2005 Stoker Nominees Announced

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Ran across this and thought it might interest some of the HDC-book-o-philes! The Horror Writers Association presents a series of awards called the Stokers - below are the final nominees for this year's award:

NOVEL

Play Dead by Michael A. Arnzen (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Keepers by Gary Braunbeck (Leisure)
Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob (Necro)
Terminal by Brian Keene (Spectra)
The Demonologist by Michael Laimo (Leisure Books)
Grave Intent by Deborah LeBlanc (Leisure)
Blood Red by James A.Moore (Earthling Publications)
Creepers by David Morrell (CDS)
November Mourns by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)
Like Death by Tim Waggoner (Leisure)

FIRST NOVEL
The Hides by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications)
Siren Promised by Alan M. Clark and Jeremy Robert Johnson (Bloodletting Press)
Scarecrow Gods by Weston Ochse (Delirium Books)

LONG FICTION
"Veil of Skin" by Maria Alexander (Blood Surrender)
In the Midnight Museum by Gary Braunbeck (Necessary Evil Press)
"Best New Horror" by Joe Hill (Postscripts #3)
"Wormwood Nights" by Charlee Jacob (Bloodletting Press)
"The Things They Left Behind" by Stephen King (Transgressions)
Pieces of Hate by Tim Lebbon (Necessary Evil Press)
"Some Zombie Contingency Plans" by Kelly Link (Magic for Beginners)
Zero by Michael McBride (Necessary Evil Press)
"The Beautiful Ones" by Michelle Scalise (Crimewave #8)
"It's Only Temporary" by Eric Shapiro (Permuted Press)
"Riverside Blues" by Eric Tomblin (Earthling Publications)
"The Milk of Paradise" by David Niall Wilson (City Slab Magazine #7)

SHORT FICTION
"This Body of Death" by Maria Alexander (Lost on the Darkside)
"Haeckel's Tale" by Clive Barker (Dark Delicacies)
We Now Pause For Station Identification Gary Braunbeck (Endeavor Press)
"As Others See Us" by Mort Castle (World Horror Convention 2005 program book)
"Binky" by Sephera Giron (Cemetery Dance Publications)
"Out Twelve-Steppin': Summer of AA" by Nancy Holder (Dark Delicacies)
"Under the Skin" by Nicholas Kaufmann (City Slab Magazine #7)
"The Good Part" by Carole Lanham (Trunk Stories)
"The Reading Lessons" by Carole Lanham (Son and Foe)
"Black Mill Cove" by Lisa Morton (Dark Delicacies)
"Times of Atonement" by Yvonne Navarro (Taverns of the Dead)
"Asha" by Monica O’Rourke (Red Scream)

ANTHOLOGY
Taverns of the Dead by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles by Joe Gentile, Garrett Anderson and Lori Gentile (Moonstone)
Outsiders by Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick (Roc)
Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror & the Macabre by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf)
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth by Stephen Jones (Fedogan and Bremer)
Corpse Blossoms by Julia and RJ Sevin (Creeping Hemlock Press)

FICTION COLLECTION
Never Seen by Waking Eyes by Stephen R. Dedman (Infrapress)
Twentieth Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (PS Publishing)
Angel Dust Apocalypse by Jeremy Robert Johnson (Eraserhead Press)
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link (Small Beer Press)
Dark Duets by Michael McCarty (Wildside Press)
Looking for Jake by China Miéville (Del Rey)
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday)
The Book Of A Thousand Sins by Wrath James White (TwoBacked Books)

NONFICTION
Horror: Another 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman (Carroll & Graf)
More Giants of the Genre by Michael McCarty (Wildside Press)
Morbid Curiosity #9 by Loren Rhoades (Automatism Press)
The Bradbury Chronicle by Sam Weller (William Morrow & Co)

POETRY COLLECTION Freakcidents by Michael A. Arnzen (Shocklines Press)
The Shadow City by Gary W. Crawford (Naked Snake Press)
Sineater by Charlee Jacob (Cyberpulp)
Seasons: A Series of Poems Based on the Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe by Daniel Shields (Foothills Publishing)

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Fails for ignoring Ligotti and including Palahniuk.