I'm super excited to share that The Private Sector has made the preliminary ballot for the 2015 Bram Stoker Awards! Here's the full list:
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Barker, Clive – The Scarlet Gospels (St. Martin’s Press)
Bates, Jeremy – The Catacombs (World’s Scariest Places: Book Two) (Ghillinnein Books)
Clines, Peter – The Fold (Crown)
Collings, Michaelbrent – The Deep (self-published)
Faherty, JG – The Cure (Samhain Publishing)
Ferrario, Keith – Monster (Samhain Publishing)
Frievald, Patrick – Black Tide (JournalStone Publishing)
Johnson, Jeremy Robert – Skullcrack City (Lazy Fascist Press)
Klavan, Andrew – Werewolf Cop (Pegasus)
Lane, Leigh M. – The Private Sector (Eldritch Press)
Talley, Brett J. – He Who Walks in Shadow (JournalStone Publishing)
Tremblay, Paul – A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Alameda, Courtney – Shutter (Feiwel & Friends)
Cushing, Nicole – Mr. Suicide (Word Horde)
Erb, Thom – Heaven, Hell, or Houston: A Zombie Thriller (Severed Press)
Harmon, Kenneth W. – The Amazing Mr. Howard (JournalStone Publishing)
Hawkins, Scott – The Library at Mount Char (Crown)
Herrman, Heather – Consumption (Hydra)
Kirk, Brian – We Are Monsters (Samhain Publishing)
McIlveen, John – Hannahwhere (Crossroad Press)
Romines, Kyle Alexander – The Keeper of the Crows (Sunbury Press, Inc.)
Smith, Jean Claude – Riding the Centipede (Omnium Gatherum)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
Brozek, Jennifer – Never Let Me Sleep (Permuted Press)
Chupeco, Rin – The Suffering (Sourcebooks Fire)
Collings, Michaelbrent – The Ridealong (self-published)
Dixon, John – Devil’s Pocket (Simon & Schuster)
Hill, Will – Department 19: Darkest Night (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Hurley, Tonya – Hallowed (Simon & Schuster)
Johnson, Maureen – The Shadow Cabinet (Penguin)
Sattin, Samuel – The Silent End (Ragnarok Publications)
Varley, Dax – Bleed (Garden Gate Press)
Welke, Ian – End Times at Ridgemont High (Omnium Gatherum)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Bunn, Cullen – Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints (Dark Horse Comics)
Gischler, Victor – Hellbound (Dark Horse Books)
Kipiniak, Chris – Behemoth (Monkeybrain Comics)
Kirkman, Robert – Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him (Image Comics)
Lucarelli, David – The Children’s Vampire Hunting Brigade, Vol. 2:
Age of the Wicked (Creator’s Edge Press)
Snyder, Scott – Wytches, Vol. 1 (Image Comics)
Tobin, Paul – Colder, Vol. 2: The Bad Seed (Dark Horse Comics)
Weller, Sam, and Mort Castle (editors) – Shadow Show: Stories in
Celebration of Ray Bradbury (IDW Publishing)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Braunbeck, Gary A. – Paper Cuts (Seize the Night) (Gallery Books)
Eads, Ben – Cracked Sky (Omnium Gatherum)
Edelman, Scott – Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen (Dark Discoveries #30)
Gunhus, Jeff – The Torment of Rachel Ames (Seven Guns Press)
Mannetti, Lisa – The Box Jumper (Smart Rhino Publications)
McGuire, Seanan – Resistance (The End Has Come) (Broad Reach Publishing)
O’Neill, Gene – At the Lazy K (Written Backwards)
Parent, Jason – Dia de los Muertos (Bad Apples 2) (Corpus Press)
Partridge, Norman – Special Collections (The Library of the Dead) (Written Backwards)
Yardley, Mercedes M. – Little Dead Red (Grimm Mistresses) (Ragnarok Publications)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
Bailey, Dale – Snow (Nightmare Magazine #33)
Boston, Bruce – A Trader on the Border of the Mutant Rain Forest (Daily Science Fiction)
Braum, Daniel – An American Ghost in Zurich (Savage Beasts) (Grey Matter Press)
Gonzalez, Michael Paul – Choking Hazard (Winter Horror Days) (Omnium Gatherum)
Jonez, Kate – All the Day You’ll Have Good Luck (Black Static #47)
Manzetti, Alessandro – The Massacre of the Mermaids (The Massacre of the Mermaids)
(Kipple Officina Libraria)
O’Neill, Gene – The Algernon Effect (White Noise Press)
Palisano, John – Happy Joe’s Rest Stop (18 Wheels of Horror) (Big Time Books)
Southard, Nate – The Cork Won’t Stay (Nightmare Magazine #34)
Walters, Damien Angelica – Sing Me Your Scars (Sing Me Your Scars) (Apex Publications)
Wong, Alyssa – Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Nightmare Magazine #37)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Benson, Justin – Spring (XYZ Films)
del Toro, Guillermo, & Matthew Robbins – Crimson Peak (Legendary Pictures)
Franz, Veronika, and Severin Fiala – Goodnight, Mommy (Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion)
Fuller, Bryan, Steve Lightfoot & Nick Antosca – Hannibal: The Wrath of the Lamb (Dino De
Laurentiis Company)
Gimple, Scott M. – The Walking Dead: Here’s Not Here (AMC)
Logan, John – Penny Dreadful: And Hell Itself My Only Foe (Showtime)
Logan, John – Penny Dreadful: Nightcomers (Showtime)
Mitchell, David Robert – It Follows (Northern Lights Films)
Waititi, Taika & Jemaine Clement – What We Do in the Shadows (Unison Films)
Zahler, S. Craig – Bone Tomahawk (Caliber Media Company)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Bailey, Michael – The Library of the Dead (Written Backwards)
Datlow, Ellen – The Doll Collection: Seventeen Brand-New Tales of Dolls (Tor Books)
Delany, Shannon, and Judith Graves – Beware the Little White Rabbit (Leap Books, LLC)
Golden, Christopher – Seize the Night (Gallery Books)
Jones, Stephen – Horrorology (Quercus Publishing)
Kilpatrick, Nancy, and Caro Soles – nEvermore! (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
Maberry, Jonathan – X-Files: Trust No One (IDW Publishing)
Miller, Eric – 18 Wheels of Horror (Big Time Books)
Murano, Doug, and D. Alexander Ward – Shadows Over Main Street (Hazardous Press)
Nassise, Joseph, and Del Howison – Midian Unmade (Tor Books)
Rector, Jeani – Shrieks and Shivers from the Horror Zine (Post Mortem Press)
Thomas, Richard – Exigencies (Dark House Press)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Braunbeck, Gary – Halfway Down the Stairs (JournalStone Publishing)
Brozek, Jennifer – Apocalypse Girl Dreaming (Evil Girlfriend Media)
Cummings, Shane Jiraiya – The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After (Brimstone Press)
Cushing, Nicole – The Mirrors (Cycatrix Press)
Everson, John – Sacrificing Virgins (Samhain Publishing)
Grant, Taylor – The Dark at the End of the Tunnel (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Litherland, Neal F. – New Avalon: Love and Loss in the City of Steam (James Ward Kirk Publishing)
O’Neill, Gene – The Hitchhiking Effect (Dark Renaissance Books)
Snyder, Lucy A. – While the Black Stars Burn (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Warner, Matthew – Dominoes in Time (Cemetery Dance Publications)
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
Everett, Justin, and Jeffrey H. Shanks (ed.) – The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Hutchinson, Sharla, and Rebecca A. Brown (ed.) – Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siècle
to the Millennium (McFarland and Company)
Jones, Stephen – The Art of Horror (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books)
Knost, Michael – Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth (Seventh Star Press)
Mynhardt, Joe, & Emma Audsley (editors) – Horror 201: The Silver Scream (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Olson, Danel – Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (Centipede Press)
Soderlund, Sarah – Haunted by the Abyss: The Otherworldly Experiences of Paranormal
(Llewellyn Publications)
Southall, Richard – Haunted Plantations of the South (Llewellyn Publications)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Boston, Bruce – Resonance Dark and Light (Eldritch Press)
Crum, Amanda – The Madness in our Marrow (Amanda Crum)
Gailey, Jeannine Hall – The Robot Scientist’s Daughter (Mayapple Press)
Hanson, Michael H. – Dark Parchments (MoonDream Press)
Manzetti, Alessandro – Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Morgan, Robert – Dark Energy (Penguin Books)
Opperman, K.A. – The Crimson Tome (Hippocampus Press)
Randolph, Michael – Poetic Allegories (Eldritch Press)
Simon, Marge – Naughty Ladies (Eldritch Press)
Wytovich, Stephanie M. – An Exorcism of Angels (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Congratulations and good luck to everyone else whose works made this initial list.
Superior Achievement in a Novel
Barker, Clive – The Scarlet Gospels (St. Martin’s Press)
Bates, Jeremy – The Catacombs (World’s Scariest Places: Book Two) (Ghillinnein Books)
Clines, Peter – The Fold (Crown)
Collings, Michaelbrent – The Deep (self-published)
Faherty, JG – The Cure (Samhain Publishing)
Ferrario, Keith – Monster (Samhain Publishing)
Frievald, Patrick – Black Tide (JournalStone Publishing)
Johnson, Jeremy Robert – Skullcrack City (Lazy Fascist Press)
Klavan, Andrew – Werewolf Cop (Pegasus)
Lane, Leigh M. – The Private Sector (Eldritch Press)
Talley, Brett J. – He Who Walks in Shadow (JournalStone Publishing)
Tremblay, Paul – A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Alameda, Courtney – Shutter (Feiwel & Friends)
Cushing, Nicole – Mr. Suicide (Word Horde)
Erb, Thom – Heaven, Hell, or Houston: A Zombie Thriller (Severed Press)
Harmon, Kenneth W. – The Amazing Mr. Howard (JournalStone Publishing)
Hawkins, Scott – The Library at Mount Char (Crown)
Herrman, Heather – Consumption (Hydra)
Kirk, Brian – We Are Monsters (Samhain Publishing)
McIlveen, John – Hannahwhere (Crossroad Press)
Romines, Kyle Alexander – The Keeper of the Crows (Sunbury Press, Inc.)
Smith, Jean Claude – Riding the Centipede (Omnium Gatherum)
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
Brozek, Jennifer – Never Let Me Sleep (Permuted Press)
Chupeco, Rin – The Suffering (Sourcebooks Fire)
Collings, Michaelbrent – The Ridealong (self-published)
Dixon, John – Devil’s Pocket (Simon & Schuster)
Hill, Will – Department 19: Darkest Night (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Hurley, Tonya – Hallowed (Simon & Schuster)
Johnson, Maureen – The Shadow Cabinet (Penguin)
Sattin, Samuel – The Silent End (Ragnarok Publications)
Varley, Dax – Bleed (Garden Gate Press)
Welke, Ian – End Times at Ridgemont High (Omnium Gatherum)
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Bunn, Cullen – Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints (Dark Horse Comics)
Gischler, Victor – Hellbound (Dark Horse Books)
Kipiniak, Chris – Behemoth (Monkeybrain Comics)
Kirkman, Robert – Outcast, Vol. 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him (Image Comics)
Lucarelli, David – The Children’s Vampire Hunting Brigade, Vol. 2:
Age of the Wicked (Creator’s Edge Press)
Snyder, Scott – Wytches, Vol. 1 (Image Comics)
Tobin, Paul – Colder, Vol. 2: The Bad Seed (Dark Horse Comics)
Weller, Sam, and Mort Castle (editors) – Shadow Show: Stories in
Celebration of Ray Bradbury (IDW Publishing)
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Braunbeck, Gary A. – Paper Cuts (Seize the Night) (Gallery Books)
Eads, Ben – Cracked Sky (Omnium Gatherum)
Edelman, Scott – Becoming Invisible, Becoming Seen (Dark Discoveries #30)
Gunhus, Jeff – The Torment of Rachel Ames (Seven Guns Press)
Mannetti, Lisa – The Box Jumper (Smart Rhino Publications)
McGuire, Seanan – Resistance (The End Has Come) (Broad Reach Publishing)
O’Neill, Gene – At the Lazy K (Written Backwards)
Parent, Jason – Dia de los Muertos (Bad Apples 2) (Corpus Press)
Partridge, Norman – Special Collections (The Library of the Dead) (Written Backwards)
Yardley, Mercedes M. – Little Dead Red (Grimm Mistresses) (Ragnarok Publications)
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
Bailey, Dale – Snow (Nightmare Magazine #33)
Boston, Bruce – A Trader on the Border of the Mutant Rain Forest (Daily Science Fiction)
Braum, Daniel – An American Ghost in Zurich (Savage Beasts) (Grey Matter Press)
Gonzalez, Michael Paul – Choking Hazard (Winter Horror Days) (Omnium Gatherum)
Jonez, Kate – All the Day You’ll Have Good Luck (Black Static #47)
Manzetti, Alessandro – The Massacre of the Mermaids (The Massacre of the Mermaids)
(Kipple Officina Libraria)
O’Neill, Gene – The Algernon Effect (White Noise Press)
Palisano, John – Happy Joe’s Rest Stop (18 Wheels of Horror) (Big Time Books)
Southard, Nate – The Cork Won’t Stay (Nightmare Magazine #34)
Walters, Damien Angelica – Sing Me Your Scars (Sing Me Your Scars) (Apex Publications)
Wong, Alyssa – Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers (Nightmare Magazine #37)
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Benson, Justin – Spring (XYZ Films)
del Toro, Guillermo, & Matthew Robbins – Crimson Peak (Legendary Pictures)
Franz, Veronika, and Severin Fiala – Goodnight, Mommy (Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion)
Fuller, Bryan, Steve Lightfoot & Nick Antosca – Hannibal: The Wrath of the Lamb (Dino De
Laurentiis Company)
Gimple, Scott M. – The Walking Dead: Here’s Not Here (AMC)
Logan, John – Penny Dreadful: And Hell Itself My Only Foe (Showtime)
Logan, John – Penny Dreadful: Nightcomers (Showtime)
Mitchell, David Robert – It Follows (Northern Lights Films)
Waititi, Taika & Jemaine Clement – What We Do in the Shadows (Unison Films)
Zahler, S. Craig – Bone Tomahawk (Caliber Media Company)
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Bailey, Michael – The Library of the Dead (Written Backwards)
Datlow, Ellen – The Doll Collection: Seventeen Brand-New Tales of Dolls (Tor Books)
Delany, Shannon, and Judith Graves – Beware the Little White Rabbit (Leap Books, LLC)
Golden, Christopher – Seize the Night (Gallery Books)
Jones, Stephen – Horrorology (Quercus Publishing)
Kilpatrick, Nancy, and Caro Soles – nEvermore! (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
Maberry, Jonathan – X-Files: Trust No One (IDW Publishing)
Miller, Eric – 18 Wheels of Horror (Big Time Books)
Murano, Doug, and D. Alexander Ward – Shadows Over Main Street (Hazardous Press)
Nassise, Joseph, and Del Howison – Midian Unmade (Tor Books)
Rector, Jeani – Shrieks and Shivers from the Horror Zine (Post Mortem Press)
Thomas, Richard – Exigencies (Dark House Press)
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Braunbeck, Gary – Halfway Down the Stairs (JournalStone Publishing)
Brozek, Jennifer – Apocalypse Girl Dreaming (Evil Girlfriend Media)
Cummings, Shane Jiraiya – The Abandonment of Grace and Everything After (Brimstone Press)
Cushing, Nicole – The Mirrors (Cycatrix Press)
Everson, John – Sacrificing Virgins (Samhain Publishing)
Grant, Taylor – The Dark at the End of the Tunnel (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Litherland, Neal F. – New Avalon: Love and Loss in the City of Steam (James Ward Kirk Publishing)
O’Neill, Gene – The Hitchhiking Effect (Dark Renaissance Books)
Snyder, Lucy A. – While the Black Stars Burn (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Warner, Matthew – Dominoes in Time (Cemetery Dance Publications)
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
Everett, Justin, and Jeffrey H. Shanks (ed.) – The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales: The Evolution of Modern Fantasy and Horror (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Hutchinson, Sharla, and Rebecca A. Brown (ed.) – Monsters and Monstrosity from the Fin de Siècle
to the Millennium (McFarland and Company)
Jones, Stephen – The Art of Horror (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books)
Knost, Michael – Author’s Guide to Marketing with Teeth (Seventh Star Press)
Mynhardt, Joe, & Emma Audsley (editors) – Horror 201: The Silver Scream (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Olson, Danel – Studies in the Horror Film: Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (Centipede Press)
Soderlund, Sarah – Haunted by the Abyss: The Otherworldly Experiences of Paranormal
(Llewellyn Publications)
Southall, Richard – Haunted Plantations of the South (Llewellyn Publications)
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Boston, Bruce – Resonance Dark and Light (Eldritch Press)
Crum, Amanda – The Madness in our Marrow (Amanda Crum)
Gailey, Jeannine Hall – The Robot Scientist’s Daughter (Mayapple Press)
Hanson, Michael H. – Dark Parchments (MoonDream Press)
Manzetti, Alessandro – Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing)
Morgan, Robert – Dark Energy (Penguin Books)
Opperman, K.A. – The Crimson Tome (Hippocampus Press)
Randolph, Michael – Poetic Allegories (Eldritch Press)
Simon, Marge – Naughty Ladies (Eldritch Press)
Wytovich, Stephanie M. – An Exorcism of Angels (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Congratulations and good luck to everyone else whose works made this initial list.
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