

• 2017: A YEAR OF HORROR AND PAIN, PART ONE by Matt Shaw (Amazon Digital Services)
• EVERYTHING HAS TEETH by Jeff Strand (Thunderstorm Books)
• THE GARDEN OF DELIGHT by Alessandro Manzetti (Comet Press)
• GORILLA IN MY ROOM by Jack Ketchum (Cemetery Dance Publications)

BEST ANTHOLOGY

• CHOPPING BLOCK PARTY, edited by Brendan Deneen and David G. Barnett (Necro Publications)
• DOA III, edited by Marc Ciccarone and Andrea Dawn (Blood Bound Books)
• SPLATTERPUNK FIGHTING BACK, edited by Jack Bantry and Kit Power (Splatterpunk Zine)
• VS:X: U.S. VS U.K. EXTREME HORROR, edited by Dawn Cano (Shadow Work Publishing)
• YEAR’S BEST HARDCORE HORROR VOLUME 2, edited by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax (Comet Press)

Also announced was the inaugural winner of the — 

J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award 

• David J. Schow

[Thanks to Dann for the story.]