The 2010 Horror Writers Association‘s Bram Stoker Awards were announced Saturday night. A hearty congratulations to all and nominees and winners. A special congrats to Tor’s own Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas for winning the best-anthology award for Haunted Legends.
Winner: A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
Rot and Run by Jonathan Maberry
Dead Love by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Apocalypse of the Dead by Joe McKinney
Dweller by Jeff Strand
Superior Achievement in a First Novel (tie)
Winner: Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
Winner: Castle of Los Angeles by Lisa Morton
A Books of Tongues by Gemma Files
Spellbent by Lucy Snyder
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Winner: Invisible Fences by Norman Prentiss
The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman
Dissolution by Lisa Mannetti
Monsters Among Us by Kirstyn McDermott
The Samhanach by Lisa Morton
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
Winner: The Folding Man by Joe R. Lansdale
Return to Mariabronn by Gary Braunbeck
1925: A Fall River Halloween by Lisa Mannetti
In the Middle of the Poplar Street by Nate Southard
Final Draft by Mark W. Worthen
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Winner: Haunted Legends edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas
Dark Faith edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon
Horror Library IV edited by R.J. Cavender and, Boyd E. Harris
Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears edited by Angela Challis and Marty Young
The New Dead edited by Christopher Golden
Superior Achievement in a Collection
Winner: Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
Occulation by Laird Barron
Blood and Gristle by Michael Louis Calvillo
The Ones that Got Away by Stephen Graham Jones
A Host of Shadows by Harry Shannon
Superior Achievement in Nonfiction
Winner: To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
Wanted Undead of Alive by Jonathan Maberry and Janice Gable Bashman
Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews by Sam Weller
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Winner: Dark Matters by Bruce Boston
Wild Hunt of the Stars by Ann K. Schwader
Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist by Robin Spriggs
Vicious Romantic by Wrath James White
HWA Specialty Press Award?
Dark Regions Press
HWA Silver Hammer Award
Angel Leigh McCoy
HWA Richard Laymon Award
Michael Colangelo
