2007 Bram Stoker Award Nominees

The Horror Writers Association has announced the nominees for the 2007 Bram Stoker Awards:

Superior Achievement in a NOVEL

• THE GUARDENER'S TALE by Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot)
• HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
• THE MISSING by Sarah Langan (Harper)
• THE WITCH'S TRINITY by Erika Mailman (Crown)
• THE TERROR by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)

Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL

• I WILL RISE by Michael Louis Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing)
• HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
• THE MEMORY TREE by John R. Little (Nocturne Press)
• THE HOLLOWER by Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books)

Superior Achievement in LONG FICTION

• AFTERWARD, THERE WILL BE A HALLWAY by Gary Braunbeck (Five Strokes to Midnight)
• ALMOST THE LAST STORY BY ALMOST THE LAST MAN by Scott Edelman (Postscripts)
• GENERAL SLOCUM'S GOLD by Nicholas Kaufmann (Burning Effigy Press)
• THE TENTH MUSE by William Browning Spencer (Subterranean #6)
• AN APIARY OF WHITE BEES by Lee Thomas (Inferno)

Superior Achievement in SHORT FICTION

• THE DEATH WAGON ROLLS ON BY by C. Dean Andersson (Cemetery Dance #57)
• LETTING GO by John Everson (Needles and Sins)
• THE TEACHER by Paul G. Tremblay (Chizine)
• THERE'S NO LIGHT BETWEEN FLOORS by Paul G. Tremblay (Clarkesworld)
• CLOSET DREAMS by Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts #10)
• THE GENTLE BRUSH OF WINGS by David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)

Superior Achievement in an ANTHOLOGY

• FIVE STROKES TO MIDNIGHT edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble (Haunted Pelican Press)
• INFERNO edited by Ellen Datlow (Tor)
• DARK DELICACIES 2: FEAR edited by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf/Avalon)
• MIDNIGHT PREMIERE edited by Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications)
• AT EASE WITH THE DEAD edited by Barbara & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press)

Superior Achievement in a COLLECTION

• PROVERBS FOR MONSTERS by Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions Press)
• THE IMAGO SEQUENCE by Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
• OLD DEVIL MOON by Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
• 5 STORIES by Peter Straub (Borderlands)
• DEFINING MOMENTS by David Niall Wilson (Sarob Press)

Superior Achievement in NONFICTION

• ENCYCLOPEDIA HORRIFICA by Joshue Gee (Scholastic)
  
• THE PORTABLE OBITUARY: HOW THE FAMOUS, RICH & POWERFUL REALLY DIED by Michael Largo (Harper)
  
• THE CRYPTOPEDIA: A DICTIONARY OF THE WEIRD, STRANGE & DOWNRIGHT BIZARRE by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press / Kensington)
  
• STORYTELLERS UNPLUGGED by Joe Nassise and David Niall Wilson (Storytellers Unplugged/)

Superior Achievement in POETRY

• BEING FULL OF LIGHT, INSUBSTANTIAL by Linda Addison (Space and Time)
  
• HERESY by Charlee Jacob (Bedlam Press [Necro Publications])
  
• VECTORS: A WEEK IN THE DEATH OF A PLANET by Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Regions Press)
  
• PHANTASMAPEDIA by Mark McLaughlin (Dead Letter Press)
• OSSUARY by JoSelle Vanderhooft (Sam?s Dot Publishing)

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