HWA, the Horror Writers Association has announced the final ballot for the Stoker Awards. They will be presented Saturday, March 29th, at their banquet during the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City.
Superior Achievement in a Novel: The Guardener's Tale by Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot Publishing); Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow) ; The Missing by Sarah Langan (Harper) ; The Witch's Trinity by Erika Mailman (Crown); The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel: Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow) ; I Will Rise by Michael Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing) ; The Memory Tree by John R. Little (Nocturne Press); The Hollower by Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction: "Afterward, There Will be a Hallway" by Gary Braunbeck (Five Strokes to Midnight) ; "Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man" by Scott Edelman (Postscripts) ; "General Slocum's God" by Nicholas Kaufmann (Burning Effigy Press) ; "The Tenth Muse" by William Browning Spencer ; "An Apiary of White Bees" by Lee Thomas (Inferno)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction: "The Death Wagon Rolls On By" by C. Dean Andersson (Cemetery Dance #57) ; "Letting Go" by John Everson (Needles and Sins) ; "The Teacher" by Paul G. Tremblay (Chizine) ; "There's No Light Between Floors by Paul G. Tremblay (Clarkesworld) ; "Closet Dreams" by Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts #10) ; "The Gentle Brush of Wings" by David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology: "Five Strokes to Midnight" edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble (Haunted Pelican Press) ; "Inferno" edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor) ; "Dark Delicacies 2: Fear" edited by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf/Avalon) ; "Midnight Premiere" edited by Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications) ; "At Ease With the Dead" edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)
Superior Achievement in a Collection: "Proverbs For Monsters" by Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions Press); "The Imago Sequence" by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books ; "Old Devil Moon" by Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail) ; "5 Stories" by Peter Straub (Borderlands) ; "Defining Moments" by David Niall Wilson (Sarob Press)
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction: "Encyclopedia Horrifica" by Joshua Gee (Scholastic) ; "The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died" by Michael Largo (Harper) ; "The Cryptopedia: Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre" by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press / Kensington) ; "Storytellers Unplugged" by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson (Storytellers Unplugged)
Superior Achievement in Poetry: "Being Full of Light, Insubstantial" by Linda Addison (Space and Time); "Heresy" by Charlee Jacob (Bedlam Press [Necro Publications]) ; "Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet" by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Regions Press) ; "Phantasmapedia" by Mark McLaughlin (Dead Letter Press) ; "Ossuary" by JoSelle Vanderhooft (Sam's Dot Publishing)