The 2012 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Final Ballot for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA (see www.horror.org ) is the premiere writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with nearly 1000 members. We have presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories since 1987 (see https://horror.org/stokers.htm ). The HWA Board and the Bram Stoker Awards Committee congratulate all these Bram Stoker Award Nominees. Notes about the voting process appear after the ballot listing. SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL Ethridge, Benjamin Kane - Bottled Abyss (Redrum Horror) Everson, John - NightWhere (Samhain Publishing) Kiernan,…

Horror Roundtable 6 – Screenwriting

When: February 11-16, 2013 Time: 3pm Pacific Daylight Time Screenwriting (topic suggestion provided by Michaelbrent Collings). How to get involved in the industry, the pitfalls and problems, the success stories. Screenwriting is a natural extension of story writing, but it is also a completely different art form. Let’s look at how it differs, and how difficult it is to create visual scenes for filming. And the end result; is it always how you viewed it would be? Are there any tips or suggestions you can offer for those just starting out, things you’ve learned along the way? Special Guests: Michaelbrent…

HWA 2012 Specialty Press Award Goes to Centipede Press

Centipede Press, of Lakewood, Colorado, will receive the Horror Writers Association's Specialty Press Award for 2012. The Award will be presented during the Bram Stoker Awards® Banquet, to be held this year in New Orleans on June 15. The annual Specialty Press Award recognizes a publisher outside the mainstream New York City publishing community that specializes in dark-themed fiction. Winners are typically "small presses" specializing in limited editions, small print runs, or the work of new and relatively unknown authors. The winner of the award is determined by a majority vote of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) Board. Jerad Walters’…

The 6th HWA Roundtable preview V

Oscar-nominated Pen Densham is our final guest for the HWA Roundtable on Screenwriting, which kicks off at 3pm on the 11th of February (Pacific Daylight Time) on the HWA's blog, and he called by to answer a few questions before the Roundtable begins. Here's the Roundtable topic in full: Screenwriting: How to get involved in the industry, the pitfalls and problems, the success stories. Screenwriting is a natural extension of story writing, but it is also a completely different art form. Let’s look at how it differs, and how difficult it is to create visual scenes for filming. And the…

The 6th HWA Roundtable preview IV

Brad Hodson dropped by my virtual office today for a quick Q and A over some tea and scones. Brad will be one of our Special Guests for the HWA Roundtable on Screenwriting, which kicks off on the 11th of February right here on the HWA's blog. Here's the topic in full: Screenwriting: How to get involved in the industry, the pitfalls and problems, the success stories. Screenwriting is a natural extension of story writing, but it is also a completely different art form. Let’s look at how it differs, and how difficult it is to create visual scenes for…

Jonathan Maberry to be Guest of Honor at Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Jonathan Maberry as a Guest of Honor for the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend 2013, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times best-selling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and Marvel Comics writer. His novels include Assassin’s Code, Flesh & Bone, Ghost Road Blues, Rot & Ruin, Dust & Decay, Patient Zero, The Wolfman and many others. His non-fiction books include Ultimate Jujutsu, The Cryptopedia, Zombie CSU, Wanted Undead Or Alive and others. He’s the editor/co-author of V-Wars, a vampire-themed anthology, and…

BARKER & MCCAMMON win Lifetime Horror Award

The Horror Writers Association has chosen two long-time icons of the genre to receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award this year. The award, given in recognition of the recipient's overall body of work, will go to Clive Barker and to Robert McCammon. Clive Barker A visionary, fantasist, poet and painter, Clive Barker has expanded the reaches of human imagination as a novelist, director, screenwriter and dramatist. An inveterate seeker who traverses between myriad styles with ease, Barker has left his indelible artistic mark on a range of projects that reflect his creative grasp of contemporary media -- from familiar literary…

Charles Day to receive the Hammer Award from HWA

The Horror Writers Association periodically gives the Hammer Award (also known as the Silver Hammer Award) to an HWA volunteer who has done a truly massive amount of work for our organization, often unsung and behind the scenes. It was instituted in 1996, and is decided by a vote of HWA's Board. The award is so named because it represents the careful, steady, continuous work of building HWA's "house" -- the many institutional systems that keep the organization functioning on a day-to-day basis. The award itself is a chrome-plated hammer with an engraved plaque on the handle. The chrome hammer…

James Chambers to receive The Richard Laymon President’s Award from Horror Writers Association

The Richard Laymon President's Award for Service was instituted in 2000 and is named in honor of Richard Laymon, who died in 2000 while serving as the Horror Writer’s Association’s President. As its name implies, it is given by the HWA's sitting President. The Award is presented to a volunteer who has served HWA in an especially exemplary manner and has shown extraordinary dedication to the organization. HWA's President Rocky Wood has chosen James Chambers to receive the 2012 Richard Laymon Award. “Jim stepped up a couple of years ago to Chair the Membership Committee. Since then he has completely…

The 6th HWA Roundtable preview III

Matt Lohr drops in today to have a quick chat with us in preparation for the HWA Roundtable on Screenwriting, which kicks off on the 11th of February right here on the HWA's blog. Here's the topic in full: Screenwriting: How to get involved in the industry, the pitfalls and problems, the success stories. Screenwriting is a natural extension of story writing, but it is also a completely different art form. Let’s look at how it differs, and how difficult it is to create visual scenes for filming. And the end result; is it always how you viewed it would…

The 6th HWA Roundtable preview II

In the buildup to the 6th HWA Horror Roundtable, I'll be chatting briefly with each of our guests. Today I have the pleasure of Signe Olynyk's company. Don't forget, the 6th Roundtable will be on Screenwriting and it will kick off on the 11th of February here on the HWA's blog. We have an excellent lineup of guests, including Michaelbrent Collings, Signe Olynyk, Matt Lohr, Brad Hodson, and Pen Densham. Here's the topic in full: Screenwriting: How to get involved in the industry, the pitfalls and problems, the success stories. Screenwriting is a natural extension of story writing, but it…

GUNSLINGERS & GHOST STORIES by HWA Member David B. Riley (editor)

Author: David B. Riley (editor) Ghosts are not just found in haunted houses. They have a disturbing tendency to turn up where you least expect them: like saloons, brothels, Indian ruinsâ and sometimes even in the middle of a gunfight. Saddle up for a haunted ride through the Wild West. Featuring spooky stories by Joel Jenkins, Dana Bell, Laura Givens, Henrik Ramsager, Kit Volker, Kenneth W. Cain, Adrian Ludens, C. J. Killmer, Darla Upchurch, John Howard & J. A. Campbell. Publisher: Science Fiction Trails Release_Date: 12-1-12 ISBN_10: 0615725848 ISBN_13: 978-0615725848

The 6th HWA Roundtable preview I

Our 6th Roundtable will be on Screenwriting and it will kick off on the 11th of February right here on the HWA blog. We have an excellent lineup of guests, including Michaelbrent Collings, Signe Olynyk, Matt Lohr, Brad Hodson, and Pen Densham. Here's the topic in full: Screenwriting: How to get involved in the industry, the pitfalls and problems, the success stories. Screenwriting is a natural extension of story writing, but it is also a completely different art form. Let’s look at how it differs, and how difficult it is to create visual scenes for filming. And the end result;…

HAIR SIDE, FLESH SIDE by HWA Member Helen Marshall

Author: Helen Marshall A child receives the body of Saint Lucia of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the Book of Judgement to protect the woman he loves. A young woman discovers the lost manuscript of Jane Austen written on the inside of her skin. A 747 populated by a dying pantheon makes the extraordinary journey to the beginning of the universe. Lyrical and tender, quirky and cutting, Helen Marshallâ s exceptional debut collection weaves the fantastic and the horrific alongside the touchingly human in fifteen modern parables about history, memory, and cost of creating art. 'Masterful…
World Horror Convention Programming Update

World Horror Convention Programming Update

Check back for more programming updates as we get closer to the World Horror Convention/Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend in New Orleans! Programming Report #2 (PDF)https://horror.org/blog/wp-admin/post-new.php

THE WALLS OF THE CASTLE by HWA Member Tom Piccirilli

Author: Tom From four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award and finalist for the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award Tom Piccirilli comes an intense and visceral psychological thriller novella, the first title in the Black Labyrinth imprint illustrated by Gothic artist Santiago caruso. 20% of all hardcover proceeds and 100% of ebook proceeds will be donated directly to author Tom Piccirilli in his fight against brain cancer. In the labyrinthian maze of endless corridors, annexes, and wings of the enormous medical complex known as The Castle prowls a grief-stricken man determined to…

FIRST KISS, LAST BREATH by HWA Member Lee Mather

Author: Lee Mather Andrew Rowly believes the demon he has painted is real. Either that, or he is losing his mind. Then he meets Nor and falls in love. To be with her, to share their first kiss, he must overcome his demon, lest the demon overcomes him first. "Fans of Stephen King are going to love this. You won't sleep until you know how it ends." —Karina Fabian, www.fabianspcae.com "Reminiscent of Conrad Aiken's classic Silent Snow, Secret Snow. It's an enthralling story with mounting tension and plenty of suspense." —Tony-paul De Vissage, www.tony-paul.com "A gruesome and fantastic read. Mather…

THE HARVESTING by HWA Member Melanie Karsak

Author: Melanie Karsak It's all fun and games until someone ends up undead. Though Layla reluctantly returns home to rural Hamletville after a desperate call from her psychic grandmother, she could never have anticipated the horror of what Grandma Petrovich has foreseen. The residents of Hamletville will need Layla's help if they are to survive the zombie apocalypse that's upon them. But that is not the only problem. With mankind silenced, it soon becomes apparent that we were never alone. As the beings living on the fringe seek to reclaim power, Layla must find a way to protect the ones…

THE DEAD SHERIFF: ZOMBIE DAMNATION by HWA Member Mark Justice

Author: Mark Justice An undead avenger controlled by the talisman of an opportunistic sidekick. But where magic and money mingle, Hell itself will follow. Book one of an ongoing series, "The Dead Sheriff: Zombie Damnation," takes the weird western genre down the path of zombies, magic and demons and blends it with the classic adventure dime novels of the frontier days to spin an unforgettable and haunting yarn. Publisher: Evileye Books Release_Date: October 2012 ISBN_10: 0984880011 ISBN_13: 9780984880010