HWA Bram Stoker Award™ 2012 Reading List

Wow. Just… Wow.

T. E. Grau’s “The Screamer” from Urban Cthulhu: Nightmare Cities (hplmythos.com Vol. 2) is mentioned on the Bram Stoker Award Recommendations 2012 list. No, we are not talking about nominations here, but just to have a tale from my wee small press mentioned in such superb company… Wow…

Thanks to whoever recommended the story in the HWA. And, once again, thanks to the great writers who made this anthology come alive.

Here’s the text in full. You’ll find Grau’s story (which is amazing, that is true) below Stephen King in Long Fiction;-)

HWA Bram Stoker Award™ 2012 Reading List

This list of Bram Stoker Award Recommendations is compiled during the year by members of the Horror Writers Association. We make it available to the public as something of a ‘reading list’ for horror readers and fans. These works are all new horror published during the year that our members feel worthy of recommending for Bram Stoker Award consideration. They are not ‘Bram Stoker Award nominees’, nor are they part of any ballot process at this stage, but it is likely they represent some of the best new horror fiction., poetry and non-fiction published during the year.For full detail about the Bram Stoker Awards, please visit: http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm. Early in each year the Horror Writers Association announces its Preliminary Bram Stoker Awards Ballot, made up of both members’ recommendations and jury selections. A month or so later, we announce the Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot, which lists the official nominees for the awards. Full detail of the members’ recommendation and jury selection processses and the ballots are included in the Bram Stoker Awards Rules.

Go to the 2011 Reading List

CATEGORY	AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLICATION	PUBLISHER
Anthology	Stan Swanson	Slices of Flesh		Dark Moon Books
Anthology	Eric J. Guignard	Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations		Dark Moon
Anthology	R.J. Cavender, Mark C. Scioneaux, Robert S. Wilson	Horror For Good		Cutting Block Press
Anthology	Lincoln Crisler	Corrupts Absolutely		Damnation Books
Anthology	Snutch Labs	Tales from the Yellow Rose Diner and fill station		Sideshow Press
Anthology	Theresa Dillon and Marc Ciccarone	Night Terrors II		Blood Bound Books
Anthology	Jason V Brock and William F. Nolan	The Devil’s Coattails		Cycatrix Press
Anthology	Michael Bailey	Chiral Mad		Written Backwards
Anthology	Patrick Scalisi	The Ghost is the Machine		Post Mortem Press
Anthology	Paul Anderson	Torn Realities		Post Mortem Press
Anthology	Tim Marquitz	Fading Light		Angelic Knight Press
Fiction Collection	C.W. LaSart	Ad Nauseam		Dark Moon Books
Fiction Collection	Corrine De Winter	Valentines for the Dead		Shadowfall Publications
Fiction Collection	Kenneth W. Cain	These Old Tales – The Complete Collection		CreateSpace – Distressed Press
Fiction Collection	John F. D. Taff	Little Deaths		Books of the Dead Press
Fiction Collection	Scott Thomas	Urn and Willow		Dark Regions Press
Fiction Collection	Felicity Dowker	Bread and Circuses		Ticonderoga Publications
Fiction Collection	Joe McKinney	The Red Empire and Other Stories		Redrum Horror
Fiction Collection	Cody Goodfellow	All Monster Action		Swallowdown Press
Fiction Collection	Connie Corcoran Wilson	Hellfire & Damnation II		Merry Blacksmith Press
Fiction Collection	Gary McMahon	Tales of the Weak and Wounded		Dark Regions Press
Fiction Collection	Glen Hirshberg	The Janus Tree and Other Stories		Subterranean Press
Fiction Collection	Jeffrey Ford	Crackpot Palace		William Morrow
Fiction Collection	John Mantooth	Shoebox Train Wreck		Chizine
Fiction Collection	Jonathan Carroll	The Woman Who Married a Cloud: The Collected Short Stories		Subterranean Press
Fiction Collection	Kaaron Warren	Through Splintered Walls		Twelve Planets
Fiction Collection	Kevin McClintock	No Vacancies		Dark Moon Books
Fiction Collection	Peter Bell	Strange Epiphanies		The Swan River Press
Fiction Collection	R Scott McCoy	Hunter’s Moon		Omnium Gatherum
Fiction Collection	Reggie Oliver	Shadow Plays		Egaeus Press
Fiction Collection	Stephen Bacon	Peel Back the Sky		Gray Friar Press
Fiction Collection	William Meikle	Dark Melodies		Dark Regions Press
Fiction Collection	Willum Pugmire	Uncommon Places: A Collection of Exquisites		Hippocampus Press
First Novel	K Trap Jones	The Sinner		Blood Bound Books
First Novel	Charles Day	The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief		Noble YA Publishers LLC.
First Novel	Peter N. Dudar	A Requiem for Dead Flies		Nightscape Press
First Novel	Donna Galanti	A Human Element		Echelon Press
First Novel	Lori Michelle	Dual Harvest		Rainstorm Press
First Novel	Mark R. Rinker	Evil Ambulance		Noble YA
First Novel	Patrick Freivald	Twice Shy		JournalStone
First Novel	Adam McOmber	The White Forest		Doubleday/Touchstone
First Novel	Anthony J. Rapino	Soundtrack to the End of the World		Bad Moon Books
First Novel	Barry James	Dreams of Darkness		After Hours Publishing
First Novel	Brad Hodson	Darling		Bad Moon Books
First Novel	Brian McGreevy	Hemlock Grove		Farrar
First Novel	Brooklyn Hudson	Wishbone		CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
First Novel	Dane T Hatchell	Resurrection X: Zombie Evolution		Post Mortem Press
First Novel	Daniel O’Malley	The Rook		Little, Brown, & Co
First Novel	Daniel P. Coughlin	Ted’s Score
First Novel	George R. Appelt Jr.	Shepherd’s Fall		Kismet & Company
First Novel	Mick Ridgewell	The Nightcrawler		Samhain
First Novel	Robert E. Hirsch	Contrition		JournalStone
First Novel	Scott Sullivan	The Trinity Signs		Sullivan Publishing
Graphic Novel	Rocky Wood , Lisa Morton and Greg Chapman	Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of The Burning Times		McFarland
Graphic Novel	edited by Tom Pomplum	Halloween Classics: Graphic Classics Volume Twenty-Three		Eureka Publications
Graphic Novel	Jeff Lemire	The Underwater Welder		Top Shelf
Graphic Novel	Moore, Terry	Rachel Rising Vol. 1 – The Shadow of Death		Abstract Studio
Long Fiction	Joe McKinney & Michael McCarty	Lost Girl of the Lake		Bad Moon Books
Long Fiction	JG Faherty	The Cold Spot		Delirium Books
Long Fiction	Ennis Drake	28 Teeth of Rage		Omnium Gatherum Media
Long Fiction	Gene O’Neill	The Blue Heron		Dark Regions Press
Long Fiction	Glen Hirshberg	After-Words	The Janus Tree, Cemetery Dance #65
Long Fiction	Graham Masterton	Anka	Cemetery Dance #65
Long Fiction	Robert Dunbar	Wood		Uninvited Books
Long Fiction	Sandy DeLuca	Reign of Blood		Delerium Books
Long Fiction	Stephen King and Joe Hill	In the Tall Grass	Esquire magazine
Long Fiction	Adam Cesare	Tribesmen		Ravenous Shadows
Long Fiction	Adam Nevill	The Age of Entitlement	Dark Currents	Newcon Press
Long Fiction	Billie Sue Mosiman	Mourning Mansion
Long Fiction	Billie Sue Mosiman	Prison Planet
Long Fiction	Bryan Hall	The Vagrant		Angelic Knight
Long Fiction	Carole Johnstone	The Pest House	Black Static 28
Long Fiction	Christopher Harmon	Hoxlip and After	Terror Tales of the Cotswolds	Gray Friar Press
Long Fiction	Corrine De Winter	The End of Desire		Self-published
Long Fiction	Gord Rollo	The Dark Side of Heaven		Dark Regions Press
Long Fiction	Gregory Lamberson	Carnage Road		Print is Dead
Long Fiction	Jeffrey Ford	The Wish Head	Crackpot Palace	William Morrow
Long Fiction	John Rector	Lost Things	Kindle single	Thomas & Mercer
Long Fiction	Kaaron Warren	Sky	Through Splintered Walls	Twelve Planets
Long Fiction	Lisa Morton	Wild Girls		Bad Moon Books
Long Fiction	Mark Morris	Biters	21st Century Dead	St. Martin’s Griffin
Long Fiction	Michael McCarty and Linnea Quigley	Night of the Scream Queen		Dark Moon Books
Long Fiction	Peter Bell	A Midsummer�s Ramble in the Carpathians	Strange Epiphanies	The Swan River Press
Long Fiction	Ramsey Campbell	The Moons	The Devil’s Coattails:More Dispatches from the Dark Frontier	Cicatryx Press
Long Fiction	Ray Cluley	Shark! Shark!	Black Static #29
Long Fiction	Reggie Oliver	Charm	Terror Tales of the Cotswolds	Gray Friar Press
Long Fiction	Sophia McDougall	Bells Ringing Under the Sea	Dark Currents	Newcon Press
Long Fiction	Stephen Graham Jones	After the People Lights Have Gone Off	Mixer
Long Fiction	Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan	A Face in the Crowd	E-book	Scribner
Long Fiction	Ted Grau	The Screamer	Urban Cthulhu: Nightmare Cities	H. Harksen Productions
Nonfiction	Araminta Star Matthews, Rachel Lee, and Stan Swanson.	Write of the Living Dead		Dark Moon Books
Nonfiction	Les Klinger	The Annotated Sandman, Volume 1		Vertigo
Nonfiction	The Amazing Kreskin & Michael McCarty	Conversations With Kreskin		Team Kreskin Productions LLC
Novel	Christopher Conlon	Lullaby for the Rain Girl		Dark Regions Press
Novel	Brett J. Talley	The Void		JournalStone
Novel	JGFaherty	The Cemetery Club		Journal Stone
Novel	Rio Youers	Westlake Soul		ChiZine Publications
Novel	John Palisano	Nerves		Bad Moon Books
Novel	Michaelbent Collings	Apparition		CreateSpace
Novel	Scott Sigler	Nocturnal		Crown Publishing Group
Novel	Laird Barron	The Croning		Night Shade Books
Novel	Aaron Dries	House of Sighs		Samhain Publishing
Novel	Gabrielle Faust and Solomon Schneider	Revenge		Barking Rain Press
Novel	Jeffrey Wilson	The Donors		JournalStone
Novel	John R. Little and Fatima Monteiro	Scavenger Hunt		Bad Moon Books
Novel	Lee F. Jordan	Coronation		Black Rose Writing
Novel	Michaelbrent Collings	The Haunted		CreateSpace
Novel	Benjamin Kane Ethridge	Bottled Abyss		Red Rum Horror
Novel	Hal Bodner	The Trouble with Hairy		Phantom Hollow Publishing
Novel	Alan Spencer	B-Movie Reels		Samhain Publishing
Novel	B.C. Bell	Bipolar Express		Neo Pulp Press
Novel	Caitl�n R. Kiernan	The Drowning Girl		Roc
Novel	Chelsea Quinn Yarbro	Commedia della Morte		Tor
Novel	Dave Zeltserman	Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein		Overlook
Novel	Elizabeth Hand	Available Dark		Minotaur
Novel	Jessica Meigs	The Becoming: Ground Zero		Permuted Press
Novel	Joseph Nasisse	By the Blood of Heroes		HarperVoyager
Novel	Leigh M. Lane	Finding Poe		Cerebral Books
Novel	Nerine Dorman	Inkarna		Dark Continents
Novel	Peter Clines	14		Permuted Press
Novel	Richard Kadrey	Devil Says Bang		HarperVoyager
Novel	Robert Jackson Bennett	The Troupe		Orbit
Novel	Ronald Malfi	The Narrows		Samhain Publishing
Novel	Seth Grahame-Smith	Unholy Night		Grand Central Publishing
Poetry	Bruce Boston	Anthropomorphisms		Elektrik Milk Bath Press
Poetry	Marge Simon	Vampires, Zombies & Wanton Souls		Elektrik Milk Bath Press
Poetry	Michael Collings	A Verse to Horrors		Amazon Digital Services
Poetry	Robert Frazier	Phantom Navigation		Dark Regions Press
Poetry	Duane Ackerson	Blinded by the Light Then the Dark		Ravenna Press
Poetry	Mary A. Turzillo	Lovers and Killers		Dark Regions
Poetry	Christine Ong Muslim	Grim Series		Popcorn Press
Screenplay	Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, Billy Ray	The Hunger Games		Lionsgate, Color Force
Screenplay	Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard	The Cabin in the Woods		Mutant Enemy Productions, Lionsgate
Screenplay	Angela Kang	The Walking Dead (Episode 17): Judge, Jury, Executioner		AMC
Screenplay	Evan Daugherty, John Lee Hancock and Hossein Amini	Snow White and the Huntsman	Movie
Short Fiction	Michael R. Collings	Accommodation	The Vampire Megapack: 27 Modern and Classic Vampire Stories	Wildside Press
Short Fiction	Bruce Boston	Surrounded by the Mutant Rain Forest	Daily Science fiction
Short Fiction	Guy Anthony DeMarco	A Case of Curiosities	http://www.DailyScienceFiction.com
Short Fiction	Charles Colyott	Comfort	Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad	Smart Rhino Publications
Short Fiction	Jeffrey Wilson	Calling Home	http://www.buzzymag.com
Short Fiction	Marge Simon	Confessions of a Visually Challenged Vampire	Vampires Zombies & Wanton Souls	Electrik Milk Bath Press
Short Fiction	Michael Bailey	Bootstrap	Zippered Flesh: Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Wrong	Smart Rhino Publications
Short Fiction	Shauna Klein	We Interrupt this Program		Prairie Rose Press
Short Fiction	Terry Dowlimg	Nightside Eye	Cemetery Dance #66
Short Fiction	Adam Golaski	Translation	Supernatural Tales 21
Short Fiction	Adam L. G. Nevill	Pig Thing	Exotic Gothic 4	PS Publishing
Short Fiction	Adam-Troy Castro	During the Pause	Apex Magazine
Short Fiction	Alison Littlewood	In the Quiet and in the Dark	Terror Tales of the Cotswolds	Gray Friar Press
Short Fiction	Alison Littlewood	The Eyes of Water		Spectral Press
Short Fiction	Amy Hempel	A Full-Service Shelter	Tin House 52
Short Fiction	B.E. Scully	Polar Night	Dark River Press Volume 1
Short Fiction	B.E. Scully	Who is Like God?	DarkMedia Magazine
Short Fiction	Bart Brevik	The Demon of Despair	Black Bed Sheet Books	Black Bed Sheet Books
Short Fiction	Claire Massey	Into the Penny Arcade		Nightjar Press
Short Fiction	Conrad Williams	Pike	Born With Teeth	PS
Short Fiction	Dan Chaon	How We Escaped Our Certain Fate	21st Century Dead	St. Martin’s Press
Short Fiction	David Tallerman	A Twist Too Far	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #56
Short Fiction	Douglas Clegg	The Stain	Cemetery Dance
Short Fiction	Emma Coleman	Home	Dark Currents	Newcon Press
Short Fiction	Garry Kilworth	The Fabulous Beast	BFS Journal spring
Short Fiction	Gary McMahon	Cinder Images	Darker Minds	Dark Minds Press
Short Fiction	Gary McMahon	Kill All Monsters	Shadows & Tall Trees issue 3
Short Fiction	Gary McMahon	Straw Babies	Terror Tales of the Cotswolds	Gray Friar Press
Short Fiction	Jacob Ruby	The Little Things	Black Static 27
Short Fiction	Joel Sutherland	Fade	Cemetery Dance
Short Fiction	John Palisano	Available Light	Lovecraft E-zine, issue #12, March
Short Fiction	Jon Ingold	Cracks	Black Static 28
Short Fiction	Kaaron Warren	Creek	Through Splintered Walls	Twelve Planets
Short Fiction	Kaaron Warren	The Lighthouse Keepers’ Club	Exotic Gothic 4	PS Publishing
Short Fiction	Karin Tidbeck	Rebecka	Jagannath	Cheeky Frawg Books
Short Fiction	Maria Alexander	Revivified	Night Terrors II	Blood Bound Books
Short Fiction	Maurice Broaddus	Rainfall	Cemetery Dance #65
Short Fiction	Megan Arkenberg	Final Exam	Asimov’s Science Fiction
Short Fiction	Megan Arkenberg	How Many Miles to Babylon	Lightspeed
Short Fiction	Michael Bailey	Coulrophobic	Here Be Clowns	Static Movement
Short Fiction	Michael Bailey	Hiatus	Surviving The End	Dark Prints Press
Short Fiction	Priya Sharma	The Ballad of Boomtown	Black Static 28
Short Fiction	Robert Borski	Fade to Black	The Lovecraft eZine #16
Short Fiction	Sean Demory	The Ballad of the Wayfaring Stranger and the Dead Man�s Whore		Amazon.com kindle direct publishing service
Short Fiction	Simon Bestwick	The Churn	Black Static 27
Short Fiction	Simon Clark	The Shakespeare Curse	Terror Tales of the Cotswolds	Gray Friar Press
Short Fiction	Sophie Littlefield	Jimmy’s Legacy	Cemetery Dance #66
Short Fiction	Stephanie Crawford and Duane Swierczynski	Tender as Teeth	21st Century Dead	St. Martin’s Griffin
Short Fiction	Stephen Bacon	Cuckoo Spit	Black Static 27
Short Fiction	Stephen Bacon	None So Blind	Shadows and Tall Trees issue 3
Short Fiction	Stephen Graham Jones	Notes from the Apocalypse	Weird Tales #359
Short Fiction	Stephen King	Batman and Robin Have an Altercation	Harper’s Magazine
Short Fiction	Steve Rasnic Tem	Scree	Cemetery Dance magazine #66	Cemetery Dance
Short Fiction	Tamsyn Muir	The Magician�s Apprentice	Weird Tales #359
Short Fiction	Tracie McBride	Drive, She Said	Lovecraft eZine #14
Young-Adult Novel	Michael McCarty	I Kissed A Ghoul		Noble Romance Publishing
Young-Adult Novel	Connie Corcoran Wilson	The Color of Evil		Quad Cities press
Young-Adult Novel	Steve Burt	FreeK Show		Burt Creations