So, this is how I became aware that there is a whole culture out there of horror readers and writers and that these writers are annually celebrated. Each year, the Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement named in honor of Bram Stoker, author of the seminal horror work, Dracula. These awards are given for "superior achievement," not for "best of the year," so ties are quite probable. The first awards were presented in 1988 (for works published in 1987) and they have been presented every year since. The award itself is a replica of a fanciful haunted house where the door of the house opens to reveal a brass plaque engraved with the name of the winning work and its author. This past June 2013 the Horror Writers Association chose a historic hotel in the haunted city of New Orleans to announce the winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards.
Bronze haunted-house statuettes were handed over to the writers responsible for creating superior works of horror - and the winners for Superior Achievement:
in a NOVEL
The Drowning Girl by Caiylin R. Kierman
in a FIRST NOVEL
Life Rage by L. L. Soares
in a YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
Flesh and Bone by Jonathan Maberry
in a GRAPHIC NOVEL
Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times by Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton
in an ANTHOLOGY
Shadow Show: All-new Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury edited by Mort Castle* and Sam Weller
in a FICTION COLLECTION (tie)
New Moon on the Water by Mort Castle*
Black Dahlia and White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
in NON-FICTION
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween by Lisa Morton
The Lifetime Achievement Awards went to Robert R. McCammon and Clive Barker.
The Specialty Press Award went to Jerad Walters of Centipede Press.
Choose one or more (if you can take it) of these award-winning horrific titles.
Hope you are frightened and terrorized in a superior way!
*Mort Castle is a Chicago author who teaches at Columbia College Chicago.
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