The Horror, The Horror! The Bram Stoker Awards for 2014

I did a blog post last September entitled "Awards for Horrific Writing." I said then that "maybe it's the approach of Halloween, gray skies, dreary days and early darkness that encourages me to choose this type of writing in the Fall." Well, as fate would have it, I still select/edit GPL's NextReads Newsletter in the horror genre and continue to be fascinated with the genre that promotes terror in the reader. What has changed though is that I now realize that I simply want to be scared by a story all year long, in all seasons, not just Fall. You can check out my previous post of last September explaining the Bram Stoker Awards.
Now, another year has gone by and the anticipation is over. The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the Bram Stoker Awards 2014 at its annual awards banquet held as part of the World Horror Convention in Portland, Oregon. Bronze haunted house statuettes were handed out to the writers responsible for creating excellent works of horror in 2013. The winners for superior achievement are:

In a Novel
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

In a First Novel
The Evolutionist by Rena Mason

In a Young Adult Novel
Dog Days by Joe McKinney

In an Anthology
After Death ... edited by Eric J. Guignard

In a Fiction Collection
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories by Laird Barron

In Nonfiction
Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing About the Master of Science Fiction by William F. Nolan

Here's to your delight in the fright of one or all of these!