Bram Stoker Awards 2012
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
Stoker Weekend,
Salt Lake City UT :
April 1, 2012
Eligibility Year: 2011
Eligibility Year: 2011
Novel
- Winner: Flesh Eaters, Joe McKinney (Kensington/Pinnacle)
- Cosmic Forces, Gregory Lamberson (Medallion)
- Floating Staircase, Ronald Malfi (Medallion)
- The German, Lee Thomas (Lethe)
- A Matrix of Angels, Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy)
- Not Fade Away, Gene O'Neill (Bad Moon)
First Novel
- Winner: Isis Unbound, Allyson Bird (Dark Regions)
- The Lamplighters, Lee Frazer (Samhain)
- The Panama Laugh, Thomas S. Roche (Night Shade)
- Southern Gods, John Hornor Jacobs (Night Shade)
- That Which Should Not Be, Brett J. Talley (Journalstone)
Young-adult Novel
- Winner (tie): Dust & Decay, Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
- Winner (tie): The Screaming Season, Nancy Holder (Razorbill)
- Ghosts of Coronado Bay, J. G. Faherty (Journalstone)
- A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness (Candlewick)
- Rotters, Daniel Kraus (Delacorte)
- This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Schuster)
Long Fiction
- Winner: “The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine”, Peter Straub (Conjunctions 56; Terra Incognita)
- 7Brains, Michael Louis Calvillo (Burning Effigy)
- “The Colliers' Venus (1893)”, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Naked City)
- “Roots and All”, Brian Hodge (A Book of Horrors)
- Rusting Chickens, Gene O'Neill (Dark Regions)
- Ursa Major, John R. Little (Bad Moon)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive”, Stephen King (The Atlantic May 2011)
- “All You Can Do Is Breathe”, Kaaron Warren (Blood and Other Cravings)
- “Graffiti Sonata”, Gene O'Neill (Dark Discoveries Win/Spr 2011)
- “Her Husband's Hands”, Adam-Troy Castro (Lightspeed 4 Oct 2011)
- “Home”, George Saunders (The New Yorker 13 Jun 2011)
- “X is for Xyx”, John Palisano (M is for Monster)
Collection
- Winner: The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious Press)
- Monsters of L.A., Lisa Morton (Bad Moon)
- Multiplex Fandango, Weston Ochse (Dark Regions)
- Red Gloves: The London Horrors, Christopher Fowler (PS Publishing)
- Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One), Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)
- Voices: Tales of Horror, Lawrence C. Connolly (Fantasist Enterprises)
Anthology
- Winner: Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed, John Skipp, ed. (Black Dog & Leventhal)
- Blood and Other Cravings, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
- Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers, Tracy L. Carbone, ed. (Shroud)
- Supernatural Noir, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Dark Horse)
- Tattered Souls 2, Frank J. Hutton, ed. (Cutting Block)
Nonfiction
- Winner: Stephen King: A Literary Companion, Rocky Wood (McFarland)
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies, Matt Mogk (Gallery)
- The Gothic Imagination, John C. Tibbetts (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night, Lesley Pratt Bannatyne (Pelican)
- Reflections in a Glass Darkly, Gary William Crawford, Jim Rockhill & Brian J. Showers (Hippocampus)
- Starve Better, Nick Mamatas (Apex)
Graphic Novel
- Winner: Neonomicon, Alan Moore (Avatar)
- Anya's Ghost, Vera Brosgol (First Second)
- Baltimore: The Plague Ships, Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden
- Green River Killer, Jeff Jensen (Dark Horse)
- Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom, Joe Hill (IDW)
- Marvel Universe vs. Wolverine, Jonathan Maberry (Marvel)
Screenplay
- Winner: American Horror Story: “Afterbirth”, Jessica Sharzer
- The Adjustment Bureau, George Nolfi
- Priest, Cory Goodman
- True Blood: “Spellbound”, Alan Ball
- The Walking Dead: “Pretty Much Dead Already”, Scott M. Gimple
- The Walking Dead: “Save the Last One”, Scott M. Gimple
Poetry Collection
- Winner: How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend, Linda Addison (Necon)
- At Louche Ends, Maria Alexander (Burning Effigy)
- The Mad Hattery, Marge Simon (Elektrik Milk Bath)
- Shroud of Night, G. O. Clark (Dark Regions)
- Surrealities, Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)
- Unearthly Delights, Marge Simon (Sam's Dot)
Lifetime Achievement
- Winner: Joe R. Lansdale
- Winner: Rick Hautala
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