Category: Horror Writers Association

Baby's Breath Chapbooks, WHC Atlanta, & Other News

4/30/2015

WHC is a week away. I can’t believe I am flying to Atlanta in six days and still have so much to do. SHIT!

So far I have limited, signed edition chapbooks set aside for the following people:

1.     John Boden
2.     Andrew Freudenberg
3.     Stephen Williams
4.     Aaron Gudmunson
5.     Chris & Kim
6.     Kenneth Cain
7.     Michael Randolph
8.     Rose Blackthorn
9.     Kurt Fawver
10. Beth Murphy
11. Nelson Pyles
12. Tony Tremblay
13. Sandy Gibbons
14. John Foster
15. Ken Wood
16. Aaron Sterns
17. Morgan Griffith
18. David North-Martino
19. Adam House
20. MJ Preston

For the record, anyone who provided a blurb will not be paying for it, so don’t even try. (Aaron G...we will discuss this further!)

But I’d like to ask anyone not attending the convention in Atlanta to please allow me to send these out after I return since I’m just so pressed for time. They’re all numbered and signed and set aside for you in clear plastic slipcases, and when I get back I will also inscribe them with a personal note as a thank you for waiting.

Since these first twenty sold so fast, I uploaded and ordered a second edition that do not have the numbered signature page and with a slightly different design that I will sell if the limited edition runs out. They won’t have the special seal the limited edition chapbooks have on the slipcase or receive a personalized inscription.

Anyway, if you guys can sit tight, I’ll be in touch about sending these your way upon my return. Some are going to Australia, Canada, England, and other wild destinations, so I may need some time to hunker down at the post office. Thanks for your support!

Now onto the con. Check out these badges, with art provided by James Powell. Cool, huh?

There will also be a limited supply of bookmarks designed by Greg Chapman, who is not only an artist, but one hell of a writer. Check these out...I hope I get my hands on one.

I mentioned before that I will have an interview with Jack Ketchum for his Lifetime Achievement Award appearing in the Souvenir Book.

From HWA President Lisa Morton: “Here's a sneak peek at the gorgeous cover for our souvenir book, featuring art by Artist Guest of Honor Bob Eggleton and edited by Eric J. Guignard and Bailey Hunter. This baby is FAT, too—over 100,000 words of horrorific fiction, nonfiction, art, and more.”

The Programming for WHC must have been a herculean task, and Anya Martin and her team have done an extraordinary job at putting together a fantastic lineup of events. I'll be on some myself, but I'm really looking forward to attending several panels and readings and just can't wait for all of this to happen.

Check out the full schedule of events here.

The HWA has been running a series of interviews called "Know a Nominee" in the weeks before the convention. These are edited by Doug Murano and facilitated by the lovely Emma Audsley.

Here are some of the nominees who have been interviewed so far:

Leslie Klinger
John F. D. Taff
Corrinne De Winter
Patrick Freivald
Usman T. Malik
Craig DiLouie
Steve Rasnic Tem
Rena Mason
Stephanie M. Wytovich

Check out the first in the series of interviews here, and you can read the rest from there.

And congrats to all the nominees!

The Library of the Dead is now live on Amazon.

The anthology contains my story "Night Soliloquy" alongside new fiction by Yvonne Navarro, Mary SanGiovanni, Brian Keene, Roberta Lannes, Kealan Patrick Burke, Chris Marrs, Jesus F. Gonzalez, Weston Ochse, Lucy A. Snyder, Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, Rena Mason, Michael McBride, Erinn Kemper, Gene O'Neill, and Gary A. Braunbeck, with illustrations by Glenn Denny Gak, an introduction/novelette by Norman Partridge, and an interlinking story by "The Librarian," aka Michael Bailey, to guide you throughout.

Check out this killer trailer Michael Bailey made for the book, which even my mother thinks is "awesome."

On Friday, May 8th, from 4-5 PM, I’ll be attending a panel called “Readings and Shenanigans for THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD and QUALIA NOUS in SARNATH.

Description: Official book launch for The Library Of The Dead, and a celebration of Qualia Nous (Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in an Anthology). Readings, signings, and 10 boo giveaways of each title.

Moderator: Michael Bailey. Panelists: Jason V Brock, James Chambers, Patrick Freivald, Erinn L. Kemper, Sydney Leigh, Usman T. Malik, Chris Marrs, Rena Mason,Yvonne Navarro, William F. Nolan, Weston Ochse, Marge Simon, and Lucy A. Snyder.

So. Much. Fun.

The Library of the Dead will also be relaunched at AnthoCon in Portsmouth, New Hampshire from June 5-7, 2015.

Speaking of AnthoCon, Tim Deal of Shroud just released the Spring Issue, which features "Estuary," my poem about a death which has haunted me for almost eighteen years. You can find it on Amazon in eBook here, and Tim will later compile the work from it into a print omnibus edition.

Get a load of this cover.

Okay...lastly. Forthcoming from Written Backwards Press, Chiral Mad 3 will include my poems “Folie à Plusieurs” and “Folie à Deux.”

This amazing anthology will also feature poetry from:

Elizabeth Massie
Marge Simon
Stephanie M. Wytovich
Bruce Boston
Erik T. Johnson
Gardner Goldsmith

As well as fiction by:

Gene O’Neill
Ramsey Campbell
Jessica May Lin
Paul Michael Anderson
Stephen King
Richard Thomas

...and more announcements to come.

Here's the cover, another spectacular work of art by Michael Bailey.

Speaking of Michael Bailey, I'm going to be bringing a few copies of Inkblots and Blood Spots with me to WHC, but if you are going and want an autographed copy your best bet is to bring yours or pick one up now.

The books I will have with me in very limited quantity are below, and I'm not sure what Eagle Eye Books will have in stock. So if you want anything signed please be sure to bring it!

Hope to see you there...

Thanks for reading,
Syd

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Baby's Breath—Bram Stoker Nomination & WHC Atlanta

3/17/2015

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Bram Stoker Awards, WHC Atlanta, and other news...

I could not have been more shocked to learn that "Baby's Breath" made it through to the Final Ballot of the Bram Stoker Awards, released last month by the Horror Writers Association.

You can find the full list of nominees here. Best of luck to all the finalists, and congratulations on your nominations!

I wrote a longer post about this on Facebook, but the simple truth is that this nomination is extremely humbling and all very surreal.

There are a lot of people I feel are a direct result of any successes I achieve in my writing or otherwise, so really, most of my posts end up consisting of a long list of names anyway.

But this story has proven to be pivotal for me in a lot of ways...it was an accomplishment for me just to write to begin with, and Simon Rumley's words of praise about it in the Foreword of Bugs: Tales that Slither, Creep and Crawl quite literally meant the world to me.

Then to have it go on to win the award for Best Horror Short Story and now this is just mind blowing, really.

I'm absolutely thrilled to be nominated in the same category as writers I so greatly admire, and the ballot is full of works I enjoyed and hold in extremely high regard. Three years ago, Stephen King won in this category, and in the years since, Lucy Snyder and David Gerrold. Past and current nominees include Gene O'Neill, George Saunders, Kaaron Warren, Bruce Boston, Michael Bailey, Rena Mason, John Palisano, Joe Lansdale, Norman Prentiss, Damien Angelica Walters, Usman Tanveer Malik, and more stellar writers than I can even wrap my head around. This is just truly, truly amazing to me.

You can read "Baby's Breath" here. I'll also be bringing a limited number of chapbooks to the World Horror Convention in Atlanta and possibly AnthoCon to sign, so if you'd like a copy, let me know. I'm working with an outrageously talented artist who I'm keeping under wraps for now. But I'm really excited.

My eternal gratitude goes to the HWA and each and every member who felt my work was worthy of this prestigious nomination. It's something I will treasure for the rest of my life.

I'm also very grateful to Marge Simon, who asked me to guest her Blood & Spades Column for the April issue of the HWA Newsletter. I've written an essay called "The Slow Bite of Horror's Tiny Teeth" and incorporated a few of my poems into the column, which was a lot of fun. Last month Michael Bailey guested the column and talked a lot about Inkblots and Blood Spots, the collection Villipede released of his last November. He also included "Open Auras" and "All But the Things That Cannot Be Torn," two of my favorite poems from the collection.

Another reason I'm grateful to Marge is because she invited me to be on the Dark Poets Panel at this year's World Horror Convention. It's such an honor...and if you'll be in Atlanta for the con, I do hope you'll stop by.

Aside from doing the panel, I'll be hanging around with my good friend Daniel Knauf, who I don't know what I would do without, Gard Goldsmith, one of the most fabulous writers--and people--I know, and Jeremy Wagner, who will be on tour in Europe with his kick ass band Broken Hope next month! There are so many great people I'm looking forward to seeing this year...John Boden (and hopefully Ken Wood) of Shock Totem Publications, Villipede author Kurt Fawver, John Dixon (!), Alex and B.E. Scully of Firbolg Publishing, Taylor Grant, Rena Mason, John Palisano, Michael Bailey, Usman Malik, Anthony Rivera of Grey Matter Press, J.G. Faherty, Randy D. Rubin, Stephanie Wytovich, Jason and Sunni Brock, Jim and Janice Leach of The Daily Nightmare, Maddie Holliday Von Stark, and on and on...

In other words, if you're going, I'm looking forward to seeing you...and if you're not registered yet, you should be.

My imaginary roommate Ted is even making an appearance! Ted is driving all the way from Kentucky to be there...I can hardly believe it myself.

There are three people who won't be going that I'll miss dearly, though: Rose Blackthorn, Geno Mortensen, and Carl R. Moore. Those three were my WHC crew last year in Portland, and it won't be the same without them. But check out Rose's new release from Eldritch Press--I'm really proud of her--her first poetry collection, Thorns, Hearts and Thistles is almost as beautiful as she is. And Carl has a novella called Torn From the Devil's Chest forthcoming from Charoin Coin Press, and his website has free stories, poems, and updates on the progress. Carl posts great reviews and also has another fantastic collection called Slash of Crimson and Other Stories coming out in the near future, as well.

Lastly, my interview with Jack Ketchum will appear in the Souvenir Book this year, which is really exciting. I absolutely loved reading his answers to my questions, and can't wait for you to see them, too. I was thrilled when Eric Guignard reached out to me to interview Jack for his Lifetime Achievement Award. Here's a picture of last year's Souvenir Book.

Anyway, to tie off, some of you know that my son has been in the hospital for a week now, and between my health issues and his, we've had an extremely challenging year. I'm certainly nervous about the timing of the convention and have been wrapped up in family matters here at home, but am really looking forward to seeing everyone and taking some time away to focus on my second love. I'm sure you all know what that is by now.

No, not booze. Horror.

Thanks for reading,
Syd

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Baby's Breath—Preliminary Stoker Ballot & Best Horror Short Story Award

1/21/2015

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It's been a good year for horror . . . and for me.

Recently, I was lucky enough to be awarded Best Horror Short Story for "Baby's Breath" in the 2014 P&E Readers' Poll. I'm so grateful for everyone who took the time to read the story and vote for me, and especially appreciative for those of you who took the time to leave feedback. It meant a great deal. This award means a great deal.

Yesterday I found out that "Baby's Breath" also made the 2014 Bram Stoker Preliminary Ballot in the category for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. What an honor. Just last month I upgraded from Affiliate to Active Status in the HWA, and feel truly blessed to be part of such a talented, gracious community of writers, artists, and professionals in the horror industry.

I mentioned recently on Facebook that "Baby's Breath" carried a substantial amount of personal significance to me for a few reasons. In a nutshell, it's a tribute to someone I never met, but have learned to love through the eyes of another. I've come to know this woman from someone who has become a stronger person for all of her weaknesses and the tragedies she faced throughout her short, sad, and pained life. And despite her weaknesses, she also had many strengths.

That said, the Diane in my story is not the same Diane about whom I am speaking. Though based on some fact, I took her story to the extreme--as we often do in horror--and in my own way, sought some vindication for her that she was unable to find on her own.

In addition to basing this story on the real-life story of someone else, an astute friend pointed out that a lot of "Baby's Breath" seems to be an unveiling of some of the emotional, physical, and psychological horrors I faced in the many years following the accident which retired me from teaching at 36 years of age. That friend was right.

There's quite a bit of symbolism in "Baby's Breath" that dwells beneath the uncomfortable, unpleasant, and often unbearable surface of the narrative. Those years following my accident were long, lonely, and excruciating--and coming to terms with the grief of losing a career I had worked and fought so hard to secure was not easy. I had a lot of support from my family and friends, and can't imagine what it must be like for someone to endure such an ordeal without that--so relatively speaking, I always tried to consider myself extremely lucky.

Writing the story was hard. It was only the second I wrote start to finish after emerging from the black hole into which I had fallen after the accident. Years of pain, post-concussive symptoms, surgeries, fighting the nightmare that is worker's compensation, depression . . . there was a time I never thought I would read again, let alone write. Diane's descent into madness, insecurity, paranoia, and reclusivity was likely an exaggerated depiction of what I experienced during that time, though while writing it I'm not altogether sure I was aware of this. I think it takes a step back--or even someone else pointing it out after the fact--to recognize something like this happening in our writing.

Do you ever find yourself unintentionally writing about your own experiences in your work? Writing yourself into your characters?

Like King said, "Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

My "write nights" with Tracy were instrumental in my recovery--as both a functioning human being and writer. I wrote the first paragraph of "Baby's Breath" and had it published as a hundred word piece called "Transference" on Hellnotes in January of last year, and at the prodding of Ann K. Boyer, another good friend, fleshed it out into a short story for the BUGS anthology.

Simon Rumley's praise for "Baby's Breath" in the Foreword did more for me than I can describe in words. But I will say that reading what he said about my work was one of those once-in-a-lifetime moments I will never forget. I'd be remiss not to thank the great Daniel Knauf for his invaluable support both as a friend and professional, as well.

And to all of you who have offered help and assistance along the way--be it through friendship or support of this story and/or other work--thank you. You can't possibly know how much it means to me.

My first "professional" experience assimilating back into the industry was negative and unpleasant to say the least, and if it weren't for the kindness and actual professionalism so many of you showed to outweigh that, it would have been easy to just give up.

But if an accident like the one I had can't keep me down, and cancer can't beat me, one bad apple in the barrel sure isn't going to make me toss the whole thing out. It just makes me appreciate the goodness of the others that much more.

There are way too many good apples to mention, but in addition to those I’ve named, special thanks for various reasons go to Morgan Griffith, Rose Blackthorn, Carl R. Moore, Gretch, Sandy and Mark, Julya Oui, Suzy Saylor, John R. Little, John Palisano, Rena Mason, Gard Goldsmith, Taylor Grant, Kurt Fawver, Michael Randolph, Randy D. Rubin, Maddie Von Stark, Kristi DeMeester, Ken Wood, John Boden, Tim Deal, Freud, Sal, Matt Edginton, Mark Matthews, Daniele Serra, Jeremy Wagner, Dr. Alex and Bobbi Scully, Aaron Gudmunson, JDS, Stephen Williams, Jon Moon, David North-Martino, Colum McKnightmare, Josh Black, Kenneth Cain, Amie, Aaron Sterns, John Dixon, Ted, Sean Padlo, Matthew Bartlett, ChickaDee, Tracie Orsi, Adam Domville, Stephanie Wytovich, Marge Simon, Alexander Zelenyj, Eric J. Guignard, Matt Manochio, Michael Bailey, Chris Kelso, Greg Norris, Ken MacGregor, April Hawks, John Urbancik, André Øvredal, Anthony Rivera, Paul Fry, Joe Lansdale, Norman Prentiss, Kami Garcia, Lawrence Connolly, Robin Spriggs, Emma Audsley, Richard Thomas, Killion Slade, Gene O'Neill, John DeMember, Dave Dormer, Douglas E. Winter, and many others who hopefully know who you are.

If you haven't read "Baby's Breath" yet,
you can read it here.

These are some of the kind things readers and peers have said about it:

“The narrator's slow unhinging is perfectly paced
and the author pushes against the border of the grotesque
just enough to make the story as viscerally disturbing
as it is psychologically unsettling . . .
A supremely skilled tale of the decomposition of a relationship and the horrifying consequences of failed parenthood.”

“I was in pain the entire time I read this story. A fantastic piece of horror that burrows deep into the psyche as well as the skin.”

“exquisitely grotesque”

“A visceral story that gets right under your skin.”

“The writing is tight and spare . . .
The non-sequential narrative is handled effectively,
allowing the story to open with a strong hook before rewinding to fill in the details of the germinating horror.”

“utterly chilling . . . Diane's macabre narrative
is a powerful shot of multifaceted strangeness.”

“engrossing from the first page until the last,
and deliciously horrific throughout.”

“short, sharp, emotional and uncomfortable”

“An exquisitely dreadful story.”

“The most chilling short I read all year.”

Of course I am *beyond* thrilled that both "Dandelion Clocks" and Inkblots and Blood Spots appear on the ballot, as well.

We at Villipede are very proud of that collection and honored to be representing Michael Bailey's stellar work. I simply can't say enough about the collection, except that I believe with every fiber of my being that it fully deserves to be on the ballot. You've all heard me rave about it for some time now, and I am pleased to see it among such fine company in its category.

As far as "Dandelion Clocks" goes, well . . . Michael seems surprised it made it through, but I'm not. Again, he's in really good company! But I fell head over heels in love with that novelette and think he deserves a place on the ballot as much as anybody. And the fact that Douglas E. Winter guest-edited that piece makes it even more special to me.

Michael blogged about the Preliminary Ballot here . . . slightly more eloquently than me, perhaps. Thanks for the kind words, Michael!

Here is the ballot, as announced by the HWA:

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Preliminary Ballots for the 2014 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA is the premiere writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with over 1,300 members. We have presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories since 1987.

Superior Achievement in a Novel
Tim Burke – The Flesh Sutra (NobleFusion Press)
Adam Christopher – The Burning Dark (Tor Books)
Michaelbrent Collings – This Darkness Light (self-published)
Lawrence C. Connolly – Vortex (Fantasist Enterprises)
Craig DiLouie – Suffer the Children (Gallery Books of Simon & Schuster)
Patrick Freivald – Jade Sky (JournalStone)
Chuck Palahniuk – Beautiful You (Jonathan Cape, Vintage/Penguin Random House UK)
Christopher Rice – The Vines (47North)
Brett J. Talley – The Reborn (JournalStone)
Steve Rasnic Tem – Blood Kin (Solaris Books)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Maria Alexander – Mr. Wicker (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
J.D. Barker – Forsaken (Hampton Creek Press)
Janice Gable Bashman – Predator (Month9Books)
David Cronenberg – Consumed (Scribner)
Michael Knost – Return of the Mothman (Woodland Press)
Daniel Levine – Hyde (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Josh Malerman – Bird Box (Harper Collins)
Whitney Miller – The Violet Hour (Flux)
Chantal Noordeloos – Angel Manor (Horrific Tales Publishing)
C.J. Waller – Predator X (Severed Press)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
Ari Berk – Lych Way (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Jake Bible – Intentional Haunting (Permuted Press)
Ilsa J. Bick – White Space (Egmont)
John Dixon – Phoenix Island (Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books)
Kami Garcia – Unmarked (The Legion Series Book 2) (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
S.E. Green – Killer Instinct (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse)
Tonya Hurley – Passionaries (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Micol Ostow – Amity (Egmont)
Peter Adam Salomon – All Those Broken Angels (Flux)
Stan Swanson and Araminta Star Matthews – Horror High School: Return of the Loving Dead (Curiosity Quills Press)
Johnny Worthen – Eleanor: Book 1 (The Unseen) (Jolly Fish Press)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Charles Burns – Sugar Skull
Emily Carroll – Through the Woods
Victor Gischler – Kiss Me Satan
Joe Hill – Locke and Key, Vol. 6
Joe R. Lansdale and Daniele Serra – I Tell You It’s Love (Short, Scary Tales Publications)
Jonathan Maberry – Bad Blood (Dark Horse Books)
Paul Tobin – The Witcher

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Michael Bailey – Dandelion Clocks (Inkblots and Blood Spots) (Villipede Publications)
Taylor Grant – The Infected (Cemetery Dance #71) (Cemetery Dance)
Eric J. Guignard – Dreams of a Little Suicide (Hell Comes To Hollywood II: Twenty-Two More Tales Of Tinseltown Terror (Volume 2) (Big Time Books)
Kate Jonez – Ceremony of Flies (DarkFuse)
Joe R. Lansdale – Fishing for Dinosaurs (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone)
Jonathan Maberry – Three Guys Walk Into a Bar (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone)
Joe McKinney – Lost and Found (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone)
Gene O’Neill – Ridin the Dawg (Mia Moja) (Thunderstorm Books)
John F.D. Taff – The Long Long Breakdown (The End in all Beginnings) (Grey Matter Press)
Gregor Xane – The Riggle Twins (Bad Apples) (Corpus Press)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
Dale Bailey – Sleep Paralysis (Nightmare Magazine, April 2014) (Nightmare)
Hal Bodner – Hot Tub (Hell Comes to Hollywood II) (Big Time Books)
Patrick Freivald – Trigger Warning (Demonic Visions Book 4) (Chris Robertson)
Sydney Leigh – Baby’s Breath (Bugs: Tales That Slither, Creep, and Crawl) (Great Old Ones Publishing)
Usman T. Malik – The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family (Qualia Nous) (Written Backwards)
Alessandro Manzetti – Nature’s Oddities (The Shaman: And Other Shadows) (self-published)
Rena Mason – Ruminations (Qualia Nous) (Written Backwards)
John Palisano – Splinterette (Widowmakers: A Benefit Anthology of Dark Fiction)
Sayuri Ueda – The Street of Fruiting Bodies (Phantasm Japan) (Haikasoru, an imprint of VIZ Media, LLC)
Genevieve Valentine – A Dweller in Amenty (Nightmare Magazine, March 2014) (Nightmare)
Damien Angelica Walters – The Floating Girls: A Documentary (Jamais Vu, Issue Three) (Post Mortem Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Michael Bailey – Inkblots and Blood Spots (Villipede Publications)
Stephen Graham Jones – After the People Lights Have Gone Off (Dark House Press)
John R. Little – Little by Little (Bad Moon Books)
Helen Marshall – Gifts for the One Who Comes After (ChiZine Publications)
David Sakmyster – Escape Plans (Wordfire Press)
Terrence Scott – The Madeleine Wheel: Playing with Spiders (Amazon)
Lucy Snyder – Soft Apocalypses (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Robin Spriggs – The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom (Anomalous Books)
John F.D. Taff – The End In All Beginnings (Grey Matter Press)
Alexander Zelenyj – Songs for the Lost (Eibonvale Press)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology
John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey – The End Is Nigh (Broad Reach Publishing)
Michael Bailey – Qualia Nous (Written Backwards)
Jason Brock – A Darke Phantastique (Cycatrix Press)
Ellen Datlow – Fearful Symmetries (ChiZine Publications)
Kate Jonez – Halloween Tales (Omnium Gatherum)
Eric Miller – Hell Comes to Hollywood II (Big Time Books)
Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer – Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press)
Brian M. Sammons – The Dark Rites of Cthulhu (April Moon Books)
Brett J. Talley – Limbus, Inc., Book II (JournalStone)
Terry M. West – Journals of Horror: Found Fiction (Pleasant Storm Entertainment)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Scott M. Gimple – The Walking Dead: The Grove, episode 4:14 (AMC)
Jennifer Kent – The Babadook (Causeway Films)
Alex Kurtzman and Mark Goffman – Sleepy Hollow: “Bad Blood” (Sketch Films/K/O Paper Products/20th Century Fox Television)
John Logan – Penny Dreadful: Séance (Desert Wolf Productions/Neal Street Productions)

Greg Mclean and Aaron Sterns – Wolf Creek 2 (Emu Creek Pictures)
Steven Moffat – Doctor Who: Listen (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Cameron Porsendah – Helix: Pilot (Tall Ship Productions/Kaji Productions/Muse Entertainment/Lynda Obst Productions/in association with Sony Pictures Television)
Jack Thomas Smith –Infliction (Fox Trail Productions)
James Wong – American Horror Story: Coven: “The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks” (FX Network)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
Massimo Berruti, S.T. Joshi, and Sam Gafford – William Hope Hodgson: Voices from the Borderland (Hippocampus Press)
Jason V. Brock – Disorders of Magnitude (Rowman & Littlefield)
Hayley Campbell – The Art of Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins Publishers)
S.T. Joshi – Lovecraft and A World in Transition (Hippocampus Press)
Leslie S. Klinger – The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft (Liveright Publishing Corp., a division of W.W. Norton & Co.)
Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley – Horror 101: The Way Forward (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Robert Damon Schneck – Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist (Tarcher/Penguin)
Lucy Snyder – Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide (Post Mortem Press)
Tom Weaver, David Schecter, and Steve Kronenberg – The Creature Chronicles: Exploring the Black Lagoon Trilogy (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Robert Payne Cabeen – Fearworms: Selected Poems (Fanboy Comics)
G.O. Clark – Gravedigger’s Dance (Dark Renaissance Books)
David E. Cowen – The Madness of Empty Spaces (Weasel Press)
Corrinne De Winter and Alessandro Manzetti – Venus Intervention (Kipple Officina Libraria)
Wade German – Dreams from the Black Nebula (Hippocampus Press)
Tom Piccirilli – Forgiving Judas (Crossroad Press)
Michelle Scalise – The Manufacturer of Sorrow (Eldritch Press)
Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo – Sweet Poison (Dark Renaissance Books)
Tiffany Tang – Creepy Little Death Poems (Dreality Press)
Stephanie Wytovich – Mourning Jewelry (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Huge congratulations to everyone on this list.
I am so incredibly honored to be included in such company!

Voting for works on the Preliminary Ballot will take place between February 1st and 15th, and the Final Ballot will be announced on February 23rd. Anyone who appears on the Final Ballot will be a Bram Stoker Nominated Author or Artist.

Voting HWA Members: For copies of "Baby's Breath," "Dandelion Clocks," or Inkblots and Blood Spots, feel free to shoot me an email or PM via my contact page. They are also available to download on the HWA Forum.

The lucky winners of the Bram Stoker Awards will be announced on May 9th at the awards ceremony during the 2015 World Horror Convention in Atlanta.

No matter what, I'll be there to cheer everyone on.

Thanks for reading,
Syd
xox

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