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The 2014 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot has been announced by the Horror Writers Association. Congratulations to everyone included, especially our very own Lawrence C. Connolly for his novel Vortex. Note that links to books are affiliate links. Superior Achievement in a Novel

• The Flesh Sutra, Tim Burke (NobleFusion)
• The Burning Dark, Adam Christopher (Tor)
• This Darkness Light, Michaelbrent Collings (self-published)
• Vortex, Lawrence C. Connolly (Fantasist Enterprises)
• Suffer the Children, Craig DiLouie (Gallery)
• Jade Sky, Patrick Freivald (JournalStone)
• Beautiful You, Chuck Palahniuk (Jonathan Cape/Vintage)
• The Vines, Christopher Rice (47North)
• The Reborn, Brett J. Talley (JournalStone)
• Blood Kin, Steve Rasnic Tem (Solaris)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• Mr. Wicker, Maria Alexander (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Forsaken, J.D. Barker (Hampton Creek)
• Predator, Janice Gable Bashman (Month9Books)
• Consumed, David Cronenberg (Scribner)
• Return of the Mothman, Michael Knost (Woodland)
• Hyde, Daniel Levine (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Bird Box, Josh Malerman (HarperCollins)
• The Violet Hour, Whitney Miller (Flux)
• Angel Manor, Chantal Noordeloos (Horrific Tales)
• Predator X, C.J. Waller (Severed)

Superior Achievement in a YA Novel

• Lych Way, Ari Berk (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Intentional Haunting, Jake Bible (Permuted)
• White Space, Ilsa J. Bick (Egmont)
• Phoenix Island, John Dixon (Gallery)
• Unmarked (The Legion Series Book 2), Kami Garcia (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Killer Instinct, S.E. Green (Simon Pulse)
• Passionaries, Tonya Hurley (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Amity, Micol Ostow (Egmont)
• All Those Broken Angels, Peter Adam Salomon (Flux)
• Horror High School: Return of the Loving Dead, Sam Swanson & Araminta Star Matthews (Curiosity Quills)
• Eleanor: Book 1: The Unseen, Johnny Worthen (Jolly Fish)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• “Dandelion Clocks,” Michael Bailey (Inkblots and Blood Spots)
• “The Infected,” Taylor Grant (Cemetery Dance #71)
• “Dreams of a Little Suicide,” Eric J. Guignard (Hell Comes To Hollywood II)
• “Ceremony of Flies,” Kate Jonez (DarkFuse)
• “Fishing for Dinosaurs,” Joe R. Lansdale (Limbus, Inc., Book II)
• “Three Guys Walk Into a Bar,” Jonathan Maberry (Limbus, Inc., Book II)
• “Lost and Found,” Joe McKinney (Limbus, Inc., Book II)
• “Ridin the Dawg,” Gene O’Neill (Mia Moja)
• “The Long Long Breakdown,” John F.D. Taff (The End in All Beginnings)
• “The Riggle Twins,” Gregor Xane (Bad Apples)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “Sleep Paralysis,” Dale Bailey (Nightmare 4/14)
• “Hot Tub,” Hal Bodner (Hell Comes to Hollywood II)
• “Trigger Warning,” Patrick Freivald (Demonic Visions Book 4)
• “Baby’s Breath,” Sydney Leigh (Bugs: Tales That Slither, Creep, and Crawl)
• “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family,” Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
• “Nature’s Oddities,” Alessandro Manzetti (The Shaman: And Other Shadows)
• “Ruminations,” Rena Mason (Qualia Nous)
• “Splinterette,” John Palisano (Widowmakers: A Benefit Anthology of Dark Fiction)
• “The Street of Fruiting Bodies,” Sayuri Ueda (Phantasm Japan)
• “A Dweller in Amenty,” Genevieve Valentine (Nightmare 3/14)
• “The Floating Girls: A Documentary,” Damien Angelica Walters (Jamais Vu #3)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• The End Is Nigh, John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey, eds. (Broad Reach)
• Qualia Nous, Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards)
• A Darke Phantastique, Jason Brock, ed. (Cycatrix)
• Fearful Symmetries, Ellen Datlow, ed. (ChiZine)
• Halloween Tales, Kate Jonez, ed. (Omnium Gatherum)
• Hell Comes to Hollywood II, Eric Miller, ed. (Big Time)
• Burnt Tongues, Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, & Dennis Widmyer, eds. (Medallion)
• The Dark Rites of Cthulhu, Brian M. Sammons, ed. (April Moon)
• Limbus, Inc., Book II, Brett J. Talley, ed. (JournalStone)
• Journals of Horror: Found Fiction, Terry M. West (Pleasant Storm)

Superior Achievement in a Collection

• Inkblots and Blood Spots, Michael Bailey (Villipede)
• After the People Lights Have Gone Off, Stephen Graham Jones (Dark House)
• Little by Little, John R. Little (Bad Moon)
• Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
• Escape Plans, David Sakmyster (Wordfire)
• The Madeleine Wheel: Playing with Spiders, Terrence Scott (self-publishing)
• Soft Apocalypses, Lucy Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming)
• The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom, Robin Spriggs (Anomalous)
• The End In All Beginnings, John F.D. Taff (Grey Matter)
• Songs for the Lost, Alexander Zelenyj (Eibonvale)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• William Hope Hodgson: Voices from the Borderland, Massimo Berruti, S.T. Joshi, & Sam Gafford (Hippocampus)
• Disorders of Magnitude, Jason V Brock (Rowman & Littlefield)
• The Art of Neil Gaiman, Hayley Campbell (HarperCollins)
• Lovecraft and A World in Transition, S.T. Joshi (Hippocampus)
• The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, Leslie S. Klinger (Liveright)
• Horror 101: The Way Forward, Joe Mynhardt & Emma Audsley (Crystal Lake)
• Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist, Robert Damon Schneck (Tarcher/Penguin)
• Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, Lucy Snyder (Post Mortem)
• The Creature Chronicles: Exploring the Black Lagoon Trilogy, Tom Weaver, David Schecter & Steve Kronenberg (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Fearworms: Selected Poems, Robert Payne Cabeen (Fanboy Comics)
• Gravedigger’s Dance, G.O. Clark (Dark Renaissance)
• The Madness of Empty Spaces, David E. Cowen (Weasel)
• Venus Intervention, Corrinne De Winter & Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria)
• Dreams from the Black Nebula, Wade German (Hippocampus)
• Forgiving Judas, Tom Piccirilli (Crossroad)
• The Manufacturer of Sorrow, Michelle Scalise (Eldritch)
• Sweet Poison, Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo (Dark Renaissance)
• Creepy Little Death Poems, Tiffany Tang (Dreality)
• Mourning Jewelry, Stephanie Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Sugar Skull, Charles Burns (Pantheon)
• Through the Woods, Emily Carroll (McElderry)
• Kiss Me Satan, Victor Gischler & Juan Ferrerya (Dark Horse)
• Locke and Key: Vol. 6: Alpha and Omega, Joe Hill & Gabrielle Rodriguez (IDW)
• I Tell You It’s Love, Joe R. Lansdale & Daniele Serra (Short, Scary Tales)
• Bad Blood, Jonathan Maberry & Tyler Crook (Dark Horse)
• The Witcher, Paul Tobin (Dark Horse)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• American Horror Story: Coven: “The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks”
• The Babadook
• Doctor Who: “Listen”
• Helix: “Pilot”
• Infliction
• Penny Dreadful: “Possession”
• Penny Dreadful: “Séance”
• Sleepy Hollow: “Bad Blood”
• The Walking Dead: “The Grove”
• Wolf Creek 2