The 2013 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot
The nominees are:
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Joe Hill –
NOS4A2 (William Morrow)
Stephen King –
Doctor Sleep (Scribner)
Lisa Morton –
Malediction (Evil Jester Press)
Sarah Pinborough and F. Paul Wilson –
A Necessary End (Thunderstorm/Maelstrom Press)
Christopher Rice –
The Heavens Rise (Gallery Books)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Kate Jonez –
Candy House (Evil Jester Press)
John Mantooth –
The Year of the Storm (Berkley Trade)
Rena Mason –
The Evolutionist (Nightscape Press)
Jonathan Moore –
Redheads (Samhain Publishing)
Royce Prouty –
Stoker’s Manuscript (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
Patrick Freivald –
Special Dead (JournalStone)
Kami Garcia –
Unbreakable (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Geoffrey Girard –
Project Cain (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Joe McKinney –
Dog Days (JournalStone)
Cat Winters –
In the Shadow of Blackbirds (Harry N. Abrams)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Ed Brubaker –
Fatale Book Three: West of Hell (Image Comics)
Caitlin R. Kiernan –
Alabaster: Wolves (Dark Horse Comics)
Brandon Seifert –
Witch Doctor, Vol. 2: Mal Practice (Image Comics)
Cameron Stewart –
Sin Titulo (Dark Horse Comics)
Paul Tobin –
Colder (Dark Horse Comics)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Dale Bailey – “The Bluehole” (
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2013)
Gary Braunbeck – “The Great Pity” (
Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards)
Benjamin K. Ethridge – “The Slaughter Man” (
Limbus, Inc., JournalStone)
Gregory Frost – “No Others Are Genuine” (
Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct./Nov. 2013)
Greg F. Gifune –
House of Rain (DarkFuse)
Rena Mason –
East End Girls (JournalStone)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
Michael Bailey – “Primal Tongue” (
Zippered Flesh 2, Smart Rhino Publications)
Patrick Freivald – “Snapshot” (
Blood & Roses, Scarlett River Press)
David Gerrold – “Night Train to Paris” (
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan./Feb. 2013)
Lisa Mannetti – “The Hunger Artist” (
Zippered Flesh 2, Smart Rhino Publications)
John Palisano – “The Geminis” (
Chiral Mad 2, Written Backwards)
Michael Reaves – “Code 666” (
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2013)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Fabien Adda and Fabrice Gobert –
The Returned: “The Horde” (Ramaco Media I, Castelao Pictures)
Brad Falchuk –
American Horror Story: Asylum: “Spilt Milk” (Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision, Ryan Murphy Productions)
Bryan Fuller –
Hannibal: “Apéritif” (Dino De Laurentiis Company, Living Dead Guy Productions, AXN: Original X Production, Gaumont International Television)
Daniel Knauf –
Dracula: “A Whiff of Sulfur” (Flame Ventures, Playground, Universal Television, Carnival Films)
Glen Mazzara –
The Walking Dead: “Welcome to the Tombs” (AMC TV)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
R.J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris (ed.) –
Horror Library: Volume 5 (Cutting Block Press)
Eric J. Guignard (ed.) –
After Death… (Dark Moon Books)
Michael Knost and Nancy Eden Siegel (ed.) –
Barbers & Beauties (Hummingbird House Press)
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (ed.) –
The Grimscribe’s Puppets (Miskatonic River Press)
Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson (ed.) –
Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror, Volume One (Grey Matter Press)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Nathan Ballingrud –
North American Lake Monsters: Stories (Small Beer Press)
Laird Barron –
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories (Night Shade Books)
James Dorr –
The Tears of Isis (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
Caitlin R. Kiernan –
The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories (Subterranean)
Gene O’Neill –
Dance of the Blue Lady (Bad Moon Books)
S. P. Somtow -
Bible Stories for Secular Humanists (Diplodocus Press)
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan (ed.) –
Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (Fairleigh Dickinson)
Gary William Crawford (ed.) –
Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror (Scarecrow Press)
William F. Nolan –
Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction (Hippocampus Press)
Jarkko Toikkanen –
The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures (Palgrave Macmillan)
Robert H. Waugh (ed.) –
Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors (Scarecrow Press)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Bruce Boston –
Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 (Dark Renaissance Books)
Helen Marshall –
The Sex Lives of Monsters (Kelp Queen Press)
Marge Simon and Sandy DeLuca –
Dangerous Dreams (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)
Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison –
Four Elements (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press)
Stephanie M. Wytovich –
Hysteria: A Collection of Madness (Raw Dog Screaming Press)