The Horror Writers Association has released their nominees for this year’s Bram Sroker Awards, highlighting the best of horror fiction for 2015.
Here are the nominees:
Superior Achievement in a Novel
- Clive Barker – The Scarlet Gospels (St. Martin’s Press)
- Michaelbrent Collings – The Deep (self-published)
- JG Faherty – The Cure (Samhain Publishing)
- Patrick Freivald – Black Tide (JournalStone Publishing)
- Paul Tremblay – A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
- Courtney Alameda – Shutter (Feiwel & Friends)
- Nicole Cushing – Mr. Suicide (Word Horde)
- Brian Kirk – We Are Monsters (Samhain Publishing)
- John McIlveen – Hannahwhere (Crossroad Press)
- John Claude Smith – Riding the Centipede (Omnium Gatherum)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
- Jennifer Brozek – Never Let Me Sleep (Permuted Press)
- Michaelbrent Collings – The Ridealong (self-published)
- John Dixon – Devil’s Pocket (Simon & Schuster)
- Tonya Hurley – Hallowed (Simon & Schuster)
- Maureen Johnson – The Shadow Cabinet (Penguin)
- Ian Welke – End Times at Ridgemont High (Omnium Gatherum)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
- Cullen Bunn – Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints (Dark Horse Comics)
- Victor Gischler – Hellbound (Dark Horse Books)
- Robert Kirkman – Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him (Image Comics)
- Scott Snyder – Wytches, Vol. 1 (Image Comics)
- Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Chris Ryall, & Carlos Guzman (editors) – Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (IDW Publishing)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
- Gary A. Braunbeck – Paper Cuts (Seize the Night) (Gallery Books)
- Lisa Mannetti – The Box Jumper (Smart Rhino Publications)
- Norman Partridge – Special Collections (The Library of the Dead) (Written Backwards)
- Mercedes M. Yardley – Little Dead Red (Grimm Mistresses) (Ragnarok Publications)
- Scott Edelman – Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen (Dark Discoveries #30)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
- Kate Jonez – All the Day You’ll Have Good Luck (Black Static #47)
- Gene O’Neill – The Algernon Effect (White Noise Press)
- John Palisano – Happy Joe’s Rest Stop (18 Wheels of Horror) (Big Time Books)
- Damien Angelica Walters – Sing Me Your Scars (Sing Me Your Scars) (Apex Publications)
- Alyssa Wong – Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Nightmare Magazine #37)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
- Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins – Crimson Peak (Legendary Pictures)
- John Logan – Penny Dreadful: And Hell Itself My Only Foe (Showtime)
- John Logan – Penny Dreadful: Nightcomers (Showtime)
- David Robert Mitchell – It Follows (Northern Lights Films)
- Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement – What We Do in the Shadows (Unison Films)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
- Michael Bailey – The Library of the Dead (Written Backwards)
- Ellen Datlow – The Doll Collection: Seventeen Brand-New Tales of Dolls (Tor Books)
- Christopher Golden – Seize the Night (Gallery Books)
- Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles – nEvermore! (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
- Jonathan Maberry – The X-Files: Trust No One (IDW Publishing)
- Joseph Nassise and Del Howison – Midian Unmade (Tor Books)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
- Gary A. Braunbeck – Halfway Down the Stairs (JournalStone Publishing)
- Nicole Cushing – The Mirrors (Cycatrix Press)
- Taylor Grant – The Dark at the End of the Tunnel (Cemetery Dance Publications)
- Gene O’Neill – The Hitchhiking Effect (Dark Renaissance Books)
- Lucy A. Snyder – While the Black Stars Burn (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
- Justin Everett and Jeffrey H. Shanks (ed.) – The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
- Stephen Jones – The Art of Horror (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books)
- Michael Knost – Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth (Seventh Star Press)
- Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley (editors) – Horror 201: The Silver Scream (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- Danel Olson – Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (Centipede Press)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
- Bruce Boston – Resonance Dark and Light (Eldritch Press)
- Alessandro Manzetti – Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- Ann Schwader – Dark Energies (P’rea Press)
- Marge Simon – Naughty Ladies (Eldritch Press)
- Stephanie M. Wytovich – An Exorcism of Angels (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
The awards will be handed out during the inaugural StokerCon in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 14, 2016.