E-mail Locus

Eligibility Year: 1997

NOVEL

Children of the Dusk, Janet Berliner & George Guthridge (White Wolf)

The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns (Metropolitan)

Earthquake Weather, Tim Powers (Legend; Tor)

My Soul to Keep, Tananarive Due (HarperCollins)

FIRST NOVEL

Lives of the Monster Dogs, Kirsten Bakis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

The Art of Arrow Cutting, Stephen Dedman (Tor)

Drawn to the Grave, Mary Ann Mitchell (Leisure)

Hungry Eyes, Barry Hoffman (Gauntlet Press)

The Inquisitor, Mary Murrey (Lapwing Books)

LONG FICTION/NOVELETTE

"The Big Blow", Joe R. Lansdale (Revelations)

"Coppola's Dracula", Kim Newman (The Mammoth Book of Dracula)

"Everything's Eventual", Stephen King (F&SF Oct/Nov 1997)

"The Word", Ramsey Campbell (Revelations)

"The Zombies of Madison County", Douglas E. Winter (Dark of the Night)

SHORT STORY

"Rat Food", Edo van Belkom & David Nickle (On Spec Spring 1997)

"I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes", Douglas Clegg (Palace Corbie 7)

"Madame Babylon", Brian Hodge (Hot Blood: Crimes of Passion)

"A Plague on Both Your Houses", Scott Edelman (Best New Horror 8)

COLLECTION

Exorcisms and Ecstasies, Karl Edward Wagner (Fedogan & Bremer)

Painted in Blood, Lucy Taylor (Silver Salamander Press)

Things Left Behind, Gary A. Braunbeck (Cemetery Dance Publications)

The Throne of Bones, Brian McNaughton (Terminal Fright Press)

NONFICTION

Dark Thoughts: On Writing, Stanley Wiater (Underwood Books)

Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror, Stephen Jones (HarperPrism)

Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography, Katherine Ramsland (HarperPrism)

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Clute & John Grant, eds. (Orbit; St. Martin's)

The Hammer Story, Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes (Titan Books)

Video Watchdog, Tim Lucas, ed.

SPECIALTY PRESS AWARD

Cemetery Dance, Richard Chizmar

LIFE ACHIEVEMENT

William Peter Blatty

Jack Williamson