The nominees for the 2005 Bram Stoker Awards, presented by the Horror Writers Association, have been announced and are listed below.
This year’s winners will be formally announced at the HWA Conference in Newark New Jersey on the weekend of June 16-18, 2006 at the Hilton Newark Airport Hotel.
Peter Straub (Mr. X, Julia) will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the ceremonies. Straub will join the ranks of noted past recipients such as Stephen King, Willam Peter Blatty, Harlan Ellison and Ray Bradbury. Since 1987 a total of twenty-eight writers and dignitaries have been so honored by the HWA.
And the nominees are:
Novel
Creepers, by David Morrell
Dread in the Beast, by Charlee Jacob
Keepers, by Gary Braunbeck
November Mourns, by Tom Piccirilli
First Novel
The Hides, by Kealan Patrick Burke
Scarecrow Gods, by Weston Ochse
Siren Promised, by Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson
Long Fiction
“Best New Horror,” by Joe Hill
“In the Midnight Museum,” by Gary Braunbeck
“Some Zombie Contingency Plans,” by Kelly Link
“The Things They Left Behind,” by Stephen King
Short Story
“As Others See Us,” by Mort Castle
“Haeckel’s Tale,” by Clive Barker
“Times of Atonement,” by Yvonne Navarro
“We Now Pause for Station Identification,” by Gary Braunbeck
“Invisible,” by Steve Rasnic Tem
Anthology
Corpse Blossoms, by Julia and RJ Sevin
Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre, by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb
Outsiders, by Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, by Stephen Jones
Fiction Collection
Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk
Looking for Jake, by China Miéville
Magic for Beginners, by Kelly Link
Twentieth Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill
Nonfiction
The Bradbury Chronicle, by Sam Weller
Horror: Another 100 Best Books, by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
Morbid Curiosity #9, by Loren Rhoades
More Giants of the Genre, by Michael McCarty
Why Buffy Matters: The Art of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, by Rhonda Wilcox
Poetry
“Freakcidents,” by Michael A. Arnzen
“Seasons: A Series of Poems Based on the Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe,” by Daniel Shields
“The Shadow City,” by Gary W. Crawford
“Sineater,” by Charlee Jacob
