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Version 1.0.0 Voting for This Is Horror Awards 2024 is open until May 8 at 12:01 a.m. British Summer Time, according to thisishorror.co.uk. The five categories are Novel, Novella, Short Story Collection, Fiction Podcast, and Nonfiction Podcast. Each category features five nominees for works published in 2024. Anyone can send their votes to awards@thisishorror.co.uk with the... Continue Reading →
Amazon Original Stories released a five-story Kindle collection called The Shivers on April 15, featuring fiction from some of the biggest names in horror. Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, Catriona Ward, and Owen King are the authors tapped to write the short stories, which range in length from 35 pages to 46 pages... Continue Reading →
Joe Bob Briggs and Dee Wallace are among the highlights at the fourth annual FrankenCon 2025 as horror returns to East Tennessee. Presented by Orbit DVD, the convention is set for Friday, May 9, from 5-9 p.m. and Saturday, May 10, from 10 a.m. to 8 pm. in Hilton Knoxville Airport at 2001 Alcoa Highway in Alcoa.... Continue Reading →
Four authors scored multiple nominations on the Final Ballot of the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards announced by the Horror Writers Association on February 23. Laird Barron, Lindy Ryan, Eden Royce, and Sofia Ajram each received two noms. Barron earned his first nominations since 2016 as Not a Speck of Light made the cut for Superior Achievement in... Continue Reading →
The 2024 Bram Stoker Awards feature a high-profile showdown of familiar names for Superior Achievement in a Novel as the Horror Writers Association announced its Final Ballot on February 23. Overall, 65 works of fiction and nonfiction published in 2024 were nominated in 13 categories. Winners will be announced on June 14 during the annual... Continue Reading →
The deadline for the 2025 Splatterpunk Awards nominations is Dec. 31. Works of Extreme Horror and Splatterpunk fiction published in 2024 are eligible, and anyone can email their nominations to splatterpunkawards@gmail.com. The emails must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Co-founded by authors Wrath James White and Brian Keene, the Splatterpunk Awards honor the... Continue Reading →
Credit: FANGORIA.com The possession film Evil Dead Rise dominated the 2024 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, notching four wins during the Oct. 13 show on Shudder. The fan-voted awards contest celebrated the best of horror in film, television, and video games released in 2023 and the first half of 2024. The fifth installment in the Evil Dead... Continue Reading →
CJ Leede's debut Maeve Fly won Best Novel at the 2024 Splatterpunk Awards, leading a trend where four of the five categories featured first-time winners. Maeve Fly, a serial killer thriller "inspired by the pages of American Psycho," was also nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in February. The seventh annual Splatterpunk Awards were presented... Continue Reading →
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due followed up its June win for best novel at the Bram Stoker Awards by winning the Novel category at the 2023 Shirley Jackson Awards on July 13. Billed as "a haunting work of historical fiction," The Reformatory is a novel that pieced together the life of a relative that Due's... Continue Reading →
Rants From The Black Lodge Podcast released the YouTube video version of its 2023 sixth anniversary show titled "Reign in Blood: A Carrie Retrospective" on July 1. Host Brandon A. Lane and his sidekick Fat Tony take an irreverent but substantive deep dive into the 1976 film adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel. Hopefully, the... Continue Reading →
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