2015 Stoker Awards Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the final ballot for the 2015 Bram Stoker Awards on February 23, 2016.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• The Scarlet Gospels, Clive Barker (St. Martin’s)
• The Deep, Michaelbrent Collings (self-published)
• The Cure, JG Faherty (Samhain)
• Black Tide, Patrick Freivald (JournalStone)
• A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay (Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Shutter, Courtney Alameda (Feiwel & Friends)
• Mr. Suicide, Nicole Cushing (Word Horde)
• We Are Monsters, Brian Kirk (Samhain)
• Hannahwhere, John McIlveen (Crossroad)
• Riding the Centipede, Jean Claude Smith (Omnium Gatherum)

 Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Never Let Me Sleep, Jennifer Brozek (Permuted)
• The Ridealong, Michaelbrent Collings (self-published)
• Devil’s Pocket, John Dixon (Simon & Schuster)
• Hallowed, Tonya Hurley (Simon & Schuster)
• The Shadow Cabinet, Maureen Johnson (Penguin)
• End Times at Ridgemont High, Ian Welke (Omnium Gatherum)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• “Paper Cuts”, Gary A. Braunbeck (Seize the Night)
• “Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen”, Scott Edelman (Dark Discoveries 1/15)
• The Box Jumper, Lisa Mannetti  (Smart Rhino)
• “Special Collections”, Norman Partridge (The Library of the Dead)
• “Little Dead Red”, Mercedes M. Yardley (Grimm Mistresses)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “All the Day You’ll Have Good Luck”, Kate Jonez (Black Static 7-8/15)
• The Algernon Effect, Gene O’Neill (White Noise)
• “Happy Joe’s Rest Stop”, John Palisano (18 Wheels of Horror)
• “Sing Me Your Scars”, Damien Angelica Walters (Sing Me Your Scars)
• “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”, Alyssa Wong  (Nightmare 10/15)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• The Library of the Dead, Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards)
• The Doll Collection, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
• Seize the Night,  Christopher Golden, ed. (Gallery )
• nEvermore!, Nancy Kilpatrick & Caro Soles, ed. (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy)
• X-Files: Trust No One, Jonathan Maberry, ed. (IDW)
• Midian Unmade, Joseph Nassise & Del Howison, eds. (Tor)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Halfway Down the Stairs, Gary Braunbeck (JournalStone)
• The Mirrors, Nicole Cushing (Cycatrix)
• The Dark at the End of the Tunnel, Taylor Grant (Crystal Lake)
• The Hitchhiking Effect, Gene O’Neill (Dark Renaissance)
• While the Black Stars Burn, Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror, Justin Everett & Jeffrey H. Shanks, eds. (Rowman & Littlefield)
• The Art of Horror, Stephen Jones (Applause Theatre & Cinema)
• Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth, Michael Knost (Seventh Star)
• Horror 201: The Silver Scream, Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley, eds. (Crystal Lake)
• Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Danel Olson (Centipede)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Resonance Dark and Light, Bruce Boston (Eldritch)
• Eden Underground, Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake )
• Dark Energies, Ann Schwader (P’rea Press)
• Naughty Ladies, Marge Simon (Eldritch)
• An Exorcism of Angels, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints, Cullen Bunn (Dark Horse)
• Hellbound, Victor Gischler (Dark Horse)
• Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him, Robert Kirkman (Image)
• Wytches, Vol. 1, Scott Snyder (Image)
• Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller & Mort Castle, eds. (IDW)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Crimson Peak
• Penny Dreadful: “And Hell Itself My Only Foe”
• Penny Dreadful: “Nightcomers”
• It Follows
• What We Do in the Shadows

Voting is open to active and lifetime HWA members. Winners will be honored May 14, 2016 at a gala held in the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas NV during the first annual StokerCon. For more information, see the HWA website.