2011 Bram Stoker Award™ Preliminary Ballot Announced

For each category (Novel, First Novel, etc) there are potentially TWO ballots: one for the works that proceed from the recommendations (‘Recs’) ballot and one for the works that proceed from the Jury ballot.

A short explanation of the system for determining for the Bram Stoker Awards™ ballots appears at: https://www.horror.org/stokers.htm. As the preliminary ballot is designed to produce three works for the final ballot in a category from each of the “Recs” and “Jury” ballots, if there are three or less works qualified in a category, they proceed directly to the final ballot.

If you see four, five or six works in a “Rec” or “Jury” ballot below, that ballot will proceed to be voted on by Active and Lifetime Members and they are marked ‘Ballot Required’.

NOVEL:

RECS:

Ballot Required

• Lamberson, Greg — Cosmic Forces
• Longfellow, Ki — Houdini Heart
• Malfi, Ronald — Floating Staircase
• O’Neill, Gene — Not Fade Away
• Warner, Matthew — Blood Born

JURY:

Ballot Required

• Conlon, Christopher — A Matrix Of Angels
• Dunbar, Robert — Willy
• McKinney, Joe — Flesh Eaters
• Oliver, Reggie — The Dracula Papers, Book 1: The Scholar’s Tale
• Thomas, Lee — The German

FIRST NOVEL:

RECS:

Ballot Required

• Bird, Allyson — Isis Unbound
• Lee, Frazer — The Lamplighters
• Reynolds, Graeme — High Moor
• Talley, Brett J. — That Which Should Not Be
• Wagner, Jeremy — The Armageddon Chord

JURY:

No ballot required, the following works will proceed directly to the Final Ballot. Please note these works may not be described as Nominees until the Final Ballot is formally announced.

• Jacobs, John, Horner — Southern Gods
• Roche, Thomas — The Panama Laugh

YA NOVEL:

RECS:

Ballot Required

• Faherty, J. G. — Ghosts of Coronado Bay, A Maya Blair Mystery
• Holder, Nancy — The Screaming Season
• Maberry, Jonathan — Dust & Decay
• Matthews, Araminta Star — Blind Hunger

JURY:

Ballot Required

• Blake, Kendare — Anna Dressed in Blood
• Kraus, Daniel — Rotters
• Ness, Patrick — A Monster Calls
• Oppel, Kenneth — This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein
• Roth, Veronica — Divergent

GRAPHIC NOVEL:

RECS:

Ballot Required

• Hill, Joe — Locke & Key, Volume 4
• Maberry, Jonathan — Marvel Universe vs. The Punisher
• Maberry, Jonathan — Marvel Universe vs. Wolverine
• Mignola, Mike and Golden, Christopher — The Plague Ships
• O’Reilly, Sean; Nassise, Joe; Weick, Halston — Candice Crow

JURY:

Ballot Required

• Brosgol, Vera — Anya’s Ghost
• Fialkov, Joshua Hale — Echoes
• Jensen, Jeff — Green River Killer
• Moore, Alan — Neonomicon
• Smith, John — Cradlegrave

LONG FICTION:

RECS:

Ballot Required

• Breaux, Kevin James — Dark Water: Beaming Smile
• Calvillo, Michael Louis — 7Brains
• Little, John R. — Ursa Major
• O’Neill, Gene — Rusting Chickens
• Schwamberger, Ty — The Fields

JURY:

Ballot Required

• Hodge, Brian — Roots and All
• Kiernan, Caitlin — The Colliers’ Venus (1893)
• Lindqvist, John Ajvide — The Music of Bengt Karlsson, Murderer
• Shearman, Robert — Alice Through A Plastic Sheet
• Straub, Peter — The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine

SHORT FICTION:

RECS:

Ballot Required

• Bailey, Michael — “It Tears Away” (The Shadow of the Unknown)
• Lillie-Paetz, Ken — “Hypergraphia” (The Uninvited, Issue 1)
• O’Neill, Gene — “Graffiti Sonata” (Dark Discoveries)
• Palisano, John — “X is for Xyx” (M is for Monster)
• Warren, Kaaron — “All You Can Do Is Breathe” (Blood and Other Cravings)

JURY:

Ballot Required

• Ausubel, Ramona — “Atria” (The New Yorker Magazine, April 4, 2011)
• Ballingrud, Nathan — “Sunbleached” (Teeth: Vampire Tales)
• Castro, Adam Troy — “Her Husband’s Hands” (Lightspeed Magazine)
• King, Stephen — “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive” (The Atlantic Magazine, May 2011)
• Saunders, George — “Home” (The New Yorker Magazine, June 13, 2011)

SCREENPLAY:

RECS:

No ballot required, the following works will proceed directly to the Final Ballot. Please note these works may not be described as Nominees until the Final Ballot is formally announced.

• Ball, Alan — True Blood: Spellbound (Episode #44)
• Goodman, Cory — Priest
• Nolfi, George — The Adjustment Bureau

JURY:

Ballot Required

• Gimple, Scott M. — The Walking Dead, episode 13: “Pretty Much Dead Already”
• Gimple, Scott M. — The Walking Dead, episode 9: “Save the Last One”
• Noxon, Marti — Fright Night
• Ovrehahl, Andre and Havard S. Johansen — Troll Hunter
• Sharzer, Jessica — American Horror Story, episode 12: “Afterbirth”

ANTHOLOGY:

RECS:

No ballot required, the following works will proceed directly to the Final Ballot. Please note these works may not be described as Nominees until the Final Ballot is formally announced.

• Carbone, Tracy L. — NEHW Presents: Epitaphs
• Hutton, Frank J. — Tattered Souls 2
• Skipp, John — Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed

JURY:

Ballot Required

• Dann, Jack and Nick Gevers — Ghosts By Gaslight
• Datlow, Ellen — Blood And Other Cravings
• Datlow, Ellen — Supernatural Noir
• Datlow, Ellen and Terri Windling — Teeth
• VanderMeer, Jeff and Ann — The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities

COLLECTION:

RECS:

Ballot Required

• Burke, Chesya — Let’s Play White
• Connolly, Lawrence C. — Voices: Tales of Horror
• Gresh, Lois — Eldritch Evolutions
• Haines, Paul — The Last Days of Kali Yuga
• Morton, Lisa — Monsters of L.A.
• Ochse, Weston — Multiplex Fandango

JURY:

Ballot Required

• Fowler, Christopher — Red Gloves: The London Horrors
• Kiernan, Caitlin R. — Two Worlds and In-Between
• Llewellyn, Livia — Engines of Desire
• Oates, Joyce Carol — The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
• Oliver, Reggie — Mrs. Midnight and Other Stories

NON-FICTION:

RECS:

No ballot required, the following works will proceed directly to the Final Ballot. Please note these works may not be described as Nominees until the Final Ballot is formally announced.

• Bannatyne, Lesley Pratt — Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night
• Mamatas, Nick — Starve Better
• Mogk, Matt — Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies

JURY:

Ballot Required

• Crawford, Gary William, Jim Rockhill, and Brian J. Showers, Eds. — Reflections in a Glass Darkly
• Rupe, Shade — Dark Stars Rising
• Shultz, David E. and S.T. Joshi, Ed. — Letters to James F. Morton
• Tibbetts, John C. — The Gothic Imagination
• Wood, Rocky — Stephen King: A Literary Companion

POETRY:

RECS:

Ballot Required

• Alexander, Maria — At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent,the Damned & the Absinthe-Minded
• Clark, G.O — Shroud of Night
• Borski, Robert — Blood Wallah and Other Poems
• Simon, Marge — The Mad Hattery
• Ward, Kyla Lee — The Land of Bad Dreams

JURY:

Ballot Required

• Addison, Linda — How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend
• Boston, Bruce — Surrealities
• Marshall, Helen — Skeleton Leaves
• Schwader, Ann K. — Twisted in Dream
• Simon, Marge — Unearthly Delights