Bram Stoker Awards 2008
science fiction awards database
Where and When:
World Horror Convention,
Salt Lake City :
March 29, 2008
Eligibility Year: 2007
Eligibility Year: 2007
Novel
- Winner: The Missing, Sarah Langan (Harper)
- The Guardener's Tale, Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot Publishing)
- Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow)
- The Terror, Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
- The Witch's Trinity, Erika Mailman (Crown)
First Novel
- Winner: Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill (Morrow)
- The Hollower, Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books)
- I Will Rise, Michael Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing)
- The Memory Tree, John R. Little (Nocturne Press)
Long Fiction
- Winner: “Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway”, Gary Braunbeck (Five Strokes to Midnight)
- “Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man”, Scott Edelman (Postscripts)
- “An Apiary of White Bees”, Lee Thomas (Inferno)
- General Slocum's Gold, Nicholas Kaufmann (Burning Effigy Press)
- “The Tenth Muse”, William Browning Spencer (Subterranean #6)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “The Gentle Brush of Wings”, David Niall Wilson (Defining Moments)
- “Closet Dreams”, Lisa Tuttle (Postscripts #10)
- “The Death Wagon Rolls On By”, C. Dean Andersson (Cemetery Dance #57)
- “Letting Go”, John Everson (Needles and Sins)
- “The Teacher”, Paul G. Tremblay (ChiZine)
- “There's No Light Between Floors”, Paul G. Tremblay (Clarkesworld Magazine)
Collection
- Winner (tie): 5 Stories, Peter Straub (Borderlands)
- Winner (tie): Proverbs for Monsters, Michael A. Arnzen (Dark Regions Press)
- Defining Moments, David Niall Wilson (Sarob Press)
- The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
- Old Devil Moon, Christopher Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
Anthology
- Winner: Five Strokes to Midnight, Gary Braunbeck & Hank Schwaeble, eds. (Haunted Pelican Press)
- At Ease with the Dead, Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, eds. (Ash-Tree Press)
- Dark Delicacies 2: Fear, Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, eds. (Carroll & Graf/Avalon)
- Inferno, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Tor)
- Midnight Premiere, Tom Piccirilli, ed. (Cemetery Dance Publications)
Nonfiction
- Winner: The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre, Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer (Citadel Press/Kensington)
- Encyclopedia Horrifica, Joshua Gee (Scholastic)
- The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died, Michael Largo (Harper)
- Storytellers Unplugged, Joe Nassise & David Niall Wilson (Storytellers Unplugged)
Poetry
- Winner (tie): Being Full of Light, Insubstantial, Linda Addison (Space and Time)
- Winner (tie): Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet, Charlee Jacob & Marge Simon (Dark Regions Press)
- Heresy, Charlee Jacob (Necro Publications)
- Ossuary, JoSelle Vanderhooft (Sam's Dot Publishing)
- Phantasmapedia, Mark McLaughlin (Dead Letter Press)
Lifetime Achievement
- Winner: John Carpenter
- Winner: Robert Weinberg
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