HORROR AND FANTASY WRITER
After winning the 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel in April, The Bone Weaver's Orchard by Sarah Read added another honor in 2020, winning Novel of the Year at This Is Horror Awards 2019. Released by Trepidatio Publishing in February 2019, Read's debut is touted by Bird Box author Josh... Continue Reading →
Christine Morgan and Wesley Southard won top honors for their books published by Deadite Press at the 2020 Splatterpunk Awards, according to a press release by award founders Wrath James White and Brian Keene. The 2020 Splatterpunk Awards honored superior achievement in the literary sub-genres of Splatterpunk and Extreme Horror for works published in 2019.... Continue Reading →
Sonora Taylor won two major categories and received two more honorable mentions for her short fiction in the inaugural Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards. Taylor's novel, Without Condition, shared Best Novel with Mona Awad's Bunny. Taylor also won Best Collection for Little Paranoias. Two stories from that collection, "Quadrapocalypse" and "Weary Bones," received Honorable Mentions... Continue Reading →
Sarah Rose Etter's debut novel, The Book of X, won the top honor at the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards. The winners were announced July 12th in a 20-minute pre-recorded video released by the Shirley Jackson Awards. You can watch the video at the awards website HERE. The winners in the other five categories were: NOVELLA: Ormeshadow... Continue Reading →
Novels by Sarah Rose Etter, Elizabeth Hand, Miciah Bay Gault, Leigh Bardugo, Kevin Wilson, and Rachel Eve Moulton are nominated for the top honor in the 2019 Shirley Jackson Awards, according to a press release by shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards is recognizing outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic... Continue Reading →
Novels by Max Booth III, Sarah Read, Jonathan Janz, Adam Nevill, and Rory Power are nominated for the top honor in This Is Horror Awards 2019. Voting is open for the nine categories of the awards through May 30th. This Is Horror is one of the top sites specializing in horror fiction, news, and podcasts.... Continue Reading →
Owl Goingback is having quite a year. In February, the Horror Writers Association announced he would receive its Lifetime Achievement Award. On April 18th, Goingback earned another prestigious award. His book Coyote Rage won the 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. The Horror Writers Association live-streamed the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards... Continue Reading →
The Horror Writers Association announced the final ballot for the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards in a February 20th press release. The five titles nominated for Superior Achievement in a Novel are: Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback; Inspection by Josh Malerman; The Worst is Yet to Come by S.P. Miskowski; Into the Ashes by Lee Murray;... Continue Reading →
Maybe Fangoria should change the name of the Chainsaw Awards to the Ari Aster Awards. The director and another one of his movies dominated the Fangoria 2020 Chainsaw Awards, a fan-voted contest honoring the best horror movies released in 2019. Aster and his A24 film Midsommar won five of the 16 Chainsaw Awards, according to... Continue Reading →
Christine Morgan earned three nominations to lead the pack for the 2020 Splatterpunk Awards, according to a February 9th press release by award founders Wrath James White and Brian Keene. Bryan Smith, Wesley Southard, and Edward Lee also scored multiple nominations with two each. Jarod Barbee and Patrick C. Harrison III also received two nominations.... Continue Reading →
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